We of the committee appointed to essay a report to the quarterly meeting of the situation of our members in regard to schools and the progress of our monthly meeting in that important concern, having had several conferences and opportunities of enquiring into that subject, report as follows: that some have been appointed and continued from time to time by our monthly meeting for several years past, who have used many endeavors to promote the establishment of schools agreeable to the advices of the Yearly Meeting; but our number generally living so remote from each other, has prevented much progress being made therein, save one house being built by Friends at Nantmeal nearly on the plan proposed, in which a school has been kept some time, but now dropped for want of a salary for the master, there not being a sufficient number of Friends settled contiguous thereto nor to each other, in any other part of our meeting to support a school; and the boarding out of our children appears an expense too heavy for many of us, so that we are generally in the practice of schooling our children in a mixed manner, though mostly under the tutorage of Friends, or persons friendly disposed, to whom some care has been extended and their schools frequently visited by our committee some time back. Signed by order of the school committee by William Millhouse, clerk.[621] [Sidenote: London Grove] [Sidenote: Committee of men and women appointed for schools] In 1794, the London Grove Monthly Meeting, just created, began its educational work by appointing a committee to take subscriptions for a fund to support a “regular school.”[622] In 1795, the preparative meeting proposing that a standing committee be appointed to inspect the necessities of the poor and the school education of their children, the following were named to unite with a committee of women on that concern, viz.: Samuel Swayne, Josiah Hoopes, John Man, and Jonathan Buslow.[623] Four months later the committee appointed to raise the funds by subscription (see above) reported that a sum of “more than fifty pounds” was already subscribed.[624] No statement of the number of schools established in the limits of the London Grove Meeting is given between the time of its establishment and the end of the century; nor are any other details vouchsafed. It will suffice for a voucher of their intentions and the work actually begun in that period, to insert the following statement of their plan for founding their schools. [Sidenote: Plan produced for settling schools]