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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
French
Given Name:
William
Soundex Code:
F652
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Port of Departure
Town:
London
County:
Middlesex
Nation:
England
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1635
Place of Indenture
Colony:
[New England]
Spouse
Given name:
Elizabeth
Research Notes
Comments:
Games suspects William and his wife Elizabeth were disguised as servants in order to leave the country at a time when nonconformists were barred from emigrating.
Source Citations:
Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999), 45-46; 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), 100.