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June 1796

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Image 38 of 8714th September 1796


Middlesex

At the General quarter Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King holden in and for the County of
Middlesex at the Session House for the said County
(by adjournment) on Thursday the Twenty third
day of June in the Thirty sixth Year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of
Great Britain Etc.

Whereas Thomas Robert Jackson< no role > Son of Thomas Jackson< no role > of the Parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the county of Middlesex Watchmaker Hath
at this present Session Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth That
the Petitioner with the consent and Approbation of his said Father did by
Indenture bearing date the fifteenth day of December which was in the
Year of our Lord 1791 put himself Apprentice to Thomas Davis< no role > of
Tottenham Court Road in the Parish of Saint Pancras in the said County
Carpenter and Joiner to learn his Art and with him after the manner
of an Apprentice to serve from the Date thereof unto the full end and
term of seven Years And the said Thomas Davis< no role > in consideration of the sum
of Twenty one Pounds paid to him by the said Thomas Jackson< no role > did agree to
teach and instruct or cause to be taught and instructed the Petitioner in the
Art of Carpenter Etc. which he the said Thomas Davis< no role > then used by the
best means that he could and to find unto the Petitioner sufficient Meat
Drink and Lodging and all other Necessaries during the said Term Cloaths
Washing and Mending excepted as by the said Indenture would more fully
appear. That in pursuance of the said Indenture the Petitioner served the
said Thomas Davis< no role > as his Apprentice at his Workshop in Tottenham Court
Road aforesaid in the said County of Middlesex until the month of April in the
Year 1793 about which time the said Thomas Davis< no role > was arrested and afterwards
confined in the Kings Bench Prison and a commission of Bankrupt was afterwards
issued against him and all his goods and effects were sold and the Petitioner had
no certain place of abode and was not in any manner instructed as such Apprentice
for many months during the said Thomas Davis< no role > 's being so confined in Prison. That
after the said Thomas Davis< no role > procured his Liberty from his Confinement he undertook
many Jobs of Work as a Carpenter in the Counties of Surrey Essex and Hampshire




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