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Apprenticeship Indenture for Maria Harris, dated 6
April 1830
(Transcribed as found, including errors)
This Indenture, made the sixth day of
April in the eleventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Fourth by the Grace of God of Great Britain, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and thirty
Witnesseth that in Pursuance and in Execution of an Order under the
hands of William Little Esquire and John Coryton Roberts
Esquire
two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the
South Division of the Hundred of East within the County of
Cornwall bearing even date herewith (testified
by their Allowance hereof.) Robert Warren one of the Church-Wardens of
the Parish of Sheviock in the said County and Samuel
Littleton and William Cumbe Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish
have put and placed, and by these Presents do put and place Maria
Harris aged Thirteeen Years and upwards, a poor Child of
the said Parish Apprentice to Nathaniel Hawkings Farmer
with him to dwell and serve from the Day of the Date of these
Presents, until the said Apprentice shall accomplish her full
Age of Twenty
One Years or sooner marry according to the Statute in that Case made and provided,
During all which Term the said Apprentice her said Master
faithfully shall serve in all lawful Business, according to her
Power, Wit, and Ability: and honestly, orderly, and obediently, in all
things demean and behave herself towards him said Master and all his during the said Term. And the said
Nathaniel Hawkings
for himself, his Executors, and Administrators, doth
Covenant and Grant, to and with the said Church-Wardens and Overseers, and every
of them, their and every of their Executors and Administrators, and
their and every of their Successors for the Time being, by these
Presents that he the said Nathaniel Hawkings the said
Apprentice in housewifery shall teach and instruct or cause to be
taught and instructed in the best Way and Manner that he can.
And shall and will during all the Term aforesaid, find, provide, and
allow, unto the said Apprentice, meet, competent, and sufficient Meat,
Drink, and Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and all other Things, necessary
and fit for an Apprentice; (PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the said last mentioned
Covenant on the Part and Behalf of the said Nathaniel Hawkings his
Executors and Administrators, to be done and performed, shall continue
to be in Force, for no longer Time than Three Calendar Months next after
the death of the said (blank) in case the said Maria Harris shall happen to die during the Continuance of such
Apprenticeship, according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the
Thirty second Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled "An
Act for the further Regulation of Parish Apprentices") AND ALSO shall and
will so provide for the said Apprentice that he be not any way
a Charge to the said Parish of Sheviock or Parishioners of the
same; but of and from all Charge shall and will save the
Parishioners harmless and indemnified during the
said Term.
In Witness Whereof the Parties abovesaid to these present Indentures,
interchangeably have put their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year above
written.
| Sealed and delivered in the
Presence of |
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| (signed) John Landry |
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(signed & sealed)
Nathl. Hawkings |
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