steele william surrogate (1 Ergebnisse)

Broadside document, 12 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches. Crude letterpress, probably in, or near Wilson County, located just east of Nashville. "Said county court hath this day bound unto the said ["Geo. W. Scroggon" (sic)] the said orphan ["Johnson Underwood"] now about ["twelve or 13"] years of age . to serve and oblige ["Scroggon" (sic), smudged] in all lawful commands &c. and the said ["Geo. W. Scoggon" (sic)] on his part doth oblige himself to learn the said apprentice the art and mystery of ["tayloring business"] and to provide . diet, clothes, lodgings . and shall teach . ["him"] . to read, write, and cypher, as far as the rule of three, and at the end of ["his] apprenticeship to pay the said apprentice ["a full & complete set of tools and a good suit of clothes"]." Wilson County was first settled in 1797 and William Steele is listed as one of the early settlers. A "Johnson Underwood," of Smith County, appears in several court documents during the 1850s and 1860s as a Tennessee slaveholder; Smith County is adjacent to Wilson County, to the east. Clean splits at folds, neatly repaired on verso. (11130).