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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
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for his maintenance or support and the Court being satisfied that said representative 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 Charles 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 Charles 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 Charles 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 ten 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 Fifteen 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 one thousand eight hundred and fifty
seven                                                                           Jno H Hodson   (seal)      Justices of
Signed sealed and delivered                                             Z. H. Rosse   (seal)      the Orphans'
             in the presence of                                                 Levin Jones   (seal)         Court
                            E. W. LeCompte                                       his
                                                                                  John D. x Parker   (seal)
                                                                                             mark

Del.d to Jno D Parker the 29 August 1858


Josiah Jump             Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Indenture
√  from   xd             was received and recorded on the 1st day of June Anno Domini 1857 to wit
Mary E. Holland      In Dorchester County Orphans' Court Mary E. Holland alias
alias Ennalls             Ennalls a negro Girl of the age of Ten years the fifteenth day of May 1857
                               comes into Court and it being represented to the Court that the said Mary
E. Holland alias Ennalls is not at service or learning a trade or employed in the service of her
parents and that she is without means sufficient for her 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 she should be put to learn some trade or useful
business.   The said Mary E. Holland alias Ennalls 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 unto Josiah Jump until she the said Mary E.
Holland alias Ennalls shall arrive to the age of Sixteen years; under the provisions of our
Act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed December Session 1839 Chapter
35 and the said Josiah Jump being here present in Court agrees to take the said Mary
E. Holland alias Ennalls as an apprentice until she shall arrive to the said age and the
said Josiah Jump doth also on his part acknowledge himself bound and by these presents
doth contract promise and agree to teach the said apprentice or cause her to be taught plain
serving and housework and to supply her with suitable clothing and maintenance during her apprenticeship
and when free to give her Twenty dollars and two suits of clothing as freedom dues.  And the
said Josiah Jump 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.


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