Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1784 to 1902 by Alan N. Miller as ever bigger and faster

as ever bigger and faster steam ships allowed immigrants to set out for the more distant factory towns of New England and various points in the American West

with Nicolas Hulot

and Jumeau

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Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1784 to 1902 by Alan N. Miller as ever bigger and fasterTable of Contents The institution of apprenticeship was a common means of providing for the maintenance and future self reliance of orphaned children as well as for any children whose parents had abandoned them or otherwise refused to support them. Apprenticeship records are ordinarily buried among volumes of original county court minute books. They are nonetheless valuable to genealogists because they establish the existence of young people who might