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Servants for Hire

Virginia Gazette, March 28, 1771.

Just arrived at Leeds Town, the Ship Justicia, with about one Hundred Healthy Servants

Men, Women and Boys, among which are many Tradesmen, viz. Blacksmiths, Shoemakers, Tailors, House Carpenterts and Joiners, a Cooper, a Bricklayer and Plaisterer, a Painter, a Watchmaker and Glaizer, several Silversmiths, Weavers, a Jeweler, and many others. The Sale will Commence on Tuesday, the 2d of April, at Leeds Town on Rappahannock River. A Reasonable Credit will be allowed, giving Bond with Approved Security to

THOMAS HODGE

(Quoted by Purdie and Dixon; cited in Jernegan, Marcus W. [1971]; The Economic and Social Influence of the Indentured Servant; in The Underside of American History: Other Readings; ed. Thomas R. Frazier; Gen. editor John Morton Blum [New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.]: 67; rpt. from Jernegan [1931], Laboring and Dependent Classes in Colonial America, 1607-1783 [Chicago: University of Chicago Press]; and from Jernegan [)ctober, 1913], A Forgotten Slavery of Colonial Days, Harper's Monthly Magazine.)


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