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

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Record #44 from Abstracts of Worcester Orphans Court Proceedings, 1848-1851

Familysearch PDF Page Number 61
Original Liber Page Number 88
Date 20 Aug 1849
Type of Proceeding Indenture - apprenticeship
Name and Freedom Status Thomas Harmon [free]
Abstract Thomas Harmon, Negro boy 8 yo on 15 December last past, comes to court & it being represented as not at service or learning a trade or employed in service of his parents & is without means of sufficient maintenance. Court bounds him out as apprentice to John S. Bevans until he is 21 yo. Thomas to learn the trade of a farmer & to be supplied with suitable clothing & maintenance & when free to receive 2 suits of clothes to cost $15 or the sum of $15.

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