Question

What happened to indentured servants after they were freed?

Answer 1

On the completion of the contract, the freed indentured servants would received a pre-arranged termination bonus including money, land, a gun, clothes or food but only 40% of them lived to complete the terms of their contracts. Some servants were able to gain their own land but by 1660 much of it was claimed by the large landowners, and the former servants were pushed westward.

Answer 2

These servants receive money, land, a gun, clothes or food but only 40% of them lived to complete the terms of their contracts.

Some servants were able to gain their own land. But in the year 1660, most of the lands were claimed by the large landowners, causing the former servants to go to the westward.