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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
his time the old meeting-house was outgrown, and needed repairs as well as enlargement. So again the school-house question was buried under this more weighty one of a meeting-house, and no report of this committee was ever made so far as recorded evidence directly shows. But all the indirect evidence at our command points decidedly to the fact that the town did not possess a school-building of its own till the expiration of thirteen years from the establishment of its first school. On Aug. 17, 1722, it was voted to have a Scool keept, and Thomas Tufts, Esq., Capt. Ebenezer Brooks, and Mr. John Bradshaw were chosen a committee to provide a teacher, and at the adjourned meeting October 15 this same committee was empowered to agree with some person or persons for a sutable Room or rooms for ye said scoole to be kept in and make report to ye town of their Doings att ye next adjournment. There is no record of the adjourned meeting, which was set for October 22, and the next town meeti