[AMERICANA]. Indenture placing "a poor child" into an apprenticeship.
Partly printed indenture made by the "Superintendants [sic] of the Poor of the County of Columbia" placing "Adam Nehon Reecy, a poor child of the town of Livingston [NY] county aforesaid, aged eight years on the seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred & thirty two apprentice to Smith H. Barlow of Sheffield, Massachusetts...until the said apprentice shall accomplish the full age of twenty-one years...." 8 March 1833. Signed by Smith H. Barlow and Superintendents of the Poor of the County of Columbia [NY]. 1p, approx. 7 x 12 in. Docketed on verso.
Indenture relocates the young child just across the New York state border from Livingston, NY, to Sheffield, Massachusetts, where he is indentured to farmer Smith Husted Barlow (1803-1847). As per the terms of the indenture, besides learning the agricultural trade, Barlow is to teach the child reading, writing, and arithmetic, and release him from the indenture at the given time with $50 in addition to apparel and a Bible.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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