Here are some excellent sources (by no means exhaustive) on education in colonial Virginia. I've marked the one's I think are best with an asterisk. Good Luck.
* Bailyn, Bernard. Education in the forming of American society (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967).
Bell, Sadie. The Church, State and Education in Virginia (New York: 1930).
* Bruce, Philip A. Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Religious, Moral, Educational, Legal, Military, and Political Condition of the People Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records (2 vols., New York, Putnam, 1910)
Buck, James Lawrence Blair. The Development of Public Schools in Virginia (Commonwealth of Virginia State Board of Education, 1952).
* Craven, Wesley F. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949).
* Cremin, Lawrence A. In American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783 (New York, Harper &c Row, 1970),John M. Jennings's The Library of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1693-1793 (Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1968)
Heatwole, Cornelius. A History of Education in Virginia (The Macmillian Company, 1916) - http://archive.org/details/ahistoryeducati00heatgoog
Knight, Edgar W. ed., A Documentary History of Education in the South before 1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1949).
Neill, Edward D. The history of education in Virginia during the seventeenth century (Edward Duffield, 1867) - http://archive.org/details/historyeducatio02educgoog
* Robson, David W. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750-1800 (Greenwood Publishing, 1985).
* Zubatsky, David S. The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Bibliographical Essay. University of Illinois (2007) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/3878/gslisoccasionalpv00000i00140.pdf?sequence=1
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Does anyone know if there were schools for children in the late 1600s and early 1700s?
Janice
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