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

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Record #471 from Apprenticeships from the Somerset County Register of Wills (Indentures), 1864-1867

County Somerset
PDF page 268
Page # in Liber JJD No. 6 236
Justice of the Peace Isaac Gibbons
Child (Apprentice) negro boy Robert Dryden
Child of Margaret Bowland
Raised by Eliazabet A Dryden
Awarded 5 cents
White person to whom apprenticed (master) Elizabeth Dryden
Date of Apprenticeship Paper 11 Nov 1864
Age 5
Date of Attaining Said Age 27 Feb 1864
Age to Serve Until 21
Trade to Learn farmer
Receive at the end of the Apprenticeship 2 suits apparel & $25
Date of Final Papers 4 Jul 1865
Transcriber Notes mother selected master

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