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Robert Trevett (search for this): chapter 2
e March 28, 1752. Through his mother, Abigail Sweetser, he was a cousin to his successor, the next schoolmaster of Charlestown. The following year, 1725, the custom is revived of paying a man for looking after the boys on the Lord's Day. Robert Trevett is allowed twenty shillings the first quarter for such service, to begin 8 November, 1726-7, To Robert Trevett £ 4 for last year looking after the boys. The same amount is appropriated the year following. Stray items of expense are intereRobert Trevett £ 4 for last year looking after the boys. The same amount is appropriated the year following. Stray items of expense are interesting: 1724, Paid for bell to the schoolhouse £ 2. 10. 0. Richard Miller's bill for work at ye school, &c., &c., £ 1. 5. 4. John Sprague £ 4. 5. 0. for a weather cock & mending the school bell. June 15, 1724, Mr. Seth Sweetser was chosen school master. Mr. John Foye, Mr. Henry Phillips, Thomas Greaves, Esq., Mr. Daniel Russell & Deac. Jonathan Kettle were appointed a committee to apply themselves to ye ministers, as the law directs, for their approbation of Mr. Seth Sweetser, jr., for a gr
Jonathan Kettle (search for this): chapter 2
eetser in teaching the school or shall erect another building. The committee chosen to consider the matter were Thomas Greaves, Daniel Russell, Joseph Kent, Joseph Lemmon, and Aaron Cleveland. Later they make an interesting report, in which they suggest that many unfit to attend be kept out of the school. They also think it might do to have a reading school somewhere at the town charge. Another committee, to regulate the school accordingly, consisted of Deacon Samuel Frothingham, Deacon Jonathan Kettle, and Joseph Lemmon. That word somewhere may have encouraged the petition of several of the inhabitants of the town. In answer thereto, June 17, 1728, it was voted that the petitioners be allowed out of the Town Treasury towards keeping a school among them their proportion of what they are taxed toward the school or schools in the Town, provided it be employed to that use only for the year ensuing. This seems to be the first record that can be construed as relating to schools in
Andrew Stimson (search for this): chapter 2
rlestown for the free school, if it is effected in a year's time, 95 acres wood. May 8, 1723. We may judge something of the school fund at this time from the following: Of the £ 60 for the schoolmaster, £ 20 was voted from the town treasury. The rent of Lovell's Is. £ 15; rent of ye school lott £ 5; the interest of £ 300 & part of ye Lynn farm £ 20, to make up the remainder. April 6, 1724. Mr. Joseph Stimson, gramer school master resigned. This reverend gentleman was the son of Andrew Stimson, Jr., of Cambridge, where he was born February 7, 1700, and graduated from the college in the class of 1720. He became the pastor of the Second church of Malden, and died there March 28, 1752. Through his mother, Abigail Sweetser, he was a cousin to his successor, the next schoolmaster of Charlestown. The following year, 1725, the custom is revived of paying a man for looking after the boys on the Lord's Day. Robert Trevett is allowed twenty shillings the first quarter for such servi<
Russells (search for this): chapter 2
will endeavor to emphasize everything on the records relating to this subject, as they give us our first knowledge of the school in that part of the town which afterwards was set off to Medford, to Arlington, or became the town of Somerville. Unfortunately, our information for a time will have to be confined to the annual appropriations and the local committees appointed at the May town meeting. If access could be had to any existing private papers of the Tufts family, of the Rands, Kents, Frosts, Russells, etc., the few men of that period who administered the affairs of our section of Charlestown, no doubt much interesting material might be found. By consulting Wyman's valuable work and the Brooks-Usher history of Medford, we can determine readily to which section those on the various committees were devoted. Four or five districts must have been represented, which we may designate as the Milk Row, the Alewife Brook, the upper, or Gardner Row, and the one or more at Medford side.
John Sprague (search for this): chapter 2
The following year, 1725, the custom is revived of paying a man for looking after the boys on the Lord's Day. Robert Trevett is allowed twenty shillings the first quarter for such service, to begin 8 November, 1726-7, To Robert Trevett £ 4 for last year looking after the boys. The same amount is appropriated the year following. Stray items of expense are interesting: 1724, Paid for bell to the schoolhouse £ 2. 10. 0. Richard Miller's bill for work at ye school, &c., &c., £ 1. 5. 4. John Sprague £ 4. 5. 0. for a weather cock & mending the school bell. June 15, 1724, Mr. Seth Sweetser was chosen school master. Mr. John Foye, Mr. Henry Phillips, Thomas Greaves, Esq., Mr. Daniel Russell & Deac. Jonathan Kettle were appointed a committee to apply themselves to ye ministers, as the law directs, for their approbation of Mr. Seth Sweetser, jr., for a grammer school master. His salary is £ 75 to begin 7 July. Viewed by the light of later years, this entry has a significance which
Matthew Cushing (search for this): chapter 2
sold for £ 1,500, and the annual income from this is £ 180. 10. 0. From the following entries it will be seen that the selectmen assumed authority over private schools: 1727, Mr. John Stevens, student at the college, is allowed to keep a Private school in the town for writing & ciphering. November 17, 1729. Ordered that Samuel Burr have liberty to improve the middle chamber of the almshouse for to keep a writing school for this winter. 1749, The selectmen approbated and allowed Mr. Matthew Cushing to keep a private school in this town, to instruct youth in reading, writing, and cyphering, and other sciences, he having been recommended as a person of sober and good conversation. （Frothingham, page 260.) May 15, 1728, the question came up in town meeting whether the selectmen shall agree with some person to assist Mr. Sweetser in teaching the school or shall erect another building. The committee chosen to consider the matter were Thomas Greaves, Daniel Russell, Joseph Kent,
Aaron Cleveland (search for this): chapter 2
e school in this town, to instruct youth in reading, writing, and cyphering, and other sciences, he having been recommended as a person of sober and good conversation. （Frothingham, page 260.) May 15, 1728, the question came up in town meeting whether the selectmen shall agree with some person to assist Mr. Sweetser in teaching the school or shall erect another building. The committee chosen to consider the matter were Thomas Greaves, Daniel Russell, Joseph Kent, Joseph Lemmon, and Aaron Cleveland. Later they make an interesting report, in which they suggest that many unfit to attend be kept out of the school. They also think it might do to have a reading school somewhere at the town charge. Another committee, to regulate the school accordingly, consisted of Deacon Samuel Frothingham, Deacon Jonathan Kettle, and Joseph Lemmon. That word somewhere may have encouraged the petition of several of the inhabitants of the town. In answer thereto, June 17, 1728, it was voted that th
John Foye (search for this): chapter 2
wed twenty shillings the first quarter for such service, to begin 8 November, 1726-7, To Robert Trevett £ 4 for last year looking after the boys. The same amount is appropriated the year following. Stray items of expense are interesting: 1724, Paid for bell to the schoolhouse £ 2. 10. 0. Richard Miller's bill for work at ye school, &c., &c., £ 1. 5. 4. John Sprague £ 4. 5. 0. for a weather cock & mending the school bell. June 15, 1724, Mr. Seth Sweetser was chosen school master. Mr. John Foye, Mr. Henry Phillips, Thomas Greaves, Esq., Mr. Daniel Russell & Deac. Jonathan Kettle were appointed a committee to apply themselves to ye ministers, as the law directs, for their approbation of Mr. Seth Sweetser, jr., for a grammer school master. His salary is £ 75 to begin 7 July. Viewed by the light of later years, this entry has a significance which it would be hard to estimate. For more than a generation we are to follow the history of the Charlestown school, which thus long w
John Stevens (search for this): chapter 2
£ 357. 10. 0., with income of £ 21. 9. 0. A school lot in first division,—amount not given. Soheegan farm,—not valued. Land adjoining the schoolhouse,—not valued. In 1740 the free school income amounted to £ 71.4. 0. （Frothingham.) In 1748 these funds amounted to £ 1,857, Sowhegum farm having been sold for £ 1,500, and the annual income from this is £ 180. 10. 0. From the following entries it will be seen that the selectmen assumed authority over private schools: 1727, Mr. John Stevens, student at the college, is allowed to keep a Private school in the town for writing & ciphering. November 17, 1729. Ordered that Samuel Burr have liberty to improve the middle chamber of the almshouse for to keep a writing school for this winter. 1749, The selectmen approbated and allowed Mr. Matthew Cushing to keep a private school in this town, to instruct youth in reading, writing, and cyphering, and other sciences, he having been recommended as a person of sober and good
Richard Miller (search for this): chapter 2
cousin to his successor, the next schoolmaster of Charlestown. The following year, 1725, the custom is revived of paying a man for looking after the boys on the Lord's Day. Robert Trevett is allowed twenty shillings the first quarter for such service, to begin 8 November, 1726-7, To Robert Trevett £ 4 for last year looking after the boys. The same amount is appropriated the year following. Stray items of expense are interesting: 1724, Paid for bell to the schoolhouse £ 2. 10. 0. Richard Miller's bill for work at ye school, &c., &c., £ 1. 5. 4. John Sprague £ 4. 5. 0. for a weather cock & mending the school bell. June 15, 1724, Mr. Seth Sweetser was chosen school master. Mr. John Foye, Mr. Henry Phillips, Thomas Greaves, Esq., Mr. Daniel Russell & Deac. Jonathan Kettle were appointed a committee to apply themselves to ye ministers, as the law directs, for their approbation of Mr. Seth Sweetser, jr., for a grammer school master. His salary is £ 75 to begin 7 July. Viewe
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