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Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
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 1781Aug.-July, ‘82George Hall1781from Medford 1782Oct.-June, ‘83
Framingham (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
eorge H. Hall1781 1786Jan.-Sept. ‘86[Barzillai] Gannet1785from Bridgewater 1786Dec.-Mch. ‘87Joshua Cushman1787from Bridgewater 1787Mch.-July, ‘87——Holbrook 1787July-Feb. ‘88Nathaniel Freeman1787from Sandwich 1788Mch-Mch. ‘89Nathaniel Prentiss1787from Charlestown 1789Mch.-Sept. ‘89Cotton Tufts1789Medford, b. 1771, d. 1835 1789Oct.-Dec. ‘90Nathaniel Thayer1789from Hampton, N. H, 1769 1791Jan.-Dec. ‘91Samuel Chandler1790from Lexington, b. 1766 1792Jan.-July, ‘93Luther Stearns1791from Framingham, born at Lunenburg 1793Aug.-May, ‘96Joseph Wyman From this list it will be seen that vacations were much more frequent and longer than formerly. From 1758, with the exception of the four months vacation following the death of Master Whitmore, from smallpox, there had been no vacation of the school unless for a few days now and then until 1773, when there was an interval of the month of August between the resignation of Master Poole and the appointment of Master Farri
Sandwich, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
rom Templeton, b. 1759 1783Nov.-Jan. ‘84[Henry] Wight1782from Medfield, b. 1752 1784May-July, ‘84FredericParker Benjamin FromToHarvard ClassNotes 1784July-Oct. ‘84Jonathan Burr1784from Bridgewater 1784Dec.-Mch. ‘85George Holmes Hall1781 1785April-July, ‘85Jonathan Burr1784 1785‘86George H. Hall1781 1786Jan.-Sept. ‘86[Barzillai] Gannet1785from Bridgewater 1786Dec.-Mch. ‘87Joshua Cushman1787from Bridgewater 1787Mch.-July, ‘87——Holbrook 1787July-Feb. ‘88Nathaniel Freeman1787from Sandwich 1788Mch-Mch. ‘89Nathaniel Prentiss1787from Charlestown 1789Mch.-Sept. ‘89Cotton Tufts1789Medford, b. 1771, d. 1835 1789Oct.-Dec. ‘90Nathaniel Thayer1789from Hampton, N. H, 1769 1791Jan.-Dec. ‘91Samuel Chandler1790from Lexington, b. 1766 1792Jan.-July, ‘93Luther Stearns1791from Framingham, born at Lunenburg 1793Aug.-May, ‘96Joseph Wyman From this list it will be seen that vacations were much more frequent and longer than formerly. From 1758, with the e
Methuen (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
the committee. Nathaniel Cogswell was continued through the summer, and in the winter William H. Furness taught a term, and as no other man seems to have been employed with him the second room was probably unoccupied. Teachers in the third School-house 1795-1846 FromToHarvard classNotes 1795May, 1796Joseph Wyman 1796Aug.-Dec. 1796Thomas Mason1796from Princeton, Mass., b. 1769 1796Dec.-July, 1797Leonard Woods1796from Princeton, b. 1774 1797Aug.-Aug. 1799Daniel Appleton White1797from Methuen, b. 1776 1799Sept.-Nov. 1800Silas Warren1795from Westown, b. 1767 1800Mch.-April, 1803Abner Rogers1800from Hampstead, N. H., b. 1775 1803May-June, 1803Peter Nourse1803from Boston, b. 1774 ??Daniel Swan1803b. 1781 at Charlestown 1806Feb.-Aug. 1807Samuel Weed1800from Amesbury, b. 1774 School-house enlarged and two schools established 1807 1807July-May, 1809Abijah Kendallfrom Templeton 1807Aug.-Aug. 1808David Bates1807from Cohasset, b. 1784 1808Sept.-Nov. 1811Noah Kendall 1812April-O
Piscataqua River (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
l-house. In this petition they say that the said town is of the smallest extent of any in the Province, and yet their town charges extremely high, so that the maintenance of ministry and school is very chargeable to them and therefore praying for a grant of some of the waste lands of the Province to be appropriated for the support of the ministry and schoolmaster in said town. In answer to this petition one thousand acres were granted and laid out to the town between the Merrimac and Piscataqua rivers. When the school was changed from a three or four months term in the winter to an annual school we cannot determine accurately, but it was doubtless about coincident with the building of this first house, in 1732. We know that in 1735 there was a continuous session, only four weeks out of the fifty-two being allowed for vacation. The salary paid at this time was £ 5 a month. As the petition for relief was presented early in 1735 it seems fair to assume that the school was an annu
Glocester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
om 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 1781Aug.-July, ‘82George Hall1781from Medford 1782Oct.-June, ‘83Artemas Baker1782from Templeton, b. 1759 1783Nov.-Jan. ‘84[Henry] Wight1782from Medfield, b. 1752 1784May-July, ‘84FredericParker Benjamin FromToHarvard ClassNotes 1784July-Oct. ‘84Jonathan Burr1784from Bridgewater 1784Dec.-Mch. ‘85George Holmes Hall1781 1785April-July, ‘85Jonathan Burr1784
Braintree (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
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 1781Aug.-July, ‘82George Hall1781from Medford 1782Oct.-June, ‘83Artemas Baker1782from Templeton, b. 1759 1783Nov.-Jan. ‘84[
Bath, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
inning and the end of their terms of service are given, also the year when a person of the same name was graduated from Harvard College. The brief biographical information given is of the man graduated from the college, in the hope that at some future time evidence will be brought forward connecting the two beyond a doubt. Teachers in first School-house 1732-1771 FromToHarvard ClassNotes 1732Thomas Tufts, Jr.1732born, Medford, 1712 1733Solomon Page1729b. 1710 Hampton, N. H. d. 1788 Bath, Me. 1735Jan.-Aug. '36Edward Upham1734entered college from Maiden 1736Dec.-Mch. '37John Sprague1730 1737 1737Mch.-Mch. '38Joseph Manning1730From Cambridge d. at Woburn 1738Mch.-June, '38John Sprague1737 1738Daniel Emerson1739 1739Joseph Manning1730 1740'42William Vinal1739 from Boston 1742Oct.-Sept. '44Andrew Boardman1737 From Cambridge 1744Sept.-Jan. '47William Whitmore1744 b. Medford, 1725 d. Mch. 10, 1760, of smallpox 1747April-Jan. '48Caleb Upham1744from Maiden 1748Aug.-May, '
Bridgewater (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
66Alexander Sears Hill1764from Boston 1767Jan-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 acco. 1752 1784May-July, ‘84FredericParker Benjamin FromToHarvard ClassNotes 1784July-Oct. ‘84Jonathan Burr1784from Bridgewater 1784Dec.-Mch. ‘85George Holmes Hall1781 1785April-July, ‘85Jonathan Burr1784 1785‘86George H. Hall1781 1786Jan.-Sept. ‘86[Barzillai] Gannet1785from Bridgewater 1786Dec.-Mch. ‘87Joshua Cushman1787from Bridgewater 1787Mch.-July, ‘87——Holbrook 1787July-Feb. ‘88Nathaniel Freeman1787from Sandwich 1788Mch-Mch. ‘89Nathaniel Prentiss1787from Charlestown 1789Mch.-SBridgewater 1787Mch.-July, ‘87——Holbrook 1787July-Feb. ‘88Nathaniel Freeman1787from Sandwich 1788Mch-Mch. ‘89Nathaniel Prentiss1787from Charlestown 1789Mch.-Sept. ‘89Cotton Tufts1789Medford, b. 1771, d. 1835 1789Oct.-Dec. ‘90Nathaniel Thayer1789from Hampton, N. H, 1769 1791Jan.-Dec. ‘91Samuel Chandler1790from Lexington, b. 1766 1792Jan.-July, ‘93Luther Stearns1
Lunenburg, Ma. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
d 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. ‘7789Mch.-Sept. ‘89Cotton Tufts1789Medford, b. 1771, d. 1835 1789Oct.-Dec. ‘90Nathaniel Thayer1789from Hampton, N. H, 1769 1791Jan.-Dec. ‘91Samuel Chandler1790from Lexington, b. 1766 1792Jan.-July, ‘93Luther Stearns1791from Framingham, born at Lunenburg 1793Aug.-May, ‘96Joseph Wyman From this list it will be seen that vacations were much more frequent and longer than formerly. From 1758, with the exception of the four months vacation following the death of Master Whi
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