THE POOR UNHAPPY TRANSPORTED FELON'S SORROWFUL ACCOUNT
OF HIS Fourteen Years Transportation,At Virginia, in America.
IN SIX PARTS. BEING
A Remarkable and Succinct History of the Life of James Revel, the unhappy Sufferer
Who was put Apprentice by his father to a tinman, near Moorfields, where he got into bad company and before long ran away, and went robbing with a gang of thieves, but his master soon got him back again; yet would not be kept from his old companions, but went thieving with them again, for which he was transported fourteen years. With an account of the way the transports work, and the punishment they receive for committing any fault.
CONCLUDING WITH
A Word of Advice to all Young Men.
YORK: Printed and sold by C. Croshaw Coppergate PRICE ONE PENNY.
Notes
Published Circa 1800, probably depicting conditions in late 1600s Virginia. The oldest surviving edition was from 1767.
Note that the servants were categorized as "transports," denoting cargo, freight. Children were listed on the manifest as "half-freight."
America in Chains
