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

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Record #69 from Somerset County Bonds, 1827-1850

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Date 23 Dec 1831
Record Name (Somerset County, MD) SO County Bonds (1827-1834)
Citation (Liber:Folio) JP8:186
Name Referenced John Roach
Record Type Apprentice
Abstract of Record Betsy Roach is mother of John Roach, an illegitimate male child, who was begotten, she says by a negro slave. Betsy now living without visible means of support for child. John Roach, 12 yo on 15 Nov last, is bound out as apprentice to Lazarus Lankford, farmer until 21 yo. To learn art of farming; when fre to receive suit of clothes worth $15 or that sum of current money.

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