Contributions to Education, Issue 138Columbia University, 1923 - Education |
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Alexandria appears apprentices apprenticeship Assembly bequest binding Bristol Parish vestry children were bound church wardens colonial period colonial Virginia county court court record custom Eaton School eighteenth century Elizabeth City County Elizabeth City Parish Elizabeth River endowed parish schools endowed schools England English Local Government established evidence fact Farnefold free school given Gloucester County grammar schools hath Hening History of Virginia indentures indicated instruction justices land Latin Lower Norfolk County Mary College Quarterly master Meade minister Nansemond Nansemond County number of children number of poor officers parents parish children parish clerk parish government Parish vestry book Peasley poor children poor law practice private schools probably reader reference reported Samuel Wallis schoolhouse schoolmaster seventeenth century statement statute Syms School taught teach teachers Theodorick Bland Truro Parish trustees Upper Parish vestry meeting vestry minutes vestry record vestrymen Washington Parish William and Mary Williamsburg workhouse
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Page 33 - I may not forget to tell you we have a free school, with two hundred acres of land, a fine house upon it, forty milch kine, and other accommodations to it : the benefactor deserves perpetual memory ; his name Mr. Benjamin Symes, worthy to be chronicled; other petty schools also we have.
Page 86 - Time being necessarily spent in going and coming to and from his Work, in dispersed Country Plantations, and his pay being generally in straggling Parcels of Tobacco, the Collection whereof costs about 10 per Cent, and the best of this Pay coming but once a Year, so that he cannot turn his Hand frequently with a small Stock, as Tradesmen do in England and Elsewhere, all this occasions the Dearth of all Tradesmen's Labour, and likewise the Discouragement, Scarcity and Insufficiency of Tradesmen.
Page 73 - ... such child or children, by reason of his, her, or their idle, dissolute, and disorderly course of life, or that they neglect to take due care of the education and instruction of such child or children...
Page 5 - Ordered, that George Washington Esqr. be chosen and appointed one of the Vestrymen of this Parish, in the room of William Peake, Gent, deceased." And the court records show that "At a Court held for the County of Fairfax, 15th February, 1763 • George Washington Esqr. took the oaths according to Law repeated and subscribed the Test and subscribed to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England in order to qualify...
Page 40 - And whereas several slaves have been by different persons, since the above devise, given for the same purposes, but by reason of the inconvenient situation of the said land few children frequent the freeschool kept there...
Page 33 - with the milk and increase of eight cows, for the maintenance of a learned and honest man, to keep upon the said ground a free school, for the education and instruction of the children of the adjoining parishes of Elizabeth City and Kignotan, from Mary's Mount downward to the Poquoson river.
Page 60 - ... many of them as shall be so assembled, upon usual notice thereof first given, to purchase or hire any house or houses in the same parish, township or place, and to contract with any person or persons for the lodging, keeping, maintaining and employing...
Page 25 - My first overseer turned out good for nothing, and I soon parted with him, so that all the care of the plantation devolved on me; and though it was my first attempt in that way, I made a good crop. I had now also increased my number of boys to nearly thirty, most of them the sons of persons of the first condition in the colony. They all boarded with me, and I wholly superintended them myself, without any usher, for two years. At this glebe of St. Mary's I lived, I believe, seven years.
Page 81 - This Committee having taken under their mo&t serious Consideration the unhappy and indeed miserable Circumstances of the many poor Orphans and other poor Children, Inhabitants of the said Parishes whose parents are utterly unable to give them any Education...
Page 60 - And for the greater ease of parishes in the relief of the poor, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the churchwardens and overseers of the poor in any parish, town, township or place, with the consent of the major part of the parishioners or inhabitants of the same parish...