This is a list of resources to identify indentured servants
(Further research may be necessary to find a qualifying ancestor)
Please forward any resources that you have found helpful
Online resources
General Bibliography: Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published Sources
National Search: Immigrant Servants Database
England to New World: Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686 (from Bristol, Middlesex, London)
Maine: See file below
Maryland: The New Early Settlers of Maryland (use servant as a keyword in the search)
New Hampshire: See file below
Pennsylvania, Chester County: Indentured Servants Complaints 1700-1855
National Search: Immigrant Servants Database
England to New World: Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686 (from Bristol, Middlesex, London)
Maine: See file below
Maryland: The New Early Settlers of Maryland (use servant as a keyword in the search)
New Hampshire: See file below
Pennsylvania, Chester County: Indentured Servants Complaints 1700-1855
Print resources
Ballagh, James Curtis, White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia (2001)
Coldham, Peter Wilson, Bonded Passengers to America (1983)
Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 (1988)
Haynie, Washington Preston, Records of Indentured Servants & of Certificates for Land: Northumberland County, Virginia, 1650-1795 (1996)
Lawson, Russell M., Servants and Servitude (2018)
Marrin, Richard B., Runaways of Colonial New Jersey: Indentured Servants, Slaves, Deserters, and Prisoners, 1720-1781 (2007)
Salinger, Sharon V., To Serve Well and Faithfully: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (2000)
Wareing, John, Emigrants to America: Indentured Servants Recruited in London, 1718-1733 (1985)
Wareing, John, Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718: 'There is Great Want of Servants' (2016)
some Sources used by members
Acker, E. D., Brief History of the Acker-Halbert Family (Provo, UT: CCLA/GSU, 2000)
Amandus, Johnson, Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, Vol. 2 (Philadelphia: International Print. Co., 1927)
Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration (Boston: NEHGS, 2011)
Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration Begins (Boston: NEHGS, 1995)
Anderson, Robert Charles, The Winthrop Fleet (Boston: NEHGS, 2012)
Banks, Charles Edward, Planters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1620-1640 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930)
Barnes, Robert W., Colonial Families of Maryland, Bound and Determined to Succeed (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 2007)
Benson, Jr., Ronald E., "Indenture of John Tripp of Horkstow, Lincolnshire, Boston and Plymouth; and his three New England masters."
Before Germanna magazine (Bountiful, UT: American Genealogical Lending Library, 1990-)
Bolton, Charles Knowles, The Founders (Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 1919-1926)
Boyer III, Carl, Ancestral Lines, 3rd ed., (Santa Clara, CA: the author, 1998)
Bradford, William, History of Plymouth Plantation
Briggs, Vernon, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family (Boston: Goodspeed, 1938)
Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book of Emigrants 1661-1699 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.)
Coldham Peter William, King's Passengers to Maryland and Virginia (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1997)
Coldham, Peter Wilson, Bonded Passengers to America (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983)
Coldham, Peter Wilson, Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations 1654-1686 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988)
Coldham, Peter Wilson, Settlers of Maryland 1679-1783 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2010)
Doliante, Sharon J., Maryland and Virginia Colonials (Clearfield, 2000-2010)
Dorman, John, Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5, 4th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 2007)
Eckert, Allen W., The Frontiersmen (Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001)
Egge, Marion F. , Pennsylvania German roots across the ocean, (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2000)
Emigrants from England 1773-1776 (Boston: NEHGR, 1964)
Filby, William P., ed., Passenger & Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research, 2012)
Fleet, Beverly, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol 22, Lancaster Co., VA, 1652-1655
Gagne, Peter, King's Daughters and Foundling Mothers, The Filles due Roi, 1653-1673, Vol. 1 (Orange Park, FL: Quinto Publications, 2008)
Hill, Peter, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol. 11, Edward Doty (Plymouth, MA: GSMD, 2009)
Hotten, John Camden, Original Lists of Persons of Quality (Boston: NEHGS, 2012)
Jacobus, David Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
Jones, George Fenwick, Salzburg Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah (Rockland, ME: Picton Press, 1997)
Jordan, John W., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (Ft. Wayne, IN: Lewis Publishing Company: 1911)
Kenton, Edna, Simon Kenton: His Life and Period 1755-1836 (1930)
Klaarwater (Clearwater) Families (Ulster County Genealogical Society)
Magruder, Jr., C. C., Colonel Ninian Beall (Washington, D. C.: Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia, 1911)
McCartney, Martha W., Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 2007)
Melson, Lewis Byron, The Melson Family in America (privately pub., 1992)
Nelson, William, ed., Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey, 1644-1703 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc, 2000)
Newman, Harry Wright, To Maryland from Overseas (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1982)
O'Brien, Michael J., "Cornelius Merry and Matthew Clesson, Pioneer Irishmen of Northampton, Mass.", Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Vol. XVII (1918)
Olroyd, Ida May Melson, The Melson Story 1646-2006 (privately pub., 2006)
Orange County, Virginia, Order Book 2
Pope, Charles Henry, Pioneers of Massachusetts (Boston: the author, 1900)
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 3rd ser., vol. 1 (1896)
Randall, Paul King, Genealogy of a Branch of the Randall Family 1666-1879
Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County [Massachusetts], Vol. 1 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911)
Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 1628-1686 (Boston: Press of William White, 1853-54)
Rhamy, Bonnelle William, The Remy Family in America 1650-1942 (Ft. Wayne, IN: the author, 1942)
Rupp, I. Daniel, A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania, from 1727 to 1776 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965)
Sheppard, Jr., Walter Lee, comp., Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970)
Shurtleff, Nathaniel, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England (Boston: Press of William White, 1855)
Skordas, Gust, ed., Early Settlers of Maryland (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1968)
Sparacio, Ruth and Sam, Richmond County, Virginia, Order Book Book Abstracts 1718-1719
Sybel Noyes, et al., Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996)
Tepper, Michael, ed., Emigrants to Pennsylvania 1641-1819 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978)
Tepper, Michael, ed. Passengers to America (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977)
Thompson, Neil D., Family of Bartholomew Stoval, Vol. 1 (Fort Worth, TX: 1993)
Torrence, William Clayton, Henrico County, Virginia, William and Mary Quarterly, Vols. 24-25
Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol. 7, Peter Brown (Plymouth, MA: GSMD, 2002)
Wareing, John, Emigrants to America, Indentured Servants Recruited in London 1718-1733 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc, 1985)
Watauga Association of Genealogists, comp., History of Washington County, Tennessee (Johnson City, TN: Watauga Association of Genealogists, 1988)
White, Elizabeth Pearson, et al., John Howland of the Mayflower (Rockland, ME: Picton Press, 1990) 4 vols.
Wyckoff Association in America, Wyckoff Family in America, Vol. 2 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1983)
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A list of servants identified in the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
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