When a husband or wife has died at sea, when the ship has made more than
half of her trip, the survivor must pay or serve not only for himself
or herself, but also for the deceased. When both parents have died over
halfway at sea, their children, especially when they are young and have
nothing to pawn or to pay, must stand for their own and their parents'
passage, and serve till they are twenty-one years old. When one has
served his or her term, he or she is entitled to a new suit of clothes
at parting; and if it has been so stipulated, a man gets in addition a
horse, a woman, a cow."
References:
Mittelberger, Gottleb, Gottleb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania
in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the year 1754 (published by
the German Society of Pennsylvania 1898)
2 comments:
Wonder where they got the woman?
Well in Australia Gorges the men had the pick of the transported prison women.
Keith.
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