This little excerp came from the Amazon web page Warren sent from a book called ,"Liberty for Some", read on: As it granted Sandys's request, the Privy Council commended the city fathers for "redeeming so many poor souls from misery and ruin and putting them in a condition of use and service to the State." If any children were found "obstinate to resist or otherwise to disobey such directions as shall be given in this behalf," company officials were henceforth empowered to "imprison, punish and dispose of any of those children, upon any disorder by them or any of them committed, as cause shall require, and so to ship them to Virginia with as much expedition as may stand for conveniency." Once the procedure had been worked out, roundups became routine. Soon the Virginia Company's request for another 100 children was quickly approved and another batch was swept up and sent away. It is unclear how many boys and girls were taken, but company records indicate that additional cargoes were authorized, at least in 1620 and 1622, and a letter of 1627 mentions 1,400 to 1,500 children as being shipped to Virginia. The policy of allowing, even encouraging, private companies to forcibly apprehend, detain, transport, and sell into service lower-class children was legitimized by every branch and level of government and praised by the highest church officials. Shipping such persons abroad, John Donne said, "is not only a spleen to drain the ill humors of the body, but a liver to breed good blood." This seizure (or "napping") of children ("kids") for shipment to America as servants became so well-known that the practice acquired a new name: "kidnapping." Its original practitioners and defenders included government officials, corporate executives, clergymen, and parents. There is more but you will have to go the URL Warren included to read. Just scroll down on the web page. Ron H. Warren Wetmore wrote: > > Apparently it's true. They became indentured servants. > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-excerpt/1555533647 > /o/qid%3D927784784/sr%3D2-1/002-6624597-8460035 > > (you may have to copy that long URL in pieces to your > browser's address window). > > Yrs aye, > > Warren > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "NewEnglander1621" <NewEnglander1621@email.msn.com> > To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 9:53 PM > Subject: [CRV] Re: [CTHARTFO] 1500 Kidnapped children > > > Perhaps someone on my 4 lists would know ......I kind of > wondered myself > > > > Cynthia. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Maritoole@aol.com> > > :> > 1627 > > > > settling: in urgent attempts to provide adequate > number of settlers for > > the > > > > Virginia colony, the London managers send over a > shipload of some 1500 > > > > kidnapped children, some of whom were quite young. > > > > > > > I would like to read more about this. Anyone have any > ideas where I might > > > find more info on it? Thanks, and Thanks to Cynthia for > posting this > > recent > > > history for us. Marilyn > > > > > > > > > ==== CTHARTFO Mailing List ==== > > > If you have something to share with the list...please > do..be sure to list > > resources > > > Conn River Valley Genealogical Library: > http://www.quadrangle.org > > > > > > ============================== > > > Search over 600 million names at Ancestry.com! > > > http://www.ancestry.com/search > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > > Conn.River Valley Genealogical Research Library: > http://www.quadrangle.org (genealogical library for Conn > River area) > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > http://www.nehgs.org New Eng.Hist.Genealogical Society > > Listowner: NewEnglander1621@msn.com > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy > access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourc > ecode=F11HB > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > Conn.River Valley Genealogical Research Library: http://www.quadrangle.org (genealogical library for Conn River area) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > http://www.nehgs.org New Eng.Hist.Genealogical Society > Listowner: NewEnglander1621@msn.com > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/search > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!