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This is a list of people who were once indentured servants. George Abbitt [1] Matthew Ashby [2] Sally Brant; William Buckland (architect) William Butten; John Casor; Judith Catchpole; William Ewen; Alexandre Exquemelin; Mary Morrell Folger; John Howland; Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem witch trials) Anthony Johnson (colonist) William Moraley ...
The landowners on the islands would pay for a servant's passage and then provide the servant with food, clothes, shelter and instruction during the agreed term. The servant would then be required to work in the landowner's field for a term of bondage (usually four to seven years). Servants were not allowed to marry without the master's permission.
In colonial era Anglo-American usage, militia service was distinguished from military service in that the latter was normally a commitment for a fixed period of time of at least a year, for a salary, whereas militia was only to meet a threat, or prepare to meet a threat, for periods of time expected to be short. Militia persons were normally ...
The British Soldier in America: A Social History of Military Life in the Revolutionary Period. Austin. Glover, Michael (1977). Wellington's Army in the Peninsula 1808–1814. New York. Guy, Alan J. (1985). Oeconomy and Discipline: Officership and Administration in the British Army 1714–1763. Manchester University Press. Guy, Alan J. (1994).
The Regency era of British history is commonly understood as the years between c. 1795 and 1837, although the official regency for which it is named only spanned the years 1811 to 1820. King George III first suffered debilitating illness in the late 1780s, and relapsed into his final mental illness in 1810.
Pages in category "British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 249 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of incidents of civil unrest in Colonial North America; List of North American settlements by year of foundation; Political culture of the United States; Slavery in the colonial United States; Social history of soldiers and veterans in the United States; Thirteen Colonies; United Colonies, the name for the emerging nation, 1775–1776 ...
Joseph Warren † an American physician who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Warren enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm ...