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TUTORING IN THE 18TH CENTURY - Coggle Diagram
TUTORING IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Scarce records
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diaries
stories
letters
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Nahum Brown
farmer
married hearing women
she interpreted in sign during business transactions
Deaf
2 deaf children
many deaf desendents
John Harrower
before revolutionary war
tutor for Belvedere plantation
Daingerfield children
Kept diary of tutoring deaf children
John Edge
deaf and dumb
spent 5 + months with Harrower
paid 10 shilling per quarter
tutoring ended due to lack of payment
learned to write and work single addition
Braidwood son
Shirreff son
John Thomas
James Rumsey
inventor of the steamboat
wrote letter to brother in law - 1788
asked him to help care for and teach his son James
deaf son - James
received tutoring as young boy before family became broke
resolution passed to award James a gold metal for his fathers work
heirs and cousins not satisfied
pleaded for additional support
provided with boarding and clothes for 6 years
at age 21 received 4 equal shares of his fathers estate
dies in London 1792
left family broke