[Caipirabob]

In America, they were under contract to work for the Master until their debt was paid. That debt might have been ocean passage to the New World.

Funny you should mention that. I had an ancestor who is recorded as serving terms of indenture to completion.

Now where's my 40 acres and a mule?!?

; D

[GODISMYSHADOW]

If your ancestor hadn’t completed his terms of indenture, would responsibility have been passed onto you?