"11 Feb 1690/91. It appeareing to this Court that Richard Alderson hath kept for this three yeares last past a boy named Richard Clarke, borne of the body of Mary Abbe, Servt. to the saide Alderson, and begotten by George Clarke, who is a runaway. It is therefore ordered that the saide Richard Clarke doe serve the saide Alderson according to Acte of Assembly, and at the expiracon of his saide servitude, the saide Alderson to pay unto him one Cow and Calfe and one small flock bed and boulster." (2)
(1) Ruth Sparacio & Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia 1678-1681 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1993), 78, quoting Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1680-1686, 31.
(2) Ruth Sparacio & Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia 1682-1687 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1995), 66, 88, quoting Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 1686-1696, 120, 156.