[762] Min. Kennett Mo. Mtg., 12-15-1796, 146.
[763] Ibid., 8-16-1798, 199.
[764] Min. London Grove Mo. Mtg., 11-4-1795, 78.
[765] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 2-3-1791, 133.
[766] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 12-10-1793, 128.
[767] Min. Buckingham Mo. Mtg., 4-1-1793, 302.
[768] Min. Kennett Mo. Mtg., 12-15-1796, 146.
[769] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 10-26-1701, 316.
[770] To find the text of legacies granted, turn to legacies, in the index.
[771] Min. Uwchlan Mo. Mtg., 8-3-1763, 22.
[772] Attention is called to the fact that during the years mentioned in the following table currency greatly depreciated. This depreciation was most marked in 1779, when, in January, the ratio was 8 to 1; and in November of the same year 38½ to 1. See Dewey, D. R., Financial History of U. S., 39; also page 212.
[773] Min. Penn Charter School Overseers, I, 301.
[774] Buckingham Mo. Mtg., 12-7-1778, 194.
[775] Ibid., 4-1-1793, 302.
[776] Min. Wrightstown Mo. Mtg., 12-7-1790, 60.
[777] Min. Falls Mo. Mtg., 11-6-1799, 288.
[778] Min. Uwchlan Mo. Mtg., 2-5-1784, 162.
[779] Min. Horsham School Committee, 3-18-1793.
[781] Min. London Yr. Mtg., 3-16-1692, 68.
[782] The yearly meetings also established schools; such was the case in London Yearly, and Philadelphia followed in 1799 with the establishment of Westtown Boarding School in Chester County. Justice cannot be done to that institution in this work. The reader is referred to Dewes, A History of Westtown Boarding School.
[783] Min. London Yr. Mtg., 3-17 to 24-1703, 114; 5-26 to 31-1760, 339.
[784] Min. London Yr. Mtg., 3-16 to 19-1692, 68.
[785] Ibid., 4-2 to 7-1745, 268.
[786] Ibid., 4-9 to 11-1690, 52; 4-1 to 4-1691, 60.
[787] Ibid., 3-13 to 17-1695, 89.
[788] Ibid.
[789] Ibid., 4-2 to 10-1718, 160.
[790] Ibid., 5-31 to 6-5-1773, 399.
[791] Ibid., 3-29 to 4-3-1732, 210; 4-9 to 11-1690, 52.
[792] Min. Phila. Yr. Mtg., 7-16 and 17-1694, 39.
[793] Advices from Burlington and Philadelphia Yr. Mtg., 1746, 1750, 1753, 1755, 1777, and so forth, page 250ff. Also the yearly meeting minutes records for those years, deposited at 304 Arch Street, Phila. (The first reference is the more accessible.)
[794] The reader is referred to the account of establishing schools in Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware Counties, etc.
[795] These references are, respectively, to the five points stated below:
a. Min. Westland Mo. Mtg., 11-11-1786, 12; 3-10-1787, 19.
b. Min. Horsham Mo. Mtg., 4-28-1784.
c. Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 11-29-1719, 57.
d. Min. Kennett Mo. Mtg., 12-15-1796, 146.
e. Min. Chester Mo. Mtg., 1-27-1800, 508; Min. Concord Mo. Mtg., 8-9-1786, 370.
[796] See the Advices, 250; or the Book of Discipline which has, under the head of schools, a statement of the various recommendations of the yearly meetings. See also Yearly Meeting Minute Books at 4th and Arch Streets, Phila., for years 1746, 1753, 1755, 1777, and 1778.
[797] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 2-29-1698, 229; P. C. S. M., I, 13.
[798] Deed No. 33, mentioned in P. C. S. M., I, 13.
[799] Ibid., 40.
[800] Ibid., 147.
[801] Friends’ Intelligencer, 8-15-1896, 539; Min. Abington Mo. Mtg., 1-26-1722, 124.
[802] Min. Warrington and Fairfax Q. Mtg., 9-20-1779, 73.
[803] Ibid., 77; Warrington Mo. Mtg., 8-7-1779, 46.
[804] Deed No. 88 New Garden Township, Chester County. (The original is in Orthodox Friends Meeting House, West Grove, Pa.)
[805] Min. New Garden Mo. Mtg., 8-6-1785, 256.
[806] Min. Kennett Mo. Mtg., 1-12-1792, 14.
[807] Min. Goshen Mo. Mtg., 4-10-1795.
[808] Ibid., 3-8-1782.
[809] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 3-28-1793, 165.
[810] Min. Buckingham Mo. Mtg., 4-10-1794, 314.
[811] Jenkins, Historical Col. of Gwynedd, 396.
[812] Ibid.
[813] Min. Middletown Mo. Mtg., 12-1-1693-4, 64.
[814] Ibid., 1-1-1699, 114.
[815] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 5-25-1740, 318.
[816] In 1701 they had begun a school house which was to be 60 by 24 feet. Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 4-27-1701, 298.
[817] The schoolroom described is in Merion Meeting House, which may be reached from Philadelphia via P.R.R. to Narberth, Pa.; from thence a ten-minute walk.
[818] Min. Goshen Mo. Mtg., 3-8-1782.
[820] Ibid., 9-4-1799, 283.
[821] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 4-27-1701, 298.
[822] Ibid., 11-25-1744, 379; P. C. S. M., I, 40. Parts of the school buildings were at times used as tenant property thus affording a supporting income, P. C. S. M., I, 22.
[823] P. C. S. M., I, 56.
[824] Ibid., I, 39.
[825] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 9-25-1715, 10ff.
[826] P. C. S. M., I, 95 and 37.
[827] Min. Bradford Mo. Mtg., 6-18-1762; 4-7-1767; 8-14-1767.
[828] P. C. S. M., I, 29 and 25.
[829] Ibid., 31.
[830] Ibid., 95.
[831] Ibid., 37.
[832] P. C. S. M., 72.
[833] Ibid., 151ff.
[834] Ibid.
[835] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 1-30-1784, 123ff.
[836] P. C. S. M., I, 76 and 79; also I, 198.
[837] P. C. S. M., see list of scholars; number is approximate.
[838] Pemberton Mss., Vol. 3, p. 2.
[839] P. C. S. M., I, 102f. (Rules adopted in 1748.)
[840] Robert Proud Mss. Collection, No. 20, pp. 3-7. The rules, he states, were drawn up for his use in the school in 1780.
[841] The rules presented, taken from records of the Overseers of the Schools in Philadelphia, are quite like those later drawn up by Horsham School Committee. There is nothing additional in the later ones and they were doubtless patterned after them. (Horsham Sch. Com. Min., 1-27-1783).
[842] Robert Proud Mss., No. 156, 45.
[843] Logan Mss. Letter for 4th month, 12th, 1704. Vol. I, 49. (J. Dickinson was away on a voyage of some length.)
[844] Vaux, Memoirs of Benezet, 15f.
[845] Watson, Annals, I, 291-2.
[847] P. C. S. M., I, 137.
[848] Ibid., 150.
[849] Min. Horsham Sch. Com., 3-16-1792.
[852] See list of printed rules for the school in custody of P.C.S.
[853] Min. Horsham Sch. Com., 1-27-1783 (also mentioned in the monthly meeting minutes very frequently).
[855] P.C.S.M., I, 84.
[856] Pa. Gazette, No. 1449, 1756.
[857] Ibid., No. 824, 1744.
[858] Pa. Pocket and Daily Advertiser, No. 2385, 1786.
[859] Ibid., No. 2386, 1786.
[860] A list of printed rules issued by the Board, found in the depository for the P.C.S.M., in the Provident Life and Trust Building, Phila.
[861] Darby Meeting employed B. Clift to teach a whole year with the exception of two weeks. (Darby Min., 7-7-1692, 54).
[862] Ibid.
[864] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 1-30-1784, 123ff.
[865] P. C. S. M., I, 117.
[866] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 1-30-1784, 123ff.
[867] Some copies and volumes of these illustrious news sheets are found in the Norris Ms. Collection.
[868] Norris Ms. Collection—The Student’s Magazine. The little volumes are unpaged; page references are impossible.
[869] Norris Ms. Collection.
[870] Ibid.
[871] P. C. S. M., I, 135.
[872] Phila. Mo. Min., 1-25-1771, 430.
[873] London Yr. Mtg. Min., 4-2 to 10-1718, 160. Phila. Advices XXX, page 250 (for years from 1746-1778). Also a copy of the Discipline containing the digested recommendations on schools, p. 386ff. (In first National Bank, Newtown, Pa.).
[874] Col. Rec., I, LXVI.
[875] Extracts from London Yr. Mtg. Min., pub. 1802, 124.
[876] Crouch, Collection of His Papers, 183.
[877] Col. Rec., I, 36.
[878] P. C. S. M., I, 33.
[879] P. C. S. M., 14.
[880] Ibid., 90.
[881] Ibid., 117.
[882] Ibid., 145.
[883] Ibid., 221.
[884] A letter written to John Penn, Penn Ms. Collections, I, 233.
[885] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 7-30-1779, 151; 1-30-1784, 123ff. Also, Min. Horsham Sch. Com., 1-27-1783; Min. Horsham Prep. Mtg., 1-24-1783, and Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 2-28-1793, 165, give some of the books which were used in the schools.
[886] P. C. S. M., I, 138.
[887] Hildeburn, II, 332.
[888] Ibid., I, 39.
[889] Pa. Gaz., No. 1245, 1752.
[890] Ibid., No. 1499, 1757.
[891] Ibid., No. 1861, 1764.
[892] Ibid., No. 1556, 1758.
[893] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 3-30-1770, 370.
[894] P. C. S. M., I, 138.
[895] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 2-28-1793, 165.
[896] Min. Horsham Sch. Com., 1-11-1793.
[897] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 2-20-1793, 118.
[898] Min. Byberry Prep. Mtg., 12-26-1792.
[899] Ibid., 8-26-1789.
[900] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., 5-8-1789, 55.
[901] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 6-17-1789, II, 70.
[902] Hildeburn, I, 39 (published in London 1697).
[903] Ibid., II, 100.
[904] Prowell, I, 540.
[905] In 1689 Phila. Mo. Mtg. authorized W. Bradford to print certain of G. Fox’s papers. These are not named and it hardly seems probable that Fox’s Primmer was in the list. Bradford’s request for permission (Genealogical Publications, II, 139), H. S. P.
[906] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 12-25-1697-8, p. 227 (G. S. P. P.)
[907] Hildeburn, I, 38.
[908] Smith, Supplement to Catalogue of Friends Books, 262.
[909] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 11-29-1696-7, 211. (G. S. P. P., Vol. 4).
[910] Pastorius’s Common Place Book (Mss.) H. S. P.
[911] The Primer of Stephen Crisp is also mentioned frequently with that of Fox, as being used in the schools. (Min. Abington Mo. Mtg., 8-27-1735, 207).
[912] Hildeburn, II, 21, 114, 341, 340, and 343, respectively.
[913] Hildeburn, I, 318.
[914] P. C. S. M., I, 240.
[915] Prowell, I, 541.
[917] Chiefly in the Norris Mss. Collections.
[918] A scale, having units of known value, which is used in measuring accomplishment in handwriting.
[919] Hildeburn, II, 164.
[920] Prowell, I, 540.
[921] Elihu Underwood was teacher at Warrington in York County in 1784 (See Warrington Mo. Mtg. Min., 1-10-1784, 47.)
[922] Norris Ms. Collection, H. S. P.
[923] P. C. S. M., I, 64.
[924] Ibid., 26; also Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 7-30-1779, 151.
[925] In 1741 Buller advertised the teaching of writing, arithmetic, merchants’ accounts, navigation, algebra, and other parts of the mathematics to be taught at the “Public School.” (Pa. Gaz. No. 673, 1741).
[926] Ibid., 84.
[927] Ibid., 101.
[928] Ibid., 122.
[929] Ibid., 131.
[930] Ibid., 133.
[931] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 1-30-1784, 123ff.
[932] Ibid., 7-30-1779, 151.
[933] P. C. S. M., I, 33.
[934] Ibid., 14.
[935] Alexander Seaton, who came to the English School about 1754 (P. C. S. M. I, 117) had been teaching a school of the same nature in the upper part of the city, in which he taught mathematics. That school was also under the direction of the Board. (P. C. S. M., I, 90).
[936] Ibid., 80.
[937] Ibid., 104f.
[938] Ibid.
[939] A list of the rules for the government of the schools, printed, in the P. C. S. depository.