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Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations,

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Janet 693215 Report 28 Oct 2007 12:22

Just stumbled across this website

http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html

It is a wonderful resource if you have family who left the UK to work as servants in the US and West Indies.

From the blurb "This database of indenture contracts includes over 10,000 indentured servants contracts from four different registers. The contracts indicate not only the servant's name and length of indenture, but also the name of the servant's parents and owner, his home province and city, occupation, destination, and ship of embarkation. These records provide a detailed composition of indentured servants in the 17th century Atlantic World."