successors of Mr. Corlett were generally young men fresh from College.
John Hancock was elected teacher, Jan., 1690-1; John Sparhawk, Feb., 1692-3; Nicholas Fessenden, Jr., about 1701; Samuel Danforth, Oct., 1719; John Hovey, April, 1730; Stephen Coolidge, May, 1730; John Hovey, May, 1737; Stephen Coolidge, May, 1741; William Fessenden, Jr., May, 1745; James Lovell, May, 1756; Antipas Steward, about 1760; Ebenezer Stedman, Jr., about 1765; Thomas Colman, July, 1770; Jonathan Hastings, Jr., MaStephen Coolidge, May, 1741; William Fessenden, Jr., May, 1745; James Lovell, May, 1756; Antipas Steward, about 1760; Ebenezer Stedman, Jr., about 1765; Thomas Colman, July, 1770; Jonathan Hastings, Jr., May, 1772; Jonathan Eames, May, 1776; Elisha Parmele, May, 1778; Aaron Bancroft, Aug. 1778; Samuel Kendall, May, 1780; Asa Packard, April, 1783; Lemuel Hedge, July, 1783.
All these teachers were graduates of Harvard College.
I have not found the materials for a consecutive list at a later period. Very few of them appear to have selected teaching as a permanent employment; only one indeed died in the service, namely, Nicholas Fessenden, Jr., H. C. 1701, who taught about eighteen years, and died o
her father's estate), m. Stephen Jennings of Framingham, pub. 9 June 1737.
John the f. was of Lexington 1721, and d. prob.
1739; his Inventory is dated 24 Nov. 1739.
4. Nicholas, s. of Nicholas (2), grad.
H. C. 1701, m. Sarah, wid. of Stephen Coolidge and dau. of Capt. Josiah Parker, 8 Aug. 1706, and had Elizabeth, b. 19 May 1707, m. Jacob Sweetser of Maiden 4 May 1732; Sarah, b. 23 Oct. 1708; Nicholas, b. 8 July 1710, a brazier in Boston 1737, and prob.
the same who d. there of apoplexStreet, or thereabouts, and bounded northerly on the burial ground.
He m. Elizabeth Saxon, or Sexton, of Boston, and had in Groton, Elizabeth, b. 31 Aug. 1679, m. Samuel Livermore 15 Nov. 1699; John, b. 13 Ap. 1681; Sarah, b. 1 May 1683, m. Stephen Coolidge 30 Ap. 1702.
and Nicholas Fessenden, Jr., 8 Aug. 1706; he had also, Susanna, b. –, m. Samuel Gookin, Jr., 28 Feb. 1711-12; Joshua; William, prob.
d. young; Ann, m. William Warland 3 July 1718 (Joshua, William, and Ann, bap. here 3 Ap. 1698