FOR better suppressing the unlawful meetings of servants, it is thought fitt and enacted by this present grand assembly and the authority thereof that all masters of ffamilies be enjoyned and take especiall care that their servants doe not depart from their houses on Sundayes or any other dayes without perticuler lycence from them, and that the severall respective counties (as they find cause) to take espetiall care to make such laws within themselves, as by the act dated the third of December 1662, they are impowred as may cause a further restraint of all unlawfull meetings of servants and punish the offenders.
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“An act prohibiting servants to goe abroad without a lycence” (1663)
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September 1663
The General Assembly passes "An act prohibiting servants to goe abroad without a lycense," responding to the problem of runaway indentured servants and slaves.
FURTHER READING
General Court Responds to Runaway Servants and Slaves (1640) Runaway Slaves (1642–1643) “English running away with negroes” (1660–1661) “Against Runawayes” (1669) “An act concerning runaways” (1669–1670) John Nickson Runs Away (1687) “An act for the apprehension and suppression of runawayes, negroes and slaves.” (1672)
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- General Assembly. “An act prohibiting servants to goe abroad without a lycence” (1663). (2020, December 07). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/an-act-prohibiting-servants-to-goe-abroad-without-a-lycence-1663.
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- General Assembly. "“An act prohibiting servants to goe abroad without a lycence” (1663)" Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 01 Dec. 2023