In 1754 a carpenter named Josiah Halstead purchased the Allen House in Shrewsbury. Shortly thereafter he transformed it into a tavern. At some point, Halstead had indentured servants working for him. ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago this St. Patrick’s Day, the Continental Army won its first major battle without firing a ...

Feb. 23—GREENSBURG — "Bound for Passage: The Story of an Indentured Servant" is coming to the Greensburg/Decatur County Public Library at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12. A Living History program, it ...

A team of scientists in Massachusetts has examined the timbers of a famous shipwreck in an attempt to prove that the wood belonged to a 17th-century vessel that brought Irish indentured servants to ...

George Taylor was the Founding Father who earned his keep in America by sweating over hot coals. He arrived in Pennsylvania from Ireland in 1736, an indentured servant to an iron foundry owner who ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

Plymouth’s Pilgrim Hall Museum took part in a new scientific investigation of timbers from a shipwreck known as the “Sparrow-Hawk” to help prove they belonged to a small 17th-century ship that crossed ...