Warwick Co., VA - School Records ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Contributed by Joy Fisher ********************************************** This information extracted from William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4. (Apr., 1898), p. 220 Schools in Warwick County. (1) Communicated By Edward W. Jones. At a court held for Warwick county March 5th, 1752, John Langhorne, Henry Scasbrooke, Matthew Wills and William Roscow, Gent., present. Ordered that Samuel Wallace be paid for schooling two of Thomas Martin's children and one of Samuel Wootten's one year each out of money arising from the rents of the free school lands. At a court held March 1st, 1753, John Langhorne, William Harwood, William Digges and William Dudley, Gent. present. Ordered that Elizabeth Jones be put to school, and that the same be paid for out of her estate. (2) (1) Taken from the order book of Warwick county from 1748 to 1762, which is probably the only one of the colonial record books of the county now in existence. (2) The Justices of Warrwick in 1753 were more advanced than were the people of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1793, for Mr. Davis in his "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth," quoted by W. Root Bliss in his "Old Colony Town," says that in "the year 1793, a project to establish a school for girls was opposed because it might teach wives how to correct their husband's errors in spelling."