1820: Excerpts from The United States Primer, containing Besides other Useful and Instructive Matter, the Assembly of Divines' and the Episcopal Catechisms.  Cooperstown: H. and E. Phinney

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Unpaged: The Alphabet

Page 6: "Charles, you must not go into the fields by yourself..."

Page 7: "Words of two syllables..."

Page 15: "Dr. Watts' Cradle Hymn"

Page 44: "Who was the father of the faithful?"

Page 45: "...Questions and Answers out of the Holy Scriptures"

Page 46 (finis): "...Young children too may die"

1820: Date missing: Delaware Gazette (Delhi, NY newspaper): Advertisement for a teacher

1821: July 26: Delaware Gazette (Delhi, NY newspaper): Advertisement for Delaware Academy

1821: August 30: Delaware Gazette (Delhi, NY newspaper): Public examination at Delaware Academy

1828: February 6: Letter from Samuel Augustus Sherwood to his brothers in Delhi (Delaware County NY) from school

1829: August 31: Minutes from the meeting of freeholders and inhabitants of School District 10, Hamden

1830: October 4: Minutes from the meeting of freeholders and inhabitants of School District 10, Hamden

1831: October 3: Minutes from the meeting of freeholders and inhabitants of School District 10, Hamden

1837: July 30: Letter from Samuel Sherwood to his son William in Delhi (Delaware County NY): Summer teacher for younger children, William is also to study 4-5 hours per day

1838: Excerpts from the Pride of Peter Prim Cooperstown, NY:  H. & E. Phinney, 1838

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pp. 6 - 7: "Babes of Grace grow Apace"

pp. 8 - 9: "Yawning is Catching"

pp. 10 - 11: "A Stitch in time saves Nine"

pp. 16 - 17: "The more Haste the worse Speed"

pp. 18 - 19: "You can't make a Whistle from a Pig's Tail

pp. 24 - 25: "A Pin a Day is a Groat a Year"

pp. 26 - 27: "Every Crow thinks her own Young the Whitest"

 

1838: January 1: Minutes from the meeting of the trustees of Kortright District 18

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1840: January 1: Minutes from the meeting of the trustees of Kortright District 18

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1842: October 3: Minutes from the meeting of inhabitants of School District 10, Hamden

1845: October 14: Minutes of the meeting of freeholders and inhabitants of School District 18, Kortright

1845: October 4: Minutes from the meeting of legal voters of School District 17, Kortright

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1845 - 1857: Brief notes on the accounts of School District 17, Kortright

1845: Matthew Griffin (Middletown, Delaware County NY):  His common school education in about 1823

1846: Matthew Griffin (Middletown, Delaware County NY) :  Admitted to practice of law with barely a common school education

1846: December 30: Delaware Gazette (Delhi, NY newspaper):  Advertisement for school books

1846: December 30: Delaware Gazette (Delhi, NY newspaper): Advertisement for Delaware Academy

1849: October 3: Delaware Gazette (Delhi, NY newspaper):  Advertisement for school globes

1852: December: Excerpt from The Cultivator: Female Education and Influence (large file--may take a long time to download)

1854: June 14: Letter from Edward Selah Frisbee at Delaware Literary Institute in Franklin, NY to Anzolette Farrington: Lengthy description of the Institute

1854: July 7: Letter from Francis Jayne at Fergusonville Academy to Samuel Ferguson Jayne: Hot weather, reading Virgil, love, 4th of July, ice cream

1855: Illustration of a school room, from Rollo at School, p. 135

1855: Rollo at School, excerpt: pp. 1-18

1855: Rollo at School, excerpt, pp. 113 - 118

1855: May 30: Delaware Gazette (Delhi, NY newspaper):  Advertisement for Delaware Academy

1855: September 10: Minutes of the meeting of School District 14, Meredith, NY

1856:  History of Delaware County and Border Wars in New York by Jay Gould: Description of Delaware Literary Institute 

1856: Illustration of Delaware Literary Institute from a map by Jay Gould

1856:  History of Delaware County and Border Wars in New York by Jay Gould: Description of Fergusonville Boarding Academy

1856: Illustration of Fergusonville Boarding Academy from a map by Jay Gould

1856: April 1: Letter from Edward Selah Frisbee at Delaware Literary Institute in Franklin, NY to Anzolette Farrington:  School, debate society, burned Senator Douglas in effigy

1856: October 8: Delaware Gazette (Delhi, NY newspaper): Advertisement for Delaware Academy

1857: Illustration: Articulation:  National Second Reader, New York, Chicago, and New Orleans: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1857, frontispiece.

1857: January 5: Letter from William Edgerton at Fergusonville Academy to his mother: Classes, panther, teacher's report

1857: November 4:  Letter from George Jayne at Fergusonsville Academy (Delaware County NY) to his sister Charlotte Jayne:  Roommate, wood stove

1857: November 27: Fergusonville Academy: Progress report for William Edgerton. Lists all subjects taught.

1857: December 18: Letter from William Edgerton at Fergusonville Academy to his father: Classes, teacher's report

1858: January 11:  Letter from George Jayne at Fergusonsville Academy (Delaware County NY) to his sister Charlotte Jayne: Cold room, ink froze, Ambrotype car

1858: January 16:  Letter from George Jayne at Fergusonsville Academy (Delaware County NY) to his sister Charlotte Jayne: Books, description of Gymnasium

1858: February 2: Letter from George Jayne at Fergusonville Academy (Delaware County NY) to his sister Charlotte Jayne: Six weeks three days left of term, good Sunday School library

1858: February 21:  Letter from George Jayne at Fergusonsville Academy (Delaware County NY) to his sister Charlotte Jayne: Bread and molasses for breakfast, Howes Cave

1858: March 22: Letter from George Jayne at Fergusonsville Academy (Delaware County NY) to his sister Charlotte Jayne: Examined in Arithmetic, Spelling, Geography, and Reading

1858: May 13:  Letter from George Jayne at Fergusonsville Academy (Delaware County NY) to his sister Charlotte Jayne: Flowers in letter, playing ball

1858: December 9:  Letter from George and Emily Jayne at Fergusonsville Academy (Delaware County NY) to their parents: George received a lower grade in deportment for whispering in chapel

1859: Diary entries: Maurice Farrington, a teacher at a Bloomville, NY Common School

September 25-27: Attended Delaware County Teachers Institute

September 28-30: Attended Delaware County Teachers Institute

October 1-3: Attended Delaware County Teachers Institute

October 4-6: Attended Delaware County Teachers Institute

October 7-9: Attended Delaware County Teachers Institute

October 13-15: Finished at Delaware County Teachers Institute. Depressed.

October 25-27: Took teaching job at a Common School in Bloomville: "Lord help me"

October 28-30: Preparation for teaching

November 12-14: In his school

November 15-17: In his school

November 18-20: In his school

November 21-23: In his school; scholars cleaned school; scholars noisy; built fire in schoolhouse

November 24-26: Built fire in schoolhouse; not satisified

November 27-29: In his school; not satisfied

December 15-17: In his school

December 18-20: In his school, received good report for his teaching; boarding

December 21-23: In his school; not satisfied

December 24-26: Church on Christmas; in his school; boarding

December 27-29: In his school

December 30-31: In his school; year in review

December 31: Year in review

 

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