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To the Worshipful his Majestys
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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John Buckingham
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Flax
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Sheweth
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That by Indenture of Apprenticeship bearing date the 30th day
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of July in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety two
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the then Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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in the
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by and with the consent of two
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of his Majestys
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Suit and Placed
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Sarah Wallis
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then aged about fifteen Years a
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Poor Child of the said
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Apprentice to your
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Petitioner with him to dwell and serve from the day of the date
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of the said Indenture until the said
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Sarah Wallis
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accomplish her age of Twenty one Years or day of Marriage
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according to the statute in that Case made and Provided And
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Sarah Wallis
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served your Petitioner about nine
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Months under the said Indenture part of such service being in
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the said
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and other part (your
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Petitioner apprehends and believes the last Forty days) thereof
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in the
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, and
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during the latter part of her said Service she greatly misbehaved
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herself and without any just or reasonable Cause or Provocation
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ran away and absented herself from the service of your Petitioner
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in or about the Month of April which was in the Year One
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Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety three and your Petitioner
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could not discover where she went nor did he see her again (except on one single day) nor
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Know where she was till some time in the Month of November last
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when he was applied to by some of the Officers of the said
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and informed by them that she had then lately been
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sent to that Parish and was then therein and had voluntarily
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made oath before
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John Bond
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Esquire one of his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace for the said
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That
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She
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