This would leave the remainder of the settlers as indentured servants or tenant farmers who worked out their maintenance or transportation either for the company or for private individuals who financed their trip to America.
Thus the analysis roughly confirms the conclusion that three-fourths of the immigrants during this period were indentured servants.
Having examined the various types of men that entered Virginia as indentured servants, it now remains to determine to what extent these types survived and became welded into the social life of the colony.
The Company, although it did not relinquish its plan of establishing manufactures, was obliged to yield somewhat to this demand, and sent to the planters a number of indentured servants.
This was due largely to the fact that at this time the immigration of indentured servants to Virginia increased very much.
As most of these Scotch-Irish immigrants were very poor, many paid for their passage by selling their services and labour for a term of years, becoming a part of that flood of "indentured servants" which we shall soon consider.
To understand the status of the "indentured servants," who were so numerous in the Virginia Colony and were such a large and important factor in the population of the Northern Neck, it is well to first consider the meaning of the term.
It must not be supposed that immigration to Virginia in the Seventeenth century was restricted to indentured servants.
Massachusetts was likewise inaugurated by a corporation of Puritans, which at the outset endorsed the institution of unfree labor, in a sense, by sending over from England 180 indentured servants to labor on the company's account.
To give a complete list of Washington's indentured servants, even if it were possible, would be tedious and tiresome.
The state constitution, adopted in 1818, prohibited slavery, but recognized the indenture system by providing that male children born of indentured servants should be free at the age of twenty-one and females at the age of eighteen.
Southern sympathizers and the holders of indentured servants in the southern portion of the state were naturally considerably concerned in the decisions of the supreme court.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indentured servants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
