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To the worshipful his Majesties
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in their General Quarter Session of
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the Peace held in & for the said County of assembled.
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The humble Petition of
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That your Petitioner by Indenture bearing date the twenty
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ninth day of December One thousand seven hundred and fifty six
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put himself Apprentice to
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of the Parish of
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the County aforesaid
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Shipwright
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to serve for Seven years from the day
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of the date thereof And the said Master was to have taught your
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Petitioner the Art of a
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That on or about the 14th: day of March 1760 your
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Petitioners said Master died leaving
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Elizabeth Hewes
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his
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& sold Executrix who
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in his lifetime & ever since hath kept a
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Chandlers Shop
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& in no wise
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capable of instructing or improving your Petitioner in the said Act of a
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And tho' your Petitioner hath ofter applied to her to be turned
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over to a proper Master yet she hath always refused & still doth refused
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to comply with such request.
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays this Court will
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please to discharge him from his said
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your Petitioner may be otherwise relieved as this Court shall
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see meet
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And your Petitioner as in duly bound shall
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ever pray Etc
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