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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
at a town-meeting held Nov. 30, 1691, which reads: At A meeting of the Inhabitants of Medford voted that Mr. John Hall, Sen. and Capt. Peter Tufts shall intreat Mada Wade and the overseer of maior Jonathan Wades farme for one quarter of an acre of land for the erecting and setting a meeting house near or upon the Land that sd maioe street, and that east of the Square there were very few residents, so that this location for the first school was undoubtedly near the centre of population. The Wade property, and the lot of land that the major had appointed for a school house, was probably too far to the east to suit the majority of the voters. As we read farointed to build the house. It had been twelve years since the first recorded attempt to build, forty-one years at least since the subject was first broached by Major Wade; and after the location and plan had been reported it still took three years with eight town meetings to secure this simple wooden structure, twenty-four feet l