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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Charles Henderson responds to William Sutton's advertisement accusing him of being a runaway apprentice. He claims he served four years as per contract, left publicly after refused discharge, and was acquitted in Scott County court after Sutton illegally bound him as an orphan. He cautions others. Dated January 22, 1799.
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HAVE observed in your paper of December 1798, that a certain William Sutton, has advertised me as a Run-away Apprentice, to the carpenter and house joiners business. True it is that I did reside with the said Sutton for four years past, agreeable to the contract of my elder orphan brother. At the expiration of which time of four years the said Sutton refusing a discharge, I did absent myself from his service, publicly, and not privately, as he would insinuate to the public, by his advertisement. Notwithstanding the said Sutton having privately taken the advantage of me as an orphan, in a litigious state, and influenced the court of Scott county to bind me illegally as a poor orphan-- Yet, upon the allegations and proofs exhibited to the court, as appears on record, upon adjuration I was acquitted, and the said Sutton mulcted in the costs of the prosecution. Therefore I have thought fit to make this public, not so much for my own satisfaction, as for a caution to others.
Charles Henderson.
January 22d, 1799.
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Letter to Editor Details
Author
Charles Henderson
Recipient
Mr. Bradford
Main Argument
charles henderson refutes william sutton's claim of him being a runaway apprentice, asserting he completed four years of service per contract, left publicly after refused discharge, and was acquitted in court after sutton's illegal binding of him as an orphan, cautioning others against sutton.
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