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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Williams
Given Name:
Elizabeth
Soundex Code:
W452
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 1640
Place of Indenture
Colony:
Virginia
Spouse
Surname:
Chitwood
Given name:
William
Date of Marriage:
about 1640
Place of Marriage
Colony:
Virginia
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"On 3 June 1640 the General Court found that William Chittwood bought of Stephen Gill one maid servant by the name Elizabeth Williams with intent to marry the said servant ... and forasmuch as the said Chittwood hath dishonestly gone about to forsake the said maid with whom he was so contracted with an intent to reconfine the said Elizabeth to longer servitude which the court taking into consideration ... doth order and adjudge that the said Chittwood shall within ten days consumate matrimony with the said Elizabeth Williams or else that the said Elizabeth shall be free from the said Chittwood giving unto him 500 pounds of tobacco for her freedom." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Edward Boyd Braddy, “Servants and Freedmen in Colonial Virginia, 1619 to 1670,†M.A. Thesis, James Madison University, 1997, 39, quoting H.R. McIlwaine,
Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia
(Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1979), 475.