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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 18: education. (search)
m the Hopkins Charity, with a small tuition-fee for each scholar; in addition to which occasional special grants from the town and colony served to eke out a precarious subsistence. His successors for more than a century, received a very moderate stipend. Nov. 9, 1691, it was put to vote, whether there should be given by the town, in common pay, annually, to a schoolmaster, twelve pounds, and it was voted on the affirmative, to teach both Latin and English, and to write and cypher; and June 27, 1692, it was voted to pay the schoolmaster twenty pounds per annum in common pay. The Grammar School was made a Free School Notwithstanding this vote, the scholars were not wholly exempt from expense. At a town-meeting, Nov. 28, 1748, it was Voted, that the Grammar Schoolmaster in this town be desired and is hereby empowered to make a tax on every schoolboy, not exceeding six shillings old tenor, from time to time, as there shall be occasion to purchase wood for the use of said Grammar S