"In 1702 when he was sharecropping at Justice Henry Hardy's, he purchased the remaining time of Elinor Dayler, a servant of Hardy's, and married her. James died within a few months after his marriage ... After his death his bride was forced to petition the court to prevent her former master from reclaiming her as a servant." (1)
(1) Lorena S. Walsh, "Servitude and Opportunity in Charles County, Maryland, 1658-1705," in Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, eds., Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), 121.