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382 Sarah E Johnson who on the eighth day of January next will be of the age of two years as an apprentice to serve the said Napoleon B Welsh to be brought up and taught habits of industry and usefulness as a domestic and house servant: that the said Sarah E Johnson to dwell with and serve the said Napoleon B Welsh from the date of these presents until the eight day of January eighteen hundred and seventy six when the said Sarah E Johnson shall attain the age of eighteen years during all which time the said Sarah E Johnson shall the said Napoleon B Welsh well and faithfully serve in all such lawful business as the said Sarah E Johnson may put unto by her said master according to the ability of her the said Sarah E Johnson and honestly and obediently in all things shall behave herself towards her said master and honestly and obediently towards the rest of his family. And the said Napoleon B Welsh on his part doth hereby promise covenant and agree that he will well and faithfully furnish and provide for the said apprentice good and sufficient meat, drink, clothing lodging and other necessaries fit and convenient for such an apprentice during the term aforesaid and at the expiration thereof shall give unto the said Sarah Johnson two suits of wearing apparrel and fifteen dollars in money In testimony whereof the said Mary Ann Johnson and Napoleon B Welsh hereto set their hands and seals on the date first herein written her Signed sealed and Mary Ann x Johnson (seal) delivered in the presence mark of us Napoleon B Welsh (seal) Reuben Warfield Joseph W Pearce State of Maryland Howard County sct: I hereby certify that on this seventh day of September Eighteen hundred and fifty nine before me a Justice of the peace for said county personally appeared Mary ann Johnson and Napoleon B Welsh and did each acknowledge the aforegoing Indenture to be their respective act and deed Reuben Warfield Received to be recorded on the 9th day of September 1859 same day Recorded and Examined per W. W. Watkins clk
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