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At the General Session of the peace of our Lord
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the King holden in and for the
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at the Session House for the said County (by
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adjournment) on Thursday the Seventeenth day of
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September in the Thirty fifth year of the Reign of
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our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great
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Britain Etc.
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in the County of Surry Fruiterer Hath at this present Session Exhibited his
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petition and appeal setting forth That by the consent of his Father he
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put himself apprentices to
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William Hall
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and Joiner by virtue of an Indenture bearing date the 25th. day of
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July 1791 in consideration of the Sum of Thirty Pounds for the Term of Seven
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Years as by the said Indenture would more fully appear: That the Petitioner
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duly and faithfully served his said Master according to the Tenor or Covenant
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contained in said Indenture from the said twenty fifth day of July One Thousand
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Seven hundred and ninety one for and driving and until the beginning of the
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Month of May One Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety five being upwards
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of Four Years. That on or about the beginning of the said Month of my 1795
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for some cause absconded from his dwelling House and
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Family and left the petitioner destitute of all support or employment and
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some time afterwards his wife and Family left his House at Chelsea aforesaid
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and did not leave the Petitioner a Bed to lie on nor any manner of
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necessaries for his support which compelled him to go to his said Fathers
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House where he had resided ever since. That the Petitioner had made the
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most diligent search and enquiries after his said Master amongst the
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Masters of the said Trade in general and amongst those resident at Chelsea
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and his Friends and acquaintance in particular but though he had continued
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such search and enquiry for these Six Months past as aforesaid yet he had not
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been able to learn or gain any intelligence whatsoever except that he had been
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informed that his said Master was gone to America and his wife who was
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gone to service gives out to that effects That in consequence of the petitioners
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being out of Employment and being informed that he could have relief by
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Summons before any of His Majestys Justices for the said County he took
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