Smyrna times., 1886-10-13
WHOLE NO. 1929.
For the Smyrna Times.
An Apprentices Indenture Of the
Year 1904,

MR.. EDITOR What would the aV-
erage Delaware apprentice of to-day
think of the following irOn-bOund doc
ument of tie days of 1904, which l
have in my pOssessiOnP Here it is
UerbGtim:
Note. This Indenture, Covenant,
Article, or Contract, must bear Date
the Day it it is executed; and what
Money or other Thing is given or con-
tracted for with the Clerk must be in
serted in Words at Length and the
Duty paid to the Stamp Office if in
LONDON, or within the Weekly Bills of
Mortality, within one Month after the
Execution; and, if in the Country, and
out of the said Bills of Mortality.
within Two Months, to a Distributor
OF the Stamps or his Substitute; other
wise the Indenture will be void. the
Master or Mistress forfeit Fifty
Pounds, and another Penalty, and the
Apprentice be disabled to follow his
Trade, or be made free.
THIS INDENTURE WITNEssETH, THAT
Richard Anderson fifteen years SON of
Andrew Anderson of Brus on the IS
land of Shetland shoemaker, doth put
himself Apprentice to William Scores
by master of the ship Resolution of
Whitby employed on the Greenland
Whale Fishery to learn his Art, and
with him latter the manner of an
Apprentice) to serve from the Date
hereof unto the full End and Term of
SIX years from thence next following,
to De fully compleat and ended. Dur
ing which Term, the said Apprentice
ms said Master faithfully shall serve,
his Secrets keep, his lawful Commands
everywhere gladly do. He shall do no
Damage to his said Master, nor see to
be done of others, but that he to his
Power shall let, or forthwith give
warning to his said Master of the same.
He shall not waste the Goods of his
said Master, nor lend them unlawfully
to any. He shall not commit Fornica-
ton, nor contract Matrimony, within
the said Term. He shall not play at
Cards, Dice, Tables, or any other un-
lawful Games, whereby his said Master
may have any Loss. With his own
Goods, or others, during the said
Term, without License of his said
Master, he shall neither buy nor sell.
He shall not haunt TaVerns or PLAY
houses, nor absent himself from his
said Masters Service Day nor Night
unlawfully. But in all Things as a
faithful Apprentice he shall behave
himself towards his said Master, and
all his, during the said Term. And
the said William ScOresby doth here by
promise and agree to learn the said
' Richard Anderson, his said Appren-
tice, in the fame Art of a Mariner
which he useth, by the best Means that
he can, shall teach and instruct, or
cause to be taught and instructed,
' finding his said Apprentice sufficient
, Meat, Drink and Lodging, during the
said Term of six years together with
the sum of forty Pounds to be paid as
stated on the back also one Guinea
over and above provide he serves his
I time faithfully. And for the true Per-
fOrmance of all and every the said Cow
nants and Agreements, either of the
said Parties bindeth himself unto the
> other by these Presents. In Witness
: whereof the Parties abOVe-named ia
! these Indentures INTERCHANGEABLE have
put their Hands and Seals, the ninth
Day of July in the forty-fOurth Year OF
:. the Reign of our Sovereign Lord G. the
~ Third by the Grace of God of the
united Kingdom of Great Britain and
L Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith
, and so forth, and in the Year of OuI
) Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred
and four. WIN. SCOREsBY, Sen.
RICHEAD ANDERSON.
), Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, (be-
u q ing first duly stamped in the Presence
- of JAMES LAURENsoN.
y WILLIAM SCOREsBY, Jun
. Port of Whitby Sd March 1904 The
/ withinnamed Richard Anderson seven.
!; teen years of age FIVE feet four Inches
T. T. and half in height, light Complexion,
u blue eyes and light hair.
,. July 1904. Richard Anderson tC
81 VIM. Scoresby, Indenture for six years
3 Wages payable as follows 1st wear AZ