بأيّام طفولتها. سيّدة البحر أرست في (نوروفولك) في (فيرجينيا)، وتم شراء تسخير (إيسي) من قِبَل مُزارع يُدعى (جون ريتشاردسون)، الذي توفّت زوجته بسبب الحمُى بعد أسبوع من ولادتها
The Sea-Maiden landed at Norfolk in Virginia, and Essie's indenture was bought by a tobacco farmer named John Richardson, for his wife had died of fever a week after giving birth to his daughter, and he had need of a wet nurse and a maid