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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Rutter
Given Name:
William
Soundex Code:
R360
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1697
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
about 1710
Place of Indenture
County:
Somerset
Colony:
Maryland
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"1710. Thomas Humphris brought Wm. Rutter to be made over to serve him till of age who was by his consent made over to serve said Humphris till of age the said Thomas Humphris giving security to find the said Wm. Rutter in sufficient meat and drink and cloathing during the time of his servitude the said Wm. being adjudged from the date here of to be thirteen years old and said Thomas is to give said Wm. Rutter when he shall arrive to the age of 16 one whole years schooling and at the exiration of his full time of service to give him the said Wm. a cow and a calf and two new suits of apparel from head to foot and the said Thomas Humphris with his security John Jefferson did acknowledge themselves to be indebted to our Sovereign Lady the Queen and her successors for the use of the said Wm. Rutter the principal in 20 pound and his security in 10 pound current money of this province due to be levied on their or either of their goods and chattles lands and tennements for the use of the said William. The condition of this recog. is such that if Thomas Humphris do well and truly perform and forefill the several articles above written to wit to find the said Wm. in sufficient meat drink and clothing during the time of his servitude and when said Wm. shall be sixteen years old give him the said William one whole years schooling and when free to give him the said Wm. two new suits of apparel from head to foot and a cow and calf without fraud then this recog. to be null and void otherwise to stand and be in full power in the law. To which recog. they say they are content." (1)
Comments:
Perhaps not an imported servant.
Source Citations:
(1) Rebekah Ann Buck, “The Decline of Indentured Servitude in Seventeenth-Century Tobacco Colonies†M.L.S. Thesis, University of Oklahoma, 2000, 22, quoting Frank V. Walczyk, Somerset County [Maryland] Judicials, Part II, 1709-1711 (New York: Frank V. Walczyk, 1998), 408.