d unto Others nor suffer the same to be wasted or
purloined. But to her power Shall discover the Same to her s:^d
Master. Taverns or Ailhouss she Shall not frequent, at any
unlawful game She Shall not play, Matrimony she Shall not Contract
with any persons during s:^d Term. From her master's Service She
Shall not at any time unlawfully absent herself. But in all things
as a good honest and faithful Servant and apprentice Shall bear
and behave herself, During the full term afores:^d Commencing
from the third day of November Anno Dom: One Thousand, Seven
Hundred fifty and three. And the s:^d Master for himself, wife,
and Heir's, Doth Covenant Promise Grant and Agree unto and with
the s:^d apprentice and the s:^d Margaret Burjust, in manner
and form following. That is to say, That they will teach the
s:^d apprentice or Cause her to be taught in the Art of good
housewifery, and also to read and write well. And will find and
provide for and give unto s:^d apprentice good and sufficient
Meat Drink washing and lodging both in Sickness and in health, and
at the Expiration of said term to Dismiss s:^d apprentice with
two Good Suits of Apparrel both of woolen and linnin for all parts
of her body (viz) One for Lord-days and one for working days
Suitable to her Quality. In Testimony whereof I Samuel Wales and
Margaret Burjust Have Interchangably Sett their hands and Seals
this Third day November Anno Dom: 1753, and in the twenty-Seventh
year of the Reign of our Soveraig'n Lord George the Second of
great Britain the King.

Signed Sealed & Delivered.
In presence of
SAM VAUGHAN Margaret Burgis
MARY VAUGHAN her X mark.

This quaint document was carefully locked up, with some old deeds and
other valuable papers, in his desk, by the "s:^d Samuel Wales," one
hundred and thirty years ago. The desk was a rude, unpainted pine
affair, and it reared itself on its four stilt-like legs in a corner
of his kitchen, in his house in the South Precinct of Braintree. The
sharp eyes of the little "s:^d apprentice" had noted it oftener and
more enviously than any other article of furniture in the house. On
the night of her arrival, after her journey of fourteen miles from
Boston, over a rough bridle-road, on a jolting horse, clinging
tremblingly to her new "Master," she peered through her little