. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. nds of proper inference to say there must have beenteachers before that time in the neighborhoods of Rockyriver. Sugar creek. Steele creek, and Providence. MosesFerguson taught near where the Barringers lived, and laterat Steele creek before 1762, and he was one of the teachersmentioned by Governor Dobbs in 1755 as being employedby a number of Irish Protestant families who had bandedtogether in order to have their children educated. There were but few school houses in the county beforethe Revolution, it being the cu
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. nds of proper inference to say there must have beenteachers before that time in the neighborhoods of Rockyriver. Sugar creek. Steele creek, and Providence. MosesFerguson taught near where the Barringers lived, and laterat Steele creek before 1762, and he was one of the teachersmentioned by Governor Dobbs in 1755 as being employedby a number of Irish Protestant families who had bandedtogether in order to have their children educated. There were but few school houses in the county beforethe Revolution, it being the custom for the teachers to workat their homes or at the homes of the patrons. By 1775,however, there were school buildings in Charlotte and atRocky river, Clear creek, Sugar and Steele creeks, Provi-dence, Hopewell, Beattys ford and one between Providenceand the present town of Monroe. The Sugar creek gram-mar school was one of the most noted in this section. Someteachers would teach in one community a few months, andthen move to another, and in this way were engaged in their. k\ *-$*£ en en H or o D o HCM I—H HO w EDUCATION BEFORE l80O. JI work during the whole year. They did not depend for theirliving entirely upon tuition, as records are teach-ers crying sales and trading horses. Writing, reading, spelling and arithmetic were the sub-jects taught in these first schools. The Bible was oftenused as the text book for reading, but considerable difficultywas encountered in securing a sufficient number of arithme-tics. The teacher, of course, possessed one, and he or thepupils would copy portions of it for the use of the books were kept for sale by the merchants in Meck-lenburg, but these were of a religious character, and the textbooks were usually purchased in Charleston and broughtback by the traders. People of those days had practical ideas about was deemed important that children be taught the rudi-ments of education, and some were sent
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