In a message dated 2/21/2000 8:12:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Purely guesswork, but I would imagine that most of the printers at that time > probably would have been in the bigger cities, or more established areas. > Most of the "frontier" probably wouldn't have been able to support a > printer. Yes, which is why I was asking about where such an apprenticeship might have occurred. Does anyone know what newspapers were around ca 1790 and how to go about finding out about their apprentices? I have contacted the SC and NC archives but received very little guidance. Vickie Elam White