<Dd> "Witnesseth that Isaac Pepenie Indian of Falmouth, Barnstable labourer, hath...of his own free will...Bound and obliged himself to Serve James Lovell Junr...a Sea faring man, on Diverse Whale Voiages in the several seasons...the date of these presents: viz . this winter season in...Barnstable, and the next Spring at Nantucket, and former season following in the sloops or vessels that...(Lovell) desire (s), all which respective voyages...and any and all materials for the performing of sd . Voyages...he the said Isaac Pepenie to have one eighth and diet according to costom...as shall be needful with his master for the sum of fifteen pounds which he the said James Lovell doth hereby agree to pay for him,...then the sd . Pepenie doth by these (agreements) oblige himself to attend (the) Whale Voiages at the order and direction of said James Lovell, his administrators or assigns in manner aforesaid...this first day of October in the Eleventh year of His Majesty's Reign ano dom 1729 . </Dd> <Dd> We the subscribers two of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for said County being present at the execution of the premesis do allow and approbate the same as just and reasonable . Danl . Parker, Joseph Lothrop" </Dd> <P> Indentured servitude appeared in the Americas in the 1620s and remained in use as late as 1917 . The causes behind its decline are a contentious domain in economic history . </P> <P> The end of debtors' prisons may have created a limited commitment pitfall in which indentured servants could agree to contracts with ship captains and then refuse to sell themselves once they arrived in the colonies . Increased lobbying from immigrant aid societies led to increased regulation of the indentured labour market, further increasing the difficulty of enforcing contracts . With less ability to enforce the contracts, demand for indentured servants may have fallen . However, most debtor prisons were still in service when indentured servitude disappeared and many regulations on indentured servitude were put in place well before the disappearance . </P>

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