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I had indeed missed the fact that two of those listed in that column 
have the same surname as the crewman -- Jenners on page 1 and Howells on 
page two -- so those could be father/son. Doesn't work for the rest, though.

Dexter

On 5/8/2012 2:50 PM, Anne Chambers wrote:
> Keith Nuttle wrote:
>
>>
>> Trying to look at F.M. in the context of the time, I believe there
>> were basically three groups of people in
>> the US at that time. Free Men, Indentured secants, and slaves. A
>> similar concept to that if France after the
>> their Revolution they called Citizen. Therefore FM would be any one
>> not indentured or held in slavery. There
>> Free Blacks living in New England at that time.
>>
>> The title of the column 4, is not servants but "Names of Fathers and
>> Mather (Mothers?) if sons under age, and
>> servants". Based on the same last names, some appear to be mothers and
>> some fathers. I would assume that an
>> indentured servant could be lent for use on a warship considering the
>> fact that money could be made by the
>> crew when ships were captured. I would assume that the father could be
>> the guardian or the person legally
>> responsible for the person under age.
>>
>> In the end Free Men makes sense for FM
>
> It's 'Fathers and Masters of Sons under Age and Servants'