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Phillis

Phillis

Phillis is an unfree person, described as Indian, who was in Boston, Massachusetts Bay in 1711. She was enslaved by John Staniford Taylour, escaped from John Staniford Taylour and escaped with Manway.

RAnaway from their Masters at Boston on Friday last

  • Runaway
  • September 14, 1711
  • RAnaway from their Masters at Boston on Friday last the 14th of this Instant September the following Indians, viz. From the Reverend Mr. Samuel Myles, a Carolina Indian Man nam’d Toby, Aged about 20 years of a middle stature, hath with him a light colour’d Suite edg'd with black, a da…

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RAnaway from their Masters at Boston on Friday last. (1711). In Boston News-Letter. Authority; America’s Historical Newspapers. https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/doc?p=ARDX&docref=image/v2%3A1036CD221971FE08%40EANX-1056623D250C1C49%402346249-1056623D4A270F04%401-1056623DCF450AB9 [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.] Courtesy American Antiquarian Society; accessed through Readex/NewsBank

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