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That would have depended on your status within the Colony. You might be:

  1. An aristocrat.
  2. A government official.
  3. A Freedman.
  4. An indentured servant.
  5. A slave.

And even within those classifications there was a hierarchy. A Freedman might gain more respect simply because of the nature of their employment with a mason or shipwright carrying a higher social status then a brick maker or farmer. The same would hold true among indentured servants with the butcher or baker seeming of a higher calling then a swineherd or a tanner.

Even among slaves a house servant held status above a field hand.

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