small-planter

Updated: May 22, 2025

Moreover, young men, at the conclusion of their five or seven-year terms, received their allotment of clothing and supplies, usually a barrel of corn, agreed upon in the indenture, and joined the small-planter class in the Colony. Especially was this true when the indenture included a clause granting fifty acres upon completion of service.

Annie Lash Jester - Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century