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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
eight names on the tax list, so a school was not compulsory. Nothing further appears about a school for nearly eighteen years, the meeting-house question probably filling the minds and emptying the pockets of the people so that there was no chance for school or school-house. The meeting-house, the agitation for which was here begun, was completed in 1696; but no mention is made of a school till 1719, when, as before mentioned, the number of householders probably necessitated action. July 10, 1719, in the warrant calling a town meeting for the 15th was an article to consider what may be proper to be Don in order to Setting up a writing school in Sd Town. The voters assembled on the 15th and adjourned to the 20th, without coming to a vote on the matter, though we can scarcely believe that so important and really revolutionary a matter did not receive full discussion on the 15th. But on the 20th it was put to vote whether the Town will have some meet person to keep a writing schoo