HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. 



613 



A short time ago I began collecting facts intending to show the 

 great falling off in numbers in the American family, taken without 

 regard to location or worldly circumstances. These I will now present 

 (although they are as yet quite incomplete), because they have a 

 direct bearing upon the subject which we are considering. In some 

 of the tables only one or two lines of descendants could be traced ; in 

 others, all or nearly all appear : 



Married, 1770. 

 Nine children. 



i 1805. 8 children. 



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j \ Married about 1775. 

 I Sixteen children. 



Married about 1S10. Fifteen children. 



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Unmarried and 1 1 

 having no children. 



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Married about 1800. 

 Nine children. 



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No ch. 



Unmar. 

 dead. 



See .Vo. 5 above 



Married about 1810. 

 Eight children. 



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1 Married about 1830. 



~Un., unmarried. Dotted line, females. Plain Tine, males. D, dead. Ko ch.;, no children. 



Nearly all grades of American life have been included here, except- 

 ing perhaps that found in extreme poverty. The women were, for the 

 most part, simply educated. Some in the district school only, while 

 others were instructed with due deference to the limitations consid- 

 ered proper in female education, and with the usual surfeit of "accom- 



