[Murphy excerpts from the Virginia Gazette, 20 May 1737]
[abstracted by Mark A. Murphy, 20 Sep 2002]

RAN away, on the 23d of April laSt, from the SubScriber, of the County
of Richmond, an Irish Servant Man, named William Bourk.  He is a Short,
well-made Fellow, with light colour'd Hair, a fair Countenance, and
very much pitted with the Small-pox.  He is a Sawyer by Trade: And, 
'tis SuppoSed, is gone in Company with another Servant Man, belonging
to Mrs. Ballendine.  He is a Strong well made Fellow, with Short Brown
Hair, a Scar on his Right Cheek, and a large Dimple in his Chin, and is
a Sawyer by Trade, and goes by the Name of Charles Murfy, which may be
seen on one of his Arms, with the Date of the Year and a Crucifix, Set
in with Gun-powder.  They carry'd with them One BluiSh Durcy Coat, and
a Cloth WaStcoat and Breeches of the Same Colour & One WhiteSsr[?]
colour'd Cloth Coat, One White Wigg, and one Black Ditto, with Several
other Sorts of neceSSary Apparel, and Some new Linen not made up.  'Tis
thought they will make towards Carolina, for they have been on James
River.
Whoever Secures the Said Fellows, So that they be Safely return'd to 
their Said Owners, Shall receive Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, and a
PiStole[?]; and if they are taken a Hundred Miles from Home, One 
ThouSand Pounds of Tobacco, to be paid by
		L'Roy Griffin.

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