You may be confusing this with later indentured servants in the
colonial period, who were petty crooks and troublemakers [male and
female], who were sent to Virginia. From the runaway ads in the
Virginia Gazette, they seemed to have been quite a troublesome lot. A
good many seem to have been Irish, or Welsh, a few Scots or English;
a few could not speak English, evidently they were Gaelic-speaking.
Nancy
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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone
On Feb 2, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Mildred Fournier wrote:
> 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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