- Title
- Mathematical exercise book
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- Creator
- Peggey Clayton (ca. 1760-ca. 1784)
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- Description
- Has elaborate calligraphy and drawings, primarily in brown and yellow, of American flags (striped but without stars) and patriotic sentiments such as “Liberty,” “The 13 United Provinces,” and “Liberty’s Glorious Cause.” She was fond of drawing ships, and included their names, for example the schooner Peggy and the privateer Wilks. She also drew houses and flowers. Some of the letters in headings were used as mnemonics. For example, in the word “Division,” the D stood for the “wicked tyrant Dunmore,” V for Virginia, where Dunmore was governor, S for “the valiant soldiers of America,” and O began the phrase “O let us praise the Lord.” Other comments on heroic patriots and despicable Tories are also found. The math exercises included addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three direct and indirect, tare and tret, interest (simple and compound), reduction, etc. The volume also includes poems, one about a shipwreck and another “On the Death of General Montgomery.” The last page is dated January 12, 1777. Peggey (or Margaret; nickname also spelled Peggy) Clayton was from northeastern North Carolina. She was probably born around 1760 in Perquimans County, the daughter of Richard and Mary Swann Clayton. However, she was living or attending school in Windsor, Bertie County, when she kept her math book. Peggey married William Jordan, Jr., of Bertie County in 1777. (Jordan had married Peggey's sister Mary as his first wife.) Peggey died before Dec. 1785 when Jordan married a third time. (At one time, this book was owned by a member of the Bond family who lived in Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina; other Bond family members lived in Bertie County, North Carolina.) The homemade volume is bound with a linen cloth which has been covered with a heavy paper on the outside and newspaper (the March 16, 1776 issue of the Virginia Gazette, published in Williamsburg) on the inside; single section.
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- Format
- ["manuscript"]
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- Subjects
- ["Education--North Carolina","Instructional materials","Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.","Calligraphy","Illumination of books and manuscripts","Students","Women--Education--18th Century"]
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