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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Fletcher
Given Name:
Mary
Soundex Code:
F432
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Female
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
by 1677
Place of Indenture
County:
Surry
Colony:
Virginia
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"July 4th 1677. Mary Fletcher Servt. to Mr. Geo. Lee Complains of her said Masters Ill usage, not fitt for a Christian, And the Cort haveing duely heard the sd. Lee's answers thereto, Doe finde sufficient cause to Ordr. & therefore It is Ordrd. that the sd. Fletcher remaine at Capt. Spensors untell the Next Cort dureing which time the sd. Lee hath Liberty to sell her for her time due by Indenture or Custome alsoe for two yeares more for haveing a Bast[a]rd Child in his service as alsoe for five months for the time shee ran away dureing the late Rebellion." (1)
Comments:
Abused by master.
Source Citations:
(1) Weynette Parks Haun, Surry County, Virginia Court Records 1672-1682, Book III (Durham, North Carolina: W.P. Haun, 1989), 59-60, 66, quoting Surry County, Virginia Order Book 1671-1691, Part I, 134-135, 152.