When a buyer was found, the sale would be recorded at the city court. The Philadelphia Mayor's Court Indenture Book, page 742, for September 18, 1773 has the following entry: James Best, who was under Indenture of Redemption to Captain Stephen Jones now cancelled in consideration of * 15, paid for his Passage from London bound a servant to David Rittenhouse of the City of Philadelphia & assigns three years to be found all necessaries.
James Best
Stephen Jones