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NYG-A.783.006
24 Feb 1783:33 (1/39)
To the public, your old servant, who has taught school in
this city near 22 years (since anno 1760) desired to return
his most sincere and hearty thanks to all those gentlemen &
ladies who have favoured him with their custom;--and as he
has followed his business with unabating diligence and care,
and he trusts not without success, as many in the city can
testify by their own experience; will (God willing) open his
school, on Monday the 31st of March next, at the house of
Mr. John 5th Lansing, near the Low-Dutch Church, where he
intends to teach spelling according to orthography, and how
to read grammar --writing in the useful hands--arithmetic in
full, both vulgar and decimal--Meid's book-keeping, by way
of double entry--and navigation, so far as by dead
reckoning, to conduct a ship or vessel into any sea-port in
the world, and to know their distances and courses. And
with regard to morals, he will teach his pupils, as was
usual with him, to honour God, his sabbaths, and ordinances,
by teaching them their morning and evening prayers, and the
several catechisms now in use in this place, viz.
Heidelberg, Presbyter and Church of England.
I am the public's most obedient, very humble servant,
[signed] Nic's. Barrington.
Prices per quarter, are as follows, viz.
Book-keeping and navigation 40s.
Cypherers, 14s.
Writers or spellers, 12s.
N.B. Said Barrington proposes to all lovers of psalmody, in
the English way, as it practiced in the Presbyterian and
Church of England congregations, to teach tenor and bass
notes, on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the afternoon, from
the hours of 1 to 3 o'clock, and that for the very small sum
of four shillings per quarter, for his own scholars, and
eight shillings for strangers, &c.
[hand pointing right] He intends to teach 6 poor scholars,
gratis.
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