James Maury

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REVEREND JAMES MAURY :

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Reverend James Maury was Matthew Fontaine Maury's grandfather, young Thomas Jefferson's teacher in his "Classical School for Boys", teacher of three future US Presidents and five future signers of the Declaration of Independence including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Considered the "best known" school in Albemarle County, the log building in which he taught, was on the border of Albemarle and Louisa counties.

Reverend James Maury taught instruction in classics, manners and morals, mathematics, literature, history and geography (Dabney 110), Latin and Greek. Most of these boys when going to Reverend Maury's school, lived there as home was too far away to leave the school area and be back the next morning. Therefore, these boys knew another well as young adults and as adults they worked together in making this nation great.

Thomas Jefferson lived with Reverend James Maury for 2 years while being educated. Jefferson and others naturally went home on special holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas and sometimes on the week ends. Jefferson started in Maury's Classical School for Boys immediately after his father, Peter Jefferson, died. Click on the link and learn a lot more. But you won't note from the link that Reverend Maury fathered 11 children. One of these was James Maury (Jr.) whom Thomas Jefferson asked US President George Washington for an appointment. And so it was done as President Washington appointed James Maury Jr. as America's first consul to Liverpool, England -- a position that James Maury (Jr) held for 40 years quitting only due to age.-m

When Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha, married, it was Reverend James Maury that performed the marriage ceremony.
Reverend James Maury considered knowledge of geography as one of the _essential features_ in the education of a "well-rounded young gentleman"(Allen 61) and strongly promoted settling the west. Later Thos. Jefferson gained The Louisiana Purchase and sent out the Lewis_and_Clark Expedition.

Thomas Jefferson wrote an autobiography and in it he wrote of Reverend James Maury, as a "correct and classical scholar" Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson.

Reverend James Maury's "intellectual expeditions" --
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/students/projects/adventurers/expeditions.html

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