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Charles County Court Records, March 1742/3 Court, Liber T#2, Page 510. Thomas Bryan of CC, joiner, exhibited to the Court here the following petition, viz - the petition of Thomas Bryan shows that your petitioner, sometime since, was bound an apprentice by Anne Eburnathy, his late grandmother, to James Adams for 7 years, which your petitioner conceives is no ways binding on him after his arrival to age 21 years, and that he is now arrived to sd age of 21. He asks to be set free from sd apprenticeship. Sd Adams had notice of this petition and refuses to attend. And now here, the petitioner brings into Court here, Francis Ware & Elizabeth Southerland, who depose as follows:
The deposition of Francis Ware, aged about 48, who declares that 20 years ago next Apr, Thomas Bryan was brought over from Virginia by his mother, and that Anne Eburnethy, the grandmother, told this deponent the fall after, that her sd grandson, Thomas Bryan was about 2 years of age, and that the sd Thomas appeared to this deponent to be of that age, and that he believes this to be the same Thoms Bryan. Signed Mar 12, 1742 -- Francis Ware. Wit - Ede.' Porteus, Clk.
The deposition of Elizabeth Southerland of CC, aged about 48, who says that she was acquainted with Mary Bryan when she first came into this Province, which was about 20 years ago, and that she, sd Mary Bryan, brought her child with her, named Thomas Bryan, that she took him to be then about a year old. And she further says that the sd Thomas Bryan, now petitioning to the Court, is the same Thomas Bryan before mentioned. Signed Mar 12, 1742 - Elizabeth (+ her mark) Southerland. Wit - Edmd Porteus, Clk.
Ordered that sd Thomas Bryan, from his apprenticeship afd, be discharged, and from the service of the afd James Adams, entirely acquitted.
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1722 - Aft 1722 (> 0 years)