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Apprentice Indenture Documents
from the District of Columbia Archives

Furnished by : John Sharp ©

Apprentice indenture dated 1813 of Nathaniel Hughes to Henry Burdick

Nathaniel Hughes } District of Columbia County Washington DC to }The subscribers two justices of the peace for the County aforesaid Henry Burdick } by virtue of the authority vested in them by law have bound out } & placed and by these presents do bind out & place as an apprentice with the consent of his mother Nathaniel Hughes, an Orphan aged twelve years the 22nd day of November next unto Henry Burdick -coach painter, until the said Nathaniel shall assume to the age of twenty one years , during all which time he shall well & truly behave, conduct & demean himself in every respect as a good & faithful apprentice ought towards his said master, and the said master shall furnish and provide for his said apprentice good & sufficient meat, drink, clothes, washing, lodging & other requisite necessities during his apprenticeship to cause him to be taught to read, write & to cast up accounts & also to teach him the art, trade or mystery of a coach painter and where free to give him his said apprentice a suit of clothes of the value of thirty dollars or that sum in Cash at the option of the said apprentice. In witness were of we have hereto set our hands & seals this tenth day of August 1814........ } J.W. Ott-----{SEAL} } Witness .. } Danl. Reintzell---(SEAL) her } The Boy's Ann X Hughes } Mother mark } To the Register of Wills---- Recorded the 15th - day of November 1814

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