http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2006/08/25/on-the-excessive-indulgence-of-american-parents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-excessive-indulgence-of-american-parents Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Thu, 23 May 2013 00:54:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2006/08/25/on-the-excessive-indulgence-of-american-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Jason Tomberlin Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:23:35 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=110#comment-155 My how things change in seven years! In volume VII, pp. 35-36 of the “Colonial and State Records of North Carolina” you can find a 1765 petition from the inhabitants of Newbern in which they sing the praises of Thomas Thomlinson, who arrived from England around the beginning of 1764. In asking the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for a supplement to Thomlinson’s salary, the concerned citizens state “that the said T. Thomlinson should continue amongst them as a Schoolmaster whom to their general satisfaction they have experienced to be well qualified by Precept and Example to instruct their children.”

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