> My impression of the schooling in the eastern plantations of Virginia is
that it was often done by tutors hired by families for their children.
There is an interesting volume entitled Journal & Letters of Philip
Vickers Fithian 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion.  This
was republ;ished in 1965.

The Scotch-Irish in the Valley often had schools run by their ministers.
There is a detailed description of the Augusta Academy at Fairfield, VA,
later to become the Liberty Hall Academy, and eventually to become
Washington and Lee University.  This is by Dr. Samuel Campbell in the
Southern Literary Messenger,  Volume 4, Issue 6, June, 1838, pp. 361-367.
 The Lyburn Library of Washington and Lee University has a copy of this
article.  It may also be obtained from the University of Michigan Library
on web page entitled Makers of America.
>
Morton H. Smith

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