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Henry Boston Legal Affairs Source: Ames, Susie M. County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia 1640-1645. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia. [N.B. It appears that Henry had some difficulty obtaining his release from indenturehood and had to seek a court remedy. On 28 May 1645 the Accomack County court ordered "That Mr. Stephen Charlton shall at the next County Court produce the Indenture of and belonging unto Henry Boston servant unto Mr. Robins." (page 432) At the next court meeting on 28 July 1645, the record reads: Henry Boston Plaintiff Mr. Obedience Robins Defendant "Wee the Jurors in this cause finde by the oathes of Mrs. Elizabeth Charlton deceased and John Stutson that Mr. Edward Robins deceased agreed when hee bought the Plaintiff of the said Mrs. Charlton to give him one yeare of his tyme and wee conceive hee ought to bee Freed according to his desire in his petition. "Thomas Hatton, Thomas Johnson, John Wilkins his marke, Thomas Hunt, John Nuthall, John Major, William Burwell, George Puddington, James Barnabe, Thomas Parks, Reginald Hawis, Richard Browne. "It is ordered by this Court that Henry Boston servant unto Mr. Obedience Robins shal bee Freed and sett at Large and that the said Mr. Robins shall at the next Cropp pay and deliver unto the said Boston 3 barrells of Corne and Cloathes according to the customs of the Countrey haveing served his full tyme with the said Mr. Rolbins. And it is further ordered that the said Mr. Obedience Robins shall pay all Cost and Charge expended in this suite." If Boston's indenture was the standard seven years, he would have arrived in Virginia in 1638.

Henry Boston Legal Affairs
Source: Ames, Susie M. County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia 1640-1645. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia.

[N.B. It appears that Henry had some difficulty obtaining his release from indenturehood and had to seek a court remedy. On 28 May 1645 the Accomack County court ordered "That Mr. Stephen Charlton shall at the next County Court produce the Indenture of and belonging unto Henry Boston servant unto Mr. Robins." (page 432)

At the next court meeting on 28 July 1645, the record reads:

Henry Boston Plaintiff Mr. Obedience Robins Defendant

"Wee the Jurors in this cause finde by the oathes of Mrs. Elizabeth Charlton deceased and John Stutson that Mr. Edward Robins deceased agreed when hee bought the Plaintiff of the said Mrs. Charlton to give him one yeare of his tyme and wee conceive hee ought to bee Freed according to his desire in his petition.

"Thomas Hatton, Thomas Johnson, John Wilkins his marke, Thomas Hunt, John Nuthall, John Major, William Burwell, George Puddington, James Barnabe, Thomas Parks, Reginald Hawis, Richard Browne.

"It is ordered by this Court that Henry Boston servant unto Mr. Obedience Robins shal bee Freed and sett at Large and that the said Mr. Robins shall at the next Cropp pay and deliver unto the said Boston 3 barrells of Corne and Cloathes according to the customs of the Countrey haveing served his full tyme with the said Mr. Rolbins. And it is further ordered that the said Mr. Obedience Robins shall pay all Cost and Charge expended in this suite."

If Boston's indenture was the standard seven years, he would have arrived in Virginia in 1638.

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