Chowan County NcArchives Court.....Fox, John 1716
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1716

Minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council
North Carolina. Council
August 03, 1716 - August 04, 1716
Volume 02, Pages 239-244

[Council Journal.]

Att a Council holden at the Chappell in the Precinct of Chowan on Fryday ye 3d 
day of Augst 1716

Upon Petition of John Avery Shewing that sometime in August 1713 ye said Avery 
being in Prince George's County in Virginia met with one John Fox aged abt 
fifteen years who being Desireous to live in North Carolina to learn to be a Ship 
Carpenter bound himselfe an apprentice to ye said John Avery for Six years before 
one Stith Bolling Gent one of her Majties Justices of ye said County as is 
practiable in ye Governmt of Virginia whereupon ye said Avery brought ye said Fox 
into North Carolina with him and Caused the sd John his said Apprentice to be 
Taught and Instructed to read and write and was at other Charges and Expences 
concerning him and haveing now made him serviceable and usefull to him in ye 
Occupation of a Shipp Carpenter to ye Great Content and Seeming Satisfaction of 
the said Foxes Mother and Father in Law one Cary Godby of Chowan Precinct But ye 
Said Cary intending to proffitt and advantage himselfe by the Labour and 
usefullness of ye said John Fox hath advised the said Fox to withdraw himselfe 
from yor petitionrs service and to bring along with him his Indentures of 
apprenticeship & is now Entertained and harboured by the said Cary Godby and 
therefore prayes that the sd Fox may be apprehended and brought before this Board 
their to be dealth with according to Law.

Accordingly the said Fox and ye said Godby this day appear'd and ye matter being 
debated and maturely Considered by this board.

It is Ordered that the said Fox do forthwith return to his said Mastr and demean 
himselfe as an apprentice ought during the remainder of his said Terme and that 
the said Avery do provide for him and use him as becomes such an Apprentice.	

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