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.)
And also that they the said overseers shall have perpetual
succession and by the said name they and their successors shall
forever have hold and enjoy (to the use of the said school) all
the messuages lands tenements hereditaments goods and chattels
and receive and take all gifts and legacies already given
granted and devised or that shall be hereafter given granted
or devised to the use and maintenance of the said school and
masters ushers mistresses and poor scholars thereof without
further or other leave license authority or power whatsoever
from me my heirs or successors or from this government or any
therein on that behalf saving unto me my heirs and successors
the respective quit rents and other duties and payments out
of the said messuages lands tenements and hereditaments and
every of them reserved and payable in and by their several
original grants and patents and furthermore I do by these
presents for me my heirs and successors give and grant unto the
said Overseers by the name aforesaid full power license and
authority to give grant bargain sell alien enfeoff or demise
with the consent of the said meeting by writing under their
hands and common seal (or the hands and said seal of so many of
them as shall make a quorum) to such person or persons his or
her heirs or their heirs executors administrators and assigns
as shall be willing to purchase or rent the same all or any of
the aforesaid messuages lands tenements and hereditaments goods
and chattels and likewise to purchase receive and enjoy all or
any other messuages houses lands tenements and hereditaments
for the best advantage of the said school. _And also_ to frame
make and prescribe such rules orders and ordinances for the
good order and government of the said school and of the masters
ushers mistresses and poor children thereof successively and
for their and every of their stipends salaries and allowances
as to the members of the said Monthly Meeting for the time
being or the major part of them (in their respective meetings)
shall seem meet with power also to the said overseers by
the name aforesaid to sue and be sued and to do perform and
execute and suffer to be done all and every other lawful act
and thing good and profitable for the said school in as full
and ample manner as any other body politic or corporate more
perfectly founded and incorporated may and can do. And I do for
me my heirs and assigns ordain and grant that the said school
and the masters ushers members officers and scholars and all
other persons placed or to be placed in the said school shall
forever hereafter be accepted and freed from all visitation
punishment and connection to be had used or exercised by any
person or persons whatsoever other than the said Overseers for
the time being and their successors.
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