assigned servant
Noun
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Noun
assigned servant (plural assigned servants)
- (UK, Australia, historical) A convict assigned to work as a servant for a free settler (either a male or female convict, and either a male or female settler).
- 1833, The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 1, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fLwCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA71&dq=%22assigned+servant%22+--intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=5x26Tp2TMKaKmQXl9LHuBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22assigned%20servant%22%20--intitle%3A%22%22&f=false page 71],
- To be sure, the assigned servant is liable to be called upon, even in the middle of the night, “upon any necessary occasion or emergency;” but as this is an affliction, incident to every servant, bond or free, we must not consider it in any manner as a drawback upon his general advantages. […] In the first place, where is the master, who, upon receiving an assigned servant, applies himself with all his energy to reform him ?
- 1833, The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 1, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fLwCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA71&dq=%22assigned+servant%22+--intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=5x26Tp2TMKaKmQXl9LHuBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22assigned%20servant%22%20--intitle%3A%22%22&f=false page 71],
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