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Thomas Callahan apprenticeship indenture to William Webber(1793 June 6)

  • MS 2009.2
  • 1 item

Apprenticeship indenture of Thomas Callahan with William Webber of Campbell County, Virginia, dated 1793. Callahan apprentices himself to Webber for a term of 8 years and 10 months to learn the trade of blacksmith. Webber shall “teach Or Cause To be taught and Instructed the Sd. Apprentice In the trade and Mistry of a Blacksmith and procure and provide for him the Sd. Apprentice sufficient meat Drink Washing Lodgeing and Apperral Together with Giving him learning Such as Reading Writeing and Arithmetick as far as the Rule of Three …”