20686604https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20686604GeorgiaEmanuelCountyy001866Ordinaryy001866Ordinarygranted045Emanuel County Courthouse, Swainsboro, GeorgiaEdward 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."Occupation (FPOC)Apprenticeship/Indenture (FPOC)Civil War, impact of