The ubiquitous image of the sprawling 19^th century Southern plantation has meant that much of the research on US slave names has focussed on regions below the mid-Atlantic (Desrochers 2002). The resulting lack of attention that has been given to other times and spaces has necessarily limited our collective understanding of slave naming patterns. The purpose of the current investigation is to help address this geo-temporal oversight. With that goal in mind, the present empirical study explores the naming patterns of fugitive slaves as advertised in newspapers published in New York and New Jersey between 1730 and 1790. Using the techniques of corpus linguistics, this investigation analyzed 147 runaway slave advertisements featuring 150 slave names. These onomastic exemplars comprised four name-types: first names, surnames, nicknames, and aliases. Onomastic patterns were identified using descriptive statistics as well chi-squared and Fisher’s exact tests. Special attention was paid to exploring the relationship between the runaways’ names and their reported age, gender, and racial classification. After a brief introduction to slavery in the New England colonies, this study presents the empirical results and compares them with previous findings on US slave names. The paper concludes with a discussion of the limitations and argues for more corpus-based research into slave names.

无所不在的 19^日形象世纪南方种植园意味着对美国奴隶名称的大部分研究都集中在大西洋中部以下地区（Desrochers 2002）。由此导致对其他时间和空间的关注不足，必然限制了我们对奴隶命名模式的集体理解。当前调查的目的是帮助解决这种时空监督问题。考虑到这一目标，本实证研究探讨了 1730 年至 1790 年间在纽约和新泽西出版的报纸上刊登的逃亡奴隶的命名模式。本调查使用语料库语言学技术，分析了 147 个逃亡奴隶广告，其中包括 150 名奴隶。名字。这些专名示例包括四种名称类型：名字、姓氏、昵称和别名。使用描述性统计以及卡方检验和Fisher精确检验来识别独名模式。特别注意探索逃亡者的名字与他们报告的年龄、性别和种族分类之间的关系。在简要介绍了新英格兰殖民地的奴隶制后，本研究提出了实证结果，并将其与先前关于美国奴隶名称的研究结果进行了比较。本文最后讨论了局限性，并主张对奴隶名称进行更多基于语料库的研究。本研究展示了实证结果，并将其与之前关于美国奴隶姓名的发现进行了比较。本文最后讨论了局限性，并主张对奴隶名称进行更多基于语料库的研究。本研究展示了实证结果，并将其与之前关于美国奴隶姓名的发现进行了比较。本文最后讨论了局限性，并主张对奴隶名称进行更多基于语料库的研究。