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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"A young boy's indenturePrince Memorial Library Apprentices and Servants The Overseers were empowered to bind out, or place into apprenticeship, the…"

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Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"Mostly apprentices, they met one night a week after working a 12-hour day, and wrote compositions, essays, reports and poems, performed dialogs…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Wharf, Store and Blacksmith Shop

"… that he was to receive $1.25 per day and his apprentice, James Partridge, was to receive 66¢, and that Knox was also to provide “board, lodging…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… (which Charles encouraged his father to build), apprentice in the landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, travel through Europe, and…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"After working first as an apprentice at a sawmill in Saco, William joined his sister Elizabeth and her husband Dr."

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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… recalled coming to the Surry Theater as an apprentice in 1946, a relatively inexperienced young actress of 21, and leaving in 1953 with 60 shows…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… it to Howland and Donnell, who had both been his apprentices and journeymen. Davis Hatch had a business selling boots and shoes at 116 Front Street."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… adze or saw, he did not receive 75 cents a day (apprentices received fifty cents) per day until he was 21 years old."

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Bangor Public Library

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… Bath native Francis Fassett (1823-1908) and his apprentice, John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940). Fassett was the single most important individual in…"