Edward W. Lane claims that his former slave, Ron, has "applied to your Petitioner to take said children as apprentices." Lane states that Ron and his wife, Dinah, a free woman of color, have two children, Jerry, a fourteen year old boy and Ellen, a twelve year old girl, both "born in lawful wedlock." Lane claims that Ron is "in Court & desires your honor to bind out said children to him in accordance with act of legislature & General Orders from the freed mens bureau at Augusta."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Emanuel County Courthouse, Swainsboro, Georgia
