__In early Virginia apprenticeships were a way of obtaining technical training for the trades. For example, George Washington made daily entries into his dairy recording his surveying apprenticeship. The Apprenticeship vehicle was also used to remove orphans and other needy children from under parish or local government support, which may have happened to the sons of Carter when he died. Interestingly, George Washington was from an affluent family, but he was also an orphan who was not able to obtain an English education, so he went into the trades. Janvm1030@aol.com wrote: > I have thought that it would be a challenging project to determine the > destination of all 10 of Edmund's sons. Did David die in Albemarle? We know that > James, Edmund's son, stayed in Hanover, but there are eight more to be > accounted for. I think I can put my finger on several that stayed in the > Hanover/Richmond area. I've just never attempted to connect all of them. > > Harrison and Edward, my great grandfather, Andrew Jackson, their sisters > Georgiana and Lavinia are listed in the household of their parents, Carter and > Louisiana Via in the 1850 Hanover census. For Harrison and Edward to have gone > to Albemarle to train under James H., the "master coachmaker" seems to indicate > that the somewhat distant cousins had stayed in touch, doesn't it? I do not > think that H and E were bound out. The family was fairly prosperous yeomen > farmers/planters. It owned several hundred acres of land and some slaves (sad > to say) and were never in debt until after the War. More likely they were > apprenticed or simply learning from a master who also happened to be kin. In the > South especially, one was cousin regardless of the number of times removed. > > Janelle >