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North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
nia before 1700, but the chief influx was in that year, when more than 500 came and settled, chiefly at Manakintown. The virtue of this infusion is manifest in the names of Dupuy, Fontaine, Marye, Maury, Micou, Michaux, and others, quite concluding the alphabet with Venable and Youille, many of them being numerously represented among us. Of the Scotch, but few immigrants before the union of Scotland with England, in 1707, may be identified. William Drummond, who had been Governor of North Carolina, and who was hung by Berkeley in 1676 as a rebel, is said to have been a Scotchman. The founder of the distinguished Nelson family was called, it may be significantly, Scotch Tom, but he was born in Cumberland county, England. Dr. James Blair was a Scotchman, but he came to Virginia through the alembic of England as the famous race of the Valley of Virginia, whose brains and brawn have so impressed them upon the history of our country, did through that of Ireland, following, in 1734, fr
Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
dent 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 AYorktown at the beginning of our late war. in Westmoreand in 1700, by William Horton; in Accomac in 1710, by Samuel Sanford; in Elizabeth City in 1730, by Thomas Eaton. In 1700 there were five schools in Henrico county. Beverley, writing about the same period, states: There are large tracts of land, houses, and other things granted to free schools in many parts of the county, and some of them are so large that of themselves they are a handsome maintainence for a master. * * In all other places where such endowments have not already been made, the people join and build schools for
Glasgow, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
of various parishes. It cannot be questioned that many sons of wealthy planters enjoyed the advantages of English and Scotch Universities and the schools of Oxford and Cambridge, Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Wakefield, Yorkshire, of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and of the Merchants' Taylors' School. It may be realized that in the prosperity attending the Virginia planter at the close of the seventeenth century, the most enlightening influences followed. The eighteenth century began with an era of ll, son of James McDowell, of Rockbridge county, who was the first surgeon on record to successfully perform, in Kentucky, in 1809, the operation for extirpation of the ovary.. The list of Virginia-born physicians graduated from Edinburgh and Glasgow is a lengthy one. The earliest in preserved record were Theodrick Bland, in 1763; Arthur Lee, 1764, and Corbin Griffin, 1765. Among the subsequent names were those of McClurg, Campbell, Walker. Ball, Boush, Lyons, Gilliam, Smith, Field, Lewis
Spottsylvania (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
as no deficiency onward of such ministrants. I find Chirurgeon John Brock, with others, in 1640, and a little later Drs. Daniel Parke, Robert Ellison, Francis Haddon, and Patrick Napier, in York county. Dr. John Mitchell, F. R. S., eminent, as a botanist as well as physician, located in Middlesex in 1700. Another alike doubly distinguished in science was John Clayton, son of the Attorney-General of the same name, and who settled in Gloucester in 1706. John Tennent, Sr. and Jr., of Spotsylvania, the former of whom made valuable contributions to medical literature. Dr. William Cabell, who had been a surgeon in the British navy, and was the founder of the distinguished family of his name. Dr. John Baynham, of Caroline, and Dr. William Baynham, of Essex county. The heroic General Hugh Mercer, who fell at Princeton in 1777, and our own Richmond pioneers, James McClurg and William Foushee, both of whom rendered excellent service in the Revolution. I may mention also Ephria
Westover (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
of the planter from an early period. I have met with many memorials from Virginia libraries of the seventeenth century in auction sales in Richmond-waifs that have been transmitted in successive ownership. I have in reverential sentiment garnered many of them in my personal library. In the early decades of the eighteenth century libraries, comprehensive in subject and extensive for the period, became quite numerous in the colony. Catalogues of the libraries of Colonel William Byrd, of Westover, the second of the name, and of John Mercer, of Marlboro, are in my possession. The first, the formation of which was commenced by the immigrant William Byrd, and augmented by his more famous son, enumerates three thousand six hundred and twenty-five volumes, in size from duodecimo to folio. The library of John Mercer comprised one thousand five hundred volumes, of which about one-third were law-books. The libraries of Sir John Randolph, George Mason, William Beverley, John Herbert, Will
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
of such a procedure this seeming sharp Providence of God would have been highly justified. Africa gave Virginia A savage and A slave—Virginia gives back to Africa A citizen and A Christian! Slaughter's History of African Colonization, cited in Virginia in Her Past Relation to Slavery, Virginia Historical Collections, Volume VI, pages 35-36. It is encouraging to know that a prominent negro, the Methodist Bishop Turner, accepts this just conclusion. In an address delivered recently in Baltimore, he said: I believe that Providence sanctioned slavery for a time in order to bring the negro in contact with the white race that he might absorb the white man's Christianity and civilization and [he added what is of infinite moment to the races] return to Africa and civilize his brethren there. What a truly grand destiny this would be for the Afro-American. The Virginian planter was essentially a transplanted Englishman in tastes and convictions, and emulated the amenities and the c
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
ligious tenets. The Cavaliers of Virginia and the Puritans of New England agreed in thinking religion an essential part of the State. Betntury were not peculiar to him alone. They largely prevailed in New England. They were the natural reflex of the laxity of English morals u These lists include shipments to the West India Islands and to New England, as well as Virginia. Although the latter destination was at the period deemed quite a general one south of New England, there are more lists ostensibly for New England than Virginia. The lists themselvNew England than Virginia. The lists themselves seem to offer no more foundation for the stigmatizing term convict than in some instances that they were rebels or political offenders. Dtously and fostered and fixed in the greed of Old England and of New England, was one, whatever its alleged enormity, highly providential in ared favorably with such average acquirements in Old England or New England. My friend, President Tyler, of William and Mary College, who h
West Indies (search for this): chapter 1.18
the country, pervaded Eastern Virginia. Some writers seem to delight in the assertion that Virginians are largely the descendants of felons-vile criminals. The chief authority for the charge—Hotten's List of Emigrants to America, 1600– 1700—comprehends, according to the title page, Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Exiles, Serving-Men sold for a period of years, Apprentices, Children stolen, Maidens pressed, and Others. These lists include shipments to the West India Islands and to New England, as well as Virginia. Although the latter destination was at the period deemed quite a general one south of New England, there are more lists ostensibly for New England than Virginia. The lists themselves seem to offer no more foundation for the stigmatizing term convict than in some instances that they were rebels or political offenders. Dishonor can scarcely be held to attach to such. The magnanimous New Englander would vouchsafe us all of the felons as he wou<
Stafford (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.18
e 226. In 1705 the French Protestant Refugees at Manakin-Town, were exempted from the payment of all publick and county levies, and the allowance settled by law for a minister's maintainance, was enacted not to be construed as to the minister of said parish of King William, but that the inhabitants be left at their own liberty to agree with and pay their minister as their circumstances will admit. Hening's Statutes, Volume III, page 478. In 1730, the German Protestants at Germanna, in Stafford county, were exempted from the payment of parish levies. Ibid, Volume IV, page 306. There is basis for the belief that the persecution of the Quakers was never inexorable, and that their religious meetings were allowed from the period of their first seating in the colony. In 1663 John Porter, a member of the House of Burgesses, from Lower Norfolk county, was arraigned before the House for being loving to the Quakers, and being at their meetings. He was also charged with being so far an Anab
Eton (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1.18
Virginians, and in which were fed, clothed, lodged, and taught poor children. The providence of the parish system is indicated in the appointed duty of the vestrymen in binding out pauper children, to require by contract that they should have three years schooling. This practice is attested by the vestry records of various parishes. It cannot be questioned that many sons of wealthy planters enjoyed the advantages of English and Scotch Universities and the schools of Oxford and Cambridge, Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Wakefield, Yorkshire, of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and of the Merchants' Taylors' School. It may be realized that in the prosperity attending the Virginia planter at the close of the seventeenth century, the most enlightening influences followed. The eighteenth century began with an era of expanding intelligence, increasing refinement and luxurious expenditure. The sons, returning from the schools, colleges and inns of the law courts of the mother country, invested with
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