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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Charlestown schools in the Eighteenth century. (search)
sold for £ 1,500, and the annual income from this is £ 180. 10. 0. From the following entries it will be seen that the selectmen assumed authority over private schools: 1727, Mr. John Stevens, student at the college, is allowed to keep a Private school in the town for writing & ciphering. November 17, 1729. Ordered that Samuel Burr have liberty to improve the middle chamber of the almshouse for to keep a writing school for this winter. 1749, The selectmen approbated and allowed Mr. Matthew Cushing to keep a private school in this town, to instruct youth in reading, writing, and cyphering, and other sciences, he having been recommended as a person of sober and good conversation. （Frothingham, page 260.) May 15, 1728, the question came up in town meeting whether the selectmen shall agree with some person to assist Mr. Sweetser in teaching the school or shall erect another building. The committee chosen to consider the matter were Thomas Greaves, Daniel Russell, Joseph Kent,
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Charlestown schools within the peninsula Revolutionary period (search)
recorded, along with a second request for more time, that the committee have agreed with Mr. Matthew Cushing to keep the grammar school, at a rate of £ 60 lawful money, and that he began June 12; an the use of the Latin school. I have been unable to learn anything of these two teachers. Mr. Cushing, we have seen, was keeping a private school in Charlestown at the time of his appointment. He was doubtless descended from Matthew Cushing, one of the early settlers of Hingham. The history of that town mentions a Matthew, son of Solomon and Sarah (Loring) Cushing, born April 4, 1720, a grCushing, born April 4, 1720, a graduate of Harvard College, 1739, who removed to New York, and died there in 1779. This may be the Charlestown teacher. Evidently there were two sides to the school question, and many were dissati66 13s. 4d., lawful money. He accepts, and will begin when the other master's term expires. Mr. Cushing was paid in full up to the date when he was dismissed, and Mr. Hartt received £ 30, lawful mo
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
William Wallace, 21. Countess of Lincoln, 27. Cowes, Isle of Wight, 29. Cracbone, Gilbert, 76. Cradock, Governor, 27, 31. Cross Street, Boston, 4. Cross Street, Somerville, 22, 24, 43. Crusades, The, 50. Culverwell, —, 25. Cushing, Matthew, 14, 44. Cushing, Sarah (Loring), 44. Cushing, Solomon, 44. Cutter, Daniel, 69. Cutter, Edward, 24. Cutter, Fitch, 24. Cutter, —, 24. Dame, Elizabeth, 19. Dana, S. L., 9. Danforth, Nicholas, 52. Danforth, Deputy Governor ThCushing, Sarah (Loring), 44. Cushing, Solomon, 44. Cutter, Daniel, 69. Cutter, Edward, 24. Cutter, Fitch, 24. Cutter, —, 24. Dame, Elizabeth, 19. Dana, S. L., 9. Danforth, Nicholas, 52. Danforth, Deputy Governor Thomas, 55. Danforth, Thomas, 53. Dedham, Mass., 88. Defence, Ship, 73, 74, 79. Derwent, Cumberlandshire, Eng., 49. Despeaux, Helen M., 36. Devonshire Street, Boston, 30. Dickering Wapentake, East Riding, Yorkshire, Eng., 49. Dix, Joel, 9. Dogget, John, 51. Domesday Book, 50. Dorchester, Mass., 48. Downer (family), 43. Drake's History of Middlesex County. 5, 9, 60. Dudley, Deputy Governor Thomas, 27, 28, 33, 52. Dunning's Coal Wharf, 3. Dutton, H. W. & Son, 56. Ed<
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., My Revolutionary ancestors: major Job Cushing, Lieutenant Jerome Lincoln, Walter Foster Cushing (search)
nts of the early settlers down to the present day, and I am indebted to the Cushing Genealogy by Lemuel Cushing for the following facts. The derivation of the name is somewhat uncertain. The present form is used by all the descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in 1638. Before the sixteenth century, however, it was variously written. In deeds, wills and charters still extant in Norfolk county, England, referring to the direct lineal ancestors of Matthew, we find Cushyng, Costhe Cushing family. From Samuel's third son, Mordicai, came Abraham Lincoln. To go back to the colonists at Hingham: At a town meeting in 1638, a house lot of five acres on Pear Tree hill, Bachelor street, now Main street, was given to Matthew Cushing and it continued in possession of the family until 1887. Matthew was early engaged in the affairs of the town and was deacon in Reverend Hobart's church. His eldest son, Daniel, inherited, as the custom was, most of the property. He mar