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To the Worshipful His Majesty's
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The Humble Petition of
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Sheweth
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That Your Petitioner with the Consent and approbation
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of his said Father did by Indenture bearing date the fifteenth
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day of December which was in the Year of our Lord 1791 put
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himself Apprentice to
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in the said County
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and Joiner to learn his Art and with him after the manner of
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an Apprentice to serve from the date thereof unto the full end
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and Term of seven Years And the said
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consideration of the Sum of twenty one Pounds paid to him by the
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did agree to teach and instruct or cause to
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be taught and instructed your Petitioner in the Art of a Carpenter
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Etc. which he the said
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then used by the best means
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that he could and to find unto your Petitioner sufficient Meat
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Drink and Lodging and all other Necessaries during the said
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Term Cloaths Washing and mending excepted as by the said
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Indenture will more fully appear.
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That in pursuance of the said Indenture your Petitioner
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as his
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Apprentice
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at his
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Worshop in
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aforesaid in the said
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until the Month of April in the Year
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1793 about which time the said
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was
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arrested and afterwards confined in the
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