County Court Clerk's Minutes Crockett Co., TN Dated April 2, 1872 |
Crockett Co., Tennessee County Court Clerk's Minutes Vol. A Tuesday, April the 2nd A.D. 1872
WILLIE R. WILCOX WILLIE WILCOX a Minor Eleven years old on the 31st of October next his Father CURRY dead and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the mother was unable to take care of said minor and that it was her wish that the said WILLIE R. WILLCOX be apprenticed to J. W. MOORE which was acordingly done whereupon J. W. MOORE came into Court entered into Bond in the sum of Five hundred dollars with H. S. WYSE and J. C. BEST as his securities. Condittoned for the faithful performance and requirements towarus to said apprenticed according to the Law on his arrival of Twenty one years of age to give him the additional sum of Fifty dollars Saddle Bridal and horse worth one hundred and fifty dollars and one suit of clothes which Bond was Severally acknowledged in open Court approved and ordered to be recorded.
State of Tennessee Indenture of the apprentieship between the State of Tennesse and by order of the County Court of said County on one part and JAMES W. MOORE on the other part witnesseth that wheras it has been made to appear to the satisfaction of the Court that WM. R. WILLCOX a minor Eleven years old on the 31st of October next has no Father living and his Mother is unable to support and maintain him and desires that he be apprenticed to JAMES W. MOORE therefore the State of Tennessee by said County Court the irstate? WM. R. WILCOX being too small to support or maintain him Doth hereby bind him the said WILLIAM R. WILLCOX to JAMES W. MOORE until he shall attain to the age of Twenty One years to learn the trade of and business of a Farmer and the State aforesaid Covenants with JAMES W. MOORE that the said WILLIE R. WILLCOX shall serve him faithfully and corectly demean? himself during the term of the apprenticeship and the said JAMES W. MOORE doth Covenant with the State that he will provide WILLIAM R. WILLCOX diet, clothing and teach or cause to be taught to read and write and cipher as far as the rule of three and at the experation of the apprintieship pay him the said WM. R. WILLCOX the sum of Fifty dollars $50 and furnish him with a horse bridle and saddle worth one hundred and fifty dollars $150.00 and with one suit of clothes this the 2 day of April 1872.
J. W. MOORE
[No corrections to spelling were made]
This transcription is provided for personal use only, and is not to be copied,
Last updated |