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<p n="441">To the Worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50522_occ142">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo281">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Assembled at their General Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo282">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo283">Saint John Street</rs>
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in the said County in May 1763</p>
<p n="442">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n442-1">John Pickuett</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50522_occ143">Apprentice</rs>
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to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n442-2">George Gardiner</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo284"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo285">St. Mary Macfellon otherwise<lb></lb>
White Chapple</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo286">County of Middlesex</rs>
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</rs>
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Lime Spinner</p>
<p n="443"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by Indentures of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50522_occ144">Apprenticeship</rs>
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bearing Date on or about Ninth<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
1756<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n443-1">George Gardner</rs>
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as an<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50522_occ145">Apprentice</rs>
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from the Date of the said Indenture of<obscured></obscured>
Term of Seven years</p>
<p n="444">That your Petitoner's said Master was to Teach your Petitioner the said Trade<lb></lb>
and Provide him sufficient Meat Drink Apparel Washing and Lodging and all other<lb></lb>
necessaries during the said Term And for the last Two Years of the said Team of Seven<lb></lb>
Years was well and truly to pay unto your Petitioner Five pounds and Four Shillings a<lb></lb>
Year as by the said Indentures May more fully Appear</p>
<p n="445">That your Petitioner's said Master before your Petitioner had been with him<lb></lb>
Since Months (tho' Your Petitioner faithfully Served him) suffered your Petitioner to go very<lb></lb>
Ragged and Barfoot and refused to find your Petitioner Apparel as he had engaged to do by<lb></lb>
the said Indentures and notwithstanding your Petr. often entreated his said Master there to and<lb></lb>
Particularly when your Petitioner had Served his said Master about Fourteen Months and<lb></lb>
was extremely Ragged and Barefoot your Petitioner insisted hath in said Master shod. find your Petitioner<lb></lb>
Shoes and other Apparel but your Petrs. said Master engaged there at then told your Petitionr.<lb></lb>
he'd Petitioner on Board a Man of Warr even if he but asked him for shoes.</p>
<p n="446">That your Petitioner being so Served by his said Master as aforesaid about<lb></lb>
March 1758 got himself a Birth on Board the Hercules Private Ship of Warr and hath since<lb></lb>
Served his Majesty also in the Diana Transport and has been very ill for almost Five<lb></lb>
Months last past of an Ague and Fever</p>
<p n="447">That your petr. since his quitting the said Diana Transport and since his Recovery<lb></lb>
from his said illness hath applyed by several People to his said Master and offend to serve him the remainder<lb></lb>
this said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50522_occ146">Apprenticeship</rs>
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but his said Master refused to take your Petr. again And especially on or<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
the Ninth Day of this instant May 1764<obscured></obscured>
went in person to his said Master<lb></lb>
offered a himself to him to this said Master to take your Petr. in or to Employ him<lb></lb>
to have any thing to do with him.</p>
<p n="448">Therefore your Petr. most humbly Beg's your<lb></lb>
Worships to take his Case into your Consideration and<lb></lb>
Grant him such Relief ask your Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="449">And your Petr. at in Duly found shall<lb></lb>
ever pray</p>
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