The benevolent design of a free school in the colony, frustrated by the massacre of 1622, was realized in 1635, when--three years before John Harvard bequeathed his estate to the college near Boston which bears his name--Benjamin Syms left "the first legacy by a resident of the American plantations of England for the promotion of education."[46] In 1659 Thomas Eaton established[47] a free school in Elizabeth City County, adjoining that of Benjamin Syms; and a fund amounting to $10,000, representing these two ancient charities, is still used to carry on the public high-school at Hampton, Virginia. In 1655 Captain John Moon left a legacy for a free school in Isle of Wight County; and in 1659 Captain William Whittington left two thousand pounds of tobacco for a free school in Northampton County. [Footnote 1: Hening, _Statutes_, I., 224.] [Footnote 2: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, pp. 201, 231, 268.] [Footnote 3: _William and Mary Quarterly_, IV., 173-176, V., 40.] [Footnote 4: _Virginia's Cure_ (Force, _Tracts_, III., No. xv.).] [Footnote 5: De Vries, _Voyages_ (N.Y. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, III., 34).] [Footnote 6: Smith, _Works_ (Arber's ed.), 887.] [Footnote 7: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 288. In 1639 Alexander Stonar, brickmaker, patented land on Jamestown Island "next to the brick-kiln," Tyler, _Cradle of the Republic_, 46, 99.] [Footnote 8: Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 4th series, IX., 108.] [Footnote 9: De Vries, _Voyages_ (N.Y. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, III., 37)] [Footnote 10: _William and Mary Quarterly_, VII., 66, 114.] [Footnote 11: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 117.] [Footnote 12: Hening, _Statutes_, I., 225.] [Footnote 13: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 67.] [Footnote 14: Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 4th series, IX., 110.] [Footnote 15: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 184.] [Footnote 16: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 228.] [Footnote 17: _Va. Magazine_, V., 123-128.] [Footnote 18: _Virginia and Maryland, or the Lord Baltimore's Printed Case, uncased and answered_ (Force, _Tracts_, II, No. ix.).] [Footnote 19: _Va. Magazine_, II., 281-288.] [Footnote 20: Hening, _Statutes_, I., 230-235.] [Footnote 21: _Manuscript Collection of Annals relating to Virginia_ (Force, _Tracts_, II., No. vi.).] [Footnote 22: Latane, _Early Relations between Maryland and Virginia_ (_Johns Hopkins University Studies_, XIII., Nos. iii. and iv.).] [Footnote 23: Winthrop, _New England_, III, 198, 199]. [Footnote 24: Ibid.; Beverley, _Virginia_, 48.] [Footnote 25: _Va. Magazine_, VIII., 71-73.] [Footnote 26: _A Perfect Description of Virginia_ (Force, _Tracts_, II., No. viii.); Beverley, _Virginia_, 49.] [Footnote 27: Hening, _Statutes_, I., 323-326.] [Footnote 28: Latane, _Early Relations_ (_Johns Hopkins University Studies_, XIII.).] [Footnote 29: _William and Mary Quarterly_, VIII., 239.]