An apprentice who ran away - please note that this is 5 years after the exile had ended: << May 12, 1768 FOUR DOLLARS Reward. RUN away from Richard Clayton, Cordwainer, living in Marcus Hook, Chester county, on the 30th day of April last, **an apprentice lad, named JOHN TENDEU, about 18 years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high; he is one of the French Neutrals,** and speaks on that dialect, has black hair, is of a dark complexion, and a lover of strong liquor. Had on, when he went away, a grey half worn jacket, an under black and white twilled ditto, blue cloth trowsers, half worn black worsted stockings, shoes almost new, &c. Whoever takes up said apprentice, and secures him in any goal [a goal being a jail in those days], so that his master may have him again, shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by me RICHARD CLAYTON. N.B. All masters of vessels are forbid to carry him off at their peril.>> Jean Tandau/John Tendeu had been exiled with his family in 1755 when he was about 5 years. I do not know at what age he was "apprenticed" but five years after the exile had ended and treaty signed, he is still an "apprentice" - meanwhile, the rest of his family had gone to Santo Domingo and had all died there as far as is known. So yes, indentured, bound or apprenticed, it made no difference. They were "owned" and I think this is proof of such ownership. His "master" wanted him returned to him. Had any of us been in his shoes, we too might have been "a lover of strong liquor". So here is a good example of a child who never saw his family again. Why was he unable to leave with his family? We an only assume it was because of his indenture or apprenticeship, so called. I have often wondered whatever became of him.. we will likely never know. The followiong are some petitions of the Acadians exiled to Massachusetts: Your petitioner, Augustin Hebert, who resides (this was in October 1756) at Watertown, was lately treated with great brutality by the Captain Conligot. The child of petitioner was torn from his arms, though petitioner is able, by h is work, to support his children. Not content with this, Conligot beat your petitioner so cruelly that he was not able to walk for two weeks. Hutchinson, an Englishman, who wrote the "History of Massachusetts" said: "It is impossible for me to read at full length all these petitions; the tears prevented me from finishing the task." Claude Benoit, 50 years of age, with his wife and five children, the three oldest were girls: one 20 years of age the others 18 and 17. After arriving at Cambridge the authorities of that town seized the daughters and sent them to Mr. Campbell at Oxford. Later the other children were sent in different sections of the state. Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian Ancestral Home www.acadian-home.org -----Original Message----- From: Lucie LeBlanc Consentino [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Indentured, bound, apprenticed - Definition of indenture: bind as servant or apprentice to master. To be "bound" is to be "owned". While the Acadians were exiled to many of the children were "apprenticed" and they were "indentured" - the term used did not matter a whole lot it all meant the same thing in the end. If they managed to escape they would put an ad in the local newspaper advertising a reward for their return.. call it indenture, call it slavery there wasn't much difference back then. All they usually owned was the clothes on their backs. We try to think of things as we know society today - the British were very harsh in how they kept or indentured their prisoners and remember that they hated the French and they feared the Papists. It was others who reached out to the Acadians. People like Antoine Benezet in Philadelphia who was a Quaker, had gone to Philadelphia as a Huguenot and could not stand slavery in any form. He reached out to the Acadias of Philadelphia with blankets and housing with the help of other Quakers. Children were the ones mostly indentured - some English would change the names of the children to their surnames - some children never saw their families again. Some were not even allowed to leave their place of exile with their families when they left because they were "apprenticed" - so you see words are just words. What happened was the reality. Children ripped from their families is why so many petitions were filed by the Acadians to the various Councils wherever they were in exile. Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian Ancestral Home www.acadian-home.org ACGS Drouin Primary Records www.acgs.org -----Original Message----- From: Stanley LeBlanc [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Impressed into Service Indentured Service was used in the 13 Colonies to provide opportunity to those who wanted to go to America but couldn't afford the passage and living expenses to get started and a labor pool for the business and farm communities. On the other hand, both France and England "impressed" persons into service in the early settlement days. De Monts was given authority to "round up" derelicts and petty thieves. Crozat and later the Company of the West Indies were authorized to round up petty criminals and prostitutes to send to Colonial Louisiana. England routinely "impressed" or kidnapped young men to serve in the Navy. 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