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David Wood, Jr., and Eliphalet Newell are made a committee to select a site, and it is decided ‘where the old schoolhouse stood is the most suitable place to put the present Meeting-house on.’
It is voted to move it. September 1, 1783, Mr. Mallet and Mr. Hays are a committee to see what repairs are necessary for the schoolhouse.
The next January Deacon Frothingham receives thirty-six shillings for building the school chimney.
October 25, 1784, the selectmen are given power to cut off from the present schoolhouse what is an encroachment on the street, and make of it an engine house, also to fix the other part for a new schoolhouse as soon as possible; and November 1 John Hay and Henry P. Sweetser are appointed to fix the old meeting-house for a school.
‘Voted, 6 March, 1786, to have a grammar (Latin) schoolmaster in this town.’
(Query: Had there been no school of this rank since the days of Seth Sweetser?) Mr. H. P. Sweetser was added to the committee to see about a grammar master.
June 19, 1786. ‘It is voted to sell the old schoolhouse, which is not worth repairing, and build a new one, and to raise £ 100 to build it. Mr. Harris, Samuel Swan, Jr., and H. P. Sweetser, are a committee to build the school, and sell the old one to Captain Calder, and to set the school on Town Hill.’
July 17 this committee is enjoined to go about their work immediately.
Captain Calder is to have the old house for £ 10, lawful money, as it now stands, ‘and two or three days to give his answer.’
August 7 it is voted to reconsider the former vote in regard to building a new schoolhouse, and give directions to the committee to put the old one in repair.
As this committee desired to be excused, David Wood, Jr., Captain Cordis, and Samuel Henley, Esq., were chosen in their places.
These are all the items I find on the subject, and I must confess my mind is in some doubt as to what were the exact school accommodations on the peninsula after the Revolution.
Timothy Trumbull was town clerk and schoolmaster, 1780–‘82.
The account of him in Wyman would seem to need verification.
He was the son of James and Phebe (Johnson) Trumbull, and was born in 1754.
At one time he was living in
Somerville. Historical Society. , 1905.
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