| Summary: | Partially printed document apprenticeship indenture completed by hand. Agreement binds "William Furren of the age of Eleven years 1st this month to be an apprentice with the said Jesse V. Hagy" to learn the "art, trade or business of Farming." The agreement provides for him to be released at the age of twenty-one, and for Hagy to "pay the apprentice the sum of $30.00 in cash and good suit of freedom clothes" at the expiration of his indenture. Jesse Viney Hagy (1814-1862) of Washington County, Virginia, is listed in the 1850 and 1860 US Federal Censuses as a farmer. Records indicate a complaint was filed against Hagy by Foran ("Furren") in 1857 due to ill treatment. Docketed on verso "William Foran / Indentures / 1852 August 30th Deposited in the clerks office" then "1857 Aug 25th cancelled." Signed at the bottom by Overseers of the Poor David Clark, A.R. Preston and Jesse V. Hagy."--Bookseller.
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