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Treat a 18-year-old coloured boy with dignity and to spell and read
Autograph document signed, one page, measures 7.25x7.75. “This indenture made this 2th day of January A,D between Justice of the Bourbon County court of the one part and Daniel Trundle of the Count of Bourbon and State Kentucky of the second part witnesseth that the said court do by these presents place and bind out unto him of the second part Reese a free boy of colour aged eighteen years the 30th day of May 1843 until he attains to the age of 21 years and he of the second part covenants to teach the said apprentice the business of farming-to treat him with humanity to furnish him with good wholesome meat and decent and suitable clothing and to pay him thirty dollars and furnish him a decent suit of new clothes at the expiration of his service and to teach or cause him to be taught to spell and read so as to read the New Testament with facility virtues the hand and seal of him of the second part the date first above (signed by) Daniel Trundle seal. On the verso are several lines written and signed by Thomas P. smith clerk of the county court attesting to this apprenticeship and that this Indenture was duly admitted to record 24th day of January 1843. This document in V/G to near Fine condition..................$850.00
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