"1722. Elizabeth Philips, having ben presented by the grand jury for having a bastard child came into Cout and swore it to her master, Robert David. John Hainie Junr came into Court and entered into a recognizance with the said David to keep the said child from being a charge to the Parrish and ordered that the said Elizabeth be sold as the law directs after her Indented time is expired." (1)
(1) Penelope D. Cliff, “The Legal and Social Status of Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia,†M.A. Thesis, Georgia College & State University, 2002, 53, quoting Preston W. Haynie, Records of Indentured Servants and of Certificates for Land, Northumberland County, Virginia, 1650-1795 (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1996), 253.