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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Underwood
Given Name:
Martha
Soundex Code:
U536
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 1697
Place of Indenture
County:
Westmoreland
Colony:
Virginia
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"1697 Nov 25. John a bastard child supposed son of John Davies his reputed father begott on the body of Martha Underwood now servant to John Higgins is with the consent of his mother bound apprentice to John Higgins and ordered to serve untill hee bee of age to claime and receive his freedome, being one yeare old 9 Jan. next." (1)
Family:
Illegitimate son: John, b. 9 Jan 1695/1696. Reputed father: John Davies.
Source Citations:
John Frederick Dorman,
Westmoreland County, Virginia Order Book 1690-1698, Part Three 1694-1698
(Washington, D.C.: John Frederick Dorman, 1964), 126, quoting Westmoreland County, Virginia Order Book 1690-1698, 251a.