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Dear Kenyons:
This ad appeared in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, Sept 8 1758:
Run away from Dent, Yorkshire, on Monday 28 last, Thomas Anson, a negro man, about 5ft 6ins high, aged 20 years and upward, and broad set. Whoever will bring the said man back to Dent, or give any information that he may be had again shall receive a handsome reward from Edmund Sill of Dent, or Mr David Kenyon, of Liverpool.
It forms a clue towards identifying the originals for Emily Brontė's 'Wuthering Heights', first noted in my article in 'Review of English Studies' 1987: 'Yorkshire Slavery in Wuthering Heights'. Book-length study in progress after many diversions and discoveries (all supporting that first conjectural attempt)...joys & woes of academic life etc...
Have you any information about this gentleman? From research during my brief visit to Philadelphia some years ago, it appeared that David was a frequently used Kenyon first name. Quaker families rejected active links with slavery around the date of the ad.
Thanks: Christopher Heywood
28 South St., Gargrave, North Yorkshire BD23 3RT, England
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