The Bristol registers of servants sent to foreign plantations, 1654-1686
By: Peter Wilson Coldham.
Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
Subjects: Indentured servants -- United States -- Registers.; Indentured servants -- Virginia -- Registers.; Indentured servants -- England -- Bristol -- Registers.
Description: "In 1654 the Bristol City Council passed an ordinance requiring that a register of servants destined for the colonies be kept, the purpose being to prevent the practice of dumping innocent youths into servitude. The registers, covering the period 1654 to 1686, are the largest body of indenture records known, and they also are a unique record of English emigration to the American colonies" -- publisher website (December 2007).
Notes: Includes indexes.