tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post4939517036757704354..comments2023-04-16T11:45:17.615-04:00Comments on Searching for Penelope Stout: What is an Indentured Servant?jimmcfarlanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17548833533796822949noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-7803168460927391982017-12-26T10:46:45.812-05:002017-12-26T10:46:45.812-05:00Thank you for your in-depth research on Penelope S...Thank you for your in-depth research on Penelope Stout. I am working on my step-dad's family history. His mother was a Stout and she passed along Penelope's story. My step-dad related it to me on a few occasions but only the bare bones, if there were details in his mother's version he didn't remember them. In fact, he thought it was apocryphal.<br />In pursuing Penelope's story, I found all sorts of different versions - not surprising for an oral tradition - like that old game of "telephone." I thought there must be something to it and attempted to compare the different versions I had read. You did a MUCH better job than I did! Thank you.<br />The runaway indentured servant story is very intriguing and I find myself wondering if Penelope made up the story about being married and the shipwreck in order to justify being a woman alone in the wilderness. <br />The story about being disemboweled and nursed back to health seems likely to be true. However, I did get to thinking that she told her grandson who felt the scar to remember her story in order to back up her whole story. Could the scar have been due to something else? A C-section that she somehow survived?<br /><br />I see that your last post here was back in Jan 2014 and wondered if anything more had been learned between then and now (Dec 2017). Or perhaps you just moved on to other things?<br />Sharon Guziknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1672157747221539812.post-65558692867071674112013-06-09T15:37:20.700-04:002013-06-09T15:37:20.700-04:00Indenture is still alive and well in many parts of...Indenture is still alive and well in many parts of the world. In the 1960's, from age 7- 17 my wife(Vietnamese) spent a lot of her childhood as an indentured servant and the practice is still alive and well in today's Viet Nam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com