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Neal's ‘New England,’ page 613, asserts that there was hardly a child of nine or ten years old throughout the whole country at this time but could read and write and say his catechism.
If this be true, from the account which we have attempted to present, it may be judged whether Charlestown was faithful or not to its duty.
(To be continued.)
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