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Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a man from Angola who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia.Held as an "indentured servant" in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted land by the colony.
In 1622 he was indentured by the parish and sent to Virginia as a servant, arriving in December on the ship Abigail. [1] Textual analysis of his letters suggests he may have been around twelve years old at the time. [2] Frethorne became one of the indentured servants of William Harwood, the “governot a Lost Virginia Settlement.
Between one-half and two-thirds of European immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution came under indentures. [6] The practice was sufficiently common that the Habeas Corpus Act 1679, in part, prevented imprisonments overseas; it also made provisions for those with existing transportation contracts and those "praying to be transported" in lieu of ...
William held two black indentured servants, Isabell and Anthoney, who were among the first Africans in Virginia, arriving between 1619 and 1624, when their son William Tucker was born. He was the first African American child to be born in the Thirteen Colonies. [9] He had 17 servants. [9] In 1625, he owned three African slaves.
An example of how the indentured servant was viewed is the 1662 Virginia law that forced both slave and indentured servant females, who bore children by their masters, to serve even more time, after their indentures had ended, for an additional two years, for the local churchwardens.
Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract called an "indenture", may be entered voluntarily for a prepaid lump sum, as payment for some good or service (e.g. travel), purported eventual compensation, or debt repayment.
Colonists might indenture themselves or their relations in response to economic circumstances. For example, parents unable to financially support their children might place them under indenture, since the terms of the agreement usually specified the provisioning of "meat, drink, lodging and washing." [33]
Around 1627, Hall donned men's clothing again, left England, and settled in Jamestown as an indentured servant. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Pursuing a different work opportunity, Hall relocated to the small settlement at Warrosquyoacke, Virginia , a village of likely fewer than 200 people (during the 1620s), founded on the site of an old Indian village along ...