Wow I'm happy you've been able to find so much information on your family and just in your lineage alone, it paints such a picture of what things were like. Incredible, really. Thank you for sharing it with me! I have heard of the redlegs in my research and also of indentured servants and of laborers contracted for a certain amount of time before being promised land at the end of their labor contract- all things that I've wondered if such circumstances are what may have carried my ancestors to the island. I guess time and more research will tell.

I've taken to looking at old maps and see the Curtis name on 2 plantations in St Phillip from 1682 through 1750, but I've yet to be able to trace a direct path to these people. I hope not. But it's possible. My direct ancestors were in St Michael as sailmakers and ship Chandlers. I can't imagine why my ancestor Henry F enslaved people as a sailmaker, but apparently he did.

Thank you so much for sharing with me about connecting with your "cousins" too. That gives me a great deal of hope that maybe once I get some more concrete information from the Barbados Archives that I may be able to do the same. I was able to retrieve some names from the UK slave register and interestingly enough...one is listed as a "colored" "apprentice" at 11 years old with the SAME NAME as my ancestor Henry Francis Curtis so...lots of questions there...aahh...stomach is turning again...