On 9 October 1861, Elizabeth Houston indentured her granddaughter, Rachel Ann Johnson, a free person of color, to Thomas Yearley. Yearley reports that Johnson ran away and "that upon her being brought back she was found to [be] sick and not improving." The petitioner called in a doctor who "found she was suffering from venerial." Yearley asks the court to cancel the indenture and release him "from all responsibility incurred in accepting said girl as an apprentice."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
