. A history of Pennsylvania. Log College Building Erected at Neshaminy in 1727 for the school of William Tennant. Thiswas the beginning of the Princeton Univ^ersity the establishment of free schools for the poor, no effort hadbeen made to estabhsh them. One reason for this was thatschools were carried on by the different denominations eitherdirectly or indirectly. The WilUam Penn Charter School inPhiladelphia has already been mentioned. Many prosperousschools had also been estabhshed in the country districts;by the Quakers near their meeting house; by the Episco-paHans, whose schools at Oxford
. A history of Pennsylvania. Log College Building Erected at Neshaminy in 1727 for the school of William Tennant. Thiswas the beginning of the Princeton Univ^ersity the establishment of free schools for the poor, no effort hadbeen made to estabhsh them. One reason for this was thatschools were carried on by the different denominations eitherdirectly or indirectly. The WilUam Penn Charter School inPhiladelphia has already been mentioned. Many prosperousschools had also been estabhshed in the country districts;by the Quakers near their meeting house; by the Episco-paHans, whose schools at Oxford, Chester, Marcus Hook,Radnor, and Pequea (Lancaster County) were well known; CONDITIONS IN THE STATE ABOUT 1800 201 and by the Presbyterians, to whose efforts almost all theeducational opportunities in the western counties were Moravians were deeply interested in education, andtheir schools at Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Lititz were justlyof high repute. Christopher Dock, a Mennonite, is said tobe the author of the fir
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