Servants, _London Company_ sends to Virginia, 16; Indian children as, 30; system of indentures for, 32; not criminals, 32; political prisoners among, 33; Irish among, 33; _Oliverian_ soldiers among, 33; they plot against _Government_, 33; Scotchmen among, 33; _Sedgemour_ prisoners among, 33; chiefly Englishmen, 34, 36; list of preserved, 34; headrights from, 35; influx of, 35; four or five years of service for, 38; become part of Virginia social fabric, 39; hardship and perils encountered by, 39; 80 per cent. become freedmen, 40; prior to 1660 remained in Virginia, 40; length of service for, 40; usually young when freed, 41, 42; estimated at 6,000 in 1671, 41; "seasoned," 42; become small part of population, 43; merchants bring to complete cargoes, 47; individual orders for, 48; in immigrant ships, 48; dealers in, 48; numbers in 1704, 56; listed as tithables, 56; distribution of, 58-59; not slaves, 60; like English apprentices, 60; outfit of on expiration of term, 61; not entitled to land, 61; hope to become landowners, 61-62; Virginia land of opportunity for, 71; freedmen often purchase, 72; of early period become prosperous, 73-80; list of, 78; proportion of among immigrants, 81-82; little hope for advancement of after 1660, 96-100; importation of in Restoration period, 98-99; inventories which show none, 106-107; many freed to fight in _Bacon's Rebellion_, 113; few become landowners at end of 17th century, 112-113; usefulness of as compared with slaves, 126; price of, 127; not always docile, 128; slave labor curtails importation of, 134; England opposes migration of, 135; vast numbers imported, 142. Seymour, Attorney-General, tells Virginians to make tobacco, 136. Sheep, scarce in Virginia, 102. Sheriff, collects quit rents, 51; draws up rent roll, 52; unearths false returns, 54-55. Sherwood, William, calls _Bacon's_ men rabble, 93. Shipbuilding, materials for needed in England, 8; lack of injures merchant marine, 9; materials for found in Virginia, 15; _Capt. Smith_ explains why Virginia cannot produce materials for, 17. Shurley, Daniel, landowning freedman, 74. Sickness, The Virginia, _Capt. Blewit_ dies of, 18; glass workers die of, 19; servants die of, 33; described, 39; terrible mortality from, 39, 80; abates before end of 17th century, 40; not fatal to slaves, 128. Silk, from South Europe, 12; in Virginia, 15. Slaughter, John, 80. Slave trade, in hands of Dutch, 31; restrictions on, 45.