1737.  A hired man with me on a fishing voyage.—Plymouth (Mass.) ‘Town Records,’ May 18. (N.E.D.)

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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.

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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.

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