1. Miller
2. Merchant
3. Blacksmith
4. Husbandman or farmer
5. Victualler
6. Peruke maker, wig maker, or perriwig maker
7. Navigation, and mariner or seaman
8. Tailor
9. Distiller
10. Twine line spinner
11. Cordwainer, shoemaker
12. Reading, writing, and ciphering
13. Tanner
14. Cabinet maker
15. Skinner
16. Mariner
17. And founder
18. Trader
19. Joiner
20. Feltmaker
21. Barber, hair cutter
22. And drum maker
23. Indentures not signed
24. Housewright
25. Clothier
26. Stationer
27. Physician
28. Reading only
29. Stone cutter
30. Bricklayer
31. Shopkeeper
32. Negro
33. Saddler
34. Sailmaker
35. Mason
36. Japanner
37. Farrier
38. And farming
39. No formal education
40. Widow
41. Know, sew, and spin
42. Silversmith
43. Fisherman
44. Ropemaker
45. Schoolmaster
46. Wheelwright
47. Shorman
48. Glazier
49. Whaler
50. Indenture not completed; no recommendation received
51. Tallow chandler. Master agreed to teach his apprentice how to make spermacetti candles too, “but it is to be understood that the Mystery of refining the Sperma Cati I do not oblige myself to do.”
52. And chairmaker
53. Boat builder
54. Currier
55. Brazier
56. Miller
57. Or cash instead of trade
58. Cardmaker
59. Weaver
60. Goldsmith
61. Mantua or manteau maker
62. Shipwright
63. Ship joiner
64. Single woman
65. Unsigned and undated
66. Leather draper
67. Tobacconist and snuff maker
68. Grocer
69. Blockmaker
70. Tobacconist
71. Painter-glazier
72. Sail cloth making and twine spinning
73. Alias Patience Farris
74. Mulatto
75. Twine and Duck manufacturing
76. Apothecary
77. Baker
78. Mast and spar maker
79. Painter
80. Indian
81. Tanner
82. Teaching of trade canceled in favor of cash because master moved to country-side where trade could not be practiced.
83. Hatter
84. Washington
85. Adams
Source:
The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts). Edited by Eric Nellis and Anne Decker Cecere. Charlottesville: University Of Virginia Press, 2001: 468.
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