Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #3 from Accomack County Indentures, 1798-1835

County Accomack
Date 27 April 1801
Abstract An Indenture made between the Overseers of the Poor and Thos Allen to carry out an order made in County Court dated 27 April 1801 to bind a Negro boy named Peter orphan of Susannah freed by C. Stockley until the age of twenty one, unto Thos Allen who will provide sufficient Meat, Drink, Washing, Lodging, and Wearing Apparel, teach him reading, writing and arithmetic, the trade of a Cooper and also pay him Twelve Dollars at the expiration of the said time.
Name Peter
Trade Cooper

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