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1776 AD (search for this): chapter 1
64, belongs the distinction of first teaching the girls of Medford in her public school. The Selectmen record an order Jan. 19, 1767: to Alex. Sears Hill for teaching 6 m. £ 24-13, from June 23 to Dec. 23, 1766 part of which time he Schooled the Girls as well as Boys. The regular salary of the teacher had been £ 20 for six months, so we may fairly infer that schooling the girls for six months was worth £ 4-13s. Brooks gives the date for first giving instruction to girls at public expense as 1776. Whether girls were taught more than this one season or not does not appear from the records. The next teacher, John Page, received the following summer for the six months ending June 26 the sum of £ 21-6-8; then for the next six months only £ 20. Perhaps the experiment of teaching girls and boys together was not a success and was abandoned; though the additional £ 1-6-8 paid Master Page his first six months would seem to indicate that he rendered some extra service, and it is fair to ass<
1800 AD (search for this): chapter 1
three children and received on Jan. 10, 1798, an order on the Treasurer for $6.84. The town passed the same vote regarding the payment of tuition in 1799, again in 1800, and also in 1801, when they voted that the Interest of the money Received for the land left the Town by Isaac Royal Esq. be applied to pay the Schooling of such Crther voted to rebuild the forms and benches in the old school-house and make it comfortable for the old teacher and the new. Samuel Weed, of Amesbury, Harvard, 1800, was the teacher at this time, his service extending from Feb. 3, 1806, to Aug. 24, 1807. Abijah Kendall began his work in the school July 27, 1807, and was probabut her schools were kept in her one school-house. Although we find the town divided later into so-called districts, they were not so in the meaning of the law of 1800, which made each district a separate corporation with power to levy taxes, to sue and be sued. Medford has been spared that degradation. The subject was not even
1798 AD (search for this): chapter 1
curriculum, was considered of sufficient importance to receive public recognition. April 2, 1792, it was voted to give ten Pounds for the Encouragment of Singing for the year ensuing. The same sum was granted in 1794-95 and increased to £ 20 in 1798. In this year, April 2, a committee of three, Jonathan Porter, Peter Tufts, and Nathan Adams were chosen to provide a teacher and regulate the teaching of singing. From time to time we find similar votes. In 1808 it was voted to apply Eighty dohen they voted that the Interest of the money Received for the land left the Town by Isaac Royal Esq. be applied to pay the Schooling of such Children whose Parents are unable to pay for them. Payments for tuition of young children were made from 1798 to 1822, even after the establishment of free primary schools. The teachers of private schools who received payment from the town during this time were as follows in the order of their appearance on the books of the selectmen: Eliza Francis, Sall
August (search for this): chapter 1
47April-Jan. '48Caleb Upham1744from Maiden 1748Aug.-May, '51Samuel Angier1748From Cambridge, d. 177pr. 1731 FromToHarvard ClassNotes 1752July-Aug. '52William Symmes1750b. 21 Aug. 1729, Charlestoly, ‘69Asa Dunbar1767from Bridgewater 1769Aug.-Aug. ‘71Daniel Newcomb1768from Norton Girls firsdore Parsons1773from Newbury, b. 1751 1773Mch.-Aug. ‘73Samuel Poole1770from Reading, b. 1751 1773Oe-June, ‘80Samuel Chandler1779from Andover 1780Aug.-July, ‘81Williams Brooks1780from Lincoln 1781AAug.-July, ‘82George Hall1781from Medford 1782Oct.-June, ‘83Artemas Baker1782from Templeton, b. 1759arns1791from Framingham, born at Lunenburg 1793Aug.-May, ‘96Joseph Wyman From this list it will73, when there was an interval of the month of August between the resignation of Master Poole and thvard classNotes 1795May, 1796Joseph Wyman 1796Aug.-Dec. 1796Thomas Mason1796from Princeton, Mass.,97Leonard Woods1796from Princeton, b. 1774 1797Aug.-Aug. 1799Daniel Appleton White1797from Methuen,
May (search for this): chapter 1
d additions frequently necessary. A luxury for the teacher was introduced in 1740, our town fathers in that year making this entry in their Order Book: Sum Time in May last Gave order to Jeams perry for a Grat Chaier for the Scool Hous, 14s. Joseph Manning, who was the master from March, 1737, to March, 1738, and again 1739 to 17illiam 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 presuSigned by Nathan Adams, Converse Francis, Isaac Pratt, and fourteen others. The meeting was held Oct. 7, 1805, and they voted To reconsider the votes passed last May for building two school houses, after which the meeting was dissolved. A warrant for another meeting was issued October 10 to determine whether the town will adopt
1696 AD (search for this): chapter 1
tablishment of a school, though there is no evidence that the town ever took any action upon the matter. There were at this time only twenty eight names on the tax list, so a school was not compulsory. Nothing further appears about a school for nearly eighteen years, the meeting-house question probably filling the minds and emptying the pockets of the people so that there was no chance for school or school-house. The meeting-house, the agitation for which was here begun, was completed in 1696; but no mention is made of a school till 1719, when, as before mentioned, the number of householders probably necessitated action. July 10, 1719, in the warrant calling a town meeting for the 15th was an article to consider what may be proper to be Don in order to Setting up a writing school in Sd Town. The voters assembled on the 15th and adjourned to the 20th, without coming to a vote on the matter, though we can scarcely believe that so important and really revolutionary a matter did n
1791 AD (search for this): chapter 1
s probably opened their eyes to the wastefulness of heating rooms by the open fireplace. As early as 1744 Benjamin Franklin had invented a fireplace that greatly economized heat, and with less fuel gave more heat and fresh air without draft, problems which our most modern systems of heating and ventilating have to deal with. This fireplace employed the same idea as the fresh-air duct of the modern furnace. The Franklin open stove was an outgrowth of this invention. At the March meeting in 1791 it was voted to purchase a Frankling or Written house Stove for the School House & the Committee that provides a School Master & Wood be desired to procure it. How long the action of the committee of 1766 giving the girls opportunity for instruction remained in force we cannot tell, but it must have fallen into disuse either through lack of patronage or 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
July (search for this): chapter 1
15 Apr. 1731 FromToHarvard ClassNotes 1752July-Aug. '52William Symmes1750b. 21 Aug. 1729, Charam Whitmore1744d. Mch. 10, 1760, small pox 1760July-Oct. ‘60Roland Green1758from Malden 1760Nov.-MJan-Sept. ‘68John Page1765from Boston 1768Oct.-July, ‘69Asa Dunbar1767from Bridgewater 1769Aug.-Auhn Watson from Plymouth class of 1766 1774Mch.-July, ‘74Jona Watson1774from Braintree b. 1754 1774e, ‘80Samuel Chandler1779from Andover 1780Aug.-July, ‘81Williams Brooks1780from Lincoln 1781Aug.-JJuly, ‘82George Hall1781from Medford 1782Oct.-June, ‘83Artemas Baker1782from Templeton, b. 1759 178Henry] Wight1782from Medfield, b. 1752 1784May-July, ‘84FredericParker Benjamin FromToHarvard ‘87Joshua Cushman1787from Bridgewater 1787Mch.-July, ‘87——Holbrook 1787July-Feb. ‘88Nathaniel FreeJuly-Feb. ‘88Nathaniel Freeman1787from Sandwich 1788Mch-Mch. ‘89Nathaniel Prentiss1787from Charlestown 1789Mch.-Sept. ‘89Cottl Chandler1790from Lexington, b. 1766 1792Jan.-July, ‘93Luther Stearns1791from Framingham, born at
1764 AD (search for this): chapter 1
n-Sept. ‘68John Page1765from Boston 1768Oct.-July, ‘69Asa Dunbar1767from Bridgewater 1769Aug.-Aug. ‘71Daniel Newcomb1768from Norton Girls first had the privilege of attending the Town school in accordance with a vote passed May 13, 1766, that the Comte have power to agree with their Schoolmastr to Instruct Girls 2 Hours in a Day after the Boys are dismissed. That the committee exercised this new power is shown by an entry in the Selectmen's Order Book. To Alexander Sears Hill, Harvard 1764, belongs the distinction of first teaching the girls of Medford in her public school. The Selectmen record an order Jan. 19, 1767: to Alex. Sears Hill for teaching 6 m. £ 24-13, from June 23 to Dec. 23, 1766 part of which time he Schooled the Girls as well as Boys. The regular salary of the teacher had been £ 20 for six months, so we may fairly infer that schooling the girls for six months was worth £ 4-13s. Brooks gives the date for first giving instruction to girls at public expense as
1749 AD (search for this): chapter 1
rvard College. In the twenty-four years that this building was used as a public school there were twenty-seven different teachers. Teachers in the second School-house 1771-1795 FromToHarvard ClassNotes 1771Aug.-Dec. ‘72Jonathan Norwood1771Entered Harvard from Lynn, b. 1752 1772Dec.-Mch. ‘73Theodore Parsons1773from Newbury, b. 1751 1773Mch.-Aug. ‘73Samuel Poole1770from Reading, b. 1751 1773Oct.-Dec. ‘73Thomas Farrington1773from Amesbury, b. 1749 1773Dec.-Mch. ‘74William Stearns1770b. 1749, Lunenburg d. 1784 at Worcester. There was a John Watson from Plymouth class of 1766 1774Mch.-July, ‘74Jona Watson1774from Braintree b. 1754 1774July-Sept. ‘75Moses Taft 1775Sept.-April, ‘77Seth Sweetser 1777Apr.-Nov. ‘78Abel Morse 1778Nov.-Apr. ‘791757Edward Brooksb. 1733 Rev. Edw. was chaplain on the Hancock, returned to Medford 1777, died 1781. 1775from Gloucester 1779June-June, ‘80Samuel Chandler1779from Andover 1780Aug.-July, ‘81Williams Brooks1780from Lincoln
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