This is very interesting. I never heard of any from the colonial days but, then again, I didn't know about these, so who knows? Perhaps someone can enlighten us about that. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, geniebugged <geniebugged@cox.net> wrote: > Sounds like a lot packed into few [146] pages - > > > Title German immigrant servant contracts registered at the port of > Philadelphia, 1817-1831 > Author Farley Ward Grubb > Publisher Genealogical Pub. Co., 1994 > ISBN 0806314168, 9780806314167 > Length 146 pages > Subjects German Americans > Horror stories > Indentured servants > Juvenile Fiction / General > Juvenile Fiction / Horror & Ghost Stories > Reference / Genealogy > Ships > > ©1994-2009 Mimi Taylor > Generation Gap Specialist™ > for HALL-PRATT-TAYLOR + PIERCE > "From Pierce-Arrows 2 Straight Arrows"© > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pacentre-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pacentre-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Justin Houser > Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:12 AM > To: eric sanders-buell > Cc: PACENTRE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PACENTRE] German immigrant servant quetion > > I have never heard of such a record and, in fact, would be interested to > know where the records that you speak of are kept. > > Justin > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:21 AM, eric sanders-buell <mseevirginia@cox.net > >wrote: > > > Does anyone know if Centre County and other PA counties kept records > > in the local courthouses of German Immigrant servant contracts? I > > understand the Pennsylvania German Society persuaded the state of PA > > to register all German Redemptioners after 1784 upon arrival at the > > port Philadelphia but wondered if the buyer and redemptioner had to > > also register at a local level. > > > > Sara Sanders-Buell > > Centre County lines: Twitmyer, Haner, Evans, Reese, Gephardt > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > PACENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 2458 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > >