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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Lewis
Given Name:
John
Soundex Code:
L200
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1633
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
by 1659
Year of Freedom:
about 1660
Place of Indenture
County:
York
Colony:
Virginia
Master
Surname:
Thomas
Given name:
John
Master
Surname:
Page
Given name:
Mathew
Title:
Mr.
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
1659 Nov 17. In the difference between Mathew Page and John Thomas, it is ordered that servant's indenture sold to Mr. Page be assigned him for the full time and also Thomas is to pay Page a good cotton and convers suit, a good sea bed, 2 pr. shoes, 2 pr. stockins, 2 good canvas shirts, a monmouth cap, a rugg and pillow and also clothing and neccessaries which belonged to said servant and not already delivered. 1659. Deposition of Thomas Bostock, age about 25, says that deponent in Jan. or Feb. last was at the house of John Thomas by order of Mr. Mathew Page to demand a servant due said Page, who desired said Page not be overhasty. If shipping came not in 10 days he had but an old hand who had but a year to serve, and he would send him for the year and he would pay him a servant this shipping that had 4 years to serve. Thomas Bostock. 1659 Oct 24. Deposition of John Lewis, age about 26, says he brought no clothing or anything from the house of John Thomas, except old clthing the first master he had before John Thomas bought him, into the house of Mathew Page, and that John Thomas detained a rugg and bed from him which he brought with him. Till his master Mr. Page, he had never a bed. John Lewis.
Source Citations:
Benjamin B. Weisiger, York County, Virginia Records 1659-1662 (n.p.: n.p., 1989), 16-17, quoting York County Wills, Deeds, and Orders 1657-1659, p. 68.