Excerpt from Virginia Schools Before and After the Revolution, With a Sketch of Frederick William Coleman, M. An;, And Lewis Minor Coleman, M. A: An Address Delivered Before the Society of the Alumni of the University of Virginia, June 27th, 1888 The example of this first American benefactor to the cause of free education was not without results in his sec tion of the colony, for we find that forty years later, in 1675, worthy Master Henry Peasley doth devise six hundred acres of land lying in the parish of Abingdon, County of Gloucester, together with ten cows and one breeding mare, for the maintenance of a free schoole for ever, to be kept with a schoole master for the education of the children of the parishes of Abingdon and Ware for ever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.