Crockett Co., Tennessee
County Court Clerk’s Minutes
Vol. A
Wednesday, October 9th A.D. 1872
ELIAS JACKSON McFARLAND
Apprenticed to
J. W. McFARLAND
On motion and by order of the Court ELIAS JACKSON McFARLAND Colored minor orphan was this day apprenticed to JOHN W. McFARLAND thereupon JOHN W. McFARLAND came into Court and entered into Bond in the sum of one thousand to well & truly comply with the contract this day made with the County Court with R. W. FLEMING and [blank] as his securities which Bond was severally acknowledged in open Court approved by the Court and ordered to be recorded.
The condition of the obligation is this that the said ELI JACKSON McFARLAND being a Colored Minor orphan about thirteen year old or upwards was this day bound unto J. W. McFARLAND. Now the said J. W. McFARLAND is to furnish ELIAS JACKSON McFARLAND with good diet good comfortable clothes and Quarters and to see him well attended to while sick and the said ELIAS JACKSON M. is not to be mistreated or abused or maltreated during his apprenticship and the said J. W. McFARLAND is to teach the said ELIAS JACKSON M. to read and write well and to cypher to the single rule of three and at the experation of the apprenticship to pay him one hundred dollars in the Currency of the Country
(signed) JOHN W. McFARLAND
Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.