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"In 1654 the Bristol City Council passed an ordinance requiring that a register of servants destined for the colonies be kept, the purpose being to prevent the practice of dumping innocent youths into servitude. The registers, covering the period 1654 to 1686, are the largest body of indenture records known, and they also are a unique record of English emigration to the American colonies" -- publisher website (December 2007).
These probate inventories of the city and Deanery of Bristol are held by the Bristol Record Office. Some inventories extend into the area of Abbots Leigh in Somerset.
"This book was conceived as an attempt to bring together from as many English sources as survive a comprehensive account of emigration to the New World from its beginnings to 1660"--Introduction.
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A list of around 30,000 emigrants sailing to America from English ports, not Irish, Scottish, or Welsh.
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