Wilkes County GaArchives Court.....Colley, John September 6, 1788
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Source: Apprentice Bond - Wilkes County Deed Book Ee, Pages 84-85
Written: September 6, 1788
Recorded: July 10, 1789

Wilkes County, Georgia, Deed Book EE, pages 84-85, An Apprentice Deed, John 
Colley Bricklayer, 6 September 1788. The obligations of the Apprentice 
included keeping his learned trade methods a secret unless authorized by the 
teacher (master). Other provisions stated below are somewhat uncertain as to 
meaning, and mysterious.
Copied at the Wilkes County Courthouse in Washington, Georgia, September 2006, 
transcribed by Marshall Styles:

This Indenture made this Sixth day of September in the year of our Lord One 
Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty eight Between Mary Morgan & Stokeley her son 
of the County of Wilkes and State of Georgia of the one part & John Colley, 
Brick Layer, of said county & state of the other part. Witnesseth that the 
[said] Stokeley by & with the consent of himself & Mother hath placed and 
bonded and by these presents doth place and bind himself as an Apprentice to 
the said John Colley & with the said John to dwell continuous & serve from the 
day of the date of these presents for and during, and until the said Stokeley 
son of said Mary Morgan, shall arrive to the full age of twenty one years, 
being now in the seventeenth year of his age Since July last past, during all 
which time the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve, his 
secrets high, his lawful commands every where gladly obey _?_ to his said 
Master, he shall do nor suffer to be done by others to come to his knowledge 
without giving notice thereof the goods of his said Master, he shall not 
embezzle or purloin ordinaries or tippling houses; he shall not frequent at 
cards, dice, or any other unlawful game; he shall not play for any sum or sums 
of money or other thing whatever; Matrimony, he shall not contract out, but in 
all things as a good and faithfull servant or Apprentice shall and will behave 
and demean himself towards his said Master & all his during the term aforesaid.
In consideration whereof, the said John Colley doth covenant, Promise and 
agree to and with the said Mary Morgan and Stokeley her son that he the said 
John Colley shall and will teach and instruct or cause to be well & 
sufficiently taught and instructed him the said Stokeley Morgan in the trade, 
Art, Mystery or Acceptation of a brick layer which the said John now useth and 
all find provide & allow unto his said Apprentice sufficient Meat, drink, 
washing, lodging and apparel fit and convenient for an apprentice.
In Witness Whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto Interchangeably 
set their hand and affixed their seal the day and year above written.
N.B. The said john Colley is to learn his said Apprentice to read and wright 
and to learn _?_ and arithmetic  as far as the Rule of Three
John Colley {Seal}
Mary (her X mark) Morgan {Seal}
Signed Sealed & Delivered In the Presence of H. Mounger, Wm. Morgan
Registered the 10th day of July 1789
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Additional Comments:
[Marshall’s Note: In mathematics, the rule of three is the method of finding 
the fourth term of a mathematical proportion when three terms are known. It is 
based on the principle that the product of the first and fourth terms (called 
the extremes) is equal to the product of the second and third terms (called 
the means). Today, this is known as solving for proportions, or simple Algebra]


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