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From: lee <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Ship's arrivals
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:38:10 -0500
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At 11:36 PM 12/12/2006, you wrote:
>All this information you have been posting has been so interesting. What do
>you find in the 1600's? I think from 1635 on. I am looking for Shipley,
>Ludlow, Burrell, Wykert and related families. Can get them in the states but
>how did they get here?

Carroll the Shipleys I know trace back to Adam Shipley who was in Anne
Arundel CO., MD The main key to look for entry into Maryland in the mid
1600s is to look at headright records.
for instance: AdamShipley was transported to MD by Feb 1668, as John
Pawson received headrights for transport of Adam Shipley, Christopher
Shawn, John Browne, John Fish, Thomas Mason, William Barton, Richard Flint,
Richard Patterson, Thomas Wood and John Dixon. By 10 Jan 1675 Adam
completed indenture and acquired the 50 acres due him by law, a tract
named "Eoden".

THere is a book and supplement of the MD early land records that abstracts
all the persons whom claimed land or for whose transport land was claimed
in MD from the 1650s to 1670s.

THis also applies to VA records as well for the mid 1600s time frame. In
both VA and MD a person was entitled to 50 acres of land for paying the
cost of transporting someone into the province to inhabit. If that person
was an indentured servant, they were entitled to 50 acres of land when they
completed their servitude. So that is a major source of the early records
in MD and VA. Note this does not tell use when they came, but sets a date
by which point a person was here. The other related source that is helpful
is the Bristol Servant Register in England that recorded many of the
indentures of persons coming to the new world.

Lee

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