"9 Oct 1667. Will: Marshall Sonne in Law to John Carpenter, comeing into this Countrey wth out Indenture and appeareing at this Cort., is ordered to serve the sde. Carpenter foure yeres from this day, the sde. Carpenter findening & alloweing unto hym all things necessary & convenient & giveing hym more respect then an ordinary servannt the sde. Carpenter wth: his owne consent, ordered forthwth: to give & deliver unto ye sde. Marshall one Heyfer now aboute one yere & a Calfe of colour ( ) m:ked (vizt.) (blank) & carefully to keepe her & her increase till the end & expirac[i]on of ye sde. foure yeres, & then to deliv: her & her increase to ye sde. Marshall." (1)
(1) Ruth Sparacio & Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia 1666-1669 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1993), 29, quoting Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1666-1680, 48.