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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Rowlston
Given Name:
Lionel
Variant Surname Spellings:
Roulston
Soundex Code:
R423
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1595
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1623
Place of Indenture
Colony:
Virginia
Research Notes
Comments:
This servant's given name was actually written "Sionell."
Source Citations:
(1) 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), 254, quoting Musters of the Inhabitants in Virginia, 1624/1625; (2) Mary Newton Stanard, Colonial Virginia: Its People and Customs (Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1970), 48; (3) Rebekah Ann Buck, “The Decline of Indentured Servitude in Seventeenth-Century Tobacco Colonies†M.L.S. Thesis, University of Oklahoma, 2000, 82, quoting Hotten and others.