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| | Women-Lewis |
 | | With broadaxe and jackknife, he made his cabin, furniture, and many of the farming implements and kitchen utensils; and with spinning wheel, loom, and dyepots, she made all the clothing of the family, the household linen, blankets, quilts, coverlets, curtains, rugs, and other such furnishings. |
 | | According to the existing scholarship on Rowan County apprentices, only 1 female was apprenticed to learn a trade: in November, 1785, John Willson, Jr., took Catherine Steagle, aged 11, as an apprentice to learn spinning. |
 | | Most indentures for young girls specified only a length of time and stated that the master should comply with the law. When the apprenticeship was completed the girl usually received money and/or property of a pre-agreed amount and a suit of clothes. |
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