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 -------------- Original message ---------------------- 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. 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