<petition><petition_analysis_number>20686701</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20686701</petition_url><state>Georgia</state><county>Hancock</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>2</file_day><file_month>9</file_month><file_year>1867</file_year><filing_court>Ordinary</filing_court><end_day>2</end_day><end_month>9</end_month><end_year>1867</end_year><ending_court>Ordinary</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>2</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Hancock County Courthouse, Sparta, Georgia</repository><abstract>Ned Mitchell, a freedman, claims that Fanny Johnston, "colored" and "about twelve years old," is without a parent or guardian.  He "is desirous that the said Fanny may be bound to him as an apprentice to learn the Art of House Keeping, until she arrives at the age of eighteen years."</abstract><subjects><subject>Orphans</subject><subject>Occupation (FPOC)</subject><subject>Apprenticeship/Indenture (FPOC)</subject><subject>Civil War, impact of</subject></subjects></petition>