What was “binding out”?
Records of Apprenticeship
Sources that may prove helpful in documenting the social mobility of the Essex County Bound Out Children Apprentices:
- Overseers of the Poor Records
- Master/Mistress Family Papers
- The Federal Census
- Vital Records – Birth, Marriage, Death
- Court Records
- Town Records – Taxes, School, Political Office
- Military Pension Records
- Personal Correspondence / Diaries
- Church Records
- Wills
- Newspaper Accounts
- City/Town Directories
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