Ollivier Daniel binds and engages himself to the Sieur Becquet to serve him for the term of one whole year to begin on this day and to end on the nineteenth of November of the year one thousand seven hundred twenty-six, to do everything which the said Sieur Becquet shall order him (to do), from cutting wood and working at the forge to anything else which he judges useful, for the sum of nine hundered fifty livres in wages for his year...

Excerpt from Margaret Brown and Lawrie Dean, eds., The Village of Chartres in Colonial Illinois 1720 - 1765, New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1977:871.

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