Index

Academy movement, 185-186

Acadians, 298-299

Adams, John, 185

Adams, Nehemiah, 381-383

Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 268

Adoption, 369-370

Alabama, 231-232

Albany (N.Y.), 99

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 477

Alcott, William A., 477-478

Alexander, James, 292

Alger, Horatio, 567

Alien, Stephen, 687

Almshouses, 262, 276; children in, 639-649

Almy, William, 145

American Asylum, see Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf

and Dumb Persons

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 542

Americanization, 400-401, 425-428, 435, 457-458

American Medical Association, 759

American Philosophical Society, 187

American Revolution, 132, 186, 188; children in, 132-142; impact on education, 210-230 American Sunday School Union, 355

Andover (Mass.), 194

Apprentices, 16, 104-105, 307; abuse of, 122-128, 589-592- complaints of, 109;

Apprenticeship, 1 13, 114, 149-152, 262, 559 572-58; abuses, 573-575; half-way

Augustus, John, 732

Backus, F. P., 780

Baltimore, 174; House of Refuge, 682

Bard, Samuel, 283

Barnard, Henry, 435, 481-482

Barnard, John,83-85

Barry, Joseph E., 729

Bastards, see Illegitimate children

Beaumont, Gustave dc, 683

Beecher, Catherine E., 482-483

Benezet, Anthony, 137 196,298,317

Bentham, Jeremy, 674

Berkeley, Sir William, 90

Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach, 683

Bethesda (Ga.) Orphanage, 62, 262, 271-275

Beverley, Robert, 29-30

Binding out, 5, 64, 104, 262; delinquents, 694-695; poor children, 66-67, 263, 265-267,

653. See also Indentured servants; Apprenticeship

Blackstone, Sir William, 307

Blind children, 768-774

Boiler, Jacob, 156-157

Bond, Thomas, 283

Bonner, John, 493

Boston (Mass.), 20, 69, 81-82, 185; Boylston School, 685- House of Reformation, 680-

682, 688-689

Boston Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, 401, 426-427

Boston Children's Aid Society, 672, 734-735

Boston Children's Friend Society, 668-669

Boston Children's Mission, 401

Boston Daily Times, 622

Boston Evening Post, 152-153, 154

Boston Female Asylum, 277-278

Boston Prison Discipline Society, 678

Boston Provident Association, 401

Boyle, Robert, 76, 92

Boylston, Zabdiel, 288-289

Brace, Charles Loring, 632, 669-670, 672, 742-745, 755, 757. See also New York

Children's Aid Society

Bradford, William, 16-17

Brainerd, David, 318

Bremen, Germany, 406-408

Bridgman, Laura, 769-772

Bristol, England, 10

Brook Farm, 611-612, 631

Brown, Moses, 145, 186

Brown, William Wells, 380

Budd, Thomas, 100-101

Bushnell, Horace, 359

Cadogan, William, 282, 285-288

Caldwell, Charles, 283

Calhoun, John C., 548-549

Calvert, Cecelius, Lord Baltimore, 12-13

Calvinism, 131-132

Cambridge University, 93

Canton, China, 169

Carey, Matthew, 346-347

Carnegie, Andrew, 607-609

Cartel James Gordon, 435, 452, 620, 621

Cass, Lewis, 555

Charming, William EIIery, 774

Charles II, 11-12

Charleston (S.C.), 95, 275 276

Chauncy, Charles, 137-138

Chavis, John, 520-521

Cheeshahteamauk, Caleb, 72

Cheever, Ezekiel, 83- 84

Child, Lydia Maria, 353-355

Children's Aid Society, see Boston Children's Aid

Society; New York Children's Aid Society

Choctaw Academy, 553-556

Civil War, 713-715, 800-801

Clap, Thomas, 186, 205 207

Clinton, De Wilt, 255, 256, 257

Golden, Cadwallader, 291, 292

Golden, Cadwallader D., 671

College of New Jersey, 202, 209. See also Princeton University

College of William and Mary, 76-78, 91-93

Colleges, see Higher education

Colored Orphan Asylum (New York City), 654-655

Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind, 766. See also Gallaudet College

Columbia University, 186. See also King's College

Combe, George, 640-642

Common school movement, 435-439, 439-477

Connecticut, 37, 38, 49; binding out in, 68; education of factory children, 179-180; school

law in, 81; School for Imbeciles, 782

Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, 758,

760-762

Cook, Rufus R., 734 735

Cotton, John, 32

Cowley, Abraham, 84

Coxe, Tench,146,170-171,172

Crandall, Prudence, 521

CrËvecoeur, Michel-Guillaumc Jean de, 142-144

Curtis, Joseph, 685-687

Custody, 370-373

Danforth, Samuel, 45

Dartmouth College, 1X6, 319

Dartmouth College Case. 1XX, 243

Davenport, James, 173

David, J. B. M., 659 660

Day, Jeremiah, 494

Deaf children, 760-76X

De Smet, Pierre Jean, 396-397

Devoe, Elijah, 6X9-691

Dewees, William P., 759, 792 793

Dickens, Charles, 642, 662-663; on Boston House of Reformation, 6X5

Dix, Dorothea L., 643 n, 774-779, 7X9

Donne, John,8-9

Douglass, Frederick, 345, 374 376, 517-519, 542-546

Douglass, William. 291 292

Drinker, Elizabeth, 297

Duganne, Augustine J. H., 560

Duke of York's Laws, 39, 105

Dunster, Henry, X5

Dwight, Louis, 67S

Dwight, Theodore W., 672. 673, 715-716

Dwight, Timothy, 178

Ebenezer (Ga.) Orphanage, 272

Eddy, Thomas, 677

Edwards, Jonathan, 131, 136-137, 139; educational views, 202-203

Eggleston, Edward, 486-488

Eliot, Andrew, 139-140

Eliot, John, 33, 72, 78, 123, 318

Epidemics, 292-295

Family: apprenticing children, 109-114, 119-121; CrËvecoeur on American, 142-144;

Indian, 392-397; legal status of children, 363-373; 19th century American, 343-

344, 346-362; poor, 68-71; Redemptioners, 155-157; slave children in, 330

Federal Gazette (Baltimore), 174

Ferdinand V, 74

Fernald, Walter E., 779-783

Filmer, Sir Robert, 27

Fithian, Philip Vickers, 199-202, 209-210

Fitzhugh, George, 473-474

Forbes, Robert Bennett, 165-169

Forten, Charlotte, 546-547

Francke, August, 272

Franklin, Benjamin, 26, 131, 134-136, 169, 188-193; and the academy movement, 185;

Gallatin, Albert, 146, 174-175

Gallaudet, Edward M., 766-768

Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, 758, 760-762, 766

Gallaudet College, 766-768. See also Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and

Blind

Garden, Alexander, 335-336

George, Henry, 585-586

Georgia, 14, 62-63, 188, 211

Girard, Stephen, 656-659

Girard College, 656-659

Gompers, Samuel, 583

Goodrich, Samuel Griswald, 588

Gouge, William, 27

Graham, Isabella Marshall, 280

Gratz, Rebecca, 661-662

Grayson, William J., 618-619

Great Awakening, 131-132; and education, 186, 202; children in, 136-138

Greeley, Horace, 561-562, 581, 625-626; apprenticeship of, 163-165

Griscom, John, 671, 677

Griscom, John H., 760, 804, 807-808, 814-815

Hachard, Mary Madeline, 61

Haklyut, Richard, 3

Hale, Edward Everett, 575-576, 702-704

Hall, Daniel Weston, 590-592

Hamilton, Alexander, 132, 170. 171-172; on manufacturing, 145

Handicapped children, 758-759

Harper, William, 516

Hartley, Robert M., 467, 812-814

Harvard, John, 85

Harvard College, 19, 85-89, 140, 185, 437; and American Revolution, 139-140; education of Indians at, 72; medical school, 283

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 728

Hazard, Thomas R., 636-639

Helper, Hinton R., 475-477

Henderson, Thomas, 554-555

Henrico College, 75

Henry VIII, 64

Henson, Josiah, 376-377

Hibben, William, 20

Higher education, 436-437, 494-509; classical education in, 494-502; coeducation, 512;

Hobbes, Thomas, 27

Hospitals, children's, 759, 797-801

Houses of Refuge, 671-673, 674-695

Hovland, Gjert Gregoriussen, 402-403

Howard Association (New Orleans), 660-661

Howe, Samuel Gridley, 526, 758, 780 782, on delinquency, 701-702; education of blind,

768-772; education of feebleminded, 783-786

Humphrey, Heman, 351-353

Humphreys, David, 178-179

Illegitimate children, 29, 64, 399; colonial laws on, 50-54; of immigrants, 417-419, 430;

Kent on, 368; state laws on, 368-369

Immigrants, 307, 399, 415-416; as domestic servants, 421-424; health problems, 297-302,

399

Indentured servants, 5, 29, 262, 307; abuse of, 122-128 154- children as, 119-122;

Indiana, 231

Indians 29; civilization fund, 547; education of, 72, 74-78, 96, 319-322, 438, 547-558;

missions, 322-324

Industrial revolution, 145-146

Inoculation, 283, 288-292

Insane and feebleminded children, 774-791

Ives, Levi Silliman, 747-749

Jackson, Andrew, 187

Jail, see Prisons

James, Edwin, 392-395

Jefferson, Thomas, 132, 197, 251; and education, 187, 212-218, 435; on slavery, 350

Jewish Foster Home (Philadelphia), 661-662

Johnson, Edward, 103

Johnson, Richard M., 553

Johnson, Samuel, 207-209

Jones, Hugh, 76-78, 91

Kapp Friedrich, 300, 399, 406n, 408-410, 410-412

Kemble, Frances A., 379-380, 384-387, 519

Kent, James, 363-364, 368

Kentucky: institution for deaf and dumb, 762-763, 764- institution for feebleminded, 782

King's College, 203, 207, 283. See also Columbia University

Kingsley, James L., 494

Knox, Samuel, 187

Labaree, Benjamin, 457-458

Lancaster, Joseph, 257; system of instruction, 257, 398

Land Ordinance of 1785, and education, 187, 232-233

Larcom, Lucy, 445-446, 603-605

LasuÈn, Francisco de, 323-324

Latrobe, John H. B., 753-755

Leake and Watts Asylum, 655-656

Le Jau, Francis, 72, 96

Lewis, Samuel, 435, 446-447

Lieber, Francis, 427-428

Lindsley, Philip, 502-503

Little Wanderers' Advocate, 669

Livingston, Edward, 674-677

Livingston, William, 203-205

Lloyd, James, 282

Locke, John, 131, 132-134, 282, 283-285

London, England, 3, 6, 7

Long, Stephen, 392

Lowell (Mass.), child labor in, 596-606

Luther, Seth, 615-617

Lyman, Theodore, 400, 672, 698-699

Lvman School for Boys, 714. See also Massachusetts State Reform School for Boys

Madison, James, 132

Mann, Horace, 435, 436, 480, 559; 447-451, 454-457; on health education, 801-803, on

school attendance law, 622-624

Manning, William, 187, 228-230

Manufacturing: boardinghouse system in 146-147; child labor in, 170-172, 180-184;

family system in,146-147,176-177

Marshall, John, 243

Martineau, Harriet, 350-351, 378-379

May II, 92

Maryland, 5, 12, 51; education in, 92; orphans, 58, 59- slaves, 53, 59

Massachusetts: apprenticeship, 159-160; education, 228-230 232-233; Monson

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 18-22, 36, 38, 39-42, 72, 105- binding out in, 68-69;

Mather, Cotton 44-45, 46-49, 109-110, 282, 288

Mather, Increase, 3, 290-291

McGuffey, William H., 488; Readers, 488-492

Mechanics' Free Press, 562-563, 612

Mechanics' Magazine, 563-564, 573-574

Melville, Herman, 583 5X5

Mexican War, 652-653

Midwives, 295-297

Minor, Lucian, 470-472

Mitchell, Jonathan, 87-89

Mittelberger, Gottlieb, 155-156, 297-298

Monroe, James, 547

Moody, Eleazar, 33-34

Moore, Sir Henry, 145

Moore, M. B., 493

Morrill Act, 437, 509

Morris, Richard B., 70, 104, 124

Morritt, Thomas, 95 96

Moultrie, William, 282

National Intelligencer, 329

Negroes: education of, 96, 316-318, 326-329, 335-339, 437-438, 513-537; legal status,

Netherlands, 6, 98

New Amsterdam, 56-57, 99

New England: education, 187, 188; literacy in, 74; method of poor relief, 262, 267-271,

631, 633-638, migration to, 16-22

New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics and other Working-men, 614-615

New England Asylum for the Blind, 758-759, 768

New England method of poor relief, sec Vendue method of poor relief

New England Primer, 4, 74, 82-83

New France, 30-32

New Hampshire, 140 142, 188

New Harmony (Ind.), 611

New Netherland, 23-24, 98-99

New Orleans: orphanages in, 60-61, 660-661, 664-666

New York (City), 22, 70-71, 185; Bellevue almshouse, hospital and prison, 677, 793-794;

Metropolitan Health Law, 760; Police Department, 755

New York (State): apprenticeship in, 105. 113; Commissioners of Emigration, 399, 428-

434; education, 188; poor relief, 633 635, 647-650

New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 401, 467, 735, 812

New York Asylum for Idiots, 786-789

New York Catholic Protectory, 747-750

New York Children's Aid Society, 401, 416, 632, 669-670, 672, 673, 755, 757; and

immigrant children, 420 421; industrial schools, 425-426; and placing out, 742-747

New York Daily Tribune, 574, 609 610

New York Five Points House of Industry, 401, 425

New York House of Refuge, 575, 655, 685-687, 688

New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, 763-764

New York Juvenile Asylum, 669-670, 672-673, 715, 735-741

New York Nursery and Child's Hospital, 797-798

New York Orphan Asylum, 280-281

New York Prison Association, 715, 735

New York Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, 677 678, 679-680, 686,

688, 694-695. See also New York House of Refuge

Nicolls, Richard, 99

Niles' Weekly Register, 180-184, 589-590

North Carolina, 13; education in, 188, 230; Moravians in, 157-158; orphans in, 60, 70;

poor relief in, 650-653

Northwest Ordinance (1787), 187, 231

Oberlin College, 512, 537 539

Ohio: Institution for Feebleminded, 782; Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, 772-

774; Reform School, 673, 705-708

Ohio Company, 187

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 387-388, 519-520

Olsdatter, Guri, 405-406

Ophthalmia, 793-795

Orphans, 5, 29, 54-63, 64; institutions for, 60-63, 262-263, 271-273, 275-276, 277-280,

632, 653-669

Orphan Society of Philadelphia, 653-654

Owen, Robert, 611

Oxford University, 93

Page, David P., 483-486

Paine, Thomas, 140

Parents: binding out by, 119-121; of delinquents, 691-694; duties and obligations of, 363-

368; rights of, 351-362

Pawtucket (R.I.), 175, 177. See also Slater, Samuel

Pediatrics, 759

Penn, William, 39, 101-102, 104

Pennsylvania, 25, 39; education in, 100-102, 218-223; indentured servants in, 158-159

Pennsylvania Gazette, 153-154, 308

Pennsylvania Hospital, 283

Pennsylvania Institution for Education of the Deaf and Dumb, 764-766

Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures, 170-171

Pennsylvania Training School for Idiotic and Feebleminded Children, 782

Perkins, James and Thomas H., 165-166

Perkins, William, 27

Perkins Institution for the Blind, see New England Asylum for the Blind

Peter, Hugh, 20

Philadelphia, 155, 173, 185

Philadelphia Academy, 188-193

Philadelphia House of Refuge, 673, 714-715

Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 671

Philadelphia Society for Free Instruction of Colored People, 317

Phillips, John and Samuel, 194

Phillips Academy, 194-196

Pierce, Franklin, 789-791

Pintard, John, 655-656, 677

Placing out, 632-633, 729-732, 735-737, 739-747

Plymouth colony, 16-18, 49, 55-56, 67

Pocahontas, 30

Poor Law, Elizabethan (1601), 5, 64-65

Portugal, 6

Powhatan, 30

Princeton University, 186. See also College of New Jersey

Prisons: children in, 312-315, 671-673, 677-678, 696-697, 709, 716-721

Probation and juvenile delinquents, 732-735

Providence (R.L), 145, 175, 177

Public School Society of New York City, 254 261, 463

Quakers, 100, 330; on education, 196; on Negro education, 515-516

Quincy, Josiah, 174, 631, 752-753

Rapp, Friedrich, 156

Redemptioners, 155-157, 262

Reemelin, Charles, 705-707

Reform schools, 671 673; cottage plan, 704-708; for girls, 700-705. See also

Massachusetts; Ohio

Report on the Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada (1867), 672,

715-716, 721-726, 750-752

Revivals, 132. See also Great Awakening

Rhode Island, 53, 145

Richmond Enquirer, 388

Roberdeau, Daniel, 170, 171

Robinson, Harriet, 600 603, 605-606

Rolfe, John, 30

Royal African Company, 14-15

Rush, Benjamin, 170, 187, 249-251, 283, 294-295; on insanity in children, 301-302; plan

for public education in Pennsylvania, 218-223

Rutgers College, 186

St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum (Louisville, Ky.), 659-660

Sanborn, Franklin B, 645 -647, 713

Sandys, Sir Edwin, 7-8, 30-31, 75

Schools: academies, 193-196; compulsory attendance laws, 260-261, 466 469, 559, 619

Seguin, Edouard, 779-780

Sergeant, John, 671

Seton, Elizabeth Ann, 278

Sewall, Samuel, 111

Seward, William H., 463-465

Shakers, 357-359

Shattuck, Lemuel, 760, 803-804

Shaw, Lemuel, 534-535

Shepard, Thomas, 5

Sherburne, Andrew, 140-142

Shippen, Jr.. William, 282, 283, 295-296

Sisters of Charity of Nazarcth, 659 660

Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. 278 280

Slater, Samuel, 145-146, 149; textile mills, 175, 176, 177, 178-179, 595 596

Slavery, 262, 345; abolition laws, 324 326

Slaves, 13, 29, 59, 185, 316; as apprentices, 388; children of, 53-54, 384-388; education

Slave trade, 14-15, 15-16, 22

Smellie, William, 282

Smith, Adam, 169-170, 572-573

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes, 566 567

Smith, John, 16

Smith, Samuel Harrison, 187

Smith, Stephen, 760, 811-812

Smith School (Boston), 526-528

Society of Friends, see Quakers

Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, New York, 308, 677

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 93-98, 318, 335

South Carolina, 13, 95, 187

Spalding, Catherine, 659-660

Sparks, Jared, 291

"Spirits," 5, 9, 10-12

Stanford, John, 312-313

Statute of Artificers (7562), 105, 106-107

Steines, Herman, 403

Stevens, Thaddeus, 461-463

Stille, Alfred, 795-796

Story, Joseph, 372

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 376, 542

Strong, George Templeton, 756-757

Stuyvesant, Peter, 23

Sullivan, James, 337-338

Sumner, Charles, 530-534

Tappan, Henry P., 503-507

Thompson's Island Farm School (Boston), 726-729

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 392

Ticknor, George, 437

Tobacco brides, 6, 30-32

Tocqueville, Alexis de: on American family, 347-350; on education of slaves, 516; on

houses of refuge, 683 685; on schools, 439; on work, 560-561

Trollope, Frances, 564-565

Troy (N.Y.) Female Seminary, 510

Truancy, 466-469

Tuckerman, Joseph, 561, 612-613

Turner, Nat, 437

Universities, see Higher education

University of Michigan, 503

University of Pennsylvania, 186, 192

Ursuline nuns, 60 61

Vaccination, 283, 302-306

Vaux, Robert, 671

Vendue method of poor relief: in Massachusetts, 267-268; in New York, 268-270; in

Rhode Island, 637-639

Vermont, 230

Virginia, 5, 6-12, 30-32, 53, 58, 65-66; apprentices in, 7; binding out in, 66-67; education

in. 89-93, 197-202, 212-218; illegitimate children in, 51; Indian schooling, 72

Virginia Company, 7 8, 31

Wadsworth, Benjamin, 34 36

Walker, David, 539-542

Walker, Quok, 316

Wansey, Henry, 173-174

Ward's Island (New York City), 399, 430, 433-434

Washington, George, 132; on child labor, 172-173; and education, 187, 228

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 283, 302-304

Watertown (Mass.), 41, 49, 68

Wayland, Francis, 507-508

Webster, Daniel, 451-453

Webster, Noah, 187, 211-212, 223-228

Weed, Thurlow, 160-162, 424

Weir, Robert Walter, 592

Weld, Charles, 383-384

Weld, Lewis, 764-766

Weld, Thomas, 20

Weld-Peter mission, 210

West India Company, 23

Wheelock, Eleazar, 318, 319-322

Whitefield, George, 131, 262, 271, 272-273, 274

Whitney, James Shields, 576-580

Wilbur, Hervey Backus, 781, 782, 786-789

Wiley, Calvin, 435, 436

Willard, Emma, 509-512

William III, 91

Williams, John E., 729

Wilson, John, 78

Wines, Enoch C., 672, 673, 715-716

Winterbotham, John, 178

Winthrop, John, 18-20, 122

Woolman, John, 330

Yale College, 85, 186, 205, 437

Yates, J. V. N., 631, 633-635

Zenrer, John Peter, 24