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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 7 1 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
gned in the town meetings so far as school matters were concerned. But after forty years of service it is to be expected that a new building or extensive repairs on the old one would be necessary. May 15, 1770, Benjamin Hall, John Bishop, Joshua Symonds, Capt. Thos. Brooks, and Willis Hall were appointed a committee to provide a spot for a School House Between where the School House now stands and Mr. Bishop's and make Report at the adjournment of this meeting. They seem to have made no repce of Land of Mr. Jonathan Watson, thirty-five feet square, between his house and Mr. Putnams and to give him for the said land Fifty Milld Dollars. Also voted to build a School House upon sd land purchased of said Watson. Thomas Secomb and Joshua Symonds were added to the committee chosen at the March meeting to build, and they were empowered to select the plan for the building. The old house lot by Meeting House Brook was then sold for £ 38 Old Tenor, and the land on which had stood the sec