1698: Elinor MacDaniel bound to David Phillips, PA.

The Court also aided widowed mothers in obtaining suitable places for their children, when they were desirous of binding them out.

In 1698 Sarah MacDaniel having some children to place out, she came into Court and desired the assistance of said Court for placing out of the said children. She had a son whose name was Alexander, and by the approbation of the Court placed him with John Howell till he was of the age of twenty-two years, he then being one and a half years old, and "he the said John Howel or assigns, is to teach or cause to be taught the said Alexander to read and write, or else to allow the boy one year of his said time."

Also the said Sarah MacDaniel does by the approbation of the Court, place out a girl whose name is Elinor MacDaniel unto David Phillips till she comes of the age of twenty-one years, she being now three years old, and the said David Phillips is to teach or cause to be taught the said girl to read and write, or else to allow her one year of her time.

Source: Chester (And Its Vicinity,) Delaware County, in Pennsylvania, by John Hill Martin, Esq., 1877; Pg. 75