Indenture of Apprenticeship

The Commonwealth of Kentucky

This Indenture made this _8th_ day of _February_ one thousand eight hundred and _sixty-nine__ between _AMANDA MANION a free girl  of color ____ by J.H. COLLINS, Clerk of the county court of Allen County, in the State of Kentucky, of one part, and __THOMPSON  MANION___ of the other part;

Whereas, by an act of the General Assembly, the Judge of said Court is empowered to bind out orphans and poor children, which parents are incapable of bringing them up in moral courses, therefore the Court made the following order, to-wit:

On motion and on the written consent of RICHD MANION of color filed in court. It is ordered by the court that AMANDA MANION who was three years old the        day of October 1868. MARTHA MANION who was nine years old the      day of April 1868, SIMON MANION who was seven years old the     day of September 1868  all minor children of color who have no relatives living except RICHD MANION who consents for them to be thus bound able to raise and support them be bound as an Apprentice to said T MANION who was their former owner and  a suitable person the Girls MARTHA & AMANDA until they arrive to the age of Eighteen years each to be taught the art and business of housekeeping in all its various branches and the boy SIMON until he arrives to the age of Twenty one years to be taught the art and mistery of Farming in all its various branches: and that the Clerk of this court prepare & enter into suitable Indentures with said MANION on behalf of said children conditioned according to law.

Now, therefore, this Indenture Witnesseth, that the said J.H. COLLINS, clerk of said Court, as above recited, hath put, place and bound, and by these presents, doth put, place and bind the said __Amanda Manion___ apprentice to and under the said _T. Manion__ with _him_ to dwell, and __him _ to serve, in the condition, duty, and character of an apprentice, until the said __Amanda___ shall arrive at the age of __Eighteen ___ years, fully to be completed and ended--- that, during all the said period, the said _Amanda Manion__ shall faithfully serve the said __T.Manion__ master, in all lawful business, according to the best of __her_ wit and ability, and in all things honestly, orderly and obediently demean and behave ___herself__; and the said ___T. Manion__  doth for __himself__ heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant and agree with the said __.J.H. Collins__ that he, the said __T. Manion__ will teach the said __Amanda Manion__ the trade, art, and business of __housekeeping__ and will find, provide for, and allow to the said ___Amanda Manion___  sufficient diet, wearing apparel, washing, lodging, proper medical attention, and all other things usually allowed to apprentices by good and just masters, and will treat __her__  with humanity --- that he the said __T.Manion__will__ at the end of the Apprenticeship of said girl Amanda to give her a new good suit of clothes and pay her fifty dollars: Provided however that is said T, Manion shall teach said girl Amanda to read & write then he shall not be bound to pay said Fifty dollars

In Witness Whereof, the said ___Amanda Manion___ by the said J.H. COLLINS, Clerk as aforesaid, and the said ___T. Manion____ have hereunto set their hands and seals, on the day and year first above written

/s/ J.H. Collins clerk Allen County Court

/s/ Thompson Manion