Note 25 — Chapter III · DOMESTIC SERVICE DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD

“In the year 1730 ... Colonel Josiah Willard was invited to view some transports who had just landed from Ireland. My uncle spied a boy of some vivacity, of about ten years of age, and who was the only one in the crew who spoke English. He bargained for him.”—“Mrs. Johnson’s Captivity” in Indian Narratives, p. 130.