This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cloud Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YNJ.2ACIB/865 Message Board Post: August 1, 1771: West-Nantmeal, July 24, 1771 Whereas my wife Elizabeth has of late frequently left me and a family of small children, for many days together; and I am apprehensive she may run me in debt, as she many times has done, for articles which are not neede in my family: I therefore think it expedient (though very disagreeable to me) to forewarn all persons not to trust her on my credit, ashereafter I will pay no debts of her contracting, so long as she continues in her present temper and behaviour; witness my hand this 24th day of July 1771. JASON CLOUD 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 61. Joyce