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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Chambers
Given Name:
Richard
Variant Surname Spellings:
Chamber
Soundex Code:
C516
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1645
Occupation(s):
Blacksmith
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Port of Departure
Town:
Bristol
County:
Gloucestershire
Nation:
England
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1665
Years:
4
Year of Freedom:
after 1668
Place of Indenture
County:
Accomack
Colony:
Virginia
Master
Surname:
Smith
Given name:
Henry
Residence
County:
Somerset
Colony:
Maryland
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"Deposition of Jean Powell aged about 22 years, 17 March 1668/69: Her fellow servant Rich. Chambers bargained with his master, Mr. Hen. Smith, at Bristol to come to Virginia as his servant for four years, to work only as a blacksmith, and that he was to have every Saturday afternoon during his time of service; in lieu of this time, Smith would give Chambers five pounds sterling a year. The rest of the week he was to work from six in the morning till six at night. When he was free, Chambers was to have the tools. Then Wm. Nock came to Smith and made the same bargain, only upon his freedom, he was to have the worth of the tools. Signed, Jean (squiggle) Powell." (1)
Headright:
Headright claimed in 1670 by Henry Smith.
Source Citations:
(1) JoAnn Riley McKey, Accomack County, Virginia Court Order Abstracts, 1666-1670, Vol. II (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1996), 96, 111, 154, 164, 184, quoting Accomack County, Virginia Order Book 2:58b, 60b-61a, 67-75, 128-137, 142, 169; (2) Natasha Jones, "Richard Chambers," DelmarvaSettlers.org, http://www.delmarvasettlers.org/profiles/chambers.html; (3) Peter Wilson Coldham, The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations 1654-1686 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988), 214; (4) Jill Nock Jeffery, "'More Like A Monster Than A Man,' The Case of Henry Smith and the Accomack County Court," DelmarvaSettlers.org, http://www.delmarvasettlers.org/profiles/smith.html; (5) Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, Virtual Jamestown, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia, http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html; (6) Noel Currer-Briggs, "Indentured Servants from Bristol to America: 1654-1686," Genealogical Journal, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Sep 1978): 125-127.