DCHP-3

shipping paper

Nfld, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1964
In mid-18th century, the custom became a legal requirement in Newfoundland for fishing masters, merchants and planters, when employing immigrant servants (whether "youngsters" or experienced fishermen) all generically "servants," to have a written employment agreement executed to reserve return passage money from the wages. The agreement was called a shipping paper and it came to be used for native Newfoundlanders as well.