Crockett Co., Tennessee
County Court Clerk’s Minutes
Vol. A
Wednesday, October 9th A.D. 1872
GEORGE McFARLAND Col
Apprenticed to
JOHN W. McFARLAND
On motion GEORGE W. McFARLAND a Colored Minor orphan was this day apprenticed to JOHN W. McFARLAND thereupon the said JOHN W. McFARLAND came into Court and entered into Bond in the sum of one thousand 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 whereas GEORGE McFARLAND being a minor orphan the County Court bound the said GEORGE McFARLAND to J. W. McFARLAND who is to furnish GEORGE McFARLAND with good diet and good comfortable clothes with good comfortable Quarters and to see him well attended to while sick and said minor GEORGE M. is not to be abused or maltreated during his apprenticship said GEORGE being now about 17 years old or upwards and the said J. W. McFARLAND is to teach or cause to be taught GEORGE M. to read and write well and cypher to the single rule of three and pay him seventy five dollars at the Experation of the apprenticship
(signed) JOHN W. McFARLAND
Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.