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

Respuesta :

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