I had originally found the list of names in the Fishmongers records but it is also
in The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776, Section III, chapter 24, Page
420 - year 1683, author Peter Wilson Coldham:
Bound to Benjamin Johnson: John Betson, aged 21, for Virginia; Arthur
Munday, aged 20, for Virginia; Thomas May, aged 21, for Virginia; John
Wall, aged 22, for Virginia; Daniell Habgood, aged 21, for Barbados;
John Thompson, aged 22, for Barbados; Thomas Nonson for Barbados;
Thomas Miller, aged 23, for Virginia; Humphrey Tedder, aged 23, for
Virginia; John Williamson, aged 21, for Virginia; William Elton, aged
28, for Virginia; Thomas Allen of St. Martin in the Fields,
[Middlesex], for Virginia; Robert Downey, aged 22, for Virginia;
William Dale, aged 26, for Virginia; Robert Strides, aged 21, for
Virginia; Alexander Cock, aged 24, for Virginia; Richard Jones, aged
21, for Virginia; Abraham Taylor, aged 30, for Virginia; David Higgs,
aged 24, for Virginia; John Briteridge, aged 24, for Virginia; William
Kendall of Wilburton, [Cambs], for Virginia; William Ryley, aged 22,
for Virginia; William Blades, aged 23, for Virginia; RICHARD HIGHFIELD,
aged 21, for Virginia; Elizabeth Gale, aged 22, for Virginia; James
Black of St. Martin in the Fields, [Middlesex], for Virginia; William
Rolfe, aged 21, for Virginia; Edward Smyth, aged 27, for Virginia;
William Clay, aged 24, for Virginia; Robert Cooke, aged 22, for
Virginia; Oliver Bancks, aged 26, for Virginia; Phebe Rumney of St.
Bride's, [London], for Virginia; Ralph Gibbs, aged 22, for Virginia;
Michaell Rudlidge, aged 29, for Virginia; Elizabeth Jones of
Gloucester, for Virginia; William Eckley, aged 28, for Virginia; Hugh
Edward of Denbigh, aged 18, for Virginia; William Page, aged 21, for
Virginia; William Lloyd, aged 22, for Virginia; Robert Boyce, aged 39,
for Virginia; Jane Kitchen, aged 21, for Virginia; William Jones, aged
24, for Virginia; Thomas Clark, aged 23.
I do think it was a lease and not a rental.
Goodness, the indenture date was not mysterious to me, it was the issue of
two Highfields being sent to MD/VA pretty much at the same time.
Jeanine Scholz
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