Page 393
“A Memorial of Jonathan Ware representing that he has invented a new mode of educating children more expeditious than that at present practised and praying the aid of the Common Council to carry his plan into execution was read and referred to the Com(e) on Arts & Sciences.”
Page 412
“Resolved that the Committee on the Petition of Jonathan Ware be authorized to hire for his use a School Room for the space of three months provided he cannot be accomodated in one of the buildings owned by the Corporation.”
Page 563
“A request of Jonathan Ware, that the Common Council would direct an examination to be made of the principles upon which his scheme of Tuition is founded was read & laid on the Table.”
Page 686
“Whereupon Resolved that the said surrender be accepted A Memorial from the American Academy of the Arts praying a grant of the Rooms [391] in the old Alms House lately assigned to the Library Society and by them surrendered, and a similar request from the Historical Society Also a petition from the American Bible Society, and from the Columbian Society for the use of a Room, and a memorial from Jonathan Ware for the assignment of rooms for the purpose of holding a School, on an improved plan, in the said building, were presented and referred to the Committee on arts and Sciences.”
Page 717
“Which was approved
The Committee on the petition of Jon Ware on the subject of an improved method of instructing children Reported That having had the same together with his letter and many respectable testimonials relative thereto under their consideration they recommend the adoption of the following resolution
Resolved that Jonathan Ware for his new and peculiar method of instructing children is well deserving of the public patronage.
Sigd Nichls Fish
Ths R Smith
Samuel Akerly”
Page 743
“A. further Memorial of Jonathan Ware for a Room in the Old Alms house was Read and laid on the Table.”
Reference Data:
Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York 1784-1831, Vol. 8, by New York Common Council, 1917
