BTRVETC-L Digest		Volume 99 : Issue 9
24 Feb 1999

Today's Topics:
	 Peter Burnett
	 Re:  FRANCES HODGESON BURNETT
	 Re: PATRICK HENRY BURNETT
	 Seminary of Classical Learning, Martinsville, Va.

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:19:19 EST
From: NCreed1@aol.com
To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org
Cc: bigtop@mylink.ne
Subject: Peter Burnett
Message-ID: <2c53beb5.36cc75c7@aol.com>
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Greetings:

Johnny Turner sent me the following email.  I checked out the URL.  Very
interesting.  

Nyla
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3412

Subj:	 Burnett
Date:	2/15/99 6:55:06 PM Pacific Standard Time
From:	bigtop@mylink.net (Johnny Turner)
Reply-to:	<A HREF="mailto:bigtop@mylink.net">bigtop@mylink.net</A>
To:	NCreed1@aol.com (Nyla)

Nyla, I found a Captain Peter Burnett at the following site:

http://www.peak.org/~mransom/pioneers.html

I came across him while looking for my wife's GGreat Grandfather,
Captain Jonathan Keeney, from about the same period of time.

Sincerely, Johnny

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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:54:50 EST
From: CarBurCo@aol.com
To: btrvetc-l@genealogy.org
Subject: Re:  FRANCES HODGESON BURNETT
Message-ID: <8a3560e9.36cee8da@aol.com>
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 BURNETT Cousins,


 I saw this msg on the Rootsweb Burnett list and thought  it would be
 interesting to most Burnetts but ESPECIALLY to Waddie Salmon and other
 descedants of East Tennessee Burnetts. New Market not far above Knoxville.
Let
 me know if anyone is related to this man, husband of my favorite writer when
I
 was a child.
 
 Carole
 Caroline Burnett Cook
 
 In a message dated 2/20/99 3:59:34 AM Eastern Standard Time,
 j.burnett@diamond.co.uk writes:
 
 << Swan Moses Burnett
  Date:	2/20/99 3:59:34 AM Eastern Standard Time
  From:	j.burnett@diamond.co.uk (Burnett-web)
  Reply-to:	<A HREF="mailto:j.burnett@diamond.co.uk">j.burnett@diamond.co.uk
 </A>
  To:	BURNETT-L@rootsweb.com
  
  From John H Burnett, Lord of Normanton on Soar
  per Burnett Family Ancestry
  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  
  re Swan Moses Burnett.
  
  Thankyou for your enquiries:
  There are on our system two mentions of the name - Swan Moses Burnett
  
  Firstly as broadcast yesterday - i.e.
  Swan Moses Burnett born 16 Mar 1847 new Market, Tenn. a doctyor died
  1906.
  
  The second is:
  Swan Moses Burnett first came to light Manchester, Lancashire England,
  then USA.
  husband of the very famous authoress  Frances Elizabeth HODGSON born
  about 1849 (died 1924)
  (first came to light Manchester, England).  Possibly 2 children Lionel
  (born about 1869 died about 1890) and Vivian (born about 1872.)
  
  Frances Elizabeth Hodgson Burnett was the author of such classic novels
  as Little Lord Faunteroy
  she was born Manchester England circa 1849 and raised in poverty.  She
  moved to America with her family in 1865.
  
  It is believed that the two entries are one and the same Swann Moses
  Burnett.  For more information researchers may well be directed to
  peruse the biographies of Hodgson.
  
  Regards
  Sally Robinson per JHB
   >>

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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:00:32 EST
From: CarBurCo@aol.com
To: btrvetc-l@genealogy.org
Subject: Re: PATRICK HENRY BURNETT
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<< Patrick Henry Burnett
  Date:	2/20/99 9:53:14 AM Eastern Standard Time
  From:	rgarnett@netutah.com (Robert Garnett)
  To:	BURNETT-L@rootsweb.com
  
      I am looking for the parents and spouse of Patrick Henry Burnett.  He
  was born 1810, in VA, died 1884, Hopkins Co. KY.  he had at least one
  daughter, Lucretia, born 1840.
      If you can connectto Patrick, please contact me at rgarnett@netutah.com.
   >>
  >>

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:15:58 PST
From: "Mary Smith" <carthage42@hotmail.com>
To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org
Subject: Seminary of Classical Learning, Martinsville, Va.
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I have found a reference to Petition No. 3253 dated 22 Nov 1794 directed 
to the Virginia Legislature concerning the establishment of a seminary 
of classical learning in Martinsville "as a central location for 
Patrick, Franklin, Pittsylvania, & Henry Counties, and to Rockingham in 
NC."  The petition came from "freeholders and others, the inhabitants of 
the county of Henry," but one of the signers was Robert SHARP of Patrick 
Co.

Does anybody know if this school was established?  I assume most 
families sent their children to local teachers, clergymen who gave 
lessons, etc. -- the sort of thing one finds in guardian accounts.  
However occasionally one finds a person with an above average education, 
and he (nearly always a "he") stands out.  If he lived in Patrick Co. in 
the late 18th, early 19th century, where would he have attended school? 
Or would his parents more likely have hired a well educated private 
tutor for him?

>From the sound of the petition, it appears that there were many parents 
in the area who were concerned about educational opportunities for their 
children -- not an easy thing to find in a frontier society.


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