[57] Travels, I., 303-304.
[58] Recollections, p. 297.
“Before the Revolution no hired man or woman wore any shoes so fine as calf-skins; course neats leather was their every day wear. Men and women then hired by the year,—men got 16 to 20l., and a servant woman 8 to 10l. Out of that it was their custom to lay up money, to buy before their marriage a bed and bedding, silver teaspoons, and a spinning-wheel, &c.”—Watson, Annals, p. 165.
[59] Hening, III., 451.
[60] Ibid., V., 550.
[61] Ibid., VI., 359.
[62] Trott, 1736.
[63] Purdon, Act of 1700; Carey and Bioren.
[64] Body of Liberties, chap. 88, Laws of 1672; Laws of the Duke of York.
[65] Iredell, Acts of 1741, chap. XXIV.