Reverend William Douglas

In 1752, when he was nine, his father placed him in the Latin school of the Reverend William Douglas, minister of St. James Parish, Northam. He boarded at the clergyman's house during the school term and remained under his instruction until the year that Colonel Jefferson died.

• Jefferson the Virginian
  • p. 39 (Easton Press, 1993)

Much nearer home a competent classicist was awaiting him, and he probably became aware of the limitations of the Reverend William Douglas after he had begun to study under the Reverend James Maury.

Early in 1758, when he was fourteen, he began to attend Maury's little school. The clergyman was then forty years old and for six years had been officiating in Fredericksville Parish, which how included the part of Albemarle lying north and west of the Rivanna.

• Jefferson the Virginian
  • p. 40 (Easton Press, 1993)