JULIAN SNELLING to SAMUEL FAVORITE
This Indenture made this second day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty
five between JOSEPH BARTON and FRANCIS STROTHER Overseers of the Poor of
Sheffield Township in the County of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana of
the one part and SAMUEL FAVORITE of the county aforesaid of the other
part. Witnesseth that the said Overseers have put placed and bound and
do by these presents put, place and bind JULIAN SNELLING a poor girl
aged fifteen years as an apprentice to the said SAML FAVORITE to be
taught the art of Housewifery and to live with and serve him the said
SAML FAVORITE as an apprentice for the term of three years from this
date that is to say until she the said JULIAN SNELLING shall arrive to
the age of eighteen years, if the said SAML FAVORITE shall so long
live. And the said Overseers do by these presents give unto the said
SAML FAVORITE all the right power and authority over the said JULIAN
SNELLING and her 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 SAML FAVORITE 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 JULIAN
SNELLING that he will teach and instruct or cause to be well and
sufficiently taught and instructed in the art trade and occupation of
housewifery after the best way and manner that he can; and also to cause
her to be instructed six months in common day schools and train her to
habits of industry and morality and during the term of her
apprenticeship to provide and allow to her sufficient meat, drink,
washing, lodging, and apparel and all other things necessary for an
apprentice during her said term of apprenticeship. And the said SAML
FAVORITE further covenants and agrees to furnish and give to the said
apprentice at the expiration of her aforesaid term of service a new silk
dress and other corresponding clothing. In witness whereof the said
parties have hereunto set their hands and seals this day and year above
written.
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of
D. S. Bush
Wm. Bush
Signed: Jas. Barton {seal}
Francis Strother {seal}
Saml Favorite {seal}
I JULIAN SNELLING do agree and do sign the above Indenture with my own
free will and accord.
Signed: Julian x Snelling
A true record
Recorded November 12th A.D. 1835
Sandford C. Cox
Recorder
Transcribed from Record of Poor Children's Indentures for Tippecanoe
County, Indiana, 1833-1846, pp. 13-15