March 17, 1763:
Whereas ANN MULLEN, Daughter to the Subscriber, was taken Prisoner by the Shaunese Indains, from the Cow Pasture, Augusta County, in Virginia, Six years since, this Summer. - - - - About four years ago, she, with one Lany Puffey, afterward taken by the Onodagoes, with whom they reamined eleven Months, when they ran away from them, the said Ann Mullen about six weeks before the said Lany Puffey, and were together in the Jerseys, about Raritan, where some Relations of the latter live. Ann Mullen is about 21 years of Age, of a low stature, dark Complexion, and brown Hair; her Mother is now at Fort Pitt, lately released from the Shawnese, waiting for her Children that are among them, to be brought in. Whoever can give Information of the said Ann Mullen, whether dead or alive, and will send a few lines, directed to Mr. Josiah Davenport, at Philadelphia, or Fort Pitt, it will be taken extremely kind by her sorrowful Mother, who, out of seven Children taken, has not yet been able to receive one.
MARY MOORE
N.B. Her Mother marrying when the Girl was young, she was often called ANN MOORE.
*** At the House of the Subscriber, in Cherry Street, near the Academy is a Captive Boy, delivered to him by the Shawanese Indians at Fort Pitt last Winter; he is about ten or eleven years old, says his name is Nelius Stan, his Relations were of the Sect called Meninists or Dunkers. is Relations, by applying, may have him, otherwise he will be bound out to a Trade by the Provincial Commissioners.
J. F. Davenport
I am not related to this family, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "Runaway Women, Elopements And Other Miscreant Deeds, As Advertised In The Pennsylvania Gazette - 1728 -1789. (together with a few abused wives and unfortunate children)." Compiled by Judith Ann Highley Meier. Published by Closson Press. 1993. Page 13.