Crockett Co., Tennessee
County Court Clerk’s Minutes
Vol. A
Tuesday February 4, 1873
J. F. TODD
Apprenticed
J. C. TODD
Indenture of apprenticship between the State of Tennessee by order of the County Court for said County on the one part and J. C. TODD on the other part. Witnesseth that whereas It has been made to appear to the satisfaction of the Court that J. F. TODD a minor and orphan whose parents are dead who is 12 years old the 11 June 1873 whose estate is of so small a value that no person will educate and maintain him for the profits thereof. Therefore the State of Tennessee by said County Court and with the Consent of said Minors relatives Doth hereby bind him the said J. F. TODD to J. C. TODD until he shall attain the age of twenty one years to Learn the trade and occupation of a Farmer.
And the State as aforesaid, covenants with said J. F. TODD that J. F. TODD shall faithfully serve him and correctly demean himself during the term of the apprenticship And the said J. C. TODD doth covenant with the State that he will provide J. F. TODD diet clothing and accomodations for and necessary and teach him or cause him to be taught to read and write and cypher to the single rule of three and at the Experation of the apprenticship pay him the said J. F. TODD one hundred dollars in Currency and one good suit of Sunday clothes.
Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.