At 10:51 PM -0700 11/05/99, Adina Dyer wrote:
Hi Adina -
You never know where your facts will come from. I now have a day and month
of birth for this John Robert, cited below, which I did not have before.
I have his father John recorded with a middle initial of S. rather than A.
Not yet willing to change my records.
Also intrigued by the recorded spelling of the surname as SHEETS rather
than SHEETZ and that it is recorded as a "Poor Children's Indenture".
I was aware that this chap had gone to live with his uncle as an
apprentice, but nothing more.
His father John and uncle Robert King were brothers, both sons of Frederick
SHEETZ.
All of the marriages I have recorded of the grandchildren of Frederick
SHEETZ show the surname as SHEETZ. In fact Indiana marriage records show
that this indentured apprentice John Robert SHEETZ ultimately married a
Lucy Templeton, 1852, Benton Co., IN.
I continue to appreciate your efforts to make the Tippecanoe site an even
richer source of information.
Bill
Transcribed from Record of Poor Children's Indentures for
Tippecanoe
County, Indiana,
1833-1846, pp.18-19:
This Indenture Witnesseth that JOHN A. SHEETS of Tippecanoe County and
State of Indiana hath put and placed and by these presents do put and
bind out his son JOHN ROBERT SHEETS and the said JOHN ROBERT SHEETS doth
hereby put place and bind out himself as an apprentice to ROBERT K.
SHEETS to learn the art and trade of a Farmer which he the said ROBERT
K. now useth the said JOHN ROBERT to dwell with and serve the said
ROBERT K. SHEETS after the manner of an apprentice until from the day
of the date hereof until the 20th day of November 1849 at which time the
said apprentice will be of the age of Twenty one years and shall if then
living be free during all which time the said apprentice shall well and
faithfully serve his said and everywhere at all time readily obey his
lawful Master nor willfully suffer any to be done by others and if any
to be his knowledge be intended he shall give his said Master reasonable
notice thereof and the said ROBERT K. SHEETS on his part doth hereby
covenant promise and agree to send the said apprentice to school for
three of? eighteen months and also to teach and instruct the said
apprentice in the art and trade of Farming in the best way and manner he
can and well and faithfully to find and provide for said apprentice good
and sufficient meat drink clothing and lodging and all other necessaries
fit and convenient for such an apprentice during the term aforesaid and
at the expiration thereof shall give unto said apprentice one good suit
of Broad cloth clothes such as will do for what is commonly called a
Sunday Suit and a horse saddle and Bridle of the value of sixty
dollars. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their
hands and seals on this the 12th day of March A.D. 1836.
Signed Sealed & Delivered } John A. Sheets {Seal}
in the presence of } his
A.B. Slaughter }John Robert x Sheets {Seal}
mark
A true record } Robert K. Sheets
Recorded April 11th 1836 - S.C. Cox Recorder
Adina Dyer
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