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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
In the Order Book of the Selectmen, Aug. 5, 1794, is an order for the Treasurer to pay to Capt. Joseph Wyman for keeping Town School three months from May 1 to August 1 and also for keeping two hours each day longer than usual from 23 June to 1 October, 1794—£ 36. The previous quarter Capt. Wyman had received £ 22-10s. After this time his salary seems to have been £ 10 a month, except from May t766 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 foron that date William Woodbridge was paid the final instalment on his contract of £ 220. Capt. Joseph Wyman was the last teacher in the old building, our second school-house, as well as the first inpied. Teachers in the third School-house 1795-1846 FromToHarvard classNotes 1795May, 1796Joseph Wyman 1796Aug.-Dec. 1796Thomas Mason1796from Princeton, Mass., b. 1769 1796Dec.-July, 1797Leon
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., chapter 15 (search)
ng the ownership of the Winthrops. Col. Charles Lidgett, writing from England to his agent, Mr. Francis Foxcroft, Third floor. under date of Nov. 5, 1690, speaks of his tenant, Thomas Marrable, who occupied a portion of the Ten Hills farm. From the correspondence between Colonel Lidgett and his agent it is inferred that Thomas Marrable occupied the westerly portion of the Ten Hills farm on which the Royall house now stands. No doubt he lived in the old house we are now considering. Mr. Wyman in his History of Charlestown Estates says that Thomas Marrable lived at Usher's farm. Such was probably the building that stood here at the time Lieutenant-Governor Usher took possession of the estate in 1692. It is probable, however, that before or soon after he removed here from Portsmouth, N. H., in 1607, he made an addition to the First floor. building, as the old structure must have been entirely unsuited to a family of the wealth and social standing of Governor Usher's. The ad