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I Caleb S Loper one of the justices of the Peace in and
for the County of Suffolk residing in the town
of Shelter Island do certify that William
Pharoah aged eight years nine months and
seven days by and with the consent of Esther
Pharoah his mother, his father being dead,
did by Indenture executed and bearing date
on the sixteenth day of November Eighteen
hundred and Twenty nine bind himself a
servant to Samuel S Gardiner of Shelter Island to serve
him as a servant until he shall arrive at the full
age of twenty one years which will be on the seventh
day of February Eighteen hundred and forty two
which said Indenture was executed in my presence
and with my consent. Dated Shelter Island
16th November 1829

Caleb S Loper
Justice of the peace