John Russell accuses Thomas Galloway of violating the terms of his apprenticeship. Russell, at age twelve, was bound as an apprentice to Galloway on 17 July 1841 "for the purpose of learning the business of a farmer & Limeburner." Russell charges that he was "often compelled to labor at night and on the Sabbath for other persons & at periods when he was Entitled to holiday, in order to procure enough money to buy his own clothes." In addition, Russell cites Galloway for cruelty, claiming that Galloway "kept an iron collar on his neck for several years at a time." Russell asks that he be discharged from the apprenticeship.
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
