"4 Oct 1686. John Parker late of Hull in Yorkshire to John Goddin in Kent, marriner. In consideration that John Goddin hath undertaken at his own costs to transport him unto Virginia and to provide him with meal, drink, washing, lodging, apparell and all other necessaries dureing his stay here in England and alsoe for the intended voyage and by the space and time of six years next after his arivall unto the said plantation and att the end of the term to allow unto the said plantation and att the end of the term to allow him decent apparrell and such other allowances and necessaries as by custome are granted. John Parker doth oblidge himself to serve six yeares to commence from the time of his arrivall.
John Parker
Wits: Is: Jones, Willm. Harris, Cler.
4 Oct 1686. John Parker declared himselfe to bee above the age of fourteene yeares and to be single and unmarried and noe contracted servant to any person.
John Robins, Register.
5 July 1687. Robert Read, one of the overseers of the estate of John Goddin, assigne the within written indenture to John Smyth of York County and Parish.
Robert Read.
10 Oct 1687. John Parker alias Selwood ordered to serve according to the tenor of the indenture." (1)
(1) John Frederick Dorman, York County, Virginia Deeds, Orders, Wills, Etc., No. 8, 1687-1691, Part One (Washington, D.C.: J.F. Dorman, 1974), 9-12, quoting York County, Virginia Deeds, Orders, Wills, Etc., 8:24, 34-35.