Anna

= = =**Indentured Servants**= We were cleaning out my great-grandma’s house. Everyone took one room of the house and I got the basement. At first I didn’t like the idea of going down there, but then I saw something interesting. It looked like a box but when I got closer it was a treasure chest. I picked it up it didn’t have a lock so I opened it and there it was: authentic information about indentured servants.

First there was a [|contract] writen for women to be loyal to their owners. Explaining the details about the regulations to how long they will work for. Jamestowm's first twenty years were mostly women as indentured sevants, but some were men. Men and women had different contracts, the women's contract had things about if they had a faimly.If she had a baby when she was in servituve she would get some time off for the baby and herself. The men didn't have any thing really, they just have to work until the contract ends, but both men and women have the right to go to court if they think their master is treating them unfair. Then there was a [|letter] writen by Richard Frethorne a man who came over to the new world in 1623. His faimly sold him to get some money to feed the others in their faimly. His life wasn't the greatest. He didn't have a warm place to sleep and didn't have alot of food. Rarely got to take a bath and didn't make any friends. Most of the time worked and wrote letters to his faimly at night. After I was done looking at the letter,I saw a [|picture]. It was a man, and on the back it said the name George Taylor. A piece of paper was in the trunk. It said he was brought over to American from Ireland in 1736. He was an identured servant to Benjiam Franklen. Taylor was in the military for America.After his contract was up he worked for the congress. Then he died in 1781. That was all that was in the treasure. I learned so much about them and now I have more respect for them and how they lived.