I have a book "Barren County Kentucky Deeds 1798-18l3 p. 97 says:

        Apprenticeship 18 Apr 1808 by William Logan (Clerk of Barren    County)
binding Catharine Glover age 18 months (daughter of     Mary Glover) to
William Hall until she is 16 to learn the       art or business of
housekeeping and reading and writing.

        Signed: William Hall, and acknowledged and received 18 April
        1808 by William Hall.  signed W. Logan.

I couldn't believe it myself when I read it.  Mary Miller


Jim Watkinson 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.
>
> And, no, indenture was NOT a form of adoption.  One was indented to serve
> one's master until one reached the age of majority or served the time
> specified in the indenture.  Most indentures for boys provided for
> education: reading, writing, and "cyphering to the rule of three."  Girls
> did not get the math; blacks got nothing.  At the end, indentured servants
> generally were owed "freedom dues," i.e. money and a suit of clothes.  This
> applied to free blacks as well.  Indentured servants had little more rights
> than slaves in colonial and early republic America.
>
> Jim Watkinson
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