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Apprentice indenture dated 1835 of
Thomas Dunlap to Moses Liverpool

[APPRENTICESHIP NO. 1443 Vol. V, I] Thomas Dunlop }We the subscribers Justices of the peace in and for the County of to }Washington in the District of Columbia, have bound and placed Moses Liverpool }by these presents do bind our and place as an apprentice Thomas Dunlop an orphan age five years unto Moses Liverpool a Corker, until he the said Thomas Dunlop shall arrive to age of twenty one years during which time he shall well and truly behave and conduct and demean himself in every respect as good and faithfully apprentice ought to do towards his said Master and the said master shall furnish and provide for his said apprentice good and sufficient meat, drink, clothes, washing, lodging and other requisite necessities during his apprenticeship so cause him to be taught the and art of corking in the different branches thereof and when face so give his said apprentice a Suit of Clothes worth twenty dollars or twenty dollars in current money as his said apprentice may chose - Witness our hands and Seals this Sixteenth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty five - For the Register of Wills for} Nathl Bradey (Seal) Washington County, DC } Edward W. Clark (Seal) (Recorded, November 21st 1835)

Apprentice indenture dated 1835 of Thomas Dunlap to Moses Liverpool
[APPRENTICESHIP NO. 1443 Vol. V, I] Thomas Dunlop }We the subscribers Justices of the peace in and for the County of to }Washington in the District of Columbia, have bound and placed Moses Liverpool }by these presents do bind our and place as an apprentice Thomas Dunlop an orphan age five years unto Moses Liverpool a Corker, until he the said Thomas Dunlop shall arrive to age of twenty one years during which time he shall well and truly behave and conduct and demean himself in every respect as good and faithfully apprentice ought to do towards his said Master and the said master shall furnish and provide for his said apprentice good and sufficient meat, drink, clothes, washing, lodging and other requisite necessities during his apprenticeship so cause him to be taught the and art of corking in the different branches thereof and when face so give his said apprentice a Suit of Clothes worth twenty dollars or twenty dollars in current money as his said apprentice may chose - Witness our hands and Seals this Sixteenth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty five - For the Register of Wills for} Nathl Bradey (Seal) Washington County, DC } Edward W. Clark (Seal) (Recorded, November 21st 1835)

Note: Moses Liverpool a former slave, who bought his freedom and worked for many years at the Washington Navy Yard as a caulker. At the Washington Navy Yard the caulking trade primarily employed African -Americans. Thomas Dunlop also African -American is a relation of Moses Liverpool's wife Patsey Dunlop Liverpool. Moses Liverpool was leader in the African-American community and 1807 helped found the Bell School, the first school for black children in the District of Columbia. Moses Liverpool's name is on the District of Columbia Tax Book for 1845.