James Brothers wrote, "I suspect that part of the reason that Africans worked better than American Indians as slaves was that they had already been exposed to Old World diseases." ------------ I see Indians mentioned in the Virginia county court records all the time: as slaves in inventories, wills, sometimes as indentured servants, and those who held reservation lands. As I mentioned earlier, there were a number of families which survived and proved descent from Indians captured in the Carolinas. Also a number of colonial petitions from children saying in court that they descend from an indentured Indian woman. And there were many Indians whose mixed-race descendants still held small reservation lands on the Eastern Shore into the early 1800s as also the Pamunkeys. I wonder if there is any way of knowing what sort of survival rate these Indians had in Virginia within the English community. Paul