Records

Indenture Documents

"Indentures" found in records of the Virginia Colonial Records Office of London.
No Crosslands included.

Indenture Examples

"Indentures" for 17th Century Crossland immigrants to Virginia have never been found and probably no longer exist.

The indentures shown below are for other immigrants, but likely typify indentures for the early Crossland ancestors and are included here as examples of such.

Note that the indentures give the name, parish of origin, occupation and age of the person agreeing to serve, the name of the master, the length and location of the service, and the date of the indenture.  They also give the name of parents who consented to indenture their underage children.

Englishman Bound to Virginia 1700s

• John Sewell of the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex.  Cordwainer, twenty-six years old.  To serve Peter Simpson 4 years in Virginia.  1 February 1730/31.
  
  
• John Maysey of the parish of Chiswick, Middlesex, (no occupation or age).  To served William Burge of London, chapman, 5 years in Virginia or Maryland.  17 February 1730/31.
  
  
• Alexander Thompson of the parish of St. John, Wapping, Middlesex in the presence and with the consent of his mother, Clarinda Thompson, (no occupation).  Sixteen years old.  To serve William Burge of London, chapman, 7 years in Virginia or Maryland.  22 February 1730/31.
  
  
• John Blackaby of the parish of Waisley, Huntingdonshire.  Gardner, thirty-six years old.  To serve Neal MacNeal (no occupation or address) 4 years in Virginia.  28 October 1730/31.
  
  
• Thomas Pitcher of the parish of St. Peter's, Norwich.  Tailor, twenty years old.  To serve William Burge of London, chapman, 4 years in Virginia "at £8 per annum courant money of Virginia, £50 penalty."  Added at the end, "cloths only excepted and provided he is a workman and understands his trade of tailor."  31 October 1730/31.
  
  
• Joseph Thomas of the parish of Wasenbury in the city of Bristol.  Cooper, nineteen yeares old.  To serve William Burge of London 4 years in Virginia.  2 December 1730/31.
  
  
• Richard Stace of the parish of St. Andrews, Holborn, serve William Burge 4 years in Virginia.  3 December 1730/31.
  
  
• John Hamilton of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlesex.  Tailor, twenty-eight years old.  To serve William Burge of London 4 years in Virginia.  12 February 1731/32.