Background:
John Bunch
John Casor
Around that time, one of my own ancestors was a 17 year old Irish indentured girl named Mary. She was "stolen" from the Custis family (yes, THAT Custis family - the one George Washington married into a century later) by a young man named Christopher Nutter. Christopher got his ass into a legal sling over it, but they eventually married and fled to the Maryland Colony anyhow, settling at Saint Mary's. Christopher became an Indian trader with the Nanticoke Indians, and later became the chief interpreter with the Nanticokes for the Maryland Colony.
The Nanticoke Nation is a tribe that is no more.
Christopher Nutter
Mention of the Nutter court case
Nutter had a history of being a rogue.
The Bunch case was around 1640, and he Casor case around 1655. Court records of the Nutter affair in which he "stole" Mary from the Custis family are from around 1662. So, but for an accident of history, the Irish might have been declared chattel property rather than the Africans, as the cases were all congealing around the same time.
Now they are attempting to "indenture" us all back into serfdom and defacto slavery.
Feudalism never died - it just changed it's name.
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John Bunch
John Casor
Around that time, one of my own ancestors was a 17 year old Irish indentured girl named Mary. She was "stolen" from the Custis family (yes, THAT Custis family - the one George Washington married into a century later) by a young man named Christopher Nutter. Christopher got his ass into a legal sling over it, but they eventually married and fled to the Maryland Colony anyhow, settling at Saint Mary's. Christopher became an Indian trader with the Nanticoke Indians, and later became the chief interpreter with the Nanticokes for the Maryland Colony.
The Nanticoke Nation is a tribe that is no more.
Christopher Nutter
Mention of the Nutter court case
Nutter had a history of being a rogue.
The Bunch case was around 1640, and he Casor case around 1655. Court records of the Nutter affair in which he "stole" Mary from the Custis family are from around 1662. So, but for an accident of history, the Irish might have been declared chattel property rather than the Africans, as the cases were all congealing around the same time.
Now they are attempting to "indenture" us all back into serfdom and defacto slavery.
Feudalism never died - it just changed it's name.
.