. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. THE OLD MARKET SQUARE AT GERMANTOWN. m Xv> CHAPTER IX. The Traffic in Redemptioners as Carried on in theNeighboring Colonies—Men Kidnapped in the Streetsof London and Deported—Prisoners of War sent toAmerica and sold into Bondage in Cromwells Time. Gods blessing on the Fatherland,And all beneath her dome ; And also on the newer landWe now have made our home. Ein dichter Kreis von Lieben steh ,Ihr Briider, um uns her ;Uns Kniipft so manches theuere BandAn unser deutsches Vaterland,Drum fallt derAbsehied TO HILE my discussionof this
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. THE OLD MARKET SQUARE AT GERMANTOWN. m Xv> CHAPTER IX. The Traffic in Redemptioners as Carried on in theNeighboring Colonies—Men Kidnapped in the Streetsof London and Deported—Prisoners of War sent toAmerica and sold into Bondage in Cromwells Time. Gods blessing on the Fatherland,And all beneath her dome ; And also on the newer landWe now have made our home. Ein dichter Kreis von Lieben steh ,Ihr Briider, um uns her ;Uns Kniipft so manches theuere BandAn unser deutsches Vaterland,Drum fallt derAbsehied TO HILE my discussionof this question hasspecial reference to the Pro-vince of Pennsylvania, thetrade had so ramified into theneighboring regions to thesouth of us, that a brief glanceat what prevailed there willassist us in understanding the situation at our own fact we may be said to have taken it from them, because(274) old-time wooden lantern. Servant Lazes in Maryland. 2^ it prevailed there many years before it developed in Penn-sylvania. It prevailed in Virginia from an early period,and when Lord Baltimore established his government inhis new Province of Maryland, he was prompt to recognizethe same system in order to more rapidly secure the beginning the term of service there was fixed at liveyears. In 1638 the Maryland Assembly passed an actreducing it to four years, which remained in force until1715, when it was amended by fixing the period of servicefor servants above the age of twenty-five years, at fiveyears; those between the age of eighteen and twent
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