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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Gardner
Given Name:
William
Soundex Code:
G635
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1674
Years:
3
Year of Freedom:
1677
Place of Indenture
County:
York
Colony:
Virginia
Residence
Parish:
Ludlow
County:
Shropshire
Nation:
England
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"Indenture 17 Nov. 1674 Mrs. Elizabeth Higginson, widow, of London, and William Gardner, son of William Gardner of Ludlow in Shropshire, Gent., with consent of Richard Bradford of London, Salter, his uncle, for three years to serve in employment of Elizabeth Higginson, and she will pay his passage, meat, drink, lodging and clothes and allow him what is customary at end of three years. Eliz: Higginson. Wit: Lyonell Skinner, Richard Stonehill." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Benjamin B. Weisiger, York County, Virginia Records 1672-1676 (n.p.: n.p., 1991), 117-118, quoting York County, Virginia Record Book 5:111.