Capt. Sterling

Here we go again! knife!

This is Virginia, Lill... it will make Newport look better than Salem...now back to the rest of the thread

So when we go to Williamsburg for Halloween, can we ... um just dress up and go to the library??

Oh and Cheeky regarding the linen question, you may wish to try this link..Probate Inventories from Williamsburg starting in 1700

Bo, Go over anything in class to support this statement?

The Market Evaluation of Criminality: Evidence from the Auction of British Convict Labor in America, 1767-1775 Farley Grubb The American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), pp. 295-304 The article begins with dealings in 1718... just found it, will let you know... AND BO, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, let me know what books, articles, etc. A bottle of rum will be in the post if you send me a snail mail address! Sterling

Ballagh, James Curtis. White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia: A Study of the System of Indentured Labor in the American Colonies. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins Press, 1895. Emmer, P.C. Editor. (1986). "Colonialism and migration: an overview", in Colonialism and Migration; Indentured Labor Before and After Slavery. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Smith, Abbot Emerson. Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607- 1776. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1965. Van Der Zee, John. Bound Over: Indentured Servitude and American Conscience. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First Person Account 1. Lauson, John. (1969). "The felon's account of his transportation at Virginia in America. In [1st Edition] reprinted and edited J. Stevens Cox from an original copy. St Peter Port, Toucan Press. 2. Medearis, Angela Shelf. Dancing With The Indians. New York, Holiday House. (Account of a slave's escape and adoption into an Indian tribe) 3. Raskin, Joseph. (1978). Tales of Indentured Servants. New York, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard. (8 accounts told from historical sources of indentured servants in colonial America) Unfortunately UVA's online listings of Runaways in the Gazette is no longer online but I can take a run over there for you and see what they have on campus... after I spend a day in town, as the Charlottesville HS has a rather large listing of indentureds that came over to Virginia, what they brought with them and how they got here... supposedly... As to selling them in the colony of Virginia from master to master seems to be rather common, especially when masters weren't pleased. And they teach here, that in order to obtain their passages over, they either auctioned their services off to the masters OR the ship's captains who in turn, would then sell their contracts once they landed in Virginia to the folks looking for servants. The question being, what exactly do they mean by the term auctioned their services? Also you may wish to check out Daniel Defoe, as his niece was an indentured servant in the colonies who ended up marrying her owner's son. Most of the accounts I have started reading claim that, at least down in Virginia, even the female "Masters" could be down right nasty, servants could bring suites against their masters in court for mistreatment and that if the indentured didn't have a proper agreement on paper, they could be in big trouble once they arrived, as the master's word usually outweighed the servant's....

ROTDLMBAO... aye yer a marine all right.

I couldn't agree more...

**By the 1720s, according to Daniel Defoe, there were 'about two thousand sail of all sorts, not reckoning barges, lighters or pleasure boats or yachts' using the wharves and quays. There is mention that damns (?) or other types of wall building along the Thames, allowed the river to become deeper...?? anyone know more about that...don't forget major shipbuilding took place on the Thames as well and the congestion during the 18th century was supposedly terrible, ships having to wait their turn to unload cargo... so at one point she had to be deeper than what you saw...

Poor thing. Glad to hear she is okay

Little One okay?

tart

Sure ...just try shopping there at Christmas...

Playing Hearts and winning...

Oh get around to it, he will.... give him a moment...

Bitter

named after the Lt. and me...snigger... Gust

eating a SLIVER of apple pie... spouse beat me to it...

Good for him....maybe you will be able to get a good night's rest!

ship

...and... a bottle of PORT!! or that new wine... Maddogs and Englishmen...

stuffing

Apple pie.... speaking of which, happen to have one upstairs...

corn bread