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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Charlestown School in the 17th century. (search)
ping forward that precocious youth, who, in burdensome gratitude, enlivens his Magnalia by references to his old master's poetry.’ After leaving Charlestown, we next find Mr. Thompson teaching in his native town, where he engaged March 3, 1678,9, at a salary of £ 30. The town is to give him a piece of land to put a house on, and every child is to carry to the schoolmaster one-half cord of wood, besides the quarter money every year. 1688, Mr. Benjamin Thompson, physician and schoolmaster, during the whole exercise there hats to be off. That you return a list of names of such boys as will not be reclaimed from there disorders by you, that they may be proceeded with as ye law in yt case directs. Frothingham, against the year 1679, says: ‘The ministers complained in their sermons of the general decay of schools, and an effort was made to restore them.’ This may explain our next extract from the records. March 10, 1678-9. ‘At a general meeting of the Inhabitants it was