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Indenture of Moses to the Reverend Amos Fowler

WSP · Nov 9, 1762 ·

 

Indentures are traditionally an agreement between two parties where one party agrees to provide labor in recompense for money loaned to them (in many cases, a ship’s passage from Europe to the New World) or in recompense for a skilled learned such as an apprenticeship.  Indentures usually had time limits and responsibilities of both parties under the indenture.  This indenture continues the servitude of Moses and is without time limits, without training and without payment to Moses, he receives what we would call room and board. Other documents refer to Moses’s brothers and sisters with other members of the Guilford community. 

 

This Indenture (Witnesses that) Ruth Naughtye of Guilford

in the County of New Haven (in the Colony) of Connecticut in New England w(?)

(for and In Consideration of the payments herein aftermentioned) Hath & 

by these Presents Doth Put out, and Bind her Negro Man Named, Moses

a Servant to Amos Fowler of Guilford aforesd, Clerk, to Serve him from

the day of the Date hereof During the whole Time and Term of the Natural

Life of the sd Moses, and until his Death; During which Term the sd

Negro Man Shall Constantly Serve the sd Amos Fowler his Heirs Ex-

-ecutors or Admt’rs according to his or theirLawful Commands; And

the sd Amos Fowler or him self his Heirs Executors & Admt’rs Doth

Covenant and Promise to find and provide for sd Negro Man Sutable

Meat, Drink, Apparrel, Washing and Lodging During the sd Term

both in sickness and health, and to pay all Rates & Taxes that

may arise on sd Negro Man’s Head; And the sd Amos Fowler Doth

for himself his Heirs Executors & Admt’rs further Covenant and Promise

not to Sell or Dispose of sd Negro Man in Service to any other Persons

but that the sd Moses Shall Remain and be kept in the Service

of him the sd Fowler and his Heirs During the whole Term of his

(sd Moses’s) Natural Life; And the sd Amos Fowler, for himself his

Heirs Executors and Admt’rs Doth further Covenant and Promise to pay

to sd Ruth Naughtye (for sd Negro Man’s Service) Twelve Pounds, Law-

-ful money, a year, to be paid Yearly and every Year During the Term of

the Natural Life of the sd RuthNaughtye, and no longer ——————-

In Witness whereof the Parties have Interchangeably Set to their hands and

Seals this Ninth Day of November Annos Domini 1762 ———————

Signed Sealed and Delivered (signed) Amos Fowler

In presence of —————–

John Redfield

Nath’l Hill

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