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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 219   View pdf image
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                                                                                                       219

State of Maryland Baltimore City Sct:
                I hereby certify that William H. Hayward Esquire
before whom the annexed acknowledgment was made and who has
thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice
of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of
Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn
       (Seals)         In testimony whereof I hereto set my
       (Place)         hand and affix the seal of the Superior Court
of Baltimore City this 6.th day of April A. D. 1857
                                      Edw.d Dowling   Per G. T. Gorsuch
                                        Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City
       Rec.d to be recorded on the 17.th day of April 1857 same
day recorded & examined per
                                                       W. H. Worthington Clk





Delivered
to J. J.
Mayfield
Nov 11.th
1857
 Indenture of Apprenticeship
Maria Bell (Negro)
            to
Robert Lilly
 This Indenture made this
thirteenth day of October in the
year of our Lord Eighteen
hundred and fifty seven
between Maria Bell of
                    Howard County and State of Maryland (Coloured) of the
                    one part and Robert Lilly of the said County & State of
                    the other part.         Witnesseth that the Maria Bell negress
                    hath placed and bound out by these presents doth place
                    and bind our her daughter Susan who on the twenty fifth
                    day of December next will be of the age of ten years as an
                    apprentice to the said Robert Lilly the said Susan Bell
                    to dwell with and serve the said Robert Lilly from the date
                    of these presents until the twenty fifth day of December
                    in the year Eighteen hundred and sixty five when the said
                    Susan Bell negress shall attain to the age of eighteen
                    years during all which time and term the said Susan
                    Bell negress shall the said Robert Lilly well and
                    faithfully serve in all such lawful business as the said
                    Susan Bell shall be put to by her Master according
                    to the power and ability of her the said Susan and honestly
                    and obediently in all things shall behave herself towards
                    his said Master and honestly and orderly towards the rest
                    of the family of the said Robert Lilly             And the said
                    Robert Lilly on his part doth hereby promise covenant


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