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Apprenticeship Indenture - Samuel
Crabb
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Indenture, made the First day of May in the Thirty fourth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so
forth; and in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety
four WITNESSETH that NICHS. STEER and WILLIAM BRENT Church-Wardens of
the Parish of St. Dominick in the County of Cornwall and WILLIAM BOND
and RICHARD COWL 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 SAMUEL CRABB a poor Child of the said Parish,
Apprentice to The Rev’d. THOMAS HORNDON, 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 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 THOMAS HORNDON 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 the said
THOS. HORNDON the said Apprentice in Housewifery shall teach and
instruct or cause to be taught and instructed And shall and will during
all the Term aforesaid, find, provide, and allow, unto the said
Apprentice, meet, competent, and sufficient Meat, Drink, and Apparel,
Lodging, Washing, and all other things, necessary and fit for an
Apprentice. 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 Charges shall and will save the said
Parish and parishioners harmless and indemnified during the said Term.
IN WITNESS whereof the parties above said to these present Indentures,
interchangeably have put their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year
above-written.
Sealed and deliver'd in the presence of
(Signed) Thos Treweek
(Signed) Arthur Couch |
We whose Names are subscribed, Justices of the Peace for
the
County
Aforesaid, (one whereof was the
Quorum) Do consent to the putting
Forth of the Abovesaid
Samuel Crabb, Apprentice, according to
The Intent
and Meaning of the above
Indenture.
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(Signed) Weston Hilyar
(Signed) Thos Penwarne |
IN THE MARGIN:
 Two
Pence Stamp Duty
Signed by Thos Horndon and Sealed
ON THE REVERSE:
Samuel Crabb Indenture
May 1, 1794 aged 10 years
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