"The U.S. was settled, in large part, by working indentured children... Over 1/2 the people who settled the Colonies south of New England came to America under contracts of indenture... The average age of an indentured servant was 14."
~Barbara Woodhouse, "Hidden in Plain Sight"
the earliest ancestor my grandmother has traced coming to america was a 14 year old indentured servant who came from ireland in the late 17th century. his surname is my middle name and my father’s middle name.
