Wayne County NcArchives Photo Document.....Calvin Edmondson - Apprenticeship 1866
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Wayne Co., NC
U.S., Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1878 Assistant Commissioner M843 35
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
5 March 1866
Calvin EDMONDSON

INDENTURE OF APPRENTICESHIP

State of North Carolina
Wayne County

This Indenture, Made this 5 day of March 1866 between The Bureau of Refugees, 
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands of the one part, and Calvin EDMONDS of the other 
part;
Witnesseth, That the said Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands doth 
put, place and bind unto the said Calvin EDMONDSON, two orphans, named Marble 
RADFORD, aged 16 years, to receive as stated below, Seventy five Dollars and 
Jeff BRADFORD, aged 14 years, to receive One Hundred and Twenty five Dollars.

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 their master faithfully shall serve, and his lawful commands 
everywhere obey. And the said Calvin EDMONDSON doth covenant, and promise, and 
agree, that he will teach and instruct the said apprentice, or cause them to be 
taught and instructed, to read and write; and that he will constantly find and 
provide for said apprentice, during the term aforesaid, sufficient diet, washing 
lodging and apparel, fitting for an apprentice; and also all other things 
necessary, bot in sickness and in health; and at the expiration of said 
apprenticeship, shall pay to the said Marble & Jeff RADFORD the amount of money 
set opposite their names, a suit of new clothes, and a new Bible.
In Witness Whereof, the parties to these presents have set their hands and seals 
the day and year above written.

Witness
George V.? STRONG?

Geo. O. GLAVIS (Seal)
Ass’t Sup’t Bu. Ref., Fr. and  Aban. Lands,
Sub-District of Goldsboro

Calvin (his X mark) EDMONDSON


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