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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Charlestown Schools in the 18th century. (search)
e was a fitt man to be a schoolmaster for this town.’ These gentlemen reported, January 10, 1705, ‘that all gave incoridgment & declare their opinion that as to Mr. Wissell's Learning & other qualifications he was a fitt person for sd work.’ This report was accepted, and these three gentlemen, along with Mr. Ebenezer Austin as a fourth, were authorized, any two of them, to treat with Mr. Wissell for a term of six months. Peleg Wiswell (Wiswall) was the son of Rev. Ichabod and Priscilla (Peabody) Wiswall, and was born February 5, 1684, at Duxbury, where his father was ordained and settled. He graduated from Harvard in 1702, and died in 1767. A printed genealogy of the Wiswall family may be consulted. If we remember rightly, he taught many years in the North End School, Boston. March 4, 1706. It became the duty of the selectmen to provide a schoolmaster for the town, and on the twenty-sixth they empowered Captain Samuel Heyman, Joseph Whittemore, Mr. Bateman, and Robert Wyer <
ston, Samuel54, 55 West Somerville Baptist Church76 White, Gideon102 White, Dr. Horace Carr101, 102 White, Rhoda (Springer)102 Whittemore, Joseph61, 62 Whittier, John G.5, 17 Williams, Charles44 Willoughby, Francis17 Wilmington, Mass.64 Wilson, Henry104 Wilson, Martha14 Wind-mill Hill, Charlestown17 Windsor, Vt.52 Winter Hill Congregational Church2 Winthrop, Governor1 Winthrop, James53 Wiscassee Falls, Canal at50, 57 Wiscassee Locks50, 57 Wissell,—, Schoolmaster61 Wiswell, Rev. Ichabod62 Wiswell (Wiswall), Peleg, Schoolmaster, 170562 Wiswell, Priscilla (Peabody)62 Witherell, Rev. William, Schoolmaster, 163661 Witherell, Rev. William, Compensation of16 Woburn, Mass.14, 53, 54 Wood, Alexander, Place of45 Woodbridge, Col.94 Worcester Academy100 Wordsworth31 Wyer, Robert62 Wyman, Constant (Starr)19 Wyman's History of Charlestown19, 20, 61, 65 Yeaton, Herbert Pierce49 Yorkshire, England11 Young Men's Christian Association, Boston4 Youth's Compani