A Guide to the Indenture, John Ferrell and William Patterson to Edmund
Randolph, 1788 May 26 Indenture, John Ferrell and William Patterson to Edmund Randolph
MS 2004.5
A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library Manuscript Number MS 2004.5
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Indenture, John Ferrell and William Patterson to Edmund Randolph, Manuscript #MS
2004.5, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
This is an agreement binding William Patterson and John Ferrell to Edmund Randolph,
then Governor of Virginia, for unspecified duties at a salary of fifty pounds. The
agreement includes a provision that Randolph would issue a licence for marriage
between William Patterson and Margaret Hippard. The place the document was signed is
not specified and it lacks the signature of a government official attesting to its
validity.