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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
gathered as to the provision for education made by our forefathers, but that dutiful office has been most happily anticipated in the elaborate address of Mr. Wyndham R. Meredith on Colonial Culture in Virginia, delivered before the literary societies of William and Mary College, July 1st last. I am told that its publication in dufor the manufacture of fabrics. In 1657 premiums were offered for the production of silk, flax, and other staple commodities. Hening, Volume I, page 169. Mr. Meredith, whose able address I have referred to, conclusively refutes the charge of illiteracy and disregard for education in our ancestors. My limits, with the compreof a marked improvement in education and in material circumstances. Possessions were more valuable, and included many concomitants of comfort and refinement. Mr. Meredith proves from the marriage bonds recorded in Norfolk county from 1750 to 1761, that ninety-four per cent. of its inhabitants conld write. Indentured servants
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
Louisiana Historical Association, 35. McClung, Major J. W., 299. Magruders Peninsula Campaign, 60. McGregor's Battery, Roll of, 281. McGuire, Dr., Hunter, Sketch of, his reminiscenses of General Jackson, 298. McPhail, Major John B., 56. Manassas, History of, First Battle of, 81. Maury, General D. H., 51, 191, 201, 263, 389. Maury. Colonel R. L., 105. Memorial Window in Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Va., Removal of the, 207; Lines on , by James Barron Hope, 211. Meredith, W. R., on Colonial Culture in Virginia, 126. Merrimac or Virginia, The, 31, 80, 246, 248. Minor C. S. Navy, Lieutenant R. D., 5. Monitor, The, 5, 72 Morgan, Fort, 80. Morgan, Mrs. Henrietta H., Mother of soldiers, death of, 267. Morton, Camp, Federal Prison, 47. Negro troops, 102. North Carolina troops, Tribute to, 119. North Carolina Volunteers, The First and the Battle of Bethel, 212; organization of the Regiment, 212, 217; Lines addressed to by Luola, 230. O'Ferra