ABSTRACT
In light of the war of 1775-81 that produced the United States of America, it is only fitting to close the main body of this collection of essays with one published by an English emigrant in the new nation. In 1794 newly arrived schoolmaster William Milns issued the prospectus that follows for an innovational school that he planned to conduct in New York. Born in 1761, Milns was the son of a London “gentleman”. William Milns carried out his plans to conduct a private academy, in Hans’s terms, in New York. Through 1798 he was listed in annual city directories as teacher, at 29 Gold Street. Judging from the 1794 tract, Milns’ American career was notable especially in regard to schooling methods and the education of women, areas that were highlighted within respectively the short and long titles. Private classes in his sense may have been conducted nearly three centuries earlier at St. Paul’s, however, after refounding by Dean Colet.
