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To the Right Worshipfull his Majestys
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Justices of
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the Peace assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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the Younger
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That your Petitioner by Indenture of Apprenticeship bearing date
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the twenty second day of September One thousand seven hundred and
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forty six was bound an
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James Paddington
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in the
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Parish of St. Matthew
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Weaver
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to learn
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his Art and with him (after the manner of an Apprentice) to serve from the day
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of the date of the said Indenture
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for
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unto the full End and Term of seven
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Years In which said Indenture the said James
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did covenant
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to teach and instruct your Petitioner in the said Art of a Weaver
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That about thirteen Months after your Petitioner was bound
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James Paddington
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the said James
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run away and absconded on Account of Debt or some other Cause
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unknown to your Petitioner and has not since returned by means
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whereof your Petitioner cannot learn the said Art of a
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the said James Paddington
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and is entirely destitute of getting
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his living
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that your
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Worships would be pleased to discharge him
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from his said
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James
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And your Petitioner (as in Duty bound)
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