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1647 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ry town were directed by the law of 1642 to have a vigilant eye over their neighbors, to see to it that the education of the children be not neglected. The law of 1647 made it obligatory on towns of fifty families to maintain elementary schools, where children should be taught to read and write, and those of one hundred families en as now one of the great aims of the public school. The idea of what constituted this was explained by our ancestors in the preamble just quoted, and the law of 1647 adds a further explanation, as follows: It being one chief project of Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scripture, as in former times keeping them in unktowns for nonful-filment of the law requiring an elementary school in towns of fifty families and a grammar school in those having one hundred was placed at £ 5 in 1647, but increased to £ 10 in 1692, and again to £ 20 in 1702. The grammar school thus established must not be confounded with our present application of the term, bu
February (search for this): chapter 1
ug. 1729, Charlestown 1752Sept.-Apr. '53John Feveryear1751 1753Sept.-June, '58Samuel Angier1748from Cambridge 1758Sept.-Feb. ‘60William Whitmore1744d. Mch. 10, 1760, small pox 1760July-Oct. ‘60Roland Green1758from Malden 1760Nov.-Mch. ‘62Samuel i] Gannet1785from Bridgewater 1786Dec.-Mch. ‘87Joshua Cushman1787from Bridgewater 1787Mch.-July, ‘87——Holbrook 1787July-Feb. ‘88Nathaniel Freeman1787from Sandwich 1788Mch-Mch. ‘89Nathaniel Prentiss1787from Charlestown 1789Mch.-Sept. ‘89Cotton Tutead, 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, 1809-April, 1820Peter T. Gray 1819Nov.-Nov. 1820Nathaniel Cogswell 1820Nov.-Feb. 1821William H. Furness1820from Medford 1821Feb.-Oct. 1822George W. Osborne1820from Bostonb. 1779 d. 1876 1821Nov.-July, 1826Luther Angier 1822Jan.-Feb. 18
January, 1763 AD (search for this): chapter 1
same name as graduates of Harvard College of about the same date, and, as several of these are a little unusual, it seems fair to infer that they were the same person. A John Feveryear taught the town school from September, 1752, to April, 1753, and a John Feveryear was a graduate of Harvard in 1751; naturally we infer they were one and the same person. Christopher Bridge Marsh was graduated from Harvard in 1761, and a man of the same name was a teacher in Medford from March, 1762, to January, 1763. A glance at the list of teachers from 1732 to about 1792 will show several such instances. In compiling the lists of teachers for this paper the dates of the beginning 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.
1739 AD (search for this): chapter 1
eiving £ 1-15s. therefor. The increasing number of boys who were seeking an education, as well as the excellent jack-knives with which each was equipped, made such repairs and 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 1740, may have been the first to enjoy this luxury, though the honor may be disputed by William Vinal, who taught 1740 to 1742. This chair is heard from again twenty years later, after twelve different masters had enjoyed its comforts. In 1761 the Selectmen gave another order to James Perry for mending this grat chaier. Samuel Payson, master from November, 1760, to March, 1762, was the occupant at the time of its decrepitude. But James mended it so well that it went on twenty-five year
1817 AD (search for this): chapter 1
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 dollars for the Encouragement of Singing to be applied by the Selectmen. Then in 1815, $50, in 1816, $100, and 1817, $75 were appropriated to the use of the Medford Amicable Singing Society. As Medford people as early as 1862 introduced the subject into their school curriculum, it is interesting to know that their grandfathers were also concerned about this same branch of education. The meeting-house and school-house had from 1732 to 1771 been closely associated, standing side by side on the same lot, but since then had been separated by one house lot. At the March meeting of 1793 was begun a movement
1788 AD (search for this): chapter 1
the beginning 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.
1744 AD (search for this): chapter 1
e old tax of three pence per week which the town decided in 1722, that those persons that send there children or servants to ye sd Scoole should pay was still enforced to meet the ordinary running expenses. However the payment had been made before, henceforth the expense was borne by the town, and each year the only duties of the school committee are to select a teacher and procure wood. This 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
1777 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ch.-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[Henry] Wight1782from Medfield, b. 1752 1784May-July, ‘84FredericParker Benjamin FromToHarvard ClassNotes 1784July-Oct. ‘84Jonathan Burr1784from Bridgewater 1784Dec.-Mch. ‘85George Holmes Hall1781 1785Ap
1780 AD (search for this): chapter 1
er 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 Farrington. Then these intervals became more frequent. Either the people were becoming more careless, or the boys had learned that the resignation of a master gave them a vacation, therefore they caused these resignations to be as frequent as possible. After 1780 these vacations were frequent and long, and we must suppose that in common with the rest of the Commonwealth the state of education was at a low ebb in Medford, a state which continued well into the first quarter of the present century. It was during this period of decadence that teaching of music at public expense was first brought up, though not in connection with the school. Yet it is interesting to learn that that branch, which is now a regular part of the public-school curriculum, wa
1781 AD (search for this): chapter 1
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. ‘niel 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 18
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