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Post by Ira A. Runyan on Aug 11, 2003 17:10:58 GMT -5
Amali Runyon daughter of Robert Runyon (Runyon Genealogy,1955) has a web site called Lots of Runyon Tidbits at home.satx.rr.com/runyontidbits/On that site, she lists the following: "Joseph Runyon of Frederick County, Maryland, on 7 December 1764, bound his "about" 10-year-old daughter Mary to Thomas and Eleanor Bowles of the same county until she turned 16. He received £20. The contract between Joseph and the Bowles was an indenture, but that didn't mean that Mary was an indentured servant. The Random House Dictonary of the English Language defines "indenture" as a "a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification." In reality, Mary was an "apprentice" who received from the Bowles "sufficient meat, drink, washing and lodging" and was to be taught "to read, write and sew" as well as be given "a gown of petticoat and hoop and her shoes and stockings & two caps and handkerchiefs." Some speculate that Mary was the sister of Isaac Runyon who may have been the son of Joseph."
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