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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Charlestown schools in the Eighteenth century. (search)
only for the year ensuing. This seems to be the first record that can be construed as relating to schools in the outer sections of the town. If, however, the people of the outlying districts accepted these terms and established schools of their own, there is nothing on the books, for a number of years, to show it. It may interest some to read that the selectmen for this year (1728) included Joseph Frost and Joseph Kent,—surnames that are familiar on early Somerville records. Not until 1736 do we find anything bearing on this subject. In a warrant for a town meeting, April 26 of that year, is the following item: To see whether the Town will vote to have a school or schools kept in the Town (above the Neck) for teaching and instructing youth in reading, writing, and cyphering. At the meeting held May 6, it was voted to raise £ 25 for said school, which sum was to be put into the hands of a committee which are inhabitants without the Neck, to provide a schoolmaster to instruct t
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Gregory Stone and some of his descendants (search)
who so carefully guarded the domestic interests of this little community in days that were fraught with great deeds, but marked, as well, with an Arcadian simplicity? During all the years which we have been considering the name of not a single teacher for the Milk Row school appears upon the records. Again, there is no evidence that the town of Charlestown had as yet incurred the expense of building a schoolhouse for this section. To judge from the records, there was never a time, after 1736, when there was no building. Perhaps its erection dated from the days when Isaac Royal was making his munificent gifts to the school without the Neck. The following are some of the brief references to a structure which stood probably where a later schoolhouse was built, on a corner of the present cemetery lot, Somerville avenue. After January, 1790, the school districts were designated by numbers, that in Charlestown proper being No. 1, and ours at Milk Row No. 2:— February 11, 1783, to
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
2. River Meadow Brook, 1. Rockie Meadow, 54. Roxbury, Mass., 9, 38. Royal House, 3. Royal, Isaac, 19, 20, 31, 93. Royal, Isaac, Esq., 19. Royal, Isaac, Sr., 19. Russell, Daniel, 11, 12, 14, 46. Russell, Rev., Daniel, 12. Russell, James, 43. Russell, Joseph, 18. Russell, Philemon, 91. Russell, Philemon R., 18. Russell, Thomas, 31. Russell, Walter, 89. Sagamore, John, 31. Salstonstall, Richard, 28, 50, 51, 52. Sargent, Aaron, 40. Sawyer (family), 43. School Committees, 1736-1753, 16. Schoolmaster, Itinerant, 17. Scituate, Mass., 70. Scotland, 35. Sewall, Judge, 84. Shawsheen River, 1. Shawshine (Billerica), 53. Sheafe, Edward, Jr., 43. Shepherd, Rev., Thomas, 73. Shirley, Governor, 31. Simson, Joseph, 11, 12, 65. Skelton, —, 29. Skinner, John, 16, 17. Smith, —, 18. Smith, Betsey, 37. Smith, John, 60. Somerville Historical Society, Meetings of, 72. Somerville Hospital, 70. Somerville National Bank, 70. Somerville Past and Present,