Bertie County NC  Miscellaneous - Indenture James EVERS to Thomas REASONS - 1756

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On Tuesday ,the twenty-seventh day of April in the year of our Lord, 
seventeen hundred  and fifty     six, during the reign of George 11 ,king of 
Great Britian and Ireland ,one Elizabeth EVERS appeared before John Harrell, 
the clerk of court .Bertie County,Colony of North Carolina, and signed and 
INDENTURE binding her orphaned son James EVERS ,ABOUT THE AGE OF TEN YEARS, 
TO  Thomas Reasons of Bertie County.Mr. Reasons was given charge of the boy 
until he reached the age of twenty -one and agreed to care for him ,teach him 
to read and write and to instruct him in the art of a cordwainer [shoemaker] 
.The document was witnessed by Benjamin Wynns and J. Hardy Harrell.        I 
am trying to  find out what James EVERS fathers first name was and what his 
Mother Elizabeth 's maiden name was.




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