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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Burras
Given Name:
Ann
Soundex Code:
B620
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:
1608
Place of Indenture
Colony:
Virginia
Master
Surname:
Forrest
Title:
Mistress
Spouse
Surname:
Laydon
Given name:
John
Research Notes
Comments:
Purportedly the first woman servant in Virginia. (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Mrs. Henry Lowell Cook, “Maids for Wives,â€Â
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
Vol. 50, No. 4 (Oct 1942): 309, quoting John Smith,
Works
, 438, 445, 456.