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    1. End and Expiration of ye. aforesaid term finde and allow to their sd. Apprentice sufficient Apparell Linnen and Woollen and alsoe pay unto their said Apprentice, one able Younge Breeding Cow

      Rebeccah Francis was given an unusually large payment from her employers for finishing her servitude -"Women were entitled to fifteen bushels of corn and the equivalent of forty shillings"-[http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Indentured_Servants_in_Colonial_Virginia#start_entry ]. This lead me to believe that Francis may have been higher class in England or that she had an exemplary skill set.