Potomac landings . ashing & 500 pounds of tobacco and a horse,Bridle & Saddle to ride on during his stay. Public education on this shore depended on theoccasional willing clergyman and the infrequent fieldschool to bridge the many decades until Alexan-dria developed its Academy shortly after the Revolu-tion and the early days of the new century saw theEpiscopal Theological Seminary and the EpiscopalHigh School rise west of the same city on the heightsoverlooking the river through the valley of GreatHunting Creek. In the absence of any local schools of importance thericher river planters put th
Potomac landings . ashing & 500 pounds of tobacco and a horse,Bridle & Saddle to ride on during his stay. Public education on this shore depended on theoccasional willing clergyman and the infrequent fieldschool to bridge the many decades until Alexan-dria developed its Academy shortly after the Revolu-tion and the early days of the new century saw theEpiscopal Theological Seminary and the EpiscopalHigh School rise west of the same city on the heightsoverlooking the river through the valley of GreatHunting Creek. In the absence of any local schools of importance thericher river planters put the education of their childrenin the hands of tutors. These men were sent outfrom England or Scotland, some were young minis-ters in orders, others indentured servants, or theycame from one of the northern colonies. If the familywas small the tutor often supplemented his work inthe schoolroom by keeping accounts for the planter orby acting as his secretary. One of the first instances of a tutor coming to the. Councillor Robert Carter of Xomim Hall On the Potomac, Westmoreland County, Virginia. This portrait, from thecolleetion of the late Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, is attributed to Sir Joshua Rey-nolds. The young American, at the time on a visit to England, is representedas costumed for a fancy dress ball with a mask in his hand. POTOMAC LANDINGS 213 river is found in a letter from Nicholas Haywood, aLondon grocer, to Nathaniel Pope, in 1652: Sr Ihave sent you in Mr Butlers a young man the which Iwould desire you to take into your house & let himhave meate & drinke and lodging & to imploy him inthe best imploym* you shall see him capable of I con-seave that he will be fitt to teach yo children for hecan write a very good hand sifer very well & is able tokeepe yo acct if you conseave it meete. Furtherlight is thrown on the employments of the tutor bythe will, in 1660, of John Carter, the immigrant, an-cestor of the Councillor, of Nomini Hall: *My sonRobert, in his minority, is t
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