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fourteenth day of May 1765 bound apprentice to
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your Petitioner and was to find and provide Your Petitioner with
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sufficient Meat drink lodging and every other necessary in sickness and
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That your Petitioner served his said Master accordingly
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until on or about the first day of March last at which time he absconded
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for Debt and being insolvent keeps no open Shop nor follows his said
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business but hath ever since secreted himself from Your Petitioner
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and doth not provide your Petitioner with any Victuals drink or
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lodging, nor in any wise employ your Petitioner nor is he in any
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and business of a Cabinetmaker.
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Wherefore Your Petitioner most humbly prays
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Your Worships to discharge him from his said
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Apprenticeship
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And your Petitioner shall ever Pray Etc
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