Is there a usual or customary age for male children to be bound out? The time period is 1759-61. Males are bound out, guardians are usually appointed for female children are they not?

Ray, Many children were apprenticed to learn a trade. Some of these children were orphans, some were not. Some were poor and some were not necessarily poor. With Germans there was a strong custom for all children to learn a trade so that they would be self sufficient. An apprentice bond was a legal binding document creating the apprentice relationship which specified what each party would do and would receive. I suspect that many of these documents have not survived. I also suspect that many children were apprenticed without the issuance of a bond. I do not know if there were any laws regulating how old or how young an apprentice would be. I have seen youngsters as young as 13 and as old as 18 being apprenticed. There was a major difference between guardians of minor heirs and apprentices. Minor children who had guardians may or may not have lived with them. Usually there was no apprentice relationship with guardians of young children. I hope this helps the discussion, Robert Carpenter PS Lorena, good to hear from you! ----- Original Message ----- From: "RaySmith" <rsmith2092@carolina.rr.com> To: "Genealogy, Lincoln Co NC" <NCLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:31 PM Subject: [NCLINCOL] Usual age for male children to be bound Out? > Is there a usual or customary age for male children to be bound out? > The time period is 1759-61. > Males are bound out, guardians are usually appointed for female > children are they not? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Actually, in the colonies both Male and female children were bound out, especially in the case of when a father died, the mother sometimes being able to take care of the children, so they were often bound out,,in the colonies this happened often with settlement indians, mixed=bloods, and Mulatto's.... Jeff Beard --- Robert Carpenter <rcarpenter2@charter.net> wrote: > Ray, > > Many children were apprenticed to learn a trade. > Some of these children > were orphans, some were not. Some were poor and > some were not necessarily > poor. With Germans there was a strong custom for > all children to learn a > trade so that they would be self sufficient. An > apprentice bond was a legal > binding document creating the apprentice > relationship which specified what > each party would do and would receive. I suspect > that many of these > documents have not survived. I also suspect that > many children were > apprenticed without the issuance of a bond. > > I do not know if there were any laws regulating how > old or how young an > apprentice would be. I have seen youngsters as > young as 13 and as old as 18 > being apprenticed. > > There was a major difference between guardians of > minor heirs and > apprentices. Minor children who had guardians may > or may not have lived > with them. Usually there was no apprentice > relationship with guardians of > young children. > > I hope this helps the discussion, > > Robert Carpenter > > PS Lorena, good to hear from you! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "RaySmith" <rsmith2092@carolina.rr.com> > To: "Genealogy, Lincoln Co NC" > <NCLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:31 PM > Subject: [NCLINCOL] Usual age for male children to > be bound Out? > > > > Is there a usual or customary age for male > children to be bound out? > > The time period is 1759-61. > > Males are bound out, guardians are usually > appointed for female > > children are they not? > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > > NCLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to NCLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs