This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yAH.2ACIB/254 Message Board Post: July 23, 1777: Whereas Mary Burney, my wife, hath contracted sundry debts unknown to her, and has run me in debt, and carried away a great part of the best of my furniture .... Second day of May, 1777: Thomas Burney 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 76. Joyce