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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22., Medford a century ago—1819. (search)
ttee of six for consideration. Four days later the town met again, and then a committee reported something that sheds much educational light on the Medford of 1819: The town contains 203 families or householders. . . . The law requires two masters. . . . There are 159 boys over seven years, and 158 girls. . . and 117 of both sexes over four and under seven that require to be taught in summer by women. There were two private schools or academies in town (those of Dr. Stearns and Miss Hannah Swan), but some of their students came from other towns. This record says that two schools for those younger children must be established, one at Brooks' corner [High and Woburn streets] and the other on Mill lane, so-called [Riverside avenue.] The above figures are interesting as showing the average Medford family of a century ago as being of five children, and probably as many over seventeen as under four. But the needed schoolhouse at Brooks' corner remained a need for twenty years
officers for the present year John Blanchard Francis Kidder Andrew Blanchard Those with this mark are officers for the present year Nathaniel Bishop John P Clisby Those with this mark are officers for the present year D Swan Anthony Hatch Benjamin Floyd Jun Loveman Buel Abijah Kendall Gilbert Blanchard 2d Thomas Cox Jun Asa Sprague A Bartlett Those with this mark are officers for the present year John Howe Those with this mark are offe present year Jonathan Porter Those with this mark are officers for the present year Joseph Lamson Cornelius Tufts Henry Withington Nathan Adams Those with this mark are officers for the present year Joseph Manning J Swan Those with this mark are officers for the present year Daniel Symmes Benjamin Hill Stilman Clark Moses Merrill Henry Reed Noah Johnson Those with this mark are officers for the present year Seth Mayo Nathaniel Jaqui