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<p n="397">To the worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ91">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo212">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of<lb></lb>
the Peace held in & for the said County of assembled.</p>
<p n="398">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n398-1">John Fryer</rs>
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<p n="399"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner by Indenture bearing date the twenty<lb></lb>
ninth day of December One thousand seven hundred and fifty six<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
put himself Apprentice to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n399-1">Robert Hewes</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50512_geo213">Saint Ann</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the County aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ92">Shipwright</rs>
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to serve for Seven years from the day<lb></lb>
of the date thereof And the said Master was to have taught your<lb></lb>
Petitioner the Art of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ93">Shipwright</rs>
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<p n="400">That on or about the 14th: day of March 1760 your<lb></lb>
Petitioners said Master died leaving <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n400-1">Elizabeth Hewes</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ94">Widow</rs>
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& sold Executrix who<lb></lb>
in his lifetime & ever since hath kept a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ95">Chandlers Shop</rs>
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& in no wise<lb></lb>
capable of instructing or improving your Petitioner in the said Act of a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ96">Shipwright</rs>
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And tho' your Petitioner hath ofter applied to her to be turned<lb></lb>
over to a proper Master yet she hath always refused & still doth refused<lb></lb>
to comply with such request.</p>
<p n="401">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays this Court will<lb></lb>
please to discharge him from his said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50512_occ97">Apprenticehood</rs>
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Or that<lb></lb>
your Petitioner may be otherwise relieved as this Court shall<lb></lb>
see meet</p>
<p n="402">And your Petitioner as in duly bound shall<lb></lb>
ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="403"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50512_n403-1">John Fryer</rs>
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