Apprenticeship Will A. Woodward to J. C. Parker

UPSON COUNTY, GA - Court - Apprenticeship Will A. Woodward to J. C. Parker

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Apprenticeship
In RE
J. C. Parker and
Elizabeth Woodward, Mother of Will A. Woodward
Filed in office and recorded in Book of Minutes K, page 33.
This 9th day of June 1908
J. E. Matthews- signature
Ordinary.

Georgia, Upson County
This indenture, made and entered into this the 9th day of June, 1908, between J. C. Parker and Elizabeth Woodward, the mother of Will A. Woodward, a bastard child, now about one year and seven months old, all of said county, witnesseth; that the said Elizabeth Woodward hereby binds and apprentices to the said J. C. Parker the said Will A. Woodward, until he is twenty one years old upon the following conditions or terms; Said J. C. Parker agrees to take him the said Will A.- into his custody; teach him the business of husbandry, furnish him with protection, wholesome food, suitable clothing, necessary medicine and cause him to be taught the elementary principles of mathematics and to read English, and shall govern him with humanity, using only the same degree of force to compel his obedience as a father may use with his minor child, and when said Will A.- shall arrive at the age of twenty-one, he is to receive from the said J. C. Parker One Hundred Dollars in cash. In consideration of all of which said J. C. Parker is to be entitled to the service and earnings of said Will A.- until he is twenty-one years old.

WITNESS OUR HANDS AND SEALS this the 9th day of July 1908.

Sealed, signed and delivered in presence of Claude Worrill.- signed
J. C. Parker L.S.
Elizabeth Woodward Her X L.S.
J.E. Matthews, Ordinary