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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Grabige
Soundex Code:
G612
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:
Gloucester
Colony:
Virginia
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"Upon ye request of Tho. Hide to ye vestry, they have bound unto him a Bastard child borne of Thomas Wisdoms servt. woman, named Edward Grabige untill he come to ye age of twenty and one yeares, and he ye said Hide to be allowed five hundred lb. tobo. and caske for keeping of ye said child next yeare, without any further charge to ye parish." (1)
Comments:
Gloucester's court orders have not survived; however, this record states that an unnamed maid servant of Thomas Wisdom bore an illegitimate son named Edward Grabige. Perhaps he tooks his mother's maiden name. Hide subsequently received payments from the vestry for providing for a bastard child.
Source Citations:
C.G. Chamberlayne, The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia 1677-1793 (Richmond: Division of Purchase and Printing, 1933), 2.