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Fluvanna County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1793-1893. Local government records collection, Fluvanna County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court records from Fluvanna County.
Fluvanna County takes its name from an eighteenth-century designation of the upper James River. The name, meaning river of Anne, was originally bestowed in honor of Queen Anne of England. The county was formed from Albemarle County in 1777. The county seat is Palmyra.
In 1780 the Virginia General Assembly replaced the Anglican vestries and churchwardens of the colonial period with elected bodies called Overseers of the Poor. The Overseers provided food, clothing, shelter, and medical treatment for the persons who were too poor to support themselves or too ill to provide for their basic needs. They also bound out children whose parents could not support them or who failed to educate or instruct them, as well as orphans to become apprentices. The boys learned a trade and the girls learned domestic skills.
Fluvanna County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1793-1893, are bonds and contracts of apprenticeship, showing the names of master and apprentice, the trade to be taught, details of the contract, the amount of the bond and the names of sureties. Barcode number 0007707448 contains apprentice indentures of "free Blacks" and "free persons of color."
Additional Fluvanna County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm" found on the Library of Virginia's web site.
Fluvanna County (Va.) Apprenticeship Indentures, 1793-1893, of "free Blacks" and "free persons of color" are available at Virginia Untold: the African American Narrative digital collection .