The Travers Family

The Travers family lived in Bulhampton, Somerset in the english colonies of North America. The oldest son joseph was the rowdy brother who had got into some trouble with the local constabulary. The creation of law enforcement in the colonial American era was similar to that of England around the same time periods. Local Law enforcement in colonial America was considered a local responsibility. As in England, the colonies established a system of night watch to guard cities against fire, crime, and disorders. Because of the night watch systems, there were sheriffs appointed by the governor and constables were elected by the people of the area. Therefore after joseph got into some trouble went to the virginia colony in 1619 because he was signed on as an indentured servant at eighteen years old. The history of blacks in Virginia begins in 1619, the movement of status from indentured servant to lifelong slave was a working process. There are some historians that believe some of the first blacks who arrived in Virginia were already slaves, while others say they were taken into the colony as indentured servants.Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in return for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, they receive food shelter and clothes. Adults normally served anywhere from four to seven years and children sometimes for much longer than that, with most of them working in the colony's tobacco fields. With england’s long history, indentured servitude became, during most of the seventeenth century, the primary means by which Virginia planters filled their nearly inexhaustible need for labor. The younger brother was daniel he was the more reliable and steady brother. He married at the age of twenty four. The culture of the puritans in the New England colonies of the seventeenth century was greatly influenced by the Calvinist Theology, which was believed in a "just, almighty God" and live a certain lifestyle that consisted of consecrated actions. The Puritans were very educated and literate, and their culture was broadly based in the arts and languages from which they learned. The Massachusetts Bay Puritan understanding of marriage was controlled by strict laws and customs. The couples were forced to publish marriage banns, which was an announcement to everyone of their intention at three public meetings, or had to create a written notice to the meeting house to post on the door 14 days