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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
om for six months ending Nov. 1, 1819, $25. At the west end, Jedutham Richardson, who lived on the corner of High street and Hastings lane, seems to have benefited by this, for he received on Nov. 6, 1819, For his daughters Sally and Harriet teaching school from May 1 to Oct. 30 at $2 a week, $51.40,0 For boarding the teachers of the school $51.57, For the use of a room for the Town School $20. Miss Eliza Gray taught the primary school and all the girls in the brick school-house, and Miss Eliza B. Wait, the eastern school, at the house of Rhoda Turner, situated, I am informed, on Riverside avenue near where the Boston & Maine freight-house now stands. Up to the time when these schools were opened, there had been two male teachers occupying the two rooms in the brick school-house, and when Miss Eliza Gray took charge of one room it was necessary for one of the men to drop out. Judging from the books, Abijah Kendall, who had taught for twelve years, was the one dispensed with, for Pet