Crockett Co., Tennessee
County Court Clerk’s Minutes
Vol. A
Monday, February the 3rd A. D. 1873
JOHN LAMAN
Apprenticed
R. T. D. FOUCHE
Indenture of apprenticship between the State of Tennessee by order of the County Court for said County on the one part and R. T. D. FOUCHE on the second part. Witnesseth that whereas it has been made to appear to the satisfaction of the Court that JOHN LAMAN a Minor aged seven years on the [blank] day of August 1873 is an orphan whose parents are dead. Whose Estate is of so small a value that no person will Edue? and maintain him for the profits thereof. Therefore the State of Tennessee by said County Court and with the Consent of the relatives doth hereby bind him the said JOHN LAMAN to R. T. D. FOUCHE until he shall attain the age of Twenty one years.
And the State as aforesaid covenants with said R. T. D. FOUCHE said JOHN LAMAN shall faithfully serve him and correctly demean himself during the term of the apprenticship.
And the said FOUCHE doth covenant with the State that he will provide JOHN LAMAN diet clothing and accomodations, fit and necessary and teach or cause him to be taught to read and write and cypher as far as The Rule of Three, and at the expiration of the apprenticship furnish the said LAMAN with one Sunday suit of clothes. This 3 February 1873 and pay him Twenty dollars in currency.
(Signed) R. T. D. FOUCHE
R. T. D. FOUCHE
Bond
On motion JOHN LAMAN was this day apprenticed to R. T. D. FOUCHE wherupon the said R. T. D. FOUCHE came into court and entered into Bond in the sum of Five hundred dollars with J. F. ROBERTSON, THOMAS LAMAN and J. H. YANCY as his securities who severally acknowledged said Bond in open Court which was approved by the Court said Bond on page 9 Apprenticed Bond Book
Alamo, Wednesday 5th January 1876
JOHN LAMAN a minor orphan apprenticed to R. T. D. FOUCHE on the 3rd day of February 1873, for reasons satisfactory to this Court and by agreement and consent of the said R. T. D. FOUCHE the said apprenticeship is now made null and void and for nothing held
It is therefore ordered by the Court that JOHN LAMAN be and he is hereby apprenticed to B. H. HARMON, and thereupon the said B. H. HARMON came into Court and entered into Bond in the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars with T. M. STRANGE and THOMAS LAMAN as his securities who severally acknowledged said bond in open Court. Said Bond was executed on the 4th day of January 1876 and this Entry is made “N—? pro tem?”
Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.