Onslow County NcArchives Photo Document.....Lemuel Henderson 1866
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Onslow Co., NC
U.S., Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1878 Assistant Commissioner M843 35
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
4 June 1866
Lemuel HENDERSON

State of North Carolina

This Indenture, made the Fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and Sixty Six between Harvey COX, Chairman of the County Court of 
Pleas and Quarter Sessions, of the County of Onslow and State aforesaid, on 
behalf of the Justices of the said county, an their successors, of the one part, 
and Lemuel HENDERSON of the other part. Witnesseth, That the said Harvey COX in 
pursuance an order of said County Court, made the fourth day of June and 
according to the directions of an act of Assembly in that case made and 
provided, doth put, place and bind unto the said Lemuel HENDERSON an Orphan, now 
of the age of Eleven years, with the said Lemuel HENDERSON to live after the 
manner of an APPRENTICE and SERVANT, until the said Apprentice shall attain to 
the age of Twenty one years. And the said Lemuel HENDERSON doth covenant, 
promise, and agree, to and with the said Harvey COX that he will teach and 
instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed, the said Henry BRAY the art, 
trade, mystery and employment of Farming and teach, or cause to be taught, said 
Henry BRAY to Read and write; and that he will constantly find and provide for 
said apprentice, during the term aforesaid, sufficient diet, clothes, lodging, 
and accommodations, fit and necessary for an apprentice; and also - other things 
necessary, bot in sickness and health.

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

A. J. JOHNSTON, Clk.

Harvey COX
Lemuel X HENDERSON

I, A. J. JOHNSTON, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Onslow 
County do Certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of Indentures now on file in 
Clerks Office this 20 July 1866. I further certify that the Seal of Office has 
been destroyed.
A. J. JOHNSTON, C. C. C. 


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