Tas so much for all your work. I know what I will be doing tomorrow!!! Janice -----Original Message----- From: Metz, John (LVA) (LVA) <[log in to unmask]> To: VA-ROOTS <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 1:51 pm Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Schools Here are some excellent sources (by no means exhaustive) on education in olonial Virginia. I've marked the one's I think are best with an asterisk. ood Luck. Bailyn, Bernard. Education in the forming of American society (Chapel Hill: niversity 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: n Inquiry into the Religious, Moral, Educational, Legal, Military, and olitical 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 illiam and Mary in Virginia, 1693-1793 (Charlottesville, University Press of irginia, 1968) Heatwole, Cornelius. A History of Education in Virginia (The Macmillian Company, 916) - http://archive.org/details/ahistoryeducati00heatgoog Knight, Edgar W. ed., A Documentary History of Education in the South before 860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1949). Neill, Edward D. The history of education in Virginia during the seventeenth entury (Edward Duffield, 1867) - http://archive.org/details/historyeducatio02educgoog * Robson, David W. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American evolution, 1750-1800 (Greenwood Publishing, 1985). * Zubatsky, David S. The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the eventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Bibliographical Essay. University of llinois (2007) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/3878/gslisoccasionalpv00000i00140.pdf?sequence=1 -----Original Message----- rom: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history. mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Janice Friel ent: Monday, July 23, 2012 9:30 AM o: [log in to unmask] ubject: [VA-ROOTS] Schools Does anyone know if there were schools for children in the late 1600s and early 700s? anice To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at ttp://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at ttp://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html