Abraham Emmit (born 1766 or 1767) Abraham Emmit was a white child orphaned before he turned 14. In 1781, the Orphan’s Court of the State of Maryland, founded in 1777, placed Emmit in the care of silversmith Christopher Hughes (1744–1824) as an indentured apprentice. The court order required that Emmit learn reading, writing, and math as well as Hughes’ silversmith trade. Emmit was provided food and clothing, and he slept in either an attic room of Hughes’ home above the shopfront or in a bunk house with other indentured silversmiths and enslaved workers. Records for Emmit are unclear after his indenture. It’s possible he is the same Abraham Emmit listed as a carpenter in the 1833 Baltimore city directory. B. Luberda, Haberdeventure Reinstallation, May 29, 2024