Item #42282 ILLINOIS JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ON 7 DECEMBER 1840, "PLACE AND BIND OUT ISABELLA ALIAS KITT A NEGRO GIRL AGED ABOUT TWELVE YEARS, WHO HAS NEITHER PARENTS OR GUARDIANS RESIDING IN THIS STATE. AS A SERVANT" TO OWEN M. LONG, "TO BE INSTRUCTED IN THE ARTS AND MYSTERIES OF HOUSEKEEPING, TO LIVE WITH AND SERVE HIM AS A SERVANT FOR THE TERM OF SIX YEARS FROM THE DATE HEREOF, THAT IS TO SAY, UNTIL SHE SHALL ARRIVE TO AND BE OF THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS." OWEN HAS "ALL THE AUTHORITY, POWER AND RIGHT, TO AND OVER THE SAID ISABELLA ALIAS KITT, AND HER SERVICES DURING SAID TERM, WHICH BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE A MASTER HATH TO AND OVER A LAWFULLY INDENTURED APPRENTICE." OWEN AGREES "TO TEACH AND INSTRUCT THE SAID ISABELLA ALIAS KITT AS HIS SERVANT, OR OTHERWISE, TO CAUSE HER TO BE TAUGHT TO READ AND TO BE WELL AND SUFFICIENTLY INSTRUCTED IN THE ART AND MYSTERY OF HOUSEKEEPING, AFTER THE BEST WAY AND MANNER HE CAN; AND ALSO TO TRAIN HER TO HABITS OF OBEDIENCE, INDUSTRY AND MORALITY AND PROVIDE FOR AND ALLOW HER MEAL, DRINK, WASHING, LODGING AND APPAREL FOR SUMMER AND WINTER, AND ALL OTHER NECESSARIES PROPER FOR SUCH A SERVANT, DURING THE TERM OF HER SERVICE AS AFORESAID. AND AT THE EXPIRATION OF SAID TERM, WILL GIVE UNTO THE SAID SERVANT TWO NEW SUITS OF CLOTHES SUITABLE TO HER CONDITION, ALSO A BIBLE". Illinois Indentured Servitude.
ILLINOIS JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ON 7 DECEMBER 1840, "PLACE AND BIND OUT ISABELLA ALIAS KITT A NEGRO GIRL AGED ABOUT TWELVE YEARS, WHO HAS NEITHER PARENTS OR GUARDIANS RESIDING IN THIS STATE. AS A SERVANT" TO OWEN M. LONG, "TO BE INSTRUCTED IN THE ARTS AND MYSTERIES OF HOUSEKEEPING, TO LIVE WITH AND SERVE HIM AS A SERVANT FOR THE TERM OF SIX YEARS FROM THE DATE HEREOF, THAT IS TO SAY, UNTIL SHE SHALL ARRIVE TO AND BE OF THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS." OWEN HAS "ALL THE AUTHORITY, POWER AND RIGHT, TO AND OVER THE SAID ISABELLA ALIAS KITT, AND HER SERVICES DURING SAID TERM, WHICH BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE A MASTER HATH TO AND OVER A LAWFULLY INDENTURED APPRENTICE." OWEN AGREES "TO TEACH AND INSTRUCT THE SAID ISABELLA ALIAS KITT AS HIS SERVANT, OR OTHERWISE, TO CAUSE HER TO BE TAUGHT TO READ AND TO BE WELL AND SUFFICIENTLY INSTRUCTED IN THE ART AND MYSTERY OF HOUSEKEEPING, AFTER THE BEST WAY AND MANNER HE CAN; AND ALSO TO TRAIN HER TO HABITS OF OBEDIENCE, INDUSTRY AND MORALITY AND PROVIDE FOR AND ALLOW HER MEAL, DRINK, WASHING, LODGING AND APPAREL FOR SUMMER AND WINTER, AND ALL OTHER NECESSARIES PROPER FOR SUCH A SERVANT, DURING THE TERM OF HER SERVICE AS AFORESAID. AND AT THE EXPIRATION OF SAID TERM, WILL GIVE UNTO THE SAID SERVANT TWO NEW SUITS OF CLOTHES SUITABLE TO HER CONDITION, ALSO A BIBLE"
ILLINOIS JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ON 7 DECEMBER 1840, "PLACE AND BIND OUT ISABELLA ALIAS KITT A NEGRO GIRL AGED ABOUT TWELVE YEARS, WHO HAS NEITHER PARENTS OR GUARDIANS RESIDING IN THIS STATE. AS A SERVANT" TO OWEN M. LONG, "TO BE INSTRUCTED IN THE ARTS AND MYSTERIES OF HOUSEKEEPING, TO LIVE WITH AND SERVE HIM AS A SERVANT FOR THE TERM OF SIX YEARS FROM THE DATE HEREOF, THAT IS TO SAY, UNTIL SHE SHALL ARRIVE TO AND BE OF THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS." OWEN HAS "ALL THE AUTHORITY, POWER AND RIGHT, TO AND OVER THE SAID ISABELLA ALIAS KITT, AND HER SERVICES DURING SAID TERM, WHICH BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE A MASTER HATH TO AND OVER A LAWFULLY INDENTURED APPRENTICE." OWEN AGREES "TO TEACH AND INSTRUCT THE SAID ISABELLA ALIAS KITT AS HIS SERVANT, OR OTHERWISE, TO CAUSE HER TO BE TAUGHT TO READ AND TO BE WELL AND SUFFICIENTLY INSTRUCTED IN THE ART AND MYSTERY OF HOUSEKEEPING, AFTER THE BEST WAY AND MANNER HE CAN; AND ALSO TO TRAIN HER TO HABITS OF OBEDIENCE, INDUSTRY AND MORALITY AND PROVIDE FOR AND ALLOW HER MEAL, DRINK, WASHING, LODGING AND APPAREL FOR SUMMER AND WINTER, AND ALL OTHER NECESSARIES PROPER FOR SUCH A SERVANT, DURING THE TERM OF HER SERVICE AS AFORESAID. AND AT THE EXPIRATION OF SAID TERM, WILL GIVE UNTO THE SAID SERVANT TWO NEW SUITS OF CLOTHES SUITABLE TO HER CONDITION, ALSO A BIBLE"

ILLINOIS JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, ON 7 DECEMBER 1840, "PLACE AND BIND OUT ISABELLA ALIAS KITT A NEGRO GIRL AGED ABOUT TWELVE YEARS, WHO HAS NEITHER PARENTS OR GUARDIANS RESIDING IN THIS STATE. AS A SERVANT" TO OWEN M. LONG, "TO BE INSTRUCTED IN THE ARTS AND MYSTERIES OF HOUSEKEEPING, TO LIVE WITH AND SERVE HIM AS A SERVANT FOR THE TERM OF SIX YEARS FROM THE DATE HEREOF, THAT IS TO SAY, UNTIL SHE SHALL ARRIVE TO AND BE OF THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS." OWEN HAS "ALL THE AUTHORITY, POWER AND RIGHT, TO AND OVER THE SAID ISABELLA ALIAS KITT, AND HER SERVICES DURING SAID TERM, WHICH BY THE LAWS OF THIS STATE A MASTER HATH TO AND OVER A LAWFULLY INDENTURED APPRENTICE." OWEN AGREES "TO TEACH AND INSTRUCT THE SAID ISABELLA ALIAS KITT AS HIS SERVANT, OR OTHERWISE, TO CAUSE HER TO BE TAUGHT TO READ AND TO BE WELL AND SUFFICIENTLY INSTRUCTED IN THE ART AND MYSTERY OF HOUSEKEEPING, AFTER THE BEST WAY AND MANNER HE CAN; AND ALSO TO TRAIN HER TO HABITS OF OBEDIENCE, INDUSTRY AND MORALITY AND PROVIDE FOR AND ALLOW HER MEAL, DRINK, WASHING, LODGING AND APPAREL FOR SUMMER AND WINTER, AND ALL OTHER NECESSARIES PROPER FOR SUCH A SERVANT, DURING THE TERM OF HER SERVICE AS AFORESAID. AND AT THE EXPIRATION OF SAID TERM, WILL GIVE UNTO THE SAID SERVANT TWO NEW SUITS OF CLOTHES SUITABLE TO HER CONDITION, ALSO A BIBLE"

Morgan County, Illinois: 1840. Folio sheet, folded to [4] pages, each page 8" x 12-1/2." Docketed on page [4]. Signed by Long and the Illinois Justices, and witnessed, at bottom of page [2]. Page [3] blank. Very Good.

Morgan County is about 220 miles southwest of Chicago, in the west central part of the State. Its county seat is Jacksonville which, during the middle 19th century, became a center of abolition sentiment and part of the underground railroad route. Although Slavery had been prohibited in Illinois by virtue of the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, substantial support for that institution still existed. Item #42282

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