Richmond County Court 5th of February 1738/1739
Nicholds bound to Pally. John Nicholds is hearby bound unto John Pally untill he arrives to the age of twenty one years the said John Nicholds being fifteen years old the nineteenth day of July next, the said John Pally assuming in open Court to learn the said John Nicholds to read and write and the Trade of a Bricklayer and at the expiration of his servitude to pay and allow him what the Law allows imported Servant\" (1)
Perhaps an apprentice?
(1) Ruth Sparacio and Sam Sparacio, Richmond County, Virginia Orders 1738-1740 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 2000), 7, citing Richmond County, Virginia Order Book 1732-1739, 680.