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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
this luxury, though the honor may be disputed by William Vinal, who taught 1740 to 1742. This chair is heard from again twenty years later, after twelve different masters had enjoyed its comforts. In 1761 the Selectmen gave another order to James Perry for mending this grat chaier. Samuel Payson, master from November, 1760, to March, 1762, was the occupant at the time of its decrepitude. But James mended it so well that it went on twenty-five years more, when again it gave way during the administration of Master Gannett, in 1786. As James Perry was not on hand to repair it, the work was done by Willis Hall, and nothing further is heard from it. The financial stress which culminated in a petition for relief to the Great and General Court for His Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay, May 20, 1735, may have been responsible for the delay in building the school-house. In this petition they say that the said town is of the smallest extent of any in the Province, and yet thei