CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA - COURT - Guardian Bond   orphan boy Powell Calhoun to Sherwood Whittington

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Sherwood (sic-Sharod) Whittington Original Document File
Georgia Archives, Morrow, GA
transcribed by Cheryl Aultman, August 2003

Georgia, Crawford County} Know all men by these
presents that we Sherwood Whittington and Powell
Calhoun are held and firmly bound unto the Honorable
the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County
acting for Count purposes and their successors in
office in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars for payment
of which well and truly to be made we bind ourselves
our heirs Executors and administrators jointly and
severally firmly by these presents sealed with our
seals and dated this 12th day of January 1838.

The condition of the above obligation is such that
whereas the court aforesaid has this day bound unto the
said Sherwood Whittington an orphan boy by the name of
Powell Calhoun, son ------ Calhoun (space has a line
drawn thru where first name should be) deceased of the
age of Ten years for Eleven years or until he arrives
at the age of twenty one.  Now if the said Sherwood
Whittington shall treat use and deal with said orphan
agreeable to law in such case made and provided then
the above obligation to be void else to remain in full
force and effect.

Witness                                                                                             his
Philip J. ECHOLS                                                        Sherwood    WHITTINGTON 
                                                                                                        mark          (seal) 


In 1850, the Crawford County census listed a P. M.
Calhoun Jr., age 24 (born about 1826-27), in the
household of P. M. Calhoun, Sr. age 60, and his wife
Sarah, age 52.  The 24 year old might be the person
mentioned above, and perhaps a grandson to P. M.
Calhoun Sr. Just thought I'd throw that in for anyone
researching this