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Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Charlestown schools after 1793 (search)
litary officers. Citizens. King Solomon's Lodge of Masons. The assessors, parish-treasurer, and clerk. Trustees of the free schools. The ministers and deacons. Town treasurer and town clerk. Magistrates and representatives. The selectmen. Band of music. Marshal. The programme consisted of a dirge on the organ, prayer, a funeral hymn, discourse, funeral ode, the Valedictory of George Washington, Occasional dirge, blessing. The entire exercises seem to have been conducted by Rev. Jedediah Morse, D. D., who preached from the text: So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the Plains of Moab thirty days. March 3, 1800, it was voted that the representative be directed to petition the general court that the Act incorporating the free schools be so far allowed that three of said body shall be a quorum to transact business. At the May meeting it was voted that four trustees be chosen w
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Charlestown schools after 1812 (search)
1797, 1798, 1799, the same, with the exception of Hon. Nathaniel Gorham, who was followed by his son, Nathaniel Gorham, Jr., and Timothy Tufts, who was succeeded by Samuel Tufts. 1800 and 1801, Seth Wyman, Samuel Tufts, Jonathan Teel, Rev. Jedediah Morse, Benjamin Hurd, Jr., Timothy Walker, Timothy Thompson. 1802, Samuel Tufts, Seth Wyman, Jonathan Teel, Captain Thomas Harris, Matthew Bridge, Deacon David Goodwin, Samuel Payson. 1803 and 1804, the same, with the exception of Samuel Parlestown. Hon. Timothy Walker, Timothy Thompson, Captain Thomas Harris, Deacon David Goodwin, and John Kettell are names that stand for representative Charlestown families, but perhaps the most suggestive name on the list is that of Rev. Jedediah Morse, D. D. (1761-1826). This gentleman, a native of Connecticut, a graduate of Yale, and the leading minister of Charlestown from 1789 to 1820, was at this time delighting the educational world with his Geography, one of the first American text-bo