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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 12-11-2011 08:18 PM
  
about silver. Many are silly, or stupid, or just plain boring. Occasionally, however, I get a treat. It seems the Connecticut Historical Society received a big jumbled box of old papers from an estate clearance. The librarian vetted to catalog the stuff came across one piece she thought worth a bit of research and eventually an email landed at my door. Would I be interested in a scan of the original indenture of Lemuel Wells to James Tiley in June, 1780? Needless to say, I assured her I would: I have cropped, resized, and compressed the image considerably to fit our guidelines, but the original is a beauty. Wonder what else they have laying about, waiting to be sorted? IP: Logged |
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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 |
posted 12-11-2011 09:15 PM
Amazing that this kind of thing still keeps surfacing. What a delight! IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 12-12-2011 01:23 PM
So interesting how the printed document leaves spaces where the people using it can fill in gendered pronouns: "[h]im" or "[h]er," "s[he]," etc. I wonder if there were many female apprentices, and if so, at what trades? IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 12-12-2011 02:56 PM
Cookery, clothes making, mid-wifery, hair dressing, weaving, and I suspect a slew of others. They were all fairly mundane occupations without the cache (and generally the potential) of the better known trades, like silversmith, cabinetmaking, printing, mercantile, etc, so are less likely to have survived in the records. That said, I have always suspected there is a good deal more stuff sitting quietly in trunks and closets, patiently awaiting re-discovery than we might imagine. IP: Logged |
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