First.
   I want to express my great thanks to the staff at Thomas Balch Library,
Leesburg, Loudoun Co. for putting me on the right track to search page by
page the Court Minutes Books for adoptions and "bound out". I finally after
lots of looking hit the jackpot and found my great grandfather "bound out"
1820 and the court order named his father (deceased)!!!  THANKS AGAIN.

   Now a question. Did court appointment of a guardian usually mean that a
minor child, orphaned, stood to inherit assets; whereas being "bound out" by
court order to the overseers of the poor usually meant there were no estate
assets? What happened to boys over the age of 16? What happened to girls of
any age? What happened to very young children, say under 5 or 6?

   Thanks to one and all.
Walt

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