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From: Lauren Brantner <>
Subject: Re: [MDFred] bound out
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:06:23 -0700
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In Maryland Archives there is a whole book of apprenticeship agreements
from the courthouse for Washington County that I looked at last spring.
In my experience with my husband's family who were skilled craftsmen -
coopers and carpenters and blacksmiths - they were listed as making
apprenticeship agreements. Everything was clearly spelled out - what
tools the apprentice would be given for the trade he was learning and
included adequate food and lodging and sometimes clothing. Their
responsibility as apprentices to not reveal their master's trade
secrets, not to gamble etc. were spelled out for their part of the
agreement. I also found a young female orphaned relative who was bound
out as a household servant. At age 16 she was to be given certain
clothing items and a marriage chest, etc. Two of the people I found had
agreements through the Orphan's Court. For one, the guardians arranged
for a blacksmith apprenticeship and that all went through the Orphan's
Court for approval. There was really good genealogy information in some
of the ones I looked at - parents' names, sometimes their birthdates,
etc. I was successful in sorting two people with the same first and
last names who were cousins because one of them was orphaned and learned
the blacksmith trade. I was very happy to solve that problem and was
able to hook up the descendants to the proper ancestor. I also see a
lot of runaway apprentice ads in the early newspapers; I think some of
the cruel treatment resulted in the enacting of some laws for the
protection of apprentices.

Lauren Brantner

Merikay Mestad wrote:

> I've always thought of "bound out" like an apprenticeship but realized
> that the only records I can remember in connection with my family are
> situations where the child has lost his father or parents and
> therefore needed training and/or board and room. Have others found
> this agreement where the father is living and capable of caring for
> his children and his son is still bound out?
>
> Merikay
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