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| | Tyler, Education in Colonial Virginia. III. Free Schools |
 | | In 1724 there was no public school, but as the minister had about the best endowed benefice in the colony the parish never lacked a teacher. |
 | | This supposition is confirmed by the fact that, eleven years before (in 1660), the colonial Assembly had passed an act for the founding of “a college and free schoole,” to which object Berkeley, the council, and the members of the General Assembly all subscribed. |
 | | James Blair, a Scotch clergyman, recently arrived in the colony, assumed the initiative, and Governor Francis Nicholson and his council, as well as the Convention of Clergy held at Jamestown in 1690, enthusiastically adopted the proposals drawn by him for a college, to be recommended to the next General Assembly. |
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