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From: Larry More <>
Subject: RE: [Q-R] ships to Chester Co
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 11:37:51 -0500

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From: Patricia P. Hickin[SMTP:]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 1:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [Q-R] ships to Chester Co

I don't understand why there are so few passengers listed with the ships.
Can anyone shed some light??

There are several reasons. Indentured servants weren't always listed,
especially those who had sold themselves into indenturement to make the
passage. Convict labor, another form of indenturement, seldom had passenger
list. Also, not all ports of departure required a passenger list, from the
British Iles, or were enforced. People that wound up on passenger list were
often folks that had title, noteable citizens and those that had payed for
there own passage. Better list of imagrants exist, if they do at all, in
major ports such as Boston, where an atemps were made to keep records of
imagrants, however , records were only kept of imagrants of vessels docking
from Europe, not those comming from other colonies. For example cheaper
passage might be found on a slave ship docking first at islands like
Trinadad, then booking a costal ship north to other colonies.

Larry More

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