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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Courtney
Given Name:
James
Soundex Code:
C635
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1611
Occupation(s):
Blacksmith
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
about 1634
Place of Indenture
Colony:
Virginia
Residence
Town/City:
Exeter,
County:
Devon
Nation:
England
Research Notes
Comments:
"A James Court was baptised in 1609 in the parish of St Paul, Exeter ..." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Alison Grant, “Emigration from Devon in the Seventeenth Century,†Michael Duffy et al,
The New Maritime History of Devon, Volume I: From Early Times to the Late Eighteenth Century
(London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd, 1992), 148, quoting John Camden Hotten,
The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700
(1874; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 151-152; (2) Edward Boyd Braddy, “Servants and Freedmen in Colonial Virginia, 1619 to 1670,†M.A. Thesis, James Madison University, 1997, 37, 83, quoting Susie M. Ames,
County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia 1632-1640
(1954; reprint, Millwood, New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1975).