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To the Honourable the Judges of Frederick County Count now Sitting --
The Petition of Benjamin Joy of Frederick County respectfully therewith, that a certain Carlton Tannehill was heretofore bound as an Apprentice to this Petitioner, as more fully appears by a copy of the indenture herewith exhibited -- That [ ] on the month seventeenth Day of September in the year eighteen hundred and eight the said apprentice absconded from this Petitioner & continued absent from his service from that time until the expiration of the term for which he was bound, that is to say until the ninth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and ten.
Your Petitioner therefore prays your honours to award him with compensation to be made by the aforesaid apprentice, either by his service or by the payment of money to your Petitioner, as justice and equity may require -- andsoforth --
R. B. Taney Atty for Benjm. Joy
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366. AC.13
Benjn. Joy vs Carlton Tannehill
Petition
Subqa issd for Apprentice & deld. Master.
Mr. Ritchie file this R. B. Taney
Frederick County to wit
Benjamin Joy the within mentioned Petitioner makes oath that the within mentioned Carlton Tannehill, was bound as an apprentice to him as is stated in the within petition -- and that the said Carlton absconded from his service on the day mentioned in the within Petition, and continued absent and absconding, during the time also therein mentioned, to recover satisfaction for which this Petition in filed -- and the said Benedict Joy verily believes that the said Carlton, and will abscond and fly from Justice to avoid the decision & judgment of the court on [ ] the within Petition, unless he is compelled by the court to give security for his appearance to answer & abide by the same
Sworn before me this 2d day of August 1813 before Michl. Hauser