1737. A hired man with me on a fishing voyage.Plymouth (Mass.) Town Records, May 18. (N.E.D.)
1800. [On Monday, the Priestley family, at Northumberland, Pa., with] a hired girl, and a little bound girl, all of them were [not fatally] poisoned. The hired girl made a pudding for dinner. The girl and a hired man went to the chest, &c.The Aurora, Phila., May 1.
1862. Had Adam been a modern, there would have been a hired girl in Paradise, to look after little Abel, and to raise Cain.Rocky Mountain News, June 28.