Several hundred of the indentured servants I have encountered in records from Virginia and the West Indies are identified only by their given names ...
Nathan W. Murphy, MA, AGŪ
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history on behalf of Sunshine49
Sent: Fri 2/2/2007 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] New Online Database of Indentured Servants
I've come across a name here and there in other texts, like "Jane of
Shropshire", but that's all. It always makes me a bit sad- who were
these women, we don't even know what family they came from or
anything about them. With men we might know at least a little- what
they did for a living, land they bought or sold, documents they
signed. But for almost all of the women, there's nothing. It's like
they barely existed.
Nancy
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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone
On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Mildred Fournier wrote:
> 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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