4 Horn, “Servant Emigration to the Chesapeake,” 70-71.
5 The regional origins of 721 servants who sailed from Bristol for the Chesapeake were as follows: West Country, 29%, Severn Valley, 38%; South Wales, 20%; other parts of England, 13%; Horn, “Servant Emigration to the Chesapeake,” 51-95.
6 David Souden discovered the following patterns of recruitment for apprentices and servants who sailed from Bristol in the period 1654-79;
Distance from Bristol |
Servants |
Apprentices |
0-10 miles |
|
|
10-20 miles |
|
|
20-40 miles |
|
|
40-60 miles |
|
|
60-80 miles |
|
|
80-100 miles |
|
|
100-150 miles |
|
|
150-200 miles |
|
|
200+ miles |
|
|
Total |
|
|
Source: David Souden, “Rogues, Whores and Vagabonds? Indentured Servant Emigrants to North America, and the Case of Mid-Seventeenth-Century Bristol,” SH 3 (1978), 31; for other ports see David F. Lamb, “The Seaborn Trade of Southampton in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century” (thesis, Univ. of Southampton, 1971).