Free School of Alexandria Board of Guardians Records, 1815; 1829-1834

Washington, Elizabeth Foote, -1812

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Elizabeth Foote (also known as Betsy) was born sometime in the 1740's. She married Lund Washington, George Washington’s cousin, in 1779, and lived at Hayfield Plantation in Virginia. She died in 1812....

Arlington County (Va.) Circuit Court

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Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are "administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law." A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case. Arlington County was originally named Alexandria County. It was formed from a portion of Fairfax County that Virginia in 1789 ceded to the federal government for use as the site of a new national capital. In 1801 the area officially be...

Plummer, Samuel

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American Sunday-School Union (Washington D.C.)

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Harrison, Elias.

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Alexandria County (Washington D.C.)

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Alexandria Common Council (Washington D.C.)

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American Sunday-School Union (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Free School Society of New York (New York, Ny.)

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Alexandria Academy (Washington D.C.)

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Free School of Alexandria (Washington D.C.)

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Lancaster, Joseph, 1778-1838

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Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838) was the founder of a monitorial method of teaching which came to be known as the Lancasterian system of education. Born in England, he opened in 1798 a school to educate inexpensively poor children in the Borough Road neighborhood of London. His system of education gained widespread popularity and led eventually to the establishment of over two hundred schools modeled after the Borough Road institution. Dissension and monetary problems plagued him throughout his care...

Foote, William H.

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Alexandria County (Va.)

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