Indenture
of
James G. Yelton
to
Abner Kelsey and Susan Mariah Kelsay
Received for Record in the office of the recorder of Shelby
County Indiana
On the 24th day of August A.D. 1835
Recorded in Book 6 pages 452 & 453 Wm. Sleeth R.S.C.
This indenture witnesseth that
Elisha Mayhew and John Morrison Overseers of the poor of Addison Township Shelby County and State of Indiana
hath put and placed and by these presents doth put and bind out James G.
Yelton minor a poor child whose parents are dead, and the said James G.
Yelton doth hereby put place and bind out himself as an apprentice to Abner
Kelsey and Susan Mariah Kelsey, his wife to learn the art of a
farmer, which ocupation the said Abner Kelsey now useth. The said James G.
Yelton to dwell with and serve the said Abner Kelsey and Susan Mariah his
wife, after the manner of an apprentice at the farming business from the day
of the date hereof untill the 27th day of May which will be in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty, at which time the said apprentice
if he shall be living, will be twenty-one years of age. During all which time,
the said apprentice shall well and faithful serve his said Master, Keep his
secrets, and evry where at all times readily obey his lawful commands he shall
do no damage to his said master, nor willfully suffer any to be done by
others, and if any to his knowledge be intended he shall give his said Master,
reasonable notice thereof. He shall not waste the goods of his said Master,
nor lend them unlawfully to any, he shall not play at cards, dice, or any
other unlawful games he shall not contract Matrimony during the said term.
He
shall not haunt or frequent taverns, tipling houses, or plases of gaming; he
shall not absent himself from the service of his said Master; but shall in all
things, and at all times, carry and behave himself as a good and faithful
apprentice ought, during the whole term aforesaid.
And the said Abner Kelsey (and Susan Mariah his wife) on their part, doth
hereby consent, promise and agree, to teach and instruct the said apprentice,
or cause him to be taut and instructed to read and write, and cypher as far as
the rule of three, if the said apprentice be capable to learn; and also to
teach and instruct the said apprentice in the art of farming in the best way
and manner he can; and well and faithfully to find and provide for the said
apprentice good and sufficient meat, drink, clothing and lodging; and other
necessaries fit and convenient for such an apprentice, both in health and
sickness during the term aforesaid; and at the Experation thereof shall give
unto the said apprentice two new suits of wearing apparel, a horse saddle and
bridle worth fifty dollars, or fifty dollars in cash insted of the horse
saddle and bridle at the option of the said Abner Kelsey one of the said suits
of wearing apparrel to be suitable for Sundays, and the other for working days
in testimony whereof the said parties have hereunto interchangeable set their
hands and seals the Eleventh day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty five
Signed Sealed and dilvered in the presence of
Wm. J. Peaslee H. H. Barker
Elisha Mayhew
James G. Yelton his X mark
John Morrison Abner Kelsey
(SEAL)
Be it remembered that on the Eleventh day of August Eighteen hundred and
thirty five before me William J. Peaslee of Shelby County, in the state of
Indiana, Notary Public, by authority of law duly appointed and qualified, the
within named and above named parties towit: Elisha Mayhew and John Morrison
overseers of the poor for Addison Township, Shelby County and state of Indiana
and James G. Yelton and Abner Kelsey personally came, and acknowledged that
they signed sealed and delivered the within indenture as their act and deed
for the purpose therein expressed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notorial
Seal, the day and year above written
William J. Peaslee
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