Record of indentures of individuals bound out as apprentices, servants, etc., and of German and other redemptioners in the office of the Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, October 3, 1771, to October 5, 1773. With a new index
Record of indentures of individuals bound out as apprentices ,servants, etc, and of German and other Redemptioners in the office of the Mayor...Philadelphia, Oct. 3,1771 to Oct. 5,1773
At head of title: Supplement to the Yale review, vol. X, no. 2, August, 1901.
Bibliography: p. 120-125.
Summary
Written in 1901, this books describes the systems that were developed to bring willing workers to the American colonies from Europe when they did not have the money to travel and to establish themselves in a new home.
"In the record office of the City of London is a register containing the names of 3,398 servants bound out for service in the American colonies and the West Indies. Details concerning nearly 2,000 of these indentured servants, taken from the original indenture forms, were published over twenty years ago. Yet information on 1,544 additional servants, whose names appear in the register but for whom no indentures survive, had never been published. With this present work, however, we now have a published list of these missing servants as well as a digest of associated data. In addition to the servant's name and the name of the transporting agent, the tabulation includes the name of the colony to which the servant was shipped and the date--either the date of the indenture form itself or the Assize at which it was registered. The majority of these servants were destined for Maryland, Pennsylvania, or the West Indies." [from GoogleBooks]
The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742 : with an introduction, respecting, the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers : with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is added, a brief description of the said province, and of the general states, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770 : the whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : with an appendix
Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior ...,
Date of Publication
1797-1798.
Physical Description
2 v. : 1 map, 1 port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Library has: vol. 1.
Full leather binding with red spine label stamped in gold.
Bookplate of Redmond Conygnham, No. 2435.
Evans
Contents
I. Introduction. The history of Pennsylvania, 1676-1709.--II. The history of Pennsylvania, 1709-1763. A view of the province of Pennsylvania ... between the years 1760 and 1770. Extract from two short Latin poems ... by Thomas Makin. Appendix.
