Indentures, 1746-1842. Digital
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
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Collection:
Indentures collection, 1746-1860
Scope and Contents
Includes handwritten indentures, most binding girls to apprenticeships ranging from two to seventeen years to learn housekeeping; some are signed by a parent, others by overseers of the poor. One indenture concerns two children of color, Lucy and Edey Randolph Valentine, 1823.
Manuscript notebook and indentures, 1857-1860. Digital
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
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Collection:
Indentures collection, 1746-1860
Scope and Contents
Includes one manuscript notebook kept by Charles Willey of Rochester, New York, containing rules for calculating the working speeds of shafts and other aspects of commercial cloth weaving as well as the rate of pay for a girl working on a loom, 1857. Also included is an indenture for Christiana Geahring to the Metzger family for 16 years to learn the "art of housework," 1860.