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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 275   View pdf image
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John D. Parker      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Indenture
          from   xd      was received and recorded on the 25th day of May 1857 to wit:
David Ross                        In Dorchester County Orphans' Court David Ross a negro
                               boy of the age of six years the ninth day of February last past being
brought into Court: and it being represented to the Court that the said David Ross is
not at service or learning a trade or employed in the service of his parents and that he is
without means sufficient for his maintenance or support; and the Court being satisfied
that said representation is true; and believing also that it would greatly conduce to the
good of the said Child that he should be put to learn some trade or useful business.

             The said David Ross is therefore on this twenty fifth day of May in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven bound as an apprentice by John
H. Hodson Zadock H Rosse and Levin Jones Justices of the Orphans' Court for
Dorchester County to John D. Parker until he the said David Ross shall arrive
to the age of twenty one years under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland passed December Session 1839 Chapter 35 and the said John D.
Parker being here present in Court agrees to take the said David Ross as an apprentice
until he shall arrive to the said age:  And the said John D. Parker doth also
on his part acknowledge himself bound and by these presents doth contract promise
and agree to teach the said apprentice the trade of a Farmer and to supply him with
suitable clothing and maintenance during his apprenticeship and when free to give him
Fifteen Dollars and two suits of clothes as freedom dues.  And the said John D Parker
doth further contract promise and agree to give said apprentice in lieu of education the
sum of Twenty Dollars when free in addition to the freedom dues above required to be given

                In Witness Whereof we hereunto subscribe our names and affix our seals to this
Indenture this twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty seven.                                                         Jno H Hodson       (seal)   Justices of the
Signed sealed and delivered                                          Z. H. Rosse       (seal)  Orphans Court
                in the presence of                                             Levin Jones   (seal)   for Dorchester County
                                     E W LeCompte                              his
                                                                                John D x Parker   (seal)
                                                                                           mark

Delivered to Jno D Parker the 29 August 1857


John D. Parker      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Indenture
    √   from   xd      was received and recorded on the 25th day of may A. D. 1857 to wit
Benjamin Ross         In Dorchester County Orphans Court Benjamin Ross a negro
                             boy at the age of Eight years the tenth day of December last past being
brought into Court; and it being represented to the Court that the said Benjamin Ross is
not at service or learning a trade or employed in the service of his presents and that he is
without means sufficient for his maintenance or support; and the Court being satisfied that
said representation is true; and believing also that it would greatly conduce to the good of the
said Child that he should be put to learn some trade or useful business.   The said Benjamin
Ross is therefore on this twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty seven bound as an apprentice by John H. Hodson Zadock H. Rosse and
Levin Jones Justices of the Orphans' Court of Dorchester County to John D. Parker until he the
said Benjamin Ross shall arrive to the age of twenty one years; and the said John D. Parker
being here present in Court agrees to take the said Benjamin Ross as an apprentice until
he shall arrive to the said age:  And the said John D. Parker doth also on his part acknowledge

Del.d to Jno D Parker the 29 August 1857



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