9 Bruce observes, “ … the taste for dancing did not content itself with such skill as could be acquired by the ordinary participation in this form of amusment. There is some evidence of the presence in the colony of dancing masters who gave lessons in the art professionally. One of these was Charles Cheate, who was accompanied by his servant Clason Wheeler, a fiddler … it is quite probable that they were also able to secure large fees by serving as musicians at the entertainments so frequently given in the planters’ residences” (Social Life of Virginia, 184-85).