Edmonds, Sarah
Craftsman Name
Edmonds, Sarah
Trade
needleworker –artist
Geographic Location
Alexandria, Va.
Dates
1810-1831
Digital Record
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE & ADVERTISER— __Alexandria __Virginia __ __ __ __newspaper __digital resource __https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025001/1823-12-30/ed-1/seq-3/ __Library of Congress __30 December 1823 __3 __1 __— COMMUNICATED,
Mr. EDITOR — No individual, who feels a due regard for the best interests of society, can contemplate with indifferance any of the means by which these interests are cherished and advanced. Among these means the education of youth has ever been acknowledged to be the most important which lies within the agency of man.
This sentiment has been too limited, however, in reference to its objects. The female mind is avowedly considered, by the creed of many nations, as being excluded, by natural disabilities, from any participation in the advantages of mental cultivation. It is to be regretted that, nothwithstanding the elevation which Christianity has imparted to the female character, the common Nature of which it represents females as being the partakers, the important duties to which it calls them, and the immortal hopes of which they are permitted to share the consolations, they have too often been particularly excluded from the enjoyment of those advantages of education, which are fitted to develope [sic] their intellectual powers, and to give to their whole characters that elegant finish which adds so attractive a charm to their naturally amiable qualities of Heart.
With these views, we are always gratified to observe the advance of female education, as indicated as well by the actual acquisition which females attain, as by the rising character of institutions appropriated to their instruction. Without further preface, permit us to express the gratification which we, in common with a large number of respectable individuals, experienced attending, this morning, an examination of Mrs. EDMOND’S School. The pupils acquitted themselves in a manner creditable to themselves and to their instructors. The promptness and accuracy of their replies, attested not only their dilligent attention to their studies, but indicated, also, the exercise of thought; without which instruction fails to produce its most valuable effects.
The recitations in grammar were particularly interesting; the pupils evidently possessed a thorough knowledge of the elements, as well as the power of readily applying them to practice. Various problems on the globes were solved, with great readiness and precision; and in geography a very creditable degree of proficiency was manifested. The specimens of penmanship, too, were decidedly superior, on the whole, to any which we have ever witnessed in so large a school. We will not protract this communication by further comment, but we could not withold this expression of our gratification, and our hopes, that the advantages presented by a school, in which the improvement of the mind, in alliance with the culture of the heart and manners, is attended to with so much assiduity on the part of the instructors, and such valuable effects on the pupils, will be fully appreciated.
O. B. BROWN,
JOHN BRYCE,
JAMES D. KNOWLES,
H. O. WYER. ||— END OF ENTRY — ||————————————————————————————————————————————————————- ||ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE & ADVERTISER— __Alexandria __Virginia __ __ __ __newspaper __digital resource __https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025001/1824-06-01/ed-1/seq-3/ __Library of Congress __1 June 1824 __3 __3 __— This is to give Notice,
THAT the subscriber of Alexandria county, in the district of Columbia, has obtained from the orphans’ couty of said county, letters of Administration on the personal estate of EDMOND EDMUNDS, late of the county aforesaid, dec’d. All persons having claims against the said decedent, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, to the subscriber, passed by the orphans’ court, on or before the 31st day of November next, or they may, by law, be excluded from all benefit to said estate; and those indebted thereto are required to make immediate payment. Given under my hand, and seal, this 31st day of May 1824.
SARAH EDMUNDS,
adm’x of Edmond Edmunds.
june 1 ||— END OF ENTRY — ||————————————————————————————————————————————————————- ||ALEXANDRIA HERALD— __Alexandria __Virginia __ __ __ __newspaper __digital resource __https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024513/1825-02-23/ed-1/seq-4/ __Library of Congress __23 February 1825 __4 __5 __— MRS. & MISS EDMONDS’
BOARDING SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG LADIES, ALEXANDRIA
TERMS. — Instructions in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, theorectical and practical grammar, geography and astronomy with the use of maps and globes, composition chronology and history, intellectual and natural philosophy, bioggaphy [sic] and belles-lettres, with every kind of useful and ornamental needle work — per quarter $6 00
Drawing and painting on wood, paper and velvet, and in crayons 6 00
Music 15 00
Use of piano 3 00
French 8 00
Board, bed, and washing 30 00
Payable quarterly. jan 10 ||— END OF ENTRY — ||————————————————————————————————————————————————————– ||PHENIX GAZETTE— __Alexandria __Virginia __ __ __ __newspaper __digital resource __https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025006/1831-12-23/ed-1/seq-3/ __Library of Congress __23 December 1831 __3 __2 __— DIED,
At Frankfurt, Pa. on the 16th inst., Mrs. SARAH EDMONDS, relict of the late Edmund Edmonds of this place.
Full of years and Christian graces our friends has gone to the silent grave — leaving for our imitation a bright example of Christina character.
Let us, while we mourn at her death, call to mind her many and exalted virtues.
We mourn not as those who have no goodhope. She, to whose memory we pay the tribute of our tears, is taken from a world of Woe, and introduced, we doubt not, to the presence of her Creator and God, whose presence is joy and peace forever. ||— END OF ENTRY —
Mr. EDITOR — No individual, who feels a due regard for the best interests of society, can contemplate with indifferance any of the means by which these interests are cherished and advanced. Among these means the education of youth has ever been acknowledged to be the most important which lies within the agency of man.
This sentiment has been too limited, however, in reference to its objects. The female mind is avowedly considered, by the creed of many nations, as being excluded, by natural disabilities, from any participation in the advantages of mental cultivation. It is to be regretted that, nothwithstanding the elevation which Christianity has imparted to the female character, the common Nature of which it represents females as being the partakers, the important duties to which it calls them, and the immortal hopes of which they are permitted to share the consolations, they have too often been particularly excluded from the enjoyment of those advantages of education, which are fitted to develope [sic] their intellectual powers, and to give to their whole characters that elegant finish which adds so attractive a charm to their naturally amiable qualities of Heart.
With these views, we are always gratified to observe the advance of female education, as indicated as well by the actual acquisition which females attain, as by the rising character of institutions appropriated to their instruction. Without further preface, permit us to express the gratification which we, in common with a large number of respectable individuals, experienced attending, this morning, an examination of Mrs. EDMOND’S School. The pupils acquitted themselves in a manner creditable to themselves and to their instructors. The promptness and accuracy of their replies, attested not only their dilligent attention to their studies, but indicated, also, the exercise of thought; without which instruction fails to produce its most valuable effects.
The recitations in grammar were particularly interesting; the pupils evidently possessed a thorough knowledge of the elements, as well as the power of readily applying them to practice. Various problems on the globes were solved, with great readiness and precision; and in geography a very creditable degree of proficiency was manifested. The specimens of penmanship, too, were decidedly superior, on the whole, to any which we have ever witnessed in so large a school. We will not protract this communication by further comment, but we could not withold this expression of our gratification, and our hopes, that the advantages presented by a school, in which the improvement of the mind, in alliance with the culture of the heart and manners, is attended to with so much assiduity on the part of the instructors, and such valuable effects on the pupils, will be fully appreciated.
O. B. BROWN,
JOHN BRYCE,
JAMES D. KNOWLES,
H. O. WYER. ||— END OF ENTRY — ||————————————————————————————————————————————————————- ||ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE & ADVERTISER— __Alexandria __Virginia __ __ __ __newspaper __digital resource __https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025001/1824-06-01/ed-1/seq-3/ __Library of Congress __1 June 1824 __3 __3 __— This is to give Notice,
THAT the subscriber of Alexandria county, in the district of Columbia, has obtained from the orphans’ couty of said county, letters of Administration on the personal estate of EDMOND EDMUNDS, late of the county aforesaid, dec’d. All persons having claims against the said decedent, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, to the subscriber, passed by the orphans’ court, on or before the 31st day of November next, or they may, by law, be excluded from all benefit to said estate; and those indebted thereto are required to make immediate payment. Given under my hand, and seal, this 31st day of May 1824.
SARAH EDMUNDS,
adm’x of Edmond Edmunds.
june 1 ||— END OF ENTRY — ||————————————————————————————————————————————————————- ||ALEXANDRIA HERALD— __Alexandria __Virginia __ __ __ __newspaper __digital resource __https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024513/1825-02-23/ed-1/seq-4/ __Library of Congress __23 February 1825 __4 __5 __— MRS. & MISS EDMONDS’
BOARDING SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG LADIES, ALEXANDRIA
TERMS. — Instructions in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, theorectical and practical grammar, geography and astronomy with the use of maps and globes, composition chronology and history, intellectual and natural philosophy, bioggaphy [sic] and belles-lettres, with every kind of useful and ornamental needle work — per quarter $6 00
Drawing and painting on wood, paper and velvet, and in crayons 6 00
Music 15 00
Use of piano 3 00
French 8 00
Board, bed, and washing 30 00
Payable quarterly. jan 10 ||— END OF ENTRY — ||————————————————————————————————————————————————————– ||PHENIX GAZETTE— __Alexandria __Virginia __ __ __ __newspaper __digital resource __https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025006/1831-12-23/ed-1/seq-3/ __Library of Congress __23 December 1831 __3 __2 __— DIED,
At Frankfurt, Pa. on the 16th inst., Mrs. SARAH EDMONDS, relict of the late Edmund Edmonds of this place.
Full of years and Christian graces our friends has gone to the silent grave — leaving for our imitation a bright example of Christina character.
Let us, while we mourn at her death, call to mind her many and exalted virtues.
We mourn not as those who have no goodhope. She, to whose memory we pay the tribute of our tears, is taken from a world of Woe, and introduced, we doubt not, to the presence of her Creator and God, whose presence is joy and peace forever. ||— END OF ENTRY —
Summary
teacher, trade advertisement, materials used in trade, wares made/work described, spouse, will mentions artisan, estate admin. or executor, child/children, Pennsylvania (to), death
Status
female artisan
MESDA Craftsman ID
10296
