The University of Delaware is in Newark, DE. It was formerly called Delaware College. Best regards. My great uncles and my grandfather attended the University of Delaware – but wasn’t it in Delaware? I know I contacted them to get a college photo and dates the first great uncle attended. You’d think I’d have noticed if it was in Pennsylvania! -----Original Message----- From: pa-old-chester-request <pa-old-chester-request@rootsweb.com> To: pa-old-chester <pa-old-chester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 3:23 am Subject: PA-OLD-CHESTER Digest, Vol 7, Issue 153 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Fwd: Need to check on whether London Britain township had public sch... (Dora Smith) Attached Message From: Dora Smith <tiggernut24@yahoo.com> To: Quaker1682@aol.com Cc: pa-old-chester-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Fwd: Need to check on whether London Britain townshiphad public sch... Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:30:01 -0600 Thanks, Barclay. I managed not to see this when you posted it. My ancestors went to the New London Presbyterian Church; that’s a real possibility. My great uncles and my grandfather attended the University of Delaware – but wasn’t it in Delaware? I know I contacted them to get a college photo and dates the first great uncle attended. You’d think I’d have noticed if it was in Pennsylvania! Say, are you and I related on the Smith lines, or Thompson/ Miller/ Chambers? I’ve made some fascinating new progress on the Smiths! Dora From: Quaker1682@aol.com Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 2:15 PM To: tiggernut24@yahoo.com ; pa-old-chester-d@rootsweb.com Subject: Fwd: [PaOldC] Need to check on whether London Britain township had public sch... Dora, I know that I am a little late responding, but I just found something that might be of interest. There was a school in the nearby town of New London. The school was the New London Academy and it was founded circa 1750 by the Presbyterian Church. It went from 6-12 grades. The school went on to become the University of Delaware according to my neighbor. He has photo's of the school in the early 1900's. You might want to check this out. Barclay Richards Nottingham, Pa. I need to verify something. I ‘ve repeatedly been told that my 2x great grandfather could not have attended school, because his parents were impoverished village weavers barely able to support their family. His own children attended local private academies. Yet his son married a local Quaker school teacher, and there wasn’t no local Quaker school,, so where did she teach. It was London Britain township, I don’t know, Coatesville or Mercersville or something like that; there was a village of succesful small town businessmen. The small Smith farm was not far from the village center, across from where a tavern that was used as the town hall was eventually built by the parents of William Smith’s future wife. Today the town hall is on another corner of the same intersection. The town was not in the back woods, but on the southeastern edge of Chester County, on the border of Delaware, which leaves one wondering how they could possibly not have had a public school. My 2x great grandfather was extremely successful in business, bought and ran a thousand acre farm, then served in the Delaware state legislature, though at the time his land was in Maryland and Pennsylvania (sometimes it was in Delaware, and today the three state marker is on what was his land). His son my great grandfather was extremely literate. I have a sample of his writing, and it was equal to the standards of published authors of that time. My 2x great grandfather must have been highly literate and excellent at both arithmetic and geometry. He also helped build a local church, and has a window with his name on it. Of course he could read the Bible, well enough to read it to the congregation in church. He would have attended school between 1803 and 1815, and would have seemed well educated if he’d had half that amount of schooling as it was done at that time. I have ancestors as bright in 18th and 19th century New England who half educated themselves after a few winters of school, and the schoolmaster emphasized giving advanced writing lessons to one of them. I know how well educated they were from reading their autobiographies. One of them taught school. Are y’all sure there was no public school in London Britain township? Because if there wasn’t, atleast one of William’s parents must have been able to teach the children, and teach them a lot, quite well. It gets to what their background was. Little is known about them before they came to Pennsylvania. I’m about to write to a historian in a town in Scotland where I have a Y DNA match, that his cottage weaver parents must truly have been something, because their children were quite well educated in a home with no money and a town with no school, even though the boys weren’t even kept at home but apprenticed out to become stone masons. So if London Britain township managed to have a school, now would be a good time to tell me the truth. Yours, Dora ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message To contact the PA-OLD-CHESTER list administrator, send an email to PA-OLD-CHESTER-admin@rootsweb.com. 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From: http://www.udel.edu/aboutus/history.html One of the oldest universities in the U.S., the University of Delaware traces its roots to 1743 when a petition by the Presbytery of Lewes, Del., expressing the need for an educated clergy, led the Rev. Dr. Francis Alison to open a school in New London, Pa. On Nov. 24, 1743, Benjamin Franklin's *Pennsylvania Gazette *carried this notice: *We are informed that there is a Free-School opened at the House of Mr. Alison in Chester County, for the Promotion of Learning, where all Persons may be instructed in the Languages and some other Parts of Polite Literature, without any Expences for their Education.* Alison's first class was "possibly the most distinguished in terms of the later achievements of its members, taken as a whole, of any class in any school in America," wrote historian John Munroe in *The University of Delaware: A History.* <http://www.udel.edu/PR/munroe/> The students would go on to become statesmen, doctors, merchants and scholars. Of special note, Thomas McKean, George Read and James Smith would sign the Declaration of Independence; Read also would sign the U.S. Constitution. By 1765, Alison's school had relocated to Newark, Delaware, where it received a charter as the Academy of Newark from Thomas and Richard Penn in 1769. NewArk College opened as a degree-granting institution in 1834 and was renamed Delaware College in 1843. A *Women's College*<http://www.udel.edu/PR/hoffecker/foreword.html>opened in 1914 with 58 students, and in 1921, the two coordinate colleges became the University of Delaware. On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:23 PM, <jdmaestrojackson@aol.com> wrote: > The University of Delaware is in Newark, DE. It was formerly called > Delaware College. > Best regards. > > > > > My great uncles and my grandfather attended the University of Delaware – > but > wasn’t it in Delaware? I know I contacted them to get a college photo and > dates > the first great uncle attended. You’d think I’d have noticed if it was in > Pennsylvania! > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pa-old-chester-request <pa-old-chester-request@rootsweb.com> > To: pa-old-chester <pa-old-chester@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 3:23 am > Subject: PA-OLD-CHESTER Digest, Vol 7, Issue 153 > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Fwd: Need to check on whether London Britain township > had public sch... (Dora Smith) > > > > Attached Message > > > > From: > > Dora Smith <tiggernut24@yahoo.com> > > > > To: > > Quaker1682@aol.com > > > > Cc: > > pa-old-chester-l@rootsweb.com > > > > Subject: > > Re: [PaOldC] Fwd: Need to check on whether London Britain townshiphad > public sch... > > > > Date: > > Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:30:01 -0600 > > > > > Thanks, Barclay. I managed not to see this when you posted it. My > ancestors > went to the New London Presbyterian Church; that’s a real possibility. > > My great uncles and my grandfather attended the University of Delaware – > but > wasn’t it in Delaware? I know I contacted them to get a college photo and > dates > the first great uncle attended. You’d think I’d have noticed if it was in > Pennsylvania! > > Say, are you and I related on the Smith lines, or Thompson/ Miller/ > Chambers? > I’ve made some fascinating new progress on the Smiths! > > Dora > > From: Quaker1682@aol.com > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 2:15 PM > To: tiggernut24@yahoo.com ; pa-old-chester-d@rootsweb.com > Subject: Fwd: [PaOldC] Need to check on whether London Britain township had > public sch... > > Dora, I know that I am a little late responding, but I just found > something > that might be of interest. There was a school in the nearby town of New > London. > The school was the New London Academy and it was founded circa 1750 by the > Presbyterian Church. It went from 6-12 grades. The school went on to > become the > University of Delaware according to my neighbor. He has photo's of the > school in > the early 1900's. You might want to check this out. > > Barclay Richards > Nottingham, Pa. > > > > I need to verify something. I ‘ve repeatedly been told that my 2x great > grandfather could not have attended school, because his parents were > impoverished village weavers barely able to support their family. His own > children attended local private academies. Yet his son married a local > Quaker > school teacher, and there wasn’t no local Quaker school,, so where did she > teach. It was London Britain township, I don’t know, Coatesville or > Mercersville or something like that; there was a village of succesful > small town > businessmen. The small Smith farm was not far from the village center, > across > from where a tavern that was used as the town hall was eventually built by > the > parents of William Smith’s future wife. Today the town hall is on another > corner of the same intersection. The town was not in the back woods, but > on > the southeastern edge of Chester County, on the border of Delaware, which > leaves > one wondering how they could possibly not have had a public school. My > 2x > great grandfather was extremely successful in business, bought and ran a > thousand acre farm, then served in the Delaware state legislature, though > at the > time his land was in Maryland and Pennsylvania (sometimes it was in > Delaware, > and today the three state marker is on what was his land). His son my > great > grandfather was extremely literate. I have a sample of his writing, and > it was > equal to the standards of published authors of that time. My 2x great > grandfather must have been highly literate and excellent at both > arithmetic and > geometry. He also helped build a local church, and has a window with his > name > on it. Of course he could read the Bible, well enough to read it to the > congregation in church. > > He would have attended school between 1803 and 1815, and would have seemed > well > educated if he’d had half that amount of schooling as it was done at that > time. > I have ancestors as bright in 18th and 19th century New England who half > educated themselves after a few winters of school, and the schoolmaster > emphasized giving advanced writing lessons to one of them. I know how > well > educated they were from reading their autobiographies. One of them taught > school. > > Are y’all sure there was no public school in London Britain township? > Because > if there wasn’t, atleast one of William’s parents must have been able to > teach > the children, and teach them a lot, quite well. It gets to what their > background was. Little is known about them before they came to > Pennsylvania. > > I’m about to write to a historian in a town in Scotland where I have a Y > DNA > match, that his cottage weaver parents must truly have been something, > because > their children were quite well educated in a home with no money and a town > with > no school, even though the boys weren’t even kept at home but apprenticed > out to > become stone masons. So if London Britain township managed to have a > school, > now would be a good time to tell me the truth. > > Yours, > Dora > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > > To contact the PA-OLD-CHESTER list administrator, send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PA-OLD-CHESTER mailing list, send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the > email with no additional text. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Debbi May the Wind sing to you and the Sun rise in your heart. 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