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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Mitchen
Given Name:
Edward
Soundex Code:
M325
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
by 1751
Place of Indenture
Colony:
Maryland
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"A white fugitive named Edward Mitchen of Maryland intended to go to a place, 'where he is not known and will set up a parson or preach, where he gathers people together to hear him read or sing psalms.'" (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Daniel Meaders, Dead or Alive: Fugitive Slaves and White Indentured Servants before 1830 (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1993), 163, quoting Maryland Gazette, May 31, 1751.