Note 81 — Chapter III · DOMESTIC SERVICE DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD

Purdon, Digest, Act of 1700. In East New Jersey the privilege was restricted to white servants. Leaming and Spicer, Acts of East New Jersey, 1682. In Massachusetts no servant was to be put off for more than a year to another master without the consent of the Court. Body of Liberties, § 86, Act of 1672. In New York no servant, except one bound for life, could be assigned to another master for more than one year, except for good reason.—Laws of the Duke of York.