“Kidnap’d and Fool’d, I hither fled,
To shun a hated Nuptial Bed,
And to my cost already find,
Worse Plagues than those I left behind.
These are the general Excuses made by English Women, which are sold or sell themselves to Mary-land.” p. 7.
[33] James Annesley when twelve years old was transported to Pennsylvania. His father died soon after, and his uncle succeeded to the peerage. The boy was sold to a planter in Newcastle County, but his title to the peerage was subsequently proved. Anglesea Peerage Trial, Howell, State Trials, XVII., 1443-1454.
[34] Neill, Virginia Carolorum, p. 108; The Verney Papers, Camden Society Publications, vol. 56, pp. 160-162, give a long and detailed account of the method of obtaining and transporting servants.
[35] Neill, Terra Mariæ, pp. 201, 202,
“In better Times, e’re to this Land,
I was unhappily Trapann’d.”