Early Quaker education in PennsylvaniaWoody, Thomas
History
Early Quaker education in Pennsylvania
Woody, Thomas
Education -- Pennsylvania -- History; Society of Friends -- Education -- History; Thesis (Ph. D.)
Besides the books already mentioned that are known to have been concerned
directly with schools, there were innumerable others which were printed
by Friends and circulated at their suggestion among all the meetings.
They are largely religious and doctrinal treatises; many of them, though
not found thus stated, may have been used in instruction. They were at
least of educational importance to the communities that read them. They
are mentioned in the minutes of every meeting. Though usually paid for
by the meeting, the Board of Overseers in Philadelphia went on record
to the effect that fines for absence from, or tardiness in coming to
their meetings should be applied to the purchase of books for the school
library.[953] Sometimes they were given by bequest, as in the case of
the Philadelphia school, which received through the monthly meeting a
large collection (for that day) from Thomas Chalkly.[954] The list, as
given below, is made up from records of Sadsbury, Westland, Warrington
and Fairfax, Uwchlan, Concord, Radnor, New Garden, London Yearly,
Philadelphia Yearly, Gwynedd, Falls, Exeter, Wrightstown, Darby, Byberry,
Horsham, Abington, and Buckingham meetings, and though perhaps it does
not contain all, it does have those most commonly used. This list is as
follows:
[Sidenote: A list of books most commonly found in the meeting]
Banks, _Journal, Life and Travels_.
Barclay, _Anarchy of the Ranters_.
Bathurst, _Truth Vindicated_.
Benezet, _Account of the Friends_ (in the German language).
_On the Keeping of Slaves._
Churchman, _Journal_.
Claridge, _Posthumous works_.
Crisp, _Epistles of Stephen Crisp_.
Davis, _Journal_.
Edmundson, _Journal_.
Elwood, _Works_.
Fothergill, _Journal_.
Fox, _Journal_.
Fuller, _Catechism_.
Hall, _A Mite into the Treasury_.
Holme, _A Serious Call in Christian Love to all People_.
Keith, _Way to the City of God_.
London Yearly Meeting’s Epistles.
Penn, _No Cross No Crown_.
_Rise and Progress of the Quakers._
_Travels in Germany._
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Epistles.
Richardson, _Life of John Richardson_.
Sewell, _History of Friends_.
Scott, _Journal_.
Spaulding, _Reason for leaving the National Mode of Worship_.
Stanton, _Journal_.
Treatises on Tythes.
Treatises on _Reasons for Silent Waiting_.
Turford, _Grounds of an Holy Life_.
Woolman, _Journal_.
SUMMARY
[Sidenote: Support]
[Sidenote: Weakness in the organization]
[Sidenote: Forms of support]
[Sidenote: Subscription plans generally adopted]
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