In a message dated 6/27/03 5:46:02 PM, [email protected] writes: <<am beginning to wonder if Nathaniel/Nathan Smith ever existed! >> ---------------------------- Source Information: HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA EDITED BY THEODORE W. BEAN PHILADELPHIA: EVERTS & PECK. 1884 Nathan Smith, from the Gulf, in Upper Merion announces the opening of a boarding-school "for young gentlemen and ladies," January 20, 1814, in which he proposed to teach besides, the ordinary branches, book-keeping, elocution, English grammar, composition, geography, mathematics, astronomy and the Latin and Greek languages. Charge for tuition amid boarding per annum, one hundred and sixty dollars; for day scholars per quarter, seven dollars; pupils limited to fifty. What success attended this effort we are unable to state. ---------------------------- Hope this helps.

Thank you so much for taking the time to search for my Nathaniel/Nathan Smith. This listing may be the closest I have come to documenting the existence of a Nathaniel/Nathan Smith in the correct location during the correct time period. 1) The Coates family which his wife Rachel is from resided in Upper Merion Twp., Montgomery Co. PA 2) His only known surviving child - Charles M. Smith was born in 1816 PA 3) His son Charles M. Smith is documented living in Ohio by 1837 working as a teacher. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get any more documentation on the Nathan Smith listed in the history book? Nathan/Nathaniel Smith never appears on the Montgomery Co. PA census. If this is the correct Smith he also is likely "gone" by 1830 since his wife Rachel Smith appears as the head of the household in the 1830 Upper Merion Twp., Montgomery Co. PA census. I would be most grateful for any suggestions, Susan McIntyre [email protected] wrote: >In a message dated 6/27/03 5:46:02 PM, [email protected] writes: ><<am beginning to wonder if Nathaniel/Nathan Smith ever existed! >> >---------------------------- >Source Information: HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA >EDITED BY THEODORE W. BEAN PHILADELPHIA: EVERTS & PECK. 1884 > >Nathan Smith, from the Gulf, in Upper Merion announces the opening of a >boarding-school "for young gentlemen and ladies," January 20, 1814, in which he >proposed to teach besides, the ordinary branches, book-keeping, elocution, >English grammar, composition, geography, mathematics, astronomy and the Latin and >Greek languages. Charge for tuition amid boarding per annum, one hundred and >sixty dollars; for day scholars per quarter, seven dollars; pupils limited to >fifty. What success attended this effort we are unable to state. >---------------------------- >Hope this helps. > > > >==== PAMONTGO Mailing List ==== >Composing your query (E-mail message) >KISS- Keep It Short & Simple > > > >

I just posted the following message to the SCHICK family message board on Rootsweb: I am not related to any Schicks (at least I don't think I am) but I have just purchased an 1801 fraktur (PA German birth record) that seems to be about a Schick family from Montgomery County, PA. The old German lettering is very hard to read, but what little I THINK I have been able to translate appears to say: "Salme Schick is from Christ and her parents born (in the morning of?) April 20, 1801 in Pennsylvania in Montgomery County in New Hanover Township. Her father (is) Henry Schick and her mother (is) Maria (Schick?). (She was baptized _________ by Pastor Henry ________?) The sponsors were Ludwig Schick and his wife Maria." I am posting this here in the event that the information is of some use to Schick family researchers.