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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
t the Town by Isaac Royal Esq. be applied to pay the Schooling of such Children whose Parents are unable to pay for them. Payments for tuition of young children were made from 1798 to 1822, even after the establishment of free primary schools. The teachers of private schools who received payment from the town during this time were as follows in the order of their appearance on the books of the selectmen: Eliza Francis, Sally Tufts, Prudence Foster, Mrs. Johnson (?), Mrs. Benj. Pratt, Rebecca Blanchard, Susanna Usher, Abigail Simonds, Lucy Shedd, Hannah Greenleaf, Bethiah Hatch, Harriet Greenleaf, Betsey Stimpson, Susan Hall, Elizabeth M. Bradbury, Nancy Fulton. Mrs. Johnson very probably was not a teacher, for she received on Jan. 8, 1800, $3.62 for schooling of her children, doubtless a reimbursement for what she had paid out for the purpose to some one else. With the shortsightedness of the average town manifested when providing school accommodations, the brick school back of