"Roger Jones, Servant to Mr. William Churchill, comes and acknowledges that hee is freely willing to serve his said Master seaven yeares from his arrivall, the said Churchill promiseing that hee will imploy his said Servant in the Stoar and other his occasions and not imploy him in comon working in the ground." (1)
(1) Ruth Sparacio and Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts of Middlesex County, Virginia 1686-1690 (McLean, Virginia: The Antient Press, 1994), 47, quoting Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book 2:343.
(2) Warren M. Billings, The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century, 135, citing Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book, 1680-1694, 343.