Alamo, Tennessee, Monday December 3rd 1883
This day MILES W. PIPKINS an orphan child the age of three years on 31 day of Oct 1883 was brought into Court by MILES PRIVETT a citizen of this County. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the estate of said child is of so small a value that no person will educate and maintain him for the profits thereof. It is therefore directed by the Court that he be apprenticed to the said MILES PRIVETT to learn the occupation of farmer, until he shall attain the age of twenty one years upon the said MILES PRIVETT entering into bond… with WILLIAM PRIVETT and Z. P. WARREN
Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.