At 09:53 AM 2/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Children could be indentured at almost any age, tho' I've never seen an
>infant indured. Indeed, 5 is the youngest I've seen.
I have found some as young as one year old apprenticed. See, for example,
the apprenticeship of Thomas Halcomb who was apprenticed to French Haggard
to learn the trade of a blacksmith. Halcomb was one at the
time. (Fredericksville Parish Records, 1742-1797, 90-91).
HBG
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