Recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Shelby County Indiana
December the 28th A.D. 1839 in Deed Book I page 223
Milton Robins Recorder
This Indenture made this Twenty Eighth day of September in the year of our
Lord Eighteen Hundred and thirty nine between John S. Moore and Isaac
Rogers Overseers of the Poor of Jackson township in the County of Shelby
and State of Indiana of the one part and Christopher M. Allen of the
County aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Overseers have
put placed and bound and doth by these presents put place and bind Lafayette
Simmons a poor boy ages six years and five months as an apprentice to the
said C.M. Allen to be taught the art trade and occupation of a Farmer which he
the said C.M. Allen now uses and to live with and serve and serve him the said
C.M. Allen as an apprentice for term of fourteen years and seven months from
this date that is to say until he the said Lafayette Simmons shall arrive to
the age of Twenty one years if the said C.M. Allen shall so long live. And the
said Overseers do by these presents give unto the said C.M. Allen all rights
power and authority over the said Lafayette Simmons and his service during the
said term which by the laws of this State a Master has in and over a lawfully
indentured apprentice and the said C.M. Allen in consideration thereof doth on
his part covenant promise and agree to and with the said Overseers and their
successors in office and each and every of them and with the said Lafayette
Simmons that he will teach and instruct the said Lafayette Simmons as his
apprentice, or cause him to be well and sufficiently taught and instructed in
the art trade and occupation of a Farmer after the best way and manner that he
can, and also to teach and instruct the said apprentice or cause him to be
taught and instructed to read write and Arthmetic through the single rule of
Three and train him to habits of industry and morality and during the term of
his apprenticeship to provide and allow to him sufficient meat drink washing
lodging and apperal and all other things necessary for an apprentice during
his said term of apprenticeship. And the said C.M. Allen further covenants and
agrees to furnish and give to the said apprentice at the expiration of his
aforesaid term of service One Two new suits of wearing
apparel worth thirty dollars and one new suit of Broad Cloth worth forty five
Dollars and Fifty Dollars in cash.
In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands and seals
the day and year above written.
John S. Moore
Isaac Rogers Christopher M.
Allen (SEAL)
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of James Clarke D. Wilkinson
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