[882] _Ibid._, 145. [883] _Ibid._, 221. [884] A letter written to John Penn, _Penn Ms. Collections_, I, 233. [885] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 7-30-1779, 151; 1-30-1784, 123ff. Also, Min. Horsham Sch. Com., 1-27-1783; Min. Horsham Prep. Mtg., 1-24-1783, and Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 2-28-1793, 165, give some of the books which were used in the schools. [886] P. C. S. M., I, 138. [887] Hildeburn, II, 332. [888] _Ibid._, I, 39. [889] _Pa. Gaz._, No. 1245, 1752. [890] _Ibid._, No. 1499, 1757. [891] _Ibid._, No. 1861, 1764. [892] _Ibid._, No. 1556, 1758. [893] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 3-30-1770, 370. [894] P. C. S. M., I, 138. [895] Min. Darby Mo. Mtg., 2-28-1793, 165. [896] Min. Horsham Sch. Com., 1-11-1793. [897] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 2-20-1793, 118. [898] Min. Byberry Prep. Mtg., 12-26-1792. [899] _Ibid._, 8-26-1789. [900] Min. Radnor Mo. Mtg., 5-8-1789, 55. [901] Min. Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., 6-17-1789, II, 70. [902] Hildeburn, I, 39 (published in London 1697). [903] _Ibid._, II, 100. [904] Prowell, I, 540. [905] In 1689 Phila. Mo. Mtg. authorized W. Bradford to print certain of G. Fox’s papers. These are not named and it hardly seems probable that Fox’s _Primmer_ was in the list. Bradford’s request for permission (Genealogical Publications, II, 139), H. S. P. [906] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 12-25-1697-8, p. 227 (G. S. P. P.) [907] Hildeburn, I, 38. [908] Smith, _Supplement to Catalogue of Friends Books_, 262. [909] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 11-29-1696-7, 211. (G. S. P. P., Vol. 4). [910] Pastorius’s _Common Place Book_ (Mss.) H. S. P. [911] The _Primer_ of Stephen Crisp is also mentioned frequently with that of Fox, as being used in the schools. (Min. Abington Mo. Mtg., 8-27-1735, 207). [912] Hildeburn, II, 21, 114, 341, 340, and 343, respectively. [913] Hildeburn, I, 318. [914] P. C. S. M., I, 240. [915] Prowell, I, 541. [916] See page 191. [917] Chiefly in the _Norris Mss. Collections_. [918] A scale, having units of known value, which is used in measuring accomplishment in handwriting. [919] Hildeburn, II, 164. [920] Prowell, I, 540. [921] Elihu Underwood was teacher at Warrington in York County in 1784 (See Warrington Mo. Mtg. Min., 1-10-1784, 47.) [922] _Norris Ms. Collection_, H. S. P. [923] P. C. S. M., I, 64. [924] _Ibid._, 26; also Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 7-30-1779, 151. [925] In 1741 Buller advertised the teaching of writing, arithmetic, merchants’ accounts, navigation, algebra, and other parts of the mathematics to be taught at the “Public School.” (_Pa. Gaz._ No. 673, 1741). [926] _Ibid._, 84. [927] _Ibid._, 101. [928] _Ibid._, 122. [929] _Ibid._, 131. [930] _Ibid._, 133. [931] Min. Phila. Mo. Mtg., 1-30-1784, 123ff. [932] _Ibid._, 7-30-1779, 151. [933] P. C. S. M., I, 33. [934] _Ibid._, 14.