Apprentice Bond of: Alan & William Hicks 1834  Laurel County, Kentucky

Source; Will Book 1, Page 64
    
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Submitted by: Vera Burnham 
Date: December 5, 2002

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This indenture made the 6th day of January 1834, Witness that Lot Pitman
Clerk of the Laurel County, by order of Jed. Hibbard, Thomas Jones, James P.
Carpenter, William G. Pitman, John Marsh??, and J.B.Catching, Justices of
said Court,do place & bind Allen Hicks age 9 in October, 1833, and William
Jackson Hicks, age 7 in March 1833, Children of Allen Hicks dec'd, to James
Wyatt with him to dwell and him to serve from the date hereof until they
shall arrive at the age of 21 years. They shall demean themselves honestly
well towards James Wyatt and serve him in all lawful business during sd.
term and sd. Wyatt doth bind himself, his heirs ----?? with sd. Pitman
Clerk as aforesaid, and his sucessors in office that he will well instruct
sd. apprentice in the business of farming and provide him sufficent, meat.
drink, apparel, washing, lodging, and mending and all things fit and
necessary for an apprentice and teach or cause to be taught, reading,
writting, and arithmetic including the rule three and at the experation of
sd. term give him three pounds ten shillings and a decent new suit of clothes. 

Witness my hand and seal the day and date above written. 
              
                                    James Wyatt, (seal) 
Test ; 
Lot Pitman, Clerk 
Laurel County, Sct. 
I hereby certify that the foregoing indenture was acknowledged in open court
the 6th day of January, 1834 and is duly recorded. 
Given under my hand the day and date aforesaid. 

Lot Pitman, Clerk