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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Wells
Given Name:
John
Soundex Code:
W420
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
after 1670
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:
"John Wells, Son of Barnaby Wells, by & with his own consent, is ordered to serve John Hughes until he shall arrive to the age of One & Twenty years & at the expirac[i]on of the s[ai]d Term yt [that] the s[ai]d John Hughs to give unto the s[ai]d John Wells Corne & Cloths according to the Custome of Imported Serv[an]ts."
Source Citations:
Ruth Sparacio and Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Richmond County, Virginia 1692-1694 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1991), 15, quoting Richmond County, Virginia Order Book 1692-1694, 22.