This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1200 Message Board Post: According to a notice in the Virginia Gazette on January 28, 1773 "Run away from Captain McKillups's Brig, lately stranded on Egg Island, about 50 IRISH CONVICTS, many of which are said to have landed in Gloucester County...Whoever apprehends..Servants and bring them to me in York Town..20 shillings reward for each....." /S/ Thomas Lilly Where is(was) Egg Island?