Parish Education in Colonial Virginia, 138. izdajaTeachers college, Columbia university, 1923 - 95 strani |
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Alexandria appears apprentices apprenticeship Assembly bequest binding Bristol Parish vestry children were bound churchwardens 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 Hening History of Virginia Ibid 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 teacher Theodorick Bland Truro Parish trustees Upper Parish vestry meeting vestry minutes vestry record vestrymen wardens Washington Parish William and Mary Williamsburg workhouse
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Stran 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.
Stran 65 - Life so as to become usefull members of the Community, Have Resolved earnestly to recommend it to their Respective Vestries that they should join in a Petition to the General Assembly to procure an Act to enable the said Parishes to erect a FREE SCHOOL for Educating the poor Children of the said Parishes in Reading, Writing and Arithmetic at the joint .Expence of the said Parishes, and Uniting the same to the said Poorshouse Under such Rules, Orders and Directions as shall be most just and proper...
Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 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...
Stran 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...
Stran 56 - Country, that which has been clear'd is thicker in Woods than it was before the clearing. It is but in very few Places that the Plough is made use of, for in their first clearing they never grub up the Stumps, but cut the Trees down about two or three Foot from the Ground; so that all the Roots and Stumps being left, that Ground must be tended with Hoes, and by that time the Stumps are rotten, the Ground is worn out; and having fresh Land enough, of which they must clear some for Fire- Wood, they...
Stran 60 - ... and to contract with any person or persons for the lodging, keeping, maintaining and employing any or all such poor in their respective parishes, townships or places...
Stran 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.
Stran 56 - Though the planters are the most numerous, perhaps not the hundredth part of the country is yet cleared from the woods, and not one foot of the marsh and swamp drained. As fast as the ground is worn out with tobacco and corn, it runs up again in underwoods; and in many places of the country, that which has been cleared is thicker in woods than it was before the clearing.