Tuesday, October 8th A.D. 1872

GEORGE W. FREEMAN Col
Apprenticed to
J. F. ROBERSON

On motion GEORGE W. FREEMAN Col a minor orphan was this day apprenticed to J. F. ROBERSON thereupon the said J. F. ROBERSON came into Court and entered into Bond of one thousand dollars to well and truly comply with his contract made with the County Court this day with J. W. LYONS and J. E. PEARSON and J. L. EPPERSON as his securities who severally acknowledged said Bond in open Courth which was approved and received by the Court and ordered to be recorded.

The Condition of the obligation is this that whereas GEORGE W. FREEMAN a Colored Minor being abandoned by his parents the County Court bound said GEORGE W. FREEMAN to J. F. ROBERSON Esqr. who is to furnish said GEORGE W. FREEMAN with good diet and clothing and good comfortable quarters and to see him well attended to while sick and said minor is not to be abused or maltreated and proper care taken of him till the Experation of the apprenticship. Said Minor GEORGE W. being now about 11 years old and the said J. F. ROBERSON is to teach or cause to be taught the said GEORGE W. to read and write and cypher to the single rule of three and at the experation of the apprenticship to pay the said GEORGE W. FREEMAN one hundred dollars in the Currency of the Country.
(signed) J. F. ROBERTSON