Source Information

Ancestry.com. Virginia, Apprentice Index, 1640-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1997.
Original data: Gill Jr., Harold B. Apprentices of Virginia 1623-1800. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Ancestry Inc., 1989.

About Virginia, Apprentice Index, 1640-1800

This compilation of apprentices is part of a larger computer database containing biographical records of nearly 8,000 artisans who worked in Virginia before 1801. It was created as part of a study of the role of artisans in colonial Virginia. Each record includes, when provided, the name, age, sex, and race of the indentured individual, the father's name, the name of the person they are indentured to, the trade to be learned, date indentured, and the date they will be released from the contract.