Quote Originally Posted by creativeaccents View Post
But, along the way I read about one predecessor who had the term FREEMAN next to his name. Does this mean he had been an indentured servant?
A Freeman was (usually) an individual who owned his land free-hold (as opposed to lease-hold), and was freely allowed to practice his trade or craft within a town. With this came the privilege of voting on matters affecting the community. With time, and the extension of the voting franchise, "Freemen" came to be elected community officials. In some communities members of the town council are still called "Freemen". An indentured servant (or an apprentice) could in theory, at the completion of his contract, become a Freeman.

In the Robert Louis Stevenson novel KIDNAPPED Uncle Ebenezer arranges for his nephew, Jamie Balfour of Shaws, to be kidnapped and sold as an indentured servant in the West Indies.