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Chapter 2
Cobbs School
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was distant, isolated and rural
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John Bolling
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All three children came home on July 7, 1783 contracting the "bilious fever" John died and his brother and sister survived
as a young student he advanced rapidly and wrote to his mother asking for her to send over his brother and sister
Neither sibling went on to have a professional career or any experience that proved some evidence that their education was useful and successful
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Thomas Bolling however was still considered to be the first formally educated deaf person in America
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John Braidwood
In march of the same year Braidwood contacted William Bolling, as he knew that Mr. Bolling had deaf children
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Mr. Bolling invited Braidwood to his home were he was to discuss if Braidwood would spend time with the family privately ( as in like a tutor)
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Braidwood eventually did meet up with William Bolling and they did create an institution that was indeed very private
due to the isolation and lack of continuous contact with other adults Braidwood struggled with alcoholism and left Cobbs in 1816 causing the school to fail
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William Bolling
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John Bolling (uncle) was the first Bolling child to be sent abroad for school. Braidwood Academy in Edinburg Scotland.
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American School
Majority of the student that were first enrolled were post lingually deaf, there were a total of 35 students when the door opened
understood that a permanent school could only be maintained by consistent financial support from the state
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Thomas Bolling
Thomas Bolling owed so much money that the debt went on for fourteen years resulting in a court case where the drama went on for another 3 years finally resulting in Bolling paying Braidwood with 41 slaves
Sent his children abroad for school after their return he still owed the tuition for their education in Scotland