We, the subscribers, do hereby promise to pay unto ... treasurer for Friends’ schools, within the compass of Goshen Monthly Meeting, or to other Friends as may be from time to time appointed by said committee to that service, the sum of money severally written against our names, which sums are so subscribed to be and remain a permanent fund under the care of and direction of the monthly meeting’s committee of the people called Quakers, held at Goshen for the time being, appointed for this and other such purposes relative to schools, to be by them laid out in such manner as they shall from time to time judge most conducive to securing an income to the said schools, which income or annuity so arising therefrom to be applied to the education of such children as live within the compass of Goshen Monthly Meeting, whose parents, whether Friends or others, are not of ability to pay for the same and other such purposes as a majority of said committee shall from time to time direct, consistent with the object of the institution. Witness our hands—etc.[580]
For the next six years there are but two reports worthy of attention, which may be briefly summarized in this manner:
The state of schools in 1787
1787
1. One school, under the monthly meeting,
a. has a large school house, and
b. a dwelling house and garden for a master, who
c. is a member of Friends
d. The school is in charge of a standing committee
2. Another school house, whose