Indenture of the Manumitted Negress Kitty, May 18, 1804

Lesson 4 Document 13

Indenture of the manumitted Negress Kitty, May 18, 1804

this indenture wiTNESSETH, That Negress Kitty, aged about four years, whom Reuben Etting, on the eighteenth day of May, Eighteen hundred and four, in the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland manumitted from slavery, In compliance with the terms and conditions of the said manumission hath put herself, and by these Presents, with the advise and consent of her friend Thos. Harmion, a member of the Abolition Society, doth voluntarily, and of her own free will and accord, put herself Apprentice to the said Reuben Etting of the City of Philadelphia to learn the Art, Trade, and Mystery of a Cook and house-waiter and after the manner of an Apprentice to serve the said Reuben Etting, his Executors and assigned administrators from the day of the date hereof, for and during, and to the full end and term of twenty-three years . . .

Gratz-Crogham Etting Papers, II, 93, Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Children and youth in America: a documentary history. Editor, Robert H. Bremner; associate editors, John Barnard, Tamara K. Hareven [and] Robert M. Mennel

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