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From: "Carrol Baker" <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Ship's arrivals
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:17:20 -0600
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Hi Lee,
Thanks for the Shipley info. I wonder if my John Shipley and your Adam
Shipley are connected? I have John Shipley settling in Mass. around the
Salem area I think. I never thought about indenture. He is reported to be a
farmer.

Also, one family member has him listed as Lt. John Shipley. If he was in
British military, how would I find that info?

Carrol
----- Original Message -----
From: "lee" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Ship's arrivals


> 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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