I'll second that!
MWF
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It might have been better than letting her rot in some English prison...
perhaps they were given the choice, esp. if they were of a "good family".
Maybe her crime was such that she was no longer wanted in that good society
in GB, but sufficiently minor that she would still be good marriage material
in Virginia, where English women were in very short supply. We've already
sort of deduced that many of the laws as written in England, and as
practiced "on the ground" in Virginia, where they were driven by necessity,
were not always one and the same. She might have made someone a wonderful
wife and had just the amount of fire and gumption needed to help her survive
the frontier society.
Just speculation.
Nancy
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On Feb 2, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Mildred Fournier wrote:
> Now that I think about it, why on earth would a "good family" with a
> daughter of "good reputation" have consented to such a fate for her?
>
>
> MWF
>
>
> The Maids certainly were not all from orphanages or prisons -- in fact
> most if not all very NOT such people. The criteria laid down by the
> Virginia Company in London was that they be maidens of good families
> and good reputation. They were screened, probably interviewed, etc.,
> according to VC records.
>
> Unfortunately, the names of the maids who arrived on the first 1 or
> 2 ships
> (ca. June 1620) have been lost, as is the case with the one who may
> have been my ancestor. I found her in a separate record (which was
> only referenced in the Colonial Records Project, not copied, and CRP
> didn't mention her as a Maid, but the original document that I ordered
> from the Public Record Office in London did). Clearly, this document
> (a 1624/5 "deposition" in a lawsuit involving Virginia
> property) should have been copied for the CRP because this maid --
> first name Margry -- m. Reverend William Mease, founding minister at
> St.
> John's
> Church, Hampton, 1610-11.
>
> jc
>
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