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Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Volume 81 - Page 99
(Printed for the Society, 1930)
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An indenture having a purely accidental connection with North Meols
is given below. Mr. F H Cheetham conjectures that the Apprentice, Danl:
Keen,was the survivor of the wreck of a whaler, cast away on the coast in
1783; and whose sons, in all probability, were drowned in 1812 (v. Southport
Visiter, 3 Dec, 1929).
Daniel Keen, Son of William Keen, Printer, born at Kendal in ye County
of Westmoreland by his own and his parents Consent doth put himself apprentice
to Harvey Midford Jun Mariner of the County of Northumber . . .
from the Nineteenth of February 1779 for five years -- (Payment deleted) to
instruct in the art of the Seaman -- Meat, Drink Washing, the Winter excepted
when the Ship is laying up during which time & when the said Apprentice is
Lodged by his Friends shall be allowed by his said Master the sum of two
shillings and sixpence per week, and doth likewise promise to pay for the
above mentioned servitude the sum of £20 to be paid in the following manner
the first and second year the sum of £3 each, ye secound [should be third and
fourth]* and third £4 & ye fith £6 in all £20.
20 Feb. 19 Geo III.
George Benson Harvey Midforth, Junr.
James Chadwick Daniel Keen
* Endorsed over with yearly payments as above.