Letter from an Indentured Servant (1623)

from MakingHistory · host Dan Allosso

Richard Frethorne was an indentured servant working at Martin’s Hundred, a plantation a few miles from Jamestown, a year after an Indian attack in 1622 left hundreds dead in the area. A year later the royal government took over the struggling colony.

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