State of Florida County of Jefferson This indenture made and entered into on this, the thirtieth day of March A.D. 1867, between Bt. Capt. A. B. Grumwell, agent B.R.F. & A.L, Monticello, Fla., party of the first part, and William S. Dilworth, party of the second part, of the aforesaid County and State witnesseth; - Whereas there are two orphan children named Lewis Binyard, aged fifteen years, and Martha Binyard, aged thirteen years, now living and employed as plantation laborers upon the plantation of the said W. S. Dilworth, and the said minor children, having been deserted and abandoned by one Oliver Binyard, a freedman, who claimed and exercised a control over them without any lawful authority, and the said minor children, having appeared before the said party of the first, and asked for and consented to the appointment of the said party of the second part as their guardian, and it being the duty of the said party of the first part, by virtue of his office aforesaid, under the laws of the United States, to make all suitable arrangements in regard to finding out and apprenticing orphans and neglected children of freedmen and appointing suitable guardians over them when, in his opinion, it shall be