Category: Immigration
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Notes on Indentured Servitude
A History of The Amish by Steven M. Nolt, Good Books, 1992 p.64 “Some Amish families did purchase redemptioners, however. Redemptioners were skilled European immigrants who could not afford their own way to America, and so traveled to the New World in the hope that someone would pay their passage for them in return for Continue reading
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Indentured Servitude
by Donald E. Leisey, Ed.D In 1768, Joseph Leisey age 14 and his sister, Catherine, 10 years of age left Basel, Switzerland and traveled by boat on the Rhine River to Rotterdam for passage to the Colonies. Wikipedia defines an indentured servant as an unfree laborer under contract to work for a specified amount of Continue reading
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Joseph Leisey’s trip down the Rhine River on his way to the Colonies
Last October I took a cruise down the Rhine River from Basel, Switzerland to Antwerp, Belgium. The major purpose of the trip was to trace the journey Joseph Leisey took at age 14 in 1768, as an indentured servant on his way to boarding a ship from Rotterdam to Philadelphia in the Colony of Pennsylvania. Continue reading