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
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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
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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
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> 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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