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From: "jcurtis" <>
Subject: Re: [PACHESTE] For Historians: "servant man" ???
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 00:59:38 -0600


Judy - I'm so concerned, about the terrorist attack, that I don't have the
stomach for dead ancestors.

Sorry...wish I could give more attention to your msgs, but my heart isn't
into genealogy...maybe later.

Regards,

Jan Curtis




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From: Judy Ardine <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:02 PM
Subject: [PACHESTE] For Historians: "servant man" ???


>10 Oct 1716 Gaien STEVENSON, yeoman, of Chester cnty, PA granted to William
>HORNE and Robert PYLE, amongst other things, one servant man by the name of
>Robert AYERS valued at £100 for the remainder of the term that Robert AYERS
>had to serve.
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>My question is: would this "servant man" necessarily have been a bonded
>servant such as bound for his passage money to the colonies or could it
>also mean someone who had been apprenticed? How long is it likely the
>remainder of his term was given its value of £100?
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>My Robert[1] EYRE was a neighbor of Robert PYLE and had a son, Robert[2]
>EYRE, who might have been put to an apprenticeship. Robert[1] EYRE was dead
>by 1716 and Robert[2] EYRE was a carpenter by 1726.
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