This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradford, Pickerell Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YF.2ACIB/1699.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: To KEEP the Record straight: JOHN BRADFORD's will states the following. "To Gabriel Pickerell a tract of land purchased of Francis Elledge containing 350 acres adjoining to Arthur Kavanaugh being on the Reedy Run on the north side of Roanoke in Bertie Precinct, North Carolina, for the consideration of a horse in hand and five years care on the said land, also the joining of stocks remitting the one half as often as it shall be thought proper by my executrix. In case of failure in joining to halves I desire that 200 acres separate from the said Pickerell's plantation may rebound to my son Nathaniel." Info I found on mr. Pickerell: Gabriell Pickrell; 1704 rent rolls, 100 acres, King William Co., VA This particular JOHN BRADFORD was not an indentured servant. This is how myths/disinformation get going.... STICK to the documents. Becky Mosely