[18]. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 6:385.
[19]. Early examples of this practice are furnished by Holland, which in 1655 sent out large numbers of orphan boys and girls from its asylums. The action in this case was less grievous, however, as they were apparently bound out to service for a term of four years, so that they did not at once come on the community. Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York, 14:166, 264, etc.
[20]. Cf. Proper, E. E., op. cit., pp. 19, 20.
[21]. Diffenderffer, F. R., German Immigration into Pennsylvania through Philadelphia, p. 143.
[22]. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 2:282 ff.
[23]. Diffenderffer, op. cit., pp. 51–53.
[24]. Ibid., p. 53, quoted from Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia, 2:266–7.
[25]. Proper, op. cit., p. 50.
[26]. The action of the governor in recommending the passage of the act of 1727 is exceptional.
[27]. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 4:516.