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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Williams
Given Name:
John
Soundex Code:
W452
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1700
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Port of Departure
Town:
Clockmaker
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
by 1737
Place of Indenture
Town:
Burlington
County:
Burlington
Colony:
New Jersey
Master
Surname:
Pearson
Given name:
Isaac
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"Run away from Isaac Pearson, of Burlinton, in West-New-Jersey, a Servant Man named John Williams, aged about 37 Years, a West-Country Man, speaks by Clusters, hard to understand, very short, square set, by Trade a Clockmaker..." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Susan E. Klepp & Billy G. Smith, The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), 163-164, quoting Pennsylvania Gazette, August 25-September 1, 1737.