Thank you for your help. In a message dated 3/15/2005 2:08:31 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: From what my ancestral grandfather did, he didn't have money to come across to America, so he was in debt to another person, for 7 years. When he worked this time period out to the one who sponsored him, he was admitted as a freeman..My grandfather back in the 1600's, was unmarried when he came across.