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Apprenticeship Indentures - John Bennett
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First Document
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THIS INDENTURE made the second day
of May, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eleven
BETWEEN NICHOLAS STEER and JOHN WORTH Churchwardens of the Parish of
Saint Dominick in the County of Cornwall and WILLIAM WORTH and DIGORY
FLETCHER Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish by and with the
Consent of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County whose
Names are hereunto subscribed HAVE put and placed, and by these Presents
Do put and place JOHN BENNETT aged ten Years or thereabouts, a poor
Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to WILLIAM WEBB with him to dwell
and serve from the day of the date of these Presents, until the said
Apprentice shall accomplish his full Age of twenty one years, according
to the Statute in that Case made and provided; DURING all which said
Term the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve in all
lawful Business, according to his Power, Wit, and Ability, and honestly,
orderly, and obediently in all Things demean and behave himself towards
his said Master during the said Term. And the said WILLIAM WEBB for
himself, his Executors and Administrators doth covenant and grant to and
with the said Church-Wardens and Overseers, and every of them, their,
and every of their Executors and Administrators, and their and every of
their Successors, for the Time being, by these Presents, That he the
said WILLIAM WEBB the said Apprentice in Husbandry shall and will teach,
and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in the best way and
manner that he can And shall and will during all the term aforesaid,
find, provide and allow unto the said Apprentice meet, competent, and
sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and other Things
necessary and fit for an Apprentice; (PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the said
last mentioned Covenant on the said WILLIAM WEBB, his Executors and
Administrators, to be done and performed, shall continue and be in force
for no longer Time than Three Calendar Months next after the Death of
the said WILLIAM WEBB in case the said WILLIAM WEBB shall happen to die
during the Continuance of such Apprenticeship, according to the
Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of
King George the Third, intituled, “An Act for the further Regulation of
Parish Apprentices,”) And also shall and will so provide for the said
Apprentice, that he be not any way a Charge to the said Parish or
Parishioners of the same; but of and from all Charge shall and will save
the said Parish of Saint Dominick harmless and indemnified during the
said Term;
IN WITNESS whereof, the Parties aforesaid to these presents their Hands,
and Seals have set the Day and Year first above written.
We whose Names are here under-written, Justices
Of the Peace for the County aforesaid (whereof one
Is of the Quorum) Do consent to the putting forth
JOHN BENNETT an Apprentice According to the
Intent and Meaning of this Indenture.
(Signed) WESTON HELYAR
(Signed) J.T. CORYTON |
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Sealed and Deliver'd In the
Presence of:
(Signed) NICHS. STEER |
(Signed) Wm. WEBB (and Sealed) |
Second Document
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Be it remembered, that the within named WILLIAM WEBB by and with the
consent and approbation of WILLIAM HICKES HORNDON and JOHN TILLIE
CORYTON Esqrs. two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said
County whose names are subscribed to the consent hereunder written, doth
hereby assign JOHN BENNETT the apprentice within named unto JOHN
HERRING, of the parish of Callinton? In the said County aforesaid? To
serve him during the residue of the term within mentioned; and that he
the said JOHN HERRING doth hereby agree to accept and take the said JOHN
BENNETT as an apprentice for the residue of the said term, and doth
hereby acknowledge himself, his Executors and Administrators to be bound
by the agreements and covenants within mentioned on the part of the said
WILLIAM WEBB to be done and performed, according to the true intent and
meaning thereof, and pursuant to the provisions of an Act passed in the
thirty second year of the reign of George the Third intituled “An Act
for the further regulation of parish apprentices” In witness whereof we
the said WILLIAM WEBB and JOHN HERRING have hereunto set our Hands this
seventh day of May 1812.
| (Signed) Wm. WEBB |
(Signed) JOHN HERRING |
We two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace above mentioned do consent
thereto Witness our Hands this seventh day of May 1812
(Signed) J. T. CORYTON
(Signed) W. H. HORNDON
On the Reverse: John Bennett Apprenticed to
William Webb May 2nd 1811
John Herring
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