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by the light of later years, this entry has a significance which it would be hard to estimate.
For more than a generation we are to follow the history of the Charlestown school, which thus long was under the guidance of this worthy gentleman.
The amount appropriated for Mr. Sweetser's salary grew year by year.
But the apparent increase, it must be remembered, was due to a gradual depreciation of the currency, which, in time, came to be estimated in terms of old tenor and new tenor.
May 19, 1746, the amount voted in town meeting for Mr. Sweetser's pay reached the very considerable figure of £ 250. It was not without frequent petitions, however, that he met with such consideration.
These, it would appear, were presented personally, as May 14, 1739, we read: Mr. Sweetser prays for an increase in his salary, and gets £ 180.
1746, Mr. Sweetser prays for more salary, and considering the depreciation of money, £ 250 is voted.
The next three years the amount appropriated fell to £ 15
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May 11, 1741, Joseph Kent, Captain Caleb Brooks, James Tufts, £ 40.
May 10, 1742, and May 10, 1743, the same committee.
May 8, 1744, Captain Caleb Brooks, Joseph Kent, Nathaniel Francis, £ 50.
May 13, 1745, the same committee.
May 19, 1746, Joseph Kent, Nathaniel Francis, John Bradshaw, £ 50.
May 11, 1747, Peter Tufts, Philip Cartwrite (Carteret), John Bradshaw, £ 60.
May 6, 1748, Nathaniel Lamson, Joseph Kent, John Bradshaw, Nathaniel Francis, and Henry Gardner, £ 80.
e poor within the Neck, and £ 80 for the use of the school without the Neck.
Frothingham's History, under date of this year, wrongly states that the gift of £ 80 was to the school at the Neck.
There was no school at the Neck at this time.
May 19, 1746, Mr. Royall offers £ 30 for the use of the school without the Neck, in addition to what the town raises for that purpose, and £ 30 for supporting highways between Winter Hill and Mistick bridge. Mr. Royall was one of the selectmen for 1746,