Indentured servants served for 7 years. Once their indenture was over, they could do anything they wanted. Many other people came for other job opportunities - preachers, lawyers, farmers, doctors, teachers, carpenters, blacksmiths - anything that was needed here. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Date: 9/4/2003 4:14:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:lindarogers6330@sbcglobal.net">lindarogers6330@sbcglobal.net</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) Paul , thank you for that info.. Please forgive my ignorance when I ask this and keep in mind that I know squat about VA's history . How long does one become a indentured servant for?Is there a set time or what ?What happens after one is no longer a indentured servant ?If he wasn't a I servant what other possibilities are there for him coming to VA? Linda Rogers Paul Drake <pauldrake@charter.net> wrote:I very much doubt that he arrived as a servant and yet but a few tears later owned land and seemed to be legally active. ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Rogers To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Paul,you had to ask . I was told this ,from who you might ask : Someone read it in a book and told me . Not to accurate , I know but I'm grabbing for straws or crumbs of info. on this one . Paul Drake wrote:It would appear that your Lawrence Hulett was not an indentured servant. Why do you think he was? << I am looking for info. a LAWRENCE HULETT and family . He arrived in VA abt 1659 , a indentured servant I believe . I have no info. on his children or grandchildren etc. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 Linda Rogers Eureka , CA ADVICE : The wise person doesn't need it ,the fools won't heed it ! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
Thank you Bev, So he could have come to VA for just about any reason . It seems his many times grandson ALLEN HULETTwas a farmer in MO. after the Cival War,I wonder if this was a family thing . Linda Rogers Ms2001@aol.com wrote: Indentured servants served for 7 years. Once their indenture was over, they could do anything they wanted. Many other people came for other job opportunities - preachers, lawyers, farmers, doctors, teachers, carpenters, blacksmiths - anything that was needed here. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Date: 9/4/2003 4:14:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: lindarogers6330@sbcglobal.net Reply-to: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Paul , thank you for that info.. Please forgive my ignorance when I ask this and keep in mind that I know squat about VA's history . How long does one become a indentured servant for?Is there a set time or what ?What happens after one is no longer a indentured servant ?If he wasn't a I servant what other possibilities are there for him coming to VA? Linda Rogers Paul Drake wrote:I very much doubt that he arrived as a servant and yet but a few tears later owned land and seemed to be legally active. ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda Rogers To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] HULETTS IN VA Paul,you had to ask . I was told this ,from who you might ask : Someone read it in a book and told me . Not to accurate , I know but I'm grabbing for straws or crumbs of info. on this one . Paul Drake wrote:It would appear that your Lawrence Hulett was not an indentured servant. Why do you think he was? << I am looking for info. a LAWRENCE HULETT and family . He arrived in VA abt 1659 , a indentured servant I believe . I have no info. on his children or grandchildren etc. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 Linda Rogers Eureka , CA ADVICE : The wise person doesn't need it ,the fools won't heed it ! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237