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During the seventeenth century, at least three-fourths of the immigrants who came to the chesapeake colonies came as

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Indentured servants

These were men and women who signed a contract that is also referred to as an indenture or a covenant by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, to have their basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter catered for once they arrived

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