You must be speaking of my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great... Grandpa who came here as an indentured servant from Sussex. Years later he went on to support the Continental Army and both his boys served in the Revolutionary War...the latest generation has proudly served in the Marines.
It is a distinct possibility...
The great danger for us today is that the ones they will be coming after are the ones with assets Either in cash or property.
Just so they can give it to the ones they currently have to keep appeased, we (not-so)-jokingly call them the ‘Gibsmedats’.
An ancestor being transported doesn’t necessarily mean they were petty criminals, debtors and the like. High-born individuals who had become a thorn in the side of the current political powers that be sometimes found themselves bound for America against their will. Skilled tradesmen often had the cost of passage paid by their future employer. Primogeniture laws meant that children other than first born sons did not inherit, and so many sons of merchants and such, even minor nobility, would enter into indenture, but they generally knew where they were going and knew they weren’t going to be too badly mistreated, unlike the aforementioned petty criminals and debtors.
Toward the end of the headrights system that supported all the indentured servants being transported, they’d degenerated into actual kidnapping to feed the need for labor. The lack of unsettled frontier land east of the Blue Ridge eventually put an end to it along about the 1680’s. No land for headrights after the term of indenture had been served, no payoff for individuals paying cost of transport, so it collapsed. Then came chattel slavery.