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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
unwillingness on the part of the teachers to teach girls, for we find that on April 2, 1787, the town found it necessary to vote that the Committee that provides a School master be desired to see what he will ask to keep the Girls one Hour in the forenoon and one Hour in the afternoon for four Months & Report at May meeting. No report is recorded from this committee, and no extra salary seems to have been paid. Possibly nothing further was done. Again, April 5, 1790, it was voted that John Brooks, Benjamin Hall, William Gowen, Willis Hall & Ebenz Hall, Jr., be a committee to see what method is necessary with regard to the girls attending the Master's School and report at the May meeting. This committee made a report as requested, and it was voted that the Girls have Liberty to attend the Master's School the three Summer months. This presumably means that during these months the girls attended at the same hours with the boys. The first step toward coeducation was thus taken.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., A business man of long ago. (search)
e first to cross the bridge when it was open to travel. Major Swan subsequently left Charlestown and made Medford his permanent home. He died there in 1825. Chelsea bridge was built in 1801. The Selectmen of Medford, Benjamin Hall, and John Brooks Governor of Massachusetts. were a committee who vainly opposed it. Mr. Hall was zealous in prosecuting the building of Middlesex Canal, but was not in favor of extending it to Boston. He wrote, In 1792 there was a petition preferred theyears (1807 to 1809) $256.98 were received for tolls. Jonathan Warner and John Jaquith were the keepers of the locks. The first dividend was declared in February, 809,—four dollars on a share of one hundred dollars. In 1803 Benjamin Hall, John Brooks, Fitch Hall, Ebenezer Hall, 2d, and Samuel Buell First postmaster of Medford. were the petitioners to the Legislature to form the Medford Turnpike Association. This road was built east of Winter and Ploughed hills and presented a shorter r