Lenoir County NcArchives History....Indenture, 1866

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Clellan Sutton Collection, Bucklesberry Community, La Grange, NC.

S. P. FOWLER, JR. TO ANNIE SUTTON, 1866

                      Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.

                                 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
                                    __________________

                                INDENTURE OF APPRENTICESHIP.
                                    __________________

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.   }
Lenoir COUNTY.             }

THIS INDENTURE, Made the 30th day of March 1866, 
between S. P. Fowler, Jr. Assist. Supt. Freed. 
of the one part, and Anne Sutton of the 
other part:

WITNESSETH, That the said, S. P. Fowler, Jr. doth 
put, place and bind unto the said Anne Sutton one orphan, named 
Samuel Sutton aged 11 years 
to live after the manner of an apprentice and servant, until the said apprentice shall attain 
the age of twenty-one years; during all which time the said apprentice his mistress faithful-
ly shall serve, and her lawful commands everywhere obey. And the said Anne 
Sutton doth covenant, and promise, and agree, that she will teach and in-
struct the said apprentice, or cause him to be taught and instructed, to read and write; and 
that she will constantly find and provide for said apprentice, during the term aforesaid, suffi-
cient diet, washing, lodging and apparel, fitting for an apprentice; and also other things 
necessary, both in sickness and health.

In witness whereof, the parties to these presents have set their hands and seals, the day 
and year above written.

                                                          S. P. Fowler, Jr. [seal.]
                                                               her   
                                                          Annie x Sutton    [seal.]
                                                               mark

                      Witness.
(Duplicate.)
                      Jerry Sutton

END OF DOCUMENT

Comments:

Per Ollie Sutton Bruner, Samuel’s father was  Thomas Sutton, son of Hardy and Annie Hill Sutton. 
Samuel’s mother was a black slave woman who worked on the farm. Annie Hill Sutton, therefore, was 
Samuel’s grandmother by birth. Samuel was known fondly by Bucklesberrians as Uncle Pete.

In 2017, an account of Samuel's adoption was published in THE WEEKLY GAZETTE newspaper (La Grange, 
NC) in the Bucklesberry, Back in the Day series. See
http://olddobbers.net/sutton/gazette/Article41.Bucklesberry.pdf