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From: Debra Street <>
Subject: Re: [PACHESTE] Girard College Ancestor
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:16:57 -0400
In-Reply-To: <12e.1150bba5.2a118baf@aol.com>


Dori;

That's exactly the information I'd be looking for from the school. If
he attended the school in 1850 at age 12 and hadn't been "bound out" by
then, by the time of the 1860 census he'd be 22 and out on his own. So
I'm hoping the school can give me more information, including parents
names. I assume that, even if he were an orphan, the school would have
noted parents' names and where he was born, etc. in their files.

I'd be thrilled to find him twice--I can't even find the little
so-and-so once!!

Thanks,

Debbie
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On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 05:35 PM, wrote:

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Anyone interested - - -
My great grandfather, a resident of Delaware County, PA, was entered
into
Girard at the age of 9 yrs (1864) and "bound out" to a farmer in Mifflin
County in 1869 at the age of 14. He appears on the 1870 census for that
county as an apprentice with the farmer's family , but g-gf is also
listed in
Chester County for 1870 with his mother, where she was running a candy
store.
Hard to know exactly how they were counted?

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