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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 18: education. (search)
that thirty pounds be levied on the inhabitants of the town, by the selectmen, and paid to Mr. Dunster's executors,—and that on condition that they make an absolute deed of sale of the said house and land to the town, with a clear acquittance for the full payment thereof. A school-house, constructed as this apparently was, might be expected to stand much more than twenty years; but the record shows that on the 4th of October, 1669, at a meeting of the selectmen, Mr. William Manning and Petter Towne was appointed to agree with workmen to take down the school-house and set it up again; and to carry the stones in the cellar to the place where the house for the ministry is to be built. The town voted, June 24, 1700, to build a new schoolhouse, twenty-six feet in length and twenty feet wide; and in 1769 it was ordered, that the old grammar school-house then standing on this lot, be demolished, and that a new house be erected on the southerly side of Garden Street, about a hundred feet w