Subject: The Free School 22 November 1758
Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:27:26 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 02:30:07 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Wednesday the 22d Day of November 1758.

"... A Memorial of the Commissioners of the Free-School in Charles Town was
presented to the House and read, setting forth That the Memorialists have been
informed by Mr. Henderson, Master of the said School, that Mr. Chisholme,
Proprietor of the House and Lands where the School is at present kept, has
signified to him his Resolution to sell the same very soon, in Order that a
suitable House may be provided in time; That it appears to the Memorialists to
be very difficult if not impracticable to hire such an One at present; That the
keeping the said School in an hired House will always subject it to be removed
or perhaps for some time interrupted to the great Disadvantage of the Youth who
are placed there for Education and to the great Discouragement of Parents who
are inclined to send them there: That the keeping the School at the Place
formerly appropriated for that Use being from it's Distance found very
inconvenient to the Children's Health in going and returning so far through the
Heat and Rains, was removed into Town, in which Removal the Memorialists had the
Satisfaction of Meeting with the Approbation of this House; That the said School
is at present in a very flourishing Condition, there being One hundred and ten
Scholars now therein, Twelve of Whom are taught freely without any manner of Fee
or Reward: The Memorialists from a due Attention to these matters and the Trust
by Law reposed in them, think it their Duty to represent that if a Piece of Land
were purchased in Town and a suitable Edifice erected thereupon for the Purposes
of the said Provincial Free-School, all the above mentioned Inconveniences would
be obviated to the great Emolument of the Public, but that the Memorialists are
totally unprovided with any fund enabling them to begin and proceed in such Work
without the Aid of this Honourable House, all which is submitted to the
Consideration of the House for such Relief and Direction therein as to the House
shall seem meet.

Ordered that the said Memorial be referred to the Consideration of a Committee
and that they do examine the matter thereof and report the same as it shall
appear to them, to the House, and It is referred to Mr. Lamboll, Mr. Pringle,
Mr. Rattray, Mr. Gadsden, Mr. Laurens, Mr. Manigault, Mr. Crawford...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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