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Peleg Wiswell (Wiswall) was the son of Rev. Ichabod and Priscilla (Peabody) Wiswall, and was born February 5, 1684, at Duxbury, where his father was ordained and settled.
He graduated from Harvard in 1702, and died in 1767.
A printed genealogy of the Wiswall family may be consulted.
If we remember rightly, he taught many years in the North End School, Boston.
March 4, 1706.
It became the duty of the selectmen to provide a schoolmaster for the town, and on the twenty-sixth they empowered Captain Samuel Heyman, Joseph Whittemore, Mr. Bateman, and Robert Wyer ‘to inquire & treat with Mr. Samuel Burr with reference to his keeping the school in this Towne & to make report at their next meeting.’ It is recorded that Mr. Burr entered upon his duties, at the rate of £ 40 per annum, 24 April, 1706.
At the May meeting Captain Heyman and Captain Phipps were empowered to secure workmen for repairing the meetinghouse and the schoolhouse; £ 18 was voted for this object.
(At the same meeting Mr. Phipps was voted eleven pounds, four shillings for his services as town representative in 1705.)
March 31, 1707. ‘It was agreed with Mr. Burr to keep the school one year, as last year, for £ 40. Also it was ordered that there be another table & two forms provided for the schoolhouse.’
May 21, 1707, and May 17, 1708, the usual annual amount was appropriated for the schoolmaster.
The vote was the same May 11, 1709, May 22, 1710, and May 23, 1711.
Samuel Burr, A. M. (class of 1697, Harvard), was the son of Major John Burr, of Fairfield, Ct. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Fitch.
According to the printed family record, the date of his birth was April 2, 1679; that of his marriage to Elizabeth Jennor (Jenner), June 19, 1707.
A daughter, Sarah, born in Cambridge, married Thomas Edwards, of Boston.
She received as legacy from her father, a silver tankard, that was her great-grandfather, John Stedman's. Other children of Samuel Burr were John, Samuel, Jr., and Rebecca.
Against the name of the widow Wyman has recorded many land transactions.
Somerville. Historical Society. , 1904.
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