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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Charlestown schools in the Eighteenth century. (search)
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 service, to begin 8 November, 1726-7, To Robert Trevett £