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American History

intaglio

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1. Please help YoungDemCA because I'd like to know as well

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2014, 05:26 AM

May 2014

My gut instinct would be that they would tend to be Welsh/Scottish/Irish with a healthy leavening of poor from the rookeries of London.

One interesting insight is that Robert Louis Stephenson's "Kidnapped" is based on a Scots lowland lad sold as a bond servant to the (US) colonies.

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Questions about indentured servants in the Southern colonies [View all] YoungDemCA May 2014 OP

Please help YoungDemCA because I'd like to know as well intaglio May 2014 #1

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