My own bride was imprisoned for theft and released to be put aboard the
Warwick, bound for Virginia, in 1619. I had another grandmother who stated
in the "muster" after the Indian massacre that she had been aboard the
Warwick in 1619. I would love to have her maiden name!
MWF
-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joe Chandler
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:32 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: New Online Database of Indentured Servants
As a possible descendant of one of these "Maids for Virginia," I have
investigated the sources at great length. Basically, there have been three
or four very goods articles about them through the years. You may find all
of them in PERSI (the Periodical Source Index).
Someone at the Library of Virginia can probably give you a complete list of
sources on this subject, but one that readily shows up on the LVA website is
as
follows:
Call Number HQ1438.V8 M15
Author McIlwaine, H. R. (Henry Read), 1864-1934.
Title The maids who came to Virginia in 1620 and
1621 for husbands / by H.R. McIlwaine.
Material p. [105]-113 ; 24 cm.
Gen. note Caption title.
Subject - Corporate Virginia Company of London
Subject - Topical Women -- Virginia -- History
In nnas Reviewer. vol. 1, no. 4 (April 1, 1921)
holdings (1) All items
System Number 000198515
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
--- Mildred Fournier <[log in to unmask]> 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
> [log in to unmask]
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