Apparently Mr. Farmer and Mr. Webb had enough means to pay the way for those people. It was very common for people to sign up to be endentured (indebted) for 7 years in return for passage to the New World. Barbara On 10/24/12 3:00 AM, "pa-old-chester-request@rootsweb.com" <pa-old-chester-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Today's Topics: > > 1. Servants (Sandra Ferguson) > To contact the PA-OLD-CHESTER list administrator, send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PA-OLD-CHESTER mailing list, send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the > email with no additional text.

I would imagine that in 1685 one would not want to assume that skilled labor would be available at journey's end and would bring one's own "community" for the job ahead. Carol T. On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Barb and Howard Kelly <kellys4@zoominternet.net> wrote: > Apparently Mr. Farmer and Mr. Webb had enough means to pay the way for those > people. It was very common for people to sign up to be endentured > (indebted) for 7 years in return for passage to the New World. > > Barbara > > > On 10/24/12 3:00 AM, "pa-old-chester-request@rootsweb.com" > <pa-old-chester-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Servants (Sandra Ferguson) >> To contact the PA-OLD-CHESTER list administrator, send an email to >> PA-OLD-CHESTER-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> To post a message to the PA-OLD-CHESTER mailing list, send an email to >> PA-OLD-CHESTER@rootsweb.com. >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of >> the >> email with no additional text. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message