ABSTRACT
Wagelma, a colored lad about ten years old, was bound by his mother in Philadelphia to Peter de Boudee, a Frenchman, as apprentice, till he should be twenty-one years old. De Boudee being about to remove part of his family to Baltimore, from whence they were to take passage for France, in order to send the boy there with his wife in the 8th month 1801, put him on board the Newcastle packet. De Boudee had not obtained the consent of the boy, nor that of his mother, agreeably to the requisition of the act of 1780.
