An indenture is a deed with more than one party. In the old days they were written out, two copies, on a single piece of parchment then roughly cut.An indenture is a legal contract between two parties, particularly for indentured labour or a term of apprenticeship but also for certain land transactions. Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. Morgan describes how, over time, planters came to use enslaved Africans instead of indentured servants as laborers. The easy answer: Yes, you may notarize out-of-state documents. Does that mean he sold the land to the people in the document? I understand that I need to fill out a Small Estate Affidavit for collection of property. Franklin's French-language description of life in the United States was elegantly dressed.