Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #327 from Somerset County Bonds, 1827-1850

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Date 11 Jan 1848
Record Name (Somerset County, MD) SO County Bonds (1845-1850)
Citation (Liber:Folio) SWJ3:129
Name Referenced Bill Peterson
Record Type Apprentice
Abstract of Record Bill Peterson, free negro 17 yo on 25 December1848, apprenticed to James W. Warwick until 21 yo. To learn trade of farming; at end of term to receive freedom suit of clothes worth $10 or that sum in current money. Warwick to pay Littleton Ballard, free negro, $15 annually in consideration of his raising said boy up to this time. Darky Peterson, free negro, mother of the boy to be paid $5 annually at the end of each year until boy arrives of age.

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