This contract was by deed indented , which occasioned them to be called indented servants.

The people lived on their estates or plantations, employing indented servants and negro slaves.

Three were indented servants, lumbering, honest-visaged youths whose aims in life were simple and well defined.

They encouraged indented servants to leave their masters, and fly to them for liberty and protection.

By 1661 they had increased to two thousand, while the indented servants were four times that number.

Indented servants and new-comers pass to the frontier seeking a place to locate their headrights, or plant new towns.

Lord Dunmore had issued a proclamation declaring "all indented servants, negroes, or others (appertaining to rebels) free."

Labor was performed by slaves, by criminals sent over to the colonies and sold, and by " indented servants," or "redemptioners."

"The names or the signs of the Oliverians are here," he said, "together with those of the leaders of the indented servants concerned with us.