7 David Souden found the following counties of origin among 2,492 servants who sailed from Bristol during the years 1654-79, compared with apprentices in that town:

 

Indentured Servants

Apprentices

Area

n

%

n

%

Bristol

272

10.9

330

33.6

Somerset

395

15.9

158

16.1

Gloucester

287

11.5

201

20.5

Wiltshire

225

9.0

57

5.8

Monmouth

241

9.7

56

5.7

South Wales

225

9.0

52

5.3

Hereford, Salop, Worcs

283

11.4

54

5.5

Dorset, Hants., Sussex

74

3.0

18

1.8

Cornwall, Devon

87

3.5

9

0.9

London and Home Counties

135

5.4

15

1.5

East Anglia

18

0.7

0

0.0

Beds, Leics, Nhants, Notts, Oxon

32

1.3

2

0.2

Derby, Stafford, Warwick

26

1.0

4

0.4

Ches, Cumb, Lane, Line, Nhum, York

45

1.8

5

0.5

North Wales

106

4.3

12

1.2

Ireland

36

1.4

7

0.7

Other

5

0.2

1

0.1

Total

2,492

100.0

981

99.8

This emigration went mainly (86.1%) to Barbados and Virginia with no major differences in region of origin by colonial destination; Souden, “Rogues, Whores and Vagabonds,” 31.

8 Horn, in “Servant Emigration to the Chesapeake,” suggests that most Virginia migrants came either from wood-pasture districts or from towns and cities—a hypothesis similar to that made by Anderson for the New England migration. I believe that this idea is mistaken, but firm evidence is lacking on both sides of the question.