In a message dated 5/3/2001 7:44:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, flane@otn.net writes: > will find & provide for the said child during his said servitude sufficient > drink, washing, clothing & lodging, teach or cause him to be taught to read > and to instruct him in the Christian religion and to learn the said Wylie > This was probably not all together a bad deal for the boy, his mother may not have had any other way to provide for the boy. He probably grew up to run the plantation or own it.