All,
Our local library (the Cheney in Manchester, CT for those in the vicinity)
has in the reference room a three volume set titled The Complete Book of
Emigrants (A comprehensive listing compiled from English public records of
those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious and economic
reasons; of those who were deported for vagrancy, roguery, or
non-conformity; and of those who were sold to labour in the New Colonies)
by Peter Wilson Coldham; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990
(Second printing, 1993). The volumes span 1607-1660, 1661-1699, and
1700-1750, respectively, with a fourth volume for 1751-1775 in preparation.
In the second volume, I found the following (in part):
1669, APR 16, p. 144: "Newgate and Home Circuit prisoners reprieved to be
transported to Barbados. London: John Ludlow (a first offender aged 20 who
served as a soldier in Portugal); Elizabeth Carey, spinster, Elizabeth
Carle, spinster; Penelope Johnson, spinster; Edward Thomas; Thomas Lambert;
Robert Rowland; Margaret Griffith, spinster..."
One wonders whether spinsterhood was some sort of a crime in the 1600s.
Karl L
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