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245 seal on the day and year aforesaid Nich.s Brewer (seal) Circuit Judge Approved by the subscriber on the same day ordered to be recorded by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard County according to law. Given under my hand this twelfth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and fifty seven Nich.s Brewer Circuit Judge Filed to be recorded on the 13.th day of September 1857 same day recorded & Examined per W. H. Worthington Clk
Howard County of the one part and David Dorsey free negro of the said County and State of the other part Witnesseth that the said Jno Y. Worthington as Justice of the Peace aforesaid by virtue of the power to him given in and by an act of ^the general^ assembly passed at November session in the year 1794 entitled a supplement to the act entitled an act for the better regulation of apprentices has placed and by these presents doth place and bind out as an apprentice negro boy Howard Pea who on the first day of Jany next will be of the age of fourteen years unto the said David Dorsey to learn the art trade and mystery of farming after the manner of an apprentice the said Howard Pea to dwell with and serve the David Dorsey from the date of these presents until the first day of Jany in the year eighteen hundred and sixty five when the said Howard Pea shall attain to the age of twenty one years during all which time and term the said Howard Pea shall the said David Dorsey well and faithfully serve in all such lawfull buisiness as the said Howard Pea shall be put unto by his said Master according to the power and ability of him the said Howard Pea and honestly and obediently in all things shall behave himself towards his said master and honestly and orderly towards the rest of the family of him the said David Dorsey And the said David Dorsey on his part doth hereby promise covenant and agree to teach |
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