Category: Apprentice Indenture
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Indenture John Hackett to Ebenezer Cloak 1841
This Indenture made the fourth day of August A.D. 1841 between Robert Palmatory one of the trustees of the poor and Nehemiah Stockly one of the justices of the peace for Kent County, in the State of Delaware, of the one part, and Ebenezar Cloak of the said county and State of the other part;…
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Indenture, Moses Robinson from Garrison Henry 1847
This Indenture Made this the first day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty seven Witnesseth that Marin Hudson (Neg) of Cedar Creek hundred and Sussex County has put and bound and by these presents do put and bind his son Garrison Henry a minor now the age…
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Indenture, Alanson Dickerson from Josiah Lowland 1847
This Indenture made this Twenty Seventh day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty seven. Witnesseth that Lemuel B Shockley a Trustee of the Poor and Jno A Hazard a Justice of the peace both in and for Sussex County have put and bound and by these presents…
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Indenture Joseph Young N. From Solomon Truitt N 1839
This Indenture Made this Eighteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Between John Pinder a Justice of the Peace and George Hall a Trustee of the Poor for Sussex County in the State of Delaware of the one part and Joseph Young Jun of the said…
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Indenture Jas H Parker from Moses Mifflin 1850
Know all me by these presents that I Moses Mifflin of Georgetown Sussex County and State of Delaware being a free negro of the age of twenty five years and upwards for and in consideration of the sum of seventy nine dollars and eighty cents lawful money of the State aforesaid advanced and paid by…
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Apprentice Indenture Stephen Ellis to John H. Eccleston 1838
This Indenture made this thirty first day of October A.D. 1838 Witnesseth, That Dorcus Ellis mother of Stephen Ellis a minor, hath in the presence and with the approbation of Thomas Stevenson a Justice of the Peace for Kent County in the State of Delaware and in consideration of the sum of Ten dollars lawful…
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Apprentice Indenture James McNatt n to James L Heverin 1851
This Indenture made this Twenty fifth day of November A.D. 1851 between Trustin S. Davis and James S. Smith two of the Justices of the Peace for Kent County, in the State of Delaware, of the one part, and James McNatt of the said County and State, of the other part: Whereas, the said Trustin…
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Indenture Thomas Brinkley to Betsey Brinkley 1846
This Indenture, made the fifth day of August A.D. 1846. Witnesseth: That Caroline Miller mother of Thomas Brinkley a minor, in consideration of the sum of one dollar lawful money of the State of Delaware, advanced and paid to the said Caroline Miller by Elizabeth Brinkley of Kent County, in the said state hath, in…
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Apprentice Indenture Sarah Elizabeth Richardson to Margaret Thompson 1844
[Thanks to Cecilia Ann Morris for her excellent research on this family.] This Indenture witnesseth, That Jonas Richardson colored man of the City of Willmington in the State of Delaware Hath put, and by these presents doth put, place and bind his Daughter Sarah Elizabeth Richardson a Minor, who was born on the first day…
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Apprentice Indenture Henry Dobson to Abraham D. Shadd 1828
[cordwainer is an archaic term for shoemaker] This Indenture Witnesseth That Henry Dobson, free man of color of Salem county in the State of New Jersey, Hath and by these presents Doth put place and bind his son Henry Dobson aged Seventeen years and four months, Apprentice to Abraham D. Shadd of the Borough of…
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