{(children) 15/ } {(sent by board) 10/ } Lancaster, Sarah 1784 {(sent by board) half } _Ibid._ {(sent by board half } { day) 7/6 } Harry, Mary (children) 15/ _Ibid._ Clark, Joseph (older girls 30/) _Ibid._ Mrs. Clarke 15/ _Ibid._ Marsh, Ann 20/ _Ibid._ McDonnell, Mary 1784 15/ _Ibid._ Clift, B. 1693 £12 Darby, 9-20-1693 Underwood, Elihu 1773 (Credit for school keeping) 2/2/0/ by 2 raccoon skins 0/4/0/ By netting a pair of stockings 0/2/6/[1010] Meccum, Eliza 1798 (Negro School) 50 Ph., 2-25-1798 Pickering, Elisha 1798 (Negro School) 150 _Ibid._ Benezet, A. 1794 (Negro School) 120 _Ibid._ Britt, Daniel 1793 (Negro School) 100 _Ibid._, 1-25-1793 Dougherty, Sarah 1793 (Negro School) 50 _Ibid._ As stated elsewhere in this work, the amounts received by masters and mistresses in the Friends’ school measure about the same as those stated for other private masters in the city at the same time. In the table above, the seeming increase from £50 per year in 1689 to £250 per year paid Robert Proud in 1784, and the slender salaries of the women as compared with those of the men, are worthy of attention.[1011] Though all of the teachers in the Negro School had had long experience, their salaries did not equal that of Classical School teachers; but they did keep pace with those in the English School. The price paid for young children was usually low, about one-half that paid for older ones in the same subjects. Children sent by the board were received at a less charge, or perhaps free of charge if that body had already made arrangement to that effect. The contrast between the salary received by the country masters Clift (Darby) and Underwood (Warrington) is very interesting. Such salaries were doubtless effective in causing unrest and a floating teacher population, against which the yearly meeting frequently remonstrated, and earnestly sought to correct. [Sidenote: Mistresses to be first considered]