Transcribed from Record of Poor Children's Indentures for Tippecanoe
County, Indiana, 1833-1846, pp. 2-3
This Indenture made this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and thirty four between JOHN McCORMICK and IRA SMITH
Overseers of the Poor of Fairfield Township in the county of Tippecanoe
and State of Indiana, of the one part, and JOHN B. SEMANS of the county
aforesaid, Witnesseth that the said overseers have put, placed, bound,
and do by these presents, put place and bind SAMUEL T. HANNAMAN, a poor
boy, aged sixteen years on the 24th day of April last past as an
apprentice to the said JOHN B. SEMANS, to be taught the art, trade, and
occupation of a Printer which the said JOHN B. SEMANS now uses; and to
live with and serve the said JOHN B. SEMANS as an apprentice until he
the said SAMUEL T. HANNAMAN shall arrive at the full age of Twenty one
years, if the said JOHN B. SEMANS shall so long live--- And the said
Overseers do by these presents give unto the said JOHN B. SEMANS all the
right power and authority over the said SAMUEL T. HANNAMAN and his
services for and during the said term, which by the laws of the State or
master has in and ever a lawfully Indentured Apprentice. And the said
JOHN B. SEMANS, 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 SAMUEL T. HANNAMAN,
that he will teach and instruct the said SAMUEL T. HANNAMAN as his
apprentice or cause him to be well and sufficiently taught and
instructed in the art, trade, and occupation of a Printer after the best
way and manner that he can: and also to send the said SAMUEL T. HANNAMAN
Six Months to a good English school during the term of his said
apprenticeship and train him in the habits of Industry and morality, and
during the Term of his apprenticeship to provide and allow to him
sufficient meat, drink, washing, lodging and apparel, and all other
things necessary for an apprentice during his said Term of
apprenticeship - and the said JOHN B. SEMANS further covenants and
agrees to furnish and give to the said apprentice at the expiration of
his aforesaid term of service, one new suit of wearing apparel, worth at
least thirty dollars. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto
set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of CYRUS BALL
JOHN McCORMICK {seal}
SAMUEL T. HANNAMAN {seal}
JNO. B. SEMANS {seal}
IRA SMITH {seal}
A true record
Recorded May the 14th A.D. 1834
Sanford C. Cox Recorder