It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

They had eight children:
Emily Schotten (1790–1861) who married William W. The Speller was arranged so that it could be easily taught to students and it progressed by age. Webster's identification of his project as a "federal language" shows his competing impulses towards regularity and innovation in historical terms.

(October 16 1758 – May 28 1843) was a lexicographer textbook pioneer English spelling reformer political writer editor and prolific author. His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read secularizing their education. Noah Webster Jr.