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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 383   View pdf image
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of the other part.  Witnesseth that the said Mary ann Johnson
has placed and bound out and by these presents doth place
and bind out her daughter Laura Johnson who on the third day
of April next will be of the age of four years as an apprentice
to the said Matilda Welsh to be brought up and taught
habits of industry and usefulness as a domestic or house servant
the said Laura Johnson to dwell with and serve the said Matilda
Welsh from the date of these presents until the third day of
April eighteen hundred and seventy four when the said Laura
Johnson will be of the age of eighteen years during which term the
said Laura Johnson shall the said Matilda Welsh well and
faithfully serve in all such lawful things and business as the
said Laura Johnson may be put at unto by her said
mistress according to the ability of her the said Laura Johnson
and honestly and obediently in all things shall behave herself
towards her said mistress and honestly and obediently towards
the rest of her family.  And the said Matilda
Welsh on her part doth hereby promise covenant and agree
that she will well and faithfully furnish and provide for the
said apprentice good and sufficient meat, drink, clothing
and lodging and other necessaries fit and convenient for such
an apprentice during the term aforesaid and at the expiration
thereof shall give to the said Laura Johnson two suits of
wearing apparel and fifteen dollars in current money
                   In testimony whereof the said Marianna Johnson
and Matilda Welsh have hereto set their hands and seals
on the date first herein written                     her
                                                   Marianna x Johnson   (seal)
Signed sealed and                                     mark
delivered in presence                     Matilda E. H. Welsh  (seal)
of us
    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 the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county
personally appeared Mary Anna Johnson and Matilda Welsh
and did each acknowledge the aforegoing Indenture
to be their respective act and deed
                                                       Reuben Warfield


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