GEORGE WASHINGTON BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL MONUMENT

Indentured servants would never own any land in England. If they came to the Chesapeake colonies and worked for a planter for 4 to 7 years, the servants would buy their own land after their indenture. Land was plentiful and cheap. Land was the reason people came to the Chesapeake; land was needed to plant tobacco and make money. ................
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