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Apprentice Indenture Documents
from the District of Columbia Archives

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[APPRENTICESHIP No. 403 (Vol. II, 5-6)] Walter Olphin } The Subscribers two Justices of the peace for the County to } aforesaid by virtue of the authority vested in us by law, George Baltzar } have bound out and placed & by these presents Do bind out and } place as apprentice Walter Olphin age eighteen years on the first day of Jany. 1812, unto George Baltzer, a Butcher until he the said Walter Olphin shall assign to the age of twenty one years, during which time he shall well & truly behave, conduct and demean himself in every respect as a good & faithful apprentice ought to do towards his said master, and the said master shall furnish and provide for the his said apprentice good and & Sufficient meat, drink, clothes, washing, lodging and other requisite necessities during his apprenticeship, to give him the said apprentice three months schooling and also to teach the trade of a Butcher in the different branches thereof and when free to give his said apprentice a suit of clothes worth twenty dollars. In Witness thereof we havce hereunto set our hands & seals this first day of January 1812. Approved by the Orphans Court }(Signed) Jno. Ott - {SEAL} of Washington County this 1st February }(Signed) Thos Corcoran {SEAL} Test. J.W. Hewitt reg of wills Recorded 1st February 1812

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