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Indenture of Apprenticeship

The Commonwealth of Kentucky

 

This Indenture made this _thirteenth_ day of ___April_ one thousand eight hundred and ___ninety-one__ between __The infant JAMES RAY KINCHLOW__________ by N.J. Guy, Clerk of the county court of Allen County, in the State of Kentucky, of one part, and ____JOSEPH EDWARD RAY__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, whoch parents are incapable of bringing them up in moral courses, therefore the Court made the following order, to-wit:

That the infant JAMES RAY KINCHLOW aged 6 years boy and the same is hereby apprenticed to Joseph Edward Ray JOSEPH EDWARD RAY until the said infant shall have arrived at the age of 21 years. The said infant having no guardian, the father making no objection, the mother being dead and the interest of the infant requiring this action of this court in his behalf.

 

Now, therefore, this Indenture Witnesseth, that the said N.J. Guy, clerk of said Court, as above recited, hath put, place dna bound, and by these presents, doth put, place and bind the said ___James Ray Kinchlow__ apprentice to and under the said __J.E. Ray___ with _him_ to dwell, and _him_ to serve, in the condition, duty, and character of an apprecntice, until the said __James Ray Kinchlow___ shall arrive at the age of ___twenty one___ years, fully to be completed and ended--- that, during all the said period, the said ___James Ray Kinchlow____shall faithfully serve the said __Joseph Edward Ray__ master, in all lawful business, according to the best of _his__ wit and ability, and in all things honestly, orderly and obediently demeand and behave __himself__; and the said ___Joseph Ray___  doth for __his__ heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant and agree with the said ___James Ray Kinchlow__ that he, the said __Jas. E. Ray___ will teach the said __J.R Kinchlow__ the trade, art, and business of __Farming_ and will find, provide for, and allow to the said ___James R. Kinchlow_  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 _him_  with humanity --- that he the said __Joseph E. Ray_will  __also teach the said James Ray Kinchlow to read and to write the English language and will give him a common school educations

 

In witness whereof, the said _James Ray Kinchlow__ by the said N.J. Guy, Clerk as aforesaid, and the said __Joseph E. Ray__  hever hereunto set their hands and seals, on the day and year first above written

 

/s/ N.J. Guy Clerk ACC

/s/ J.E. Ray

/s/ James Ray Kinchlow