Butts County GaArchives Court.....Bankston, "et Al" September 6, 1841 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 February 7, 2010, 7:02 pm Source: Records - Some Wills - 1837-1841 - Page 576 Written: September 6, 1841 GEORGIA Butts County This indenture made and entered into by and between the Court of Ordinary of the County aforesaid, of the one part, and Robert McMahan of the same place, of the other part witnesseth that the said Court of Ordinary hath this day, by the consent of all parties, bound and put as an apprentice to the said Robert McMahan, an illegitimate John Bankston to learn the art on Mystery of Farming, and after the manner of an apprentice to serve him from the day of the date hereof, during the full term of twenty years all which time his said master he shall faithfully obey; he shall do no damage to his said master, nor see it done by others without giving him notice thereof; he shall not contract matrimony within the said term, he shall not absent himself by day or by night from his said masters service without his leave, but in all things behave himself as a faithful apprentice ought to do during the said term; and the said master shall use the utmost of his endeavors to teach and instruct the said apprentice in the trade and Mystery of Farming, and provide for him, the said apprentice sufficient meat drink apparel and lodging and all other things fitting for an apprentice during the said time; and the said master is to give the said apprentice the schooling and education required by the act of the literature in such case made and provided. Witness the honourable Turman Walthall one of the Justices of said Court of Ordinary, this the sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty one. John McCord, C. C. O. L.S. (Seal) Turman Walthall J.S.C. Recorded this 8th September 1841 Records – Some Wills 1837 – 1845 Page 576 Additional Comments: John Bankston, Robert McMahan File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/court/bankston844wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb