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 ------- 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. 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