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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Banbury
Given Name:
Sarah
Variant Surname Spellings:
Bunbury
Soundex Code:
B516
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Female
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
by 1692
Place of Indenture
County:
Richmond
Colony:
Virginia
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"Den. McCarty p[re]senting his Servant Woman named Sarah Bunbury to this Court & proving that she hath absented herself from his service the space of six weeks & four days and that he was Six hundred pounds of tobb[acco] out of purse to procure her again, the Court have ordered that the s[ai]d Sarah do serve her s[ai]d Master of his assignes the full space of Ten months & one weeke after her time by Custome Indenture or otherwise to be fully expired." (p. 40) "Phillis, a Mulatto Child borne to the body of Sarah Bunbury, is by this Court bound unto Den. McCarty to serve him or his assignes untill she shall arrive unto the age of Twenty foure years." (p. 40) 5 October 1692
Comments:
Bore a mulatto daughter named Phillis during her term of servitude. Phillis was bound to her mother's master, Dennis McCarty, until the age of 24.
Source Citations:
Ruth Sparacio and Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Richmond County, Virginia 1692-1694 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1991), 14-15, 19, 26, quoting Richmond County, Virginia Order Book 1692-1694, 21, 30, 40; Paul Heinegg, "Howard Family," Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware, www.freeafricanamericans.com.