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Custodial History:
Transfered from the Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Preferred Citation:
Abbot E. Smith Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gift
Biographical Information:
Abbot E. Smith (1906- ), historian and author of Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1766.
Scope and Contents
Research notes, 1930-1939, compiled by historian Abbot E. Smith for his monograph, Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1766. His notes cover indentured servitude in the colonies -- convicts shipped to the colonies, legal status of indentured servants and their life in the colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Authors, American--20th century
- Colonial period, ca. 1609-1774
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Notebooks
- Penal colonies, British
Container List
Research notes 1930-1939 compiled by historian Abbot E. Smith for his monograph, "Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1766". His notes regarding indentured servitude in the colonies, convicts shipped to the colonies, legal status of indentured servants and their life in the colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id145754
Convict Transportation Part 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id145755
Convict Transportation Part 2
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id145756
Voyage
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id145757
Germans & Swiss
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id145759
Irish, Scotch, & Scotch-Irish
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id145760
Legal Aspects of Indentured Servitude
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id145761
New England
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id145762
The Laws of Jamaica
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id145763
Acts of Barbados & Other Islands, Miscellaneous Acts
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id145764
Miscellaneous Records of Indentured Servants Going to the Colonies
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id145765
Miscellaneous Records of Numbers of Indentured Servants in the Colonies
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id145766
Miscellaneous 1660-- (Numbers & Quality of Servants)
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id145767
Nova Scotia--Georgia
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id145768
Emigrants from England--Treasury Figures
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id145769
Chapter 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id145770
Virginia Company
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id145771
Virginia Company Ms References
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id145772
Miscellaneous to 1640
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18 id145773
Miscellaneous Deeds & Inventories of Indentured Servants
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19 id145774
Treatment in Colonies, Characters, etc.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20 id145775
Laws, Taxes, Deficiency Laws, etc. - 18th Century
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21 id145776
Convicts - 18th Century
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22 id145777
Spiriting & Kidnapping
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 23 id145779
Kidnapping - 18th Cent
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24 id145778
Port of Philadelphia--See Also Germans, Irish, etc.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25 id145780
[Colonel Edward] Penruddock's Men
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 26 id145781
Indentures--Schemes of Service, etc.--Character of Servants, etc.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 id145782
H[igh] C[ourt] A[dmiralty] Papers
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 28 id145783
Registry Offices, etc.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 29 id145785
Poor Children & People--Council for N[ew] E[ngland]
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 30 id145786
Various Foreign Protestants
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31 id145788
Rogues & Vagabonds
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 32 id145789
Legal Notes
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 33 id145790
Providence Company
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 34 id145791
Peopling of Jamaica
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 35 id145792
Quakers
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 36 id145793
Miscellaneous, Convicts in England & Transportation to the Colonies
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 37 id145794
Felons--Pardon Information
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 38 id145795
Monmouth Rebels
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 39 id145796
Recruiting of Servants for British Army in Colonies
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 40 id145797
Rebels 1715, 1745
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 41 id145798
Shipment--Headrights--Chapter 11
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 42 id145799
Ireland
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 43 id145800
Scotland and Scots Prisoners
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 44 id145801
Treatment, etc. in the Colonies
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 45 id145802
Barbados Council Minutes
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 46 id145803
Tables of sentencing, execution, & transportation of criminals from 1750-1772 in the Midland & Norfolk circuits
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 47 id145804
Lists of Names of Convicts Pardoned for Transportation in 17th Cen+D109t from Patent Rolls
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 48 id145805
Miscellaneous Notes on 17th Century Music
Research notes 1930-1939 compiled by historian Abbot E. Smith for his monograph, "Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1766". His notes regarding indentured servitude in the colonies, convicts shipped to the colonies, legal status of indentured servants and their life in the colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id145807
Records of crimes and sentences of British convicts
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id145808
The Transportation of Convicts to the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century1934 January 2Scope and Contents
Abbot Emerson Smith, reprinted from the American Historical Review,VolumeXXIX, Number 2.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id145809
Lists of Ships Carrying Convicts to Colonies in the 18th Century