[231] Hening, ii. 517.
[232] Hening, ii. 518.
[233] Virginia Magazine, i. 326, 348; William and Mary College Quarterly, v. 113. Allusion has already been made, on page 5 of the present volume, to the school founded by Benjamin Symms, or Symes.
[234] Hening, i. 336.
[235] President Tyler cites from the vestry-book of Petsworth Parish, in Gloucester County, an indenture of October 30, 1716, wherein Ralph Bevis agrees to “give George Petsworth, a molattoe boy of the age of 2 years, 3 years’ schooling, and carefully to Instruct him afterwards that he may read well in any part of the Bible, also to Instruct and Learn him ye sd molattoe boy such Lawfull way or ways that he may be able, after his Indented time expired, to gitt his own Liveing, and to allow him sufficient meat, Drink, washing, and apparill, until the expiration of ye sd time, &c., and after ye finishing of ye sd time to pay ye sd George Petsworth all such allowances as ye Law Directs in such cases, as also to keep the aforesd Parish Dureing ye aforesd Indented time from all manner of Charges,” etc. William and Mary College Quarterly, v. 219.
[236] Miss Rowland’s Life of George Mason, i. 97.
[237] Butler’s “British Convicts Shipped to American Colonies,” American Historical Review, ii. 27.
[238] The worthy pastor even goes so far as to exclaim, with a groan, that two thirds of the schoolmasters in Maryland were convicts working out a term of penal servitude! Boucher’s Thirteen Sermons, p. 182. But in such declamatory statements it is never safe to depend upon numbers and figures. In the present case we may conclude that the number of such schoolmasters was noticeable; we are not justified in going further.
[239] From the excellent papers by W. G. Stanard, on “Virginians at Oxford,” William and Mary College Quarterly, ii. 22, 149, I have culled a few items which may be of interest:—
John Lee, armiger (son of 1st Richard, see above, p, 19), educated at Queens, B. A. 1662, burgess.