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Subject:	Re: Indenture, at what age ?
From:	"H. B. Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:55:44 -0500
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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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