[36] “The Forme of Binding a Servant” is given in _A Relation of Maryland_, pp. 62-63, and reads as follows: This Indenture _made the ____ day of ____ in the yeere of our Soveraigne Lord King_ Charles, _&c. betweene ____ of the one party, and ____ on the other party_, Witnesseth, _that the said ____ doth hereby covenant promise, and grant to, and with the said ____ his Executors and Assignes, to serve him from the day of the date hereof, untill his first and next arrivall in_ Maryland; _and after for and during the tearme of ____ yeeres, in such service and imployment as the said ____ or his assignes shall there imploy him, according to the custome of the countrey in the like kind. In consideration whereof, the said ____ doth promise and grant, to and with the said ____ to pay for his passing, and to find him with Meat, Drinke, Apparell and Lodging, with other necessaries during the said terme; and at the end of the said terme, to give him one whole yeeres provision of Corne, and fifty acres of Land, according to the order of the countrey. In witnesse whereof, the said ____ hath hereunto put his hand and scale, the day and yeere above written._ _Sealed and delivered in the presence of _____ Neill, _Virginia Carolorum_, pp. 5-7, gives a similar copy. Bruce, II., 2, gives the indenture of one Mary Polly whose master was to “maintain ye sᵈ Mary noe other ways than he doth his own in all things as dyett, cloathing and lodging, the sᵈ Mary to obey the sᵈ John Porter in all his lawful commands within ye sᵈ term of years.” [37] Hening, I., 257, 1642. [38] Hening, I., 411, 1655. [39] _Ibid._, I., 441-442, 1657. [40] _Ibid._, I., 538-539, 1659. [41] _Ibid._, II., 113-114, 1661. [42] _Ibid._, II., 240, 1666. [43] _Ibid._, 1705, 1748, 1753. In North Carolina no “imported Christian” was to be considered a servant unless the person importing him could procure an indenture. Iredell, 1741, chap. 24. In West New Jersey servants over twenty-one without indenture were to serve four years, and all under twenty-one to serve at the discretion of the Court. Leaming and Spicer, 1682, chap. XI. In Maryland servants without indenture of over twenty-one years of age were to serve five years; if between eighteen and twenty-two, six years; if between fifteen and eighteen, seven years; if under fifteen, until twenty-two years old. Browne, 1692. [44] Alsop, pp. 57-58. [45] _Leah and Rachel_, pp. 12, 14. [46] Neill, _Terra Mariæ_, pp. 201-202. [47] Howell, _State Trials_, XVII., 1443-1454. [48] Eddis, pp. 69-70. [49] Neill, _Virginia Carolorum_, p. 58. Neill adds: “While some of these servants were treated with kindness, others received no more consideration than dumb, driven cattle.” [50] P. 7.