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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Hardy
Given Name:
Thomas
Soundex Code:
H630
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1723
Nation:
England
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Place of Indenture
Town:
near Northampton Iron Works
County:
Baltimore
Colony:
Maryland
Research Notes
Proof of Convict Status:
"Ran away last night from the subscriber living near the Northampton Iron-Work, Baltimore County, Maryland. A convict servant man, an Englishman, named Thomas Hardy, about five feet eight or nine inches high, grey eyes, short grey hair, about fifty-two years old, limps in his walk; he has a small hole in one of his lips, lost most of his teeth, talks in the North Country dialect..." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1988; New York, 1986), centerpiece, quoting Dunlap's Maryland Gazette; or, the Baltimore General Advertiser, October 17, 1775.