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when they will cheerfully support additional means of education, as the increasing population of the town may require.’
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Signed A. R. Thompson.) This school was probably in the vicinity of Franklin street. Query: Was it in charge of
Miss Martha Ireland, whose name has been already mentioned?
1815-1816.
May 16.
Voted that
Captain Miller open the summer schools in
Districts No. 3 and No. 4, and
Captain Reed in No. 5.
Mr. Dodge is allowed $31.25 per quarter for his son Horace, who serves as his assistant in the writing school. ‘
Mr. Smith recommended changing the evangelical instruction for
Murray's
English Reader and it was so decided.’
August 8
John Bennett resigned at the Neck.
The trustees engaged
Isaac Gates as his successor, and the same salary as for masters at other schools within the Neck was voted him, $666.66.
April 6, 1816,
David Dodge resigned as writing master, and later
Robert Gordon, formerly assistant, was promoted to the mastership.
Samuel Campbell was elected to second place, at a salary of $500.
Friday, April 19, Milk Row School, under
Yorick S. Gordon, was visited.
Messrs. Miller and
Thompson were present, with several of the inhabitants of the district.
The school appeared very well, notwithstanding many difficulties under which they had labored during the winter.
Mr. Gordon had discharged his duties acceptably.
May 6 the trustees met, and, taking into consideration the high price of living and, at the same time, appreciating the valuable and successful services of
Mr. Gates as a teacher, recommended making him a special grant of $40. Schools in
Districts No. 4 and 5 have been kept the past winter to the satisfaction of the board.
In reference to women's schools: ‘By making the privilege of instruction free to all has preserved the chain of education unbroken by the distresses of the people in the shock of war, and so has been an inducement to many to remain in our town.
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