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[Apprenticeship No. 176 Vol. I, 147-148] 148 District of Columbia Washington County Orphans Court 4th April 1807. George Hurley an orphan boy age fifteen years as nearly as can be ascertained is bound by the Court with his own and the consent of Isaac S. Middleton his brother in law as an apprentice to John Potherbridge of the City of Washington Ship-wright to serve him for the term of five years and three months from the first day of the present month of April at said trade - The John Potherbridge agrees to take said George Hurley as apprentice and contracts to teach and instruct him in the said art or trade of a ship-wright for him during the said apprenticeship to find and provide for him good and sufficient meat, drink, clothing, washing, and lodging and other necessities- to have him instructed in common reading, writing, and arithmetic and at end of his apprenticeship to furnish him with a suit of clothes worth at least twenty two dollars & with a set of proper tools for his work. In Testimony that the aforegoing is a true Copy from the records of (SEAL) the Orphans Court of Washington County I have herein to set my hand and affixed my seal of the office this 4th day of April 1807 [Signed] John Hewitt recorder of wills for Washington County (On the back of the aforegoing is written the following viz ) Know all me by these presents that John Potherbridge to whom by the within Certificate from the Orphans Court of Washington County George Hurley the within names Orphan boy was bound as an apprentice-&c with the consent of and approbation of the Orphan Court of the Said County and by and with the consent of the Said apprentice next friend Isaac Smallwood Middleton testified a certificate hereinto annexed assign transfer and make over unto Lemuel Townsend his heirs and executors of the City of Washington the apprenticeship of the said George Hurley and all my right and title of in and to the said apprentice and of the Indenture & term of service yet to come - Witnessed my hand & seal this 30th June 1807 - Signed & acknowledged in the presence of } John Potherbridge (SEAL) the undersigned Judge of the Orphan Court } George Hurley (SEAL) & approved by him - } Lemuel Townsend (SEAL) Robert Becton } Isaac S. Middleton (SEAL) Recorded the 1st day of September 1807


Notes: George Hurley is listed as George Harley on the July 1811Pay Roll for the Washington Navy Yard as Apprenticed to Lemuel Townsend and is paid at the rate of $ 1.81 per day. Lemuel Townsend in accord with the practices of early 19^th century era signs for his apprentices wages. Lemuel Townsend is listed in The Washington Directory for 1822 by Judah Delano published by William Duncan Washington 1822 and in the 1827, The Washington Directory published by S. A. Eliot Washington 1827 as owning a grocery at the north west corner of 7^th East near the Navy Yard.

Notes:

George Hurley is listed as George Harley on the July 1811Pay Roll for the Washington Navy Yard as Apprenticed to Lemuel Townsend and is paid at the rate of $ 1.81 per day. Lemuel Townsend in accord with the practices of early 19^th century era signs for his apprentices wages.

Lemuel Townsend is listed in The Washington Directory for 1822 by Judah Delano published by William Duncan Washington 1822 and in the 1827, The Washington Directory published by S. A. Eliot Washington 1827 as owning a grocery at the north west corner of 7^th East near the Navy Yard.

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