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Glassley School Account

1830 The Commissioners of Chester county

To Margaret McConnell, school teacher

 

To teaching Martha Potter a poor girl a daughter of Joseph Potter of Easttown township in Chester County at the school in said township of Easttown

$1.74

58 days at 3 cents per day beginning on the 5th day of April 1830 and ending on the 3rd Day of July in the same year.

To teaching John Potter a poor boy a son of the said Joseph Potter at the said school

$1.77

59 days at 3 cents per day between the 5th day of April and the 3rd Day of July in the year 1830.

To stationary for said children, viz Primmer, paper, and quills

$0.11

 
Amount

$3.62

  
Deduct

$1.77

  
 

$1.85

  

We the undersigned being subscribers to the above school taught by Margaret McConnell and having examined the above accounts, and we do certify that the prices, charges for teaching the poor children by the day are at the same rate and no higher in proportion than the prices charged for teaching other children by the quarter and we believe that the said accounts are correct.

July 31st 1830

 

Signed William Bart, William Walley, Worral Peirce

Chester County SS The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Before me, Benjamin Wetherby, one of the justices of the peace in and for the said county of Chester personally came the above Margaret McConnell, school mistress, who upon her solemn affirmation doth declare and say that the above account as it stands stated for teaching poor children and including stationary amounting to three dollars and sixty two cents is justly due and owing unto her from the Commissioners of Chester County and that she hath not received the said debt nor no part thereof.

Affirmed and subscribed before me on the 31st day of July 1830.  Signed Margaret McConnell and Benjamin Wetherby