John White c 1587 Natives Fishing in North Carolina.
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Saturday, 31 March 2018
17C American Women: 1666 A Brief Description of the Province of Caroli...
17C American Women: 1666 A Brief Description of the Province of Caroli...: Robert Horne, A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina (1666) This is one of the earliest descriptions of Carolina. It was publish...
Saturday, 5 April 2014
Tools of The Freed Indentured Settlers.
I have found it very difficult to find any lists of tools carried by settlers, so I decided to focus on the Freedom Dues given to freed indentured servants. These dues also varied a lot, from including land, a horse, a cow, farm tools, a gun, and clothing, and these in turn were different for men and women. Below then are some primary accounts of Freedom Dues. Freedom dues were what the indentured servant recieved from his employer after 4-7 years indentured service. Some did not survive to receive these dues, others were cheated out of them. But for those who had a decent employer, these meager dues just may help them get a start on a life of their own.
Keith.
In Maryland corn, clothes, and tools rather than
land were invariably dispensed. By act of 1699 3 gun was substituted for the
three barrels of Indian corn.
Keith.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of New Discoveries at Jamestown#3. A weeding hoe top center.
Settlers tools
one new ax, one grubbing hoe, and one weeding hoe.
one new ax, one grubbing hoe, and one weeding hoe.
Two of the passengers were Gabriel and
Richard Holland, possibly brothers, and like the others passengers were
indentured workers
They signed an agreement with the
Berkeley Group, as other male enlistees requiring them to work for three years
to six years.
For the first year they would be
provided “food, lodging, cattle, clothes, weapons, tools and other
equipment.” After the first year they would receive "50% of the
profits from their endeavors.” At the end of their 3-year obligation, they
would be “granted 50 acres of land."
In most colonies at the
expiration of his term of service the servant was entitled by custom or statute
to receive his "freedom dues." These dues universally included
clothing for one year, and often tools, seed, arms, and some provisions as
well. Thus, the Maryland act of 1639 provided that the servant was to receive
3 barrels of corn, a hilling hoe, and a weeding hoe
and a felling axe and to a man servant one new cloth suit, one new shirt, one
pair of new shoes, one pair of new stockings, and a new monmouth cap, and to a
maid servant, one new petty coat and wastcoat, one new smock, one pair of new
shoes, one pair of new stockings and the clothes formerly belonging to the
servant.17
“one good Cloth suite of Keisy or
broad cloth a Shift of white linen one
new pair of stockins and Shoes
two hoes one axe 3 barrells of Corne and fifty
acres of land…women Servants a
Years Provision of Corne and a like proportion
of Cloths and Land.” (1) K.
Morgan, 8-9. http://www.chatham.edu/pti/curriculum/units/2005/Roberts',%202005.pdf
in
Virginia indentured servants who completed their terms of service were entitled
by law to a musket, ten bushels of corn, and 30 shillings (or the equivalent
value in goods). Women were entitled to fifteen bushels of corn and 40
shillings. In 1748, the Virginia legislature set freedom dues at a standard
rate of ₤3.10s for both men and women.
George Arnold in consideration
ten pistoles paid for his
passage from Holland indents
himself servant to George
Passasky of Phila. for two years
from this date at the end
of his time to have one pistole
and a new coat, waistcoat
and pair of breeches.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of New Discoveries at Jamestown#2
Monday, 21 March 2011
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