redemptionert (redempshoner)

[ Sometimes they (indented servants] were called redemp tioners, because, by their agreement with the master of the ve el, they could redeem themselves from his power by paying their pa age. Jefferson, Correspondence, I. 405. Poor wretch!. he had to find out what the life of a Redemptioner really was, by bitter experience. J. Ashton , Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 247.