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1649 AD (search for this): chapter 1.18
ry schoolmaster. * * * * Often a clever servant * is indentured to some planter * * as a schoolmaster. Extracts from Itinerant Observations in America—London Magazine, 1746. Published in the Richmond Standard, September 7, 14, 21, 1878. In 1649 there were twenty churches in Virginia, with ministers to each. There were also, besides other schools, a free school in Elizabeth City county amply endowed by bequest of Benjamin Symes in 1634—the first legacy for such purpose made by a resident of the American plantatious. A Perfect Description of Virginia, 1649, page 15. Force's Tracts, Volume II. Other free schools followed in the benefactions of Virginia planters — in Gloucester county in 1675, founded by Henry Peasley; in Yorktown in 1691, by Governor Francis Nicholson; Of this school Robert Leightonhouse, who died in 1701, was the first teacher. The school-house was standing in Yorktown at the beginning of our late war. in Westmoreand in 1700, by William Horton; in Accom<
September, 1663 AD (search for this): chapter 1.18
twelve pence were by the common law subject to the death penalty. Tucker, Volume IV, page 236. It would appear that the transportation of felons to America was first authorized by Parliament in 1663, when an act was passed sending hither the Morse Troopers of Cumberland and Northumberland. Blackstone, Philadelphia Edition, 1841, Volume I, side note 18, page 137. The presence of these Puritans in Virginia was speedily felt. An insurrection among the white servants of the colony in September, 1663, led, states Beverley, by Oliverian soldiers, Beverley, pages 5-8. gave so great an alarm that measures were taken by vigorous enactment to prohibit the importation of such dangerous and scandalous people, since thereby we apparently lose our reputation. Hening, Volume II, page 510. In 1671 Captains Bristow and Walker were made to give security in the some of 1,000,000 pounds of tobacco and cask that certain Newgate birds be sent out of the colony within two months. Ibid, page 511.
1645 AD (search for this): chapter 1.18
me only opportunity for the statement of some facts in augmentation of his valuable presentation. My own examination of various records of Virginia, incidental to historical research, has proven to me that the general educational attainments of the Virginia colonists, from the earliest period, compared favorably with such average acquirements in Old England or New England. My friend, President Tyler, of William and Mary College, who has carefully examined the records of York county from 1645, informs me that they sustain this conclusion. He found, however, at the conclusion of the seventeenth century evidences of 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 and others, who by service, usually for thr
1795 AD (search for this): chapter 1.18
fficult to imagine. McCabe, page 9.The indulgences of the Virginian of the eighteenth century were not peculiar to him alone. They largely prevailed in New England. They were the natural reflex of the laxity of English morals under the Georges. However liable the Virginian may have been to the charge of intolerance, superstition seems not to have benighted his nature. His courts record but one instance of an arraignment for witchcraft. Upon the complaint of one Luke Hill and wife in 1795 Grace Sherwood was tried by the County Court of Princess Anne on the suspicion of witchcraft. She was first searched by an able jury of ancient women and then subjected to the water test—being cast into the river and she swiming w'n therein and bound, contrary to custom, was again committed to ye common goal of ye county to be brought to a ffuture tryall there. Collections of the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, Volume I, 1833. pages 69-78. The court, however, not knowing
October 13th, 1891 AD (search for this): chapter 1.18
The Colonial Virginian. An Address delivered before the Geographical and Historical Society of Richmond College, October 13, 1891, by R. A. Brock. Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen: The Geographical and Historical Society of Richmond College, at whose bidding I have the honor to be here, was happy, I trust, in the choice of its designation. It should be potential in its range of possibilities. It follows, emuluously it seems, other Virginian precursors of enlightenment. The original title of a dignified body, which I have for years striven to serve, was the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society. It was organized December 29, 1831, with Chief-Justice Marshall as its first president. It is honored now in a triumvirate of directive officers, whom Richmond values for their excellences. The second of these is your own loved president, the chief herald of the cause of education in our teeming republic. The Hon. William Wirt Henry and Colonel Archer Anderson ho
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