In 1988 I wrote an article, *Apprentices from Christ's Hospital Make Good in
America*, published in the Colonial Williamsburg *Journal*. It may be
helpful. In 1990, Peter Wilson Coldham published *Child Apprentices in
America from Christ's Hospital* Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.)
I hope this helps.
HBG
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From: "Langdon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] New Online Database of Indentured Servants
> The online data base is a wonderful idea and a very useful service. And
> Anita's story is fascinating.
>
> I thought you might be interested in the Christ's Hospital or Blue Coat
> School records. Christ's Hospital was the first Blue Coat School and was
> essentially a boarding school for boys who were orphaned or poverty
> stricken, "through no fault of their own". There is some debate about
> whether or not all students were actually orphans. At any rate, the boys
> stayed at the school until a family member claimed them, or until they
> were bound out for service. Some of the students were born in America and
> went to the school in London, after the death of a parent.
>
> These children were bound out for a period of at least 7 years, in order
> to learn a trade. They were generally from "respectable", middle class
> families. I understand that the records of the London school, Christ's
> Hospital, still exist, and I think the records of at least some of the
> other Blue Coat schools do, as well. The London Christ's Hospital had an
> entry book that gave the date of birth of the student, the admission date,
> and parent's name. A receipt book gave the date of departure and to whom
> the child was bound, and sometimes gave the length of servitude.
>
> Zachariah Leigh's record states that he was born 9 April 1704, admitted
> to Christ's Hospital in April 1711, from Carlsharlton Parish, and bound
> out for service in 1718, at the age of 14, by Micajah Perry, a
> London/Virginia merchant, to master James Roscoe, Merchant in Virginia.
> I've found no further record of Zachariah in Virginia, until 1745, so I'm
> not so sure all indentures were for 7 years. Sometimes the register gave
> the length of servitude, but in his case, it didn't.
>
> I think some of the records have been published. Maybe someone else
> knows by whom.
>
>
> Langdon Hagen-Long
>
>
> Nathan Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That's a fantastic article. Thanks for pointing it out. Though I've read
> through more than 100 works about indentured servants, I'm sure there are
> still 1000 more!
>
> Best,
>
> Nathan W. Murphy, MA, AGŪ
> Researcher and Marketing Director
> Price & Associates, Inc.
> http://www.pricegen.com
>
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> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history on behalf
> of Brent Tarter
> Sent: Fri 2/2/2007 12:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] New Online Database of Indentured Servants
>
>
>
> For the Virginia Company's sending out women to Jamestown, start with
> David Ransome's article in the William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 48
> (January 1991), which has references to some lists.
>
> Brent Tarter
> The Library of Virginia
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> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mildred Fournier
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: New Online Database of Indentured Servants
>
> While we are on the subject of "forced" emigration, does anyone have a
> list of the women sent to Virginia in 1619 to marry the planters? I am
> told that most of them came out of prisons or orphanages.
>
>
> MWF
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nathan W. Murphy
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:11 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: New Online Database of Indentured Servants
>
> ANNOUNCEMENT: Free Online Database of Indentured Servants,
> Redemptioners, and Transported Convicts
>
> PROJECT TITLE: Immigrant Servants Database
>
> PROJECT URL: www.immigrantservants.com
>
> DESCRIPTION: Nathan W. Murphy, Ph.D. candidate at the University of
> Utah, is using skills he developed as a social historian and
> professional genealogist to reconstruct a passenger arrival list of
> indentured servants coming to Colonial America. The project will
> continue for several years. It follows in the spirit of Peter Wilson
> Coldham's efforts to publish passenger departure lists from sources in
> the United Kingdom and Ireland for indentured servants and transported
> convicts, but focuses on tapping American sources of immigrant servant
> arrivals to complement the UK data.
>
> Murphy, an Accredited Genealogist who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah,
> has quick access to Colonial American and European sources through the
> Family History Library. He has received permission from the major
> publishers of Colonial Virginia's court orders to extract evidences of
> imported servants from their books and make them available for free on
> the Internet. He hopes to complete his search of seventeenth-century
> court orders by Spring 2007.
>
> NOTE: The approximately 10,000 immigrant servants currently in the
> database do not derive from the same sources as those in the Virtual
> Jamestown project. The numbers of immigrants in this new database will
> continue to grow in the future.
>
> PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:
> - Three search engines: SIMPLE SEARCH (queries all text in database),
> ADVANCED SEARCH (search by any of more than 50 fields in database), and
> LETTER SEARCH (browse through lists of servants arranged by the first
> letter of their surname). The search engines are equipped with SOUNDEX,
> which retrieves servants with surnames that sound alike, i.e. Murphy,
> Morphew, Murfee, Murfew, Murfey, Murphew, and Murphey all come back as
> possible matches with the surname "Murphy."
> - LEARNING CENTER, includes a copy of Murphy's ARTICLE "Origins of
> Colonial Chesapeake Indentured Servants: American and English Sources,"
> published in the March 2005 edition of National Genealogical Society
> Quarterly, which provides tips for tracing the immigrant origins of
> English indentured servants; GLOSSARY of terms associated with the
> practice of indentured servitude; extensive list of LAWS from Colonial
> Virginia pertaining to indentured servants; lengthy BIBLIOGRAPHY
> identifying sources Murphy has used and hopes to use to build this
> database (includes references to 12 personal accounts of immigrant
> servants); and a list of LINKS that will interest researchers of
> immigrant servants.
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Nathan W. Murphy
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