Shelby  County,  Indiana

Indenture  of
William  Ellis  Jackson
to
David  I.  Montgomery

Overseers of the Poor Indenture to
David Montgomery

Received for record May 28th 1857 at 12 O’clock M.

Recorded in Book No. 1 page 18
                             J. Milleson Recorder for Shelby Co.
 
            Indenture of Apprenticeship between Leonidas Gordon William McElwee and James J. Conner as Trustees of Adison Township in the County of Shelby and state of Indiana and David L. Montgomery of the aforesaid Township, County and state; Witnesseth that the said Trustees of Adison Township hath and doth by these presence hereby bind William Ellis Jackson age Eight years on the 18 day of Jany in the 1857, as an apprentice with the said David L. Montgomery untill the 18th day of Jany in the year 1870 from the date hereof, to learn the trade and occupation of a Farmer And the said Gordon, McElwee and Conner as Trustees of said Township aforesaid Covenants, that the said William Ellis Jackson shall faithfully serve the said David L. Montgomery, as such apprentice during said term; And the said David L. Montgomery covenants with said Trustees and their successors that he will teach the said William Ellis Jackson the said trade and occupation of farming and provide him during said Apprenticeship with all necessaries proper to his age and condition and to cause him to be taught to read and write, and the rules of Airthmetic to the double rule of three and Interest, inclusive if practicable; and at the Expiration of said term to furnish to him, the said William Ellis Jackson a full suit of clothes made out of good cloth, and a horse saddle and bridle worth one hundred and Twenty five dollars and fifty Dollars in money
            In testimony whereof the Parties have hereunto set their hands & seals, this 13th day of April in the year 1857.
Wm. McElwee     Leonidas Gordon     James J. Conner     David L. Montgomery     (SEAL)    
Assented to  J. M. Sleeth   Judge C.C.P.S.C.        


State of Indiana
Shelby County SS
            Before me William Hawkes a Justice of the peace in and for said County this 15th day of April 1857 the above named William McElwee James J. Conner and David L. Montgomery acknowledged the execution of the annexed indenture
            In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.
        William Hawkes  (SEAL)

Transcribed by Barb Huff

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