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Christian Duncanson--female, Colonial Virginia

Christian Duncanson--female, Colonial Virginia

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 9:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
Christian Duncanson, Traveled with her brother,William, already indentured for a petty crime, to Baltimore-Fairfax Virginia area, 1740.aboard " FALCON" --No mention of her again. Brother arrived. What happened to her? Can find no record....She was about 16 at that time...Brother ran away with another indentured servant girl...1747....Never captured

Re: Christian Duncanson--female, Colonial Virginia

Posted: 17 Feb 2015 11:32PM GMT
Classification: Query
Maybe she died in transit. Many did. A lot of those ships weren't much better than slave ships. The ship master had to make a profit off of carrying these servants and the more he could pinch a penny, the better off he was. Why should he care? He got paid up front.
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