4. Request a future urging and some advice of the yearly meeting.
The encouragement given to the school of Concord through individual philanthropy is to be noted in the will of Nathan Yarnall, an extract from which appeared in the Concord minutes.
Schools encouraged by individual philanthropy
I give and bequeath the sum of £50 to be appropriated for the use of Friends School at Concord, if established agreeable to the plan recommended by the Yearly Meeting last year, to be paid into the hands of the committee appointed for the establishment of the said school.... It appears that Samuel Trimble, Morris Jones, William Trimble, and Caleb Pierce are a committee appointed by the Concord Preparative meeting to take the immediate care and oversight of that school. They ... and to make report to next meeting.[748]
Such aid as this doubtless hastened the coming of the first school which was reported by the committee in 1786.[749]
SUMMARY
The meetings
The establishment of schools in Chester, Radnor, Darby and Concord meetings is discussed in this chapter.
Chester
Land devised for schools