Source: Pope p. 117 fn Carter G. Woodson, Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830, Washington D.C. 1925, p. 158, lists those in Newberry District, with sex and number in household as Bethan Stapleton (f) 4, Charles Brown (m) 6, Nancy Felker (f) 2, Rhoda Penn (f) 2, Simon Stuckman (m) 1, Moses Heller (m) 3, Jesse Glauster (m) 5, Rose Brid (f) 7, Abrahma Linkester (m) 1, Mary Sanders (f) 7, Charity Sanders (f) 4, Polly Bird (f) 7, Betsy Grear (f) 6, Moses Williams (m) 2, John Wadsworth (m) 5, Jane Thompson (f) 5, Nancy Coberl (f) 3, Curys Williams (m) 2, Michale Wadsworth (m) 2, Nancy Penn (f) 3, Elvira Christy (f) 3, Jesse Coat (m) 1, James Wilson (m) 7, Hannah Grear (f) 5, Frances Jackson (f) 6, Aagnes Valentine (f) 2, Elizabeth Bugg (f) 1, William Bugg (m) 5, Lucy Dennis (f) 5, James Wadsworth (m) 5, Allen Turner (m) 5, Hannah Bugg (f) 5, Robert Wells (m) 4, James Valentine (m) 5, Martha Leonard (f) 5, and Samuel Bugg (m) 4, Reuben Vallentine, aged two years and four months, was bound to James Wadsworth until his twenty-first year, to live with the latter's family and to receive training in the "art, mystery and profession of a blacksmith and all that belongeth thereto." Document in Miscellaneous Files, State Archives. This is an example of a free Negro being apprenticed to another of the same class in order to learn a trade. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com