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Indentured servants were bound \"by covenants and promises to a said individual that from the date hereof until first arrival in Virginia or Maryland and after for 7 years, to serve in such service and employment in which said individual shall employ him or her, in return for which, said individual will pay his or her passage and will allow meat, drink, lodging and apparel during said term; and at the end of term will pay the usual allowance.\"\n","An estate appraisal listed the the personal property and assigned a monetary value to each item. Accounts current are the statements of monies received and paid out by the executor in settling an estate. Estate accounts, inventories and schedules of property number among the fiduciary records recorded in the volume. Repairs to bridges are part of the road and bridge series. As indicated, pages 1-7 and 10-11 are missing. This volume as well as the loose negative photostatic copies contain a typed index compiled in July 1975. 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