New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . scars of her wounds until the day of her death,it is stated, upon good authority, that she lived to beone hundred and ten years old; so that it is plain thather constitution was not injured by the sufferings andhardships of the beginning of her life in New Jersey. 68 Not only did the Stouts flourish in Middletown, butsome of them went a little southward, and helped tofound the town of Hopewell; and here they increasedto such a degree that one of the early historians relatesthat the Baptist Church there was founded by theStouts, and
New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times . scars of her wounds until the day of her death,it is stated, upon good authority, that she lived to beone hundred and ten years old; so that it is plain thather constitution was not injured by the sufferings andhardships of the beginning of her life in New Jersey. 68 Not only did the Stouts flourish in Middletown, butsome of them went a little southward, and helped tofound the town of Hopewell; and here they increasedto such a degree that one of the early historians relatesthat the Baptist Church there was founded by theStouts, and that for forty-one years the religious meet-ings were held in the houses of different members ofthe Stout family, while, at the time he wrote, half ofthe congregation of the church were still Stouts, andthat, all in all, there had been at least two hundredmembers of that name. So the Baptist Church inHopewell, as well as all the churches in Middletown,owed a great deal to the good Indian who carried poorPenelope to his village, and cured her of her -r^i^. THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE DOCTOR. OF course, it was not long after New Jersey beganto be settled and cultivated, before there werea great many boys and girls who also needed to becultivated. And if we are to judge their numbers bythe families of Elizabeth, who started for the NewWorld in a hogshead, and of Penelope, who beganher life here in a hollow tree, there must have beenan early opportunity for the establishment of flourish-ing schools; that is, so far as numbers of scholarsmake schools flourishing. But in fact it does not appear that very early at-tention was given in this State to the education ofthe young. The first school of which we hear wasestablished in 1664; but it is probable that the firstsettlers of New Jersey were not allowed to grow upto be over forty years old before they had any chanceof going to school, and it is likely that there were smallschools in various ])laces of which no historical mentio
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