Court records from 17th-century Kent County, Maryland, arranged by theme.

Transcribed and compiled by Dr. Alexa Cawley, Ph.D.

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Servant Name	Anderson	Margrett	Master Name	Vaughan	Robert	Date	1/1/1658
Length of Service	Anderson agrees, with consent of mother and father, to serve Vaughan from 10/1657-1/1/1661 according to custom of country; Vaughan to deliver to her father in law Andrew Elinor a cow forward with calf for her use, promise to care for cow and calf until					Servant Sex
						Servant Age	17?
Special Circumstances	she comes of age, allow her meat, drinke, apparel and lodging for 4 years 2 months					Source	LIV 124-125

Servant Name	Ayres	Edward	Master Name	Swettnam	Edward	Date	6/27/1676
Length of Service	according to Act					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	12
Special Circumstances	without indentures					Source	Arch LVI 343; Peden 147

Servant Name	Bradly	Thomas	Master Name	Williams	Thomas	Date	3/8/1660
Length of Service	sold to John Winchester, no time given					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	sale of servant					Source	LIV 212

Servant Name	Bringgergrass	James	Master Name	Taylor	Thomas	Date	03/22/1669-1670
Length of Service	8 years unless he can produce indentures or age out of England					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	14
Special Circumstances	without indentures					Source	Arch LVI, 286

Servant Name	Colleman	William	Master Name	Foster	Seth	Date	10/1/1661
Length of Service	10 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	11
Special Circumstances	without indenture					Source	Peden, 128; Arch LVI, 228

Servant Name	Colleman	William	Master Name	Foster	Seth	Date	10/1/1661
Length of Service	ordered to serve 10 years b/c has no indenture					Servant Sex
						Servant Age	11
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 228

Servant Name	Connor	Philip	Master Name	Wright	John	Date	1/1667
Length of Service	Philip Connor, son of late Phillip Connor of County, made choice of Wright as his guardian					Servant Sex
						Servant Age	14
Special Circumstances	guardianship					Source	LIV 238

Servant Name	Dabb	Sarah	Master Name	Williams	Morgan	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	"4 years…""to serve them in such occasions as required"					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	Williams is to fine her meate drincke washing and Lodging and Clothes…"					Source	Peden, 132; Arch LVI, 247

Servant Name	Dabb	Sarah	Master Name	Williams	Morgan	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	John Dabb, father, indentures his daughter for 4 years "to serue them in all such occasions as they shall require . . . To find her meate drincke washing Lodgine and Cloths"					Servant Sex
						Servant Age	teens"
Special Circumstances	is indenturing teenagers becoming common or is it for financial reasons?					Source	LIV 247

Servant Name	Dabb	Sarah	Master Name	Williams	Morgan and wife	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	John Dabb indentures his daughter to Williams for 4 years in exchange for "to finde her meate drincke washing and Lodging and Clothes"					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	father indentures daughter					Source	LIV 247

Servant Name	Davy	Lewis	Master Name	Williams	Morgon	Date	1/25/1675
Length of Service	according to Act					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	14
Special Circumstances	without indentures					Source	Arch LVI 330

Servant Name	Deare	Christian	Master Name	Dunn	Robert	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	4 years or until married					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	daughter of John Deare, deceased, and so ordered to serve					Source	Peden, 132; Arch LVI, 247

Servant Name	Deare	Christiann	Master Name	Dunn	Robert	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	4 years or until marriage					Servant Sex
						Servant Age	teens?
Special Circumstances	indenture of an orphan, cattle as a bond					Source	LIV 247

Servant Name	Dee	John	Master Name	Benton	Mark	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	ordered to serve 7 years according to the law					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Dee	James	Master Name	Benton	Marke	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	7 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	without indenture					Source	Peden, 132; Arch LVI, 246

Servant Name	Ewens	Mary	Master Name	Burton	Edmund	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	5 years					Servant Sex
						Servant Age	Adult
Special Circumstances						Source	Peden, 132; Arch LVI, 246

Servant Name	Ewens	Mary	Master Name	Burton	Edmund	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	ordered to serve 5 years					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Gordon (female)	Christian	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/28/1676
Length of Service	6 years from arrival					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	19
Special Circumstances						Source	Arch LVI 339-340; Peden 145-6

Servant Name	Grinley	Hanna (female)	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	4/16/59
Length of Service						Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	enters claim for land for transporting servant					Source	LIV 163

Servant Name	Henfrey	Thomas	Master Name	Wright	John	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	6 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	brought without indenture					Source	Peden, 132; Arch LVI, 246

Servant Name	Henfrey	Thomas	Master Name	Wright	John	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	ordered to serve 6 years according to the law					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Hubbert	Humphrey	Master Name	Burton	Edmund	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	ordered to serve 5 years					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Hubbert	Humphrey	Master Name	Burton	Edmond	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	5 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	adult?
Special Circumstances						Source	Peden, 132; Arch LVI, 246

Servant Name	Humbert	Humphrey	Master Name	Burton	Edmond	Date	1/2/1669
Length of Service	4 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	21
Special Circumstances	registered in 1668 for 5 years; witnesses Robert Dunn and Wm. Currer					Source	Arch LVI 286

Servant Name	Hutchins	Ellenor	Master Name	Woolcott	John	Date	8/25/1668
Length of Service	6 years or 4 years					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	"in case an indenture is found to serve for 4 years"					Source	Peden, 132

Servant Name	Hutchins	Ellenor	Master Name	Woolcott	John	Date	8/1668
Length of Service	court orders six years service but stipulates that if an indenture is found with her signature for 4 years then she only has to serve the 4; Disborough Bennett (clerk) produces a 4 year indenture in June of 1669					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 249

Servant Name	James	Thomas	Master Name	Rogers	Edward	Date	8/22/1676
Length of Service	7 years from arrival					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	15
Special Circumstances	without identures					Source	Arch LVI 348-49; Peden 148

Servant Name	Kempstone	Richard	Master Name	Taylor	Thomas	Date	11/2/1670
Length of Service	4 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	Richard Nash came to court to record sale of Kempstone to Taylor from his ship					Source	Arch LVI 302

Servant Name	Locket	Elisa	Master Name	Read	Mathew	Date	3/1/1657
Length of Service	without indentures, according to Act should serve 7 yrs, will accept 6 yrs.					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	16
Special Circumstances						Source	Peden, 114; Arch. LVI 127

Servant Name	Lyppins	Elizabeth	Master Name	Granger	William and Grace	Date	03/22/1669-1670
Length of Service	until the age of 18; "alowe her Meate Drinke washing & Lodgeing And sufficient Cloathing"					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	6
Special Circumstances	daughter of William Lyppins, deceased and left to the Granger					Source	Arch LVI 286

Servant Name	Norman	Elizabeth	Master Name	Finch	Frances	Date	1/25/1675
Length of Service	serve according to Act of Assembly					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	21
Special Circumstances	without indentures					Source	Arch LVI 329-330; Peden 145

Servant Name	Padbury	Jane	Master Name	Read	Mathew	Date	3/31/1668
Length of Service	ordered to serve 4 years					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	adult
Special Circumstances	presumably an adult because of time to be served					Source	Peden, 131

Servant Name	Padbury	Jane	Master Name	Read	Matthew	Date
Length of Service	came without indenture, servant and master agree to 4 year term					Servant Sex
						Servant Age	20's?
Special Circumstances	negotiation?					Source	LIV 243

Servant Name	Rosemason	Hans	Master Name	Tourson	Alexander	Date	9/29/1668
Length of Service	serve 5 years according to the Law					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	without Indentures					Source	Arch LVI, 260

Servant Name	Rosemason	Hans	Master Name	Tourson	Alexander	Date	11/1668
Length of Service	ordered to serve 5 years according to law					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 260

Servant Name	Shambrooke	Frances	Master Name	Bright	Thomas	Date	6/18/1668
Length of Service	an agreement made between Shambrook and Bright to bind herself for another 3 years of service "to Allow the Said Shambrooke meate drinke lodging & Apparrell"					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	Shambrook indentures herself after completing a term of service; same as Sembreck?					Source	LIV 248

Servant Name	Shambrooke	Frances	Master Name	Bright	Thomas	Date	6/18/1668
Length of Service	"bound herself… for 3 years"					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	Allow … meate drincke lodging and Apparrell"; witnesses Thomas Thechiley and Robert Hamkshaw					Source	Peden, 132

Servant Name	Shaw	John	Master Name	Hosier	Henry	Date	8/22/1676
Length of Service	5 years from arrival					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	17
Special Circumstances	without indentures					Source	Arch LVI 349; Peden 148

Servant Name	Smith	John	Master Name	Benton	Marke	Date	03/28/1671; 6/27/1671
Length of Service	7 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	Arch LVI 314

Servant Name	Tennant	Mary	Master Name	Wright	John	Date	9/29/1668
Length of Service	5 years from arrival in the country					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances	Court judged her to serve					Source	Arch LVI, 249

Servant Name	Tennant	Mary	Master Name	Wright	John	Date	9/29/1668
Length of Service	to serve 5 years from her arrival in the country					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 249

Servant Name	Walter	Owen	Master Name	Wicks	Mr.	Date	1/25/1675
Length of Service	according to Act					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	13
Special Circumstances	without indentures					Source	Arch LVI 330

Servant Name	Whatley	William	Master Name	Barnes	Isabella	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	6 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	Peden, 132; Arch LVI, 246

Servant Name	Whatly	William	Master Name	Barnes	Isabella	Date	6/30/1668
Length of Service	ordered to serve 6 years according to the law					Servant Sex
						Servant Age
Special Circumstances						Source	LIV 246