Take a look at these sample records of apprenticeship:
Indenture contract binding Simeon Mason to Levi Metcalf of Framingham (392.76 kB)
Indenture contract binding Thomas Barzin to Nathaniel Waterman of Boston (304.57 kB)
Indenture Contract Binding John, an Indian boy (893.83 kB)
1. What is the name of the apprentice’s parents or guardian?
2. What is the name of the apprentice’s master and mistress?
3. In which community do they live?
4. What type of trade will they apprentice now learn?
5. How many years of apprenticeship will be served?
6. What are four kinds of provisions or services that the master or mistress guarantee to provide for the apprentice during his or her term of service?
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b.)
c.)
d.)
7. List five rules by which the apprentice must abide:
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b.)
c.)
d.)
e.)
8. What, if any, are the provisions for schooling?
9. What, if anything, will the apprentice receive from the master or mistress upon completion of his or her term of service?
Is there a record of the apprenticeship of Jonathan Fuller of Barnstable, MA in about 1741?
I believe his father was Ebenezer Fuller and his mother Mariah Jones Fuller.
After his father’s death in 1741, I found the guardianship papers for his brothers and sister, but not for him. In order to become a blacksmith, as he later did in Oxford, MA, he must have had an apprenticeship.
Finding it would connect my family to the Mayflower.
What is your fee structure?
Thanks,
Beverly