He was sold into a 7 year Indentured Servitude that he worked off and he eventually married Jean Henderson, the daughter of the man that had purchased his Indentured Contract from the Ships Captain. It is hard to understand how the world functioned back in these early days.
We spent almost 2 weeks here at the Thousand Trails Chesapeake Bay RV campground, and enjoyed the campground and local area very much. There is a Living Historical Museum in Yorktown Virginia which is about 30 miles away. They demonstrate the living conditions that the early Americans endured as well as the solders who fought and won the American Revolution.
We met several couples while here and even tried eating Oysters at the Oyster Festival held at a local town. I hope you enjoy the story of how our family arrived as well as the couples and activities highlighted in the video.
What a great video including the message, information, video and our GGGG Grandpa Caddel's character that you included. I am so happy you created it and shared your experiences from the area where he lived back in those days. I also keep imagining how daddy would have loved seeing this too!!! I bet you can picture the smile it would have brought to his face too! Thank You for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteHi Sis, I sure had an enjoyable time putting it together thinking about him walking off that ship in a new country at 14 years of age. Pretty impressive, although, daddy did something similar at that age when left Texas by himself went to California, but at least he ended up with his parents and not in Indentured Servitude. I have to think that was a pretty big difference come to think of it.
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