Probably a party girl.
The first two women were Mrs. Forrest and her maid, Ann Burras, who arrived in 1608.
--
Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA
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From: Mildred Fournier <[log in to unmask]>
> Nope. A cousin has actually done some research in England and he found her
> conviction, etc. Apparently, she was from a pretty good family - just a
> wild-child, I guess. She was 17.
>
>
> MWF
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sunshine49
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 1:14 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New Online Database of Indentured Servants
>
> 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
>
> -------
> 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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