Worps most obliged humble servant, Elijah Corlett.
Middlesex Court Files, 1660.
The successors of Mr. Corlett were generally young men fresh from College.
John Hancock was elected teacher, Jan., 1690-1; John Sparhawk, Feb., 1692-3; Nicholas Fessenden, Jr., about 1701; Samuel Danforth, Oct., 1719; John Hovey, April, 1730; Stephen Coolidge, May, 1730; John Hovey, May, 1737; Stephen Coolidge, May, 1741; William Fessenden, Jr., May, 1745; James Lovell, May, 1756; Antipas Steward, about 1760; Ebenezer Stedman, Jr., about 1765; Thomas Colman, July, 1770; Jonathan Hastings, Jr., May, 1772; Jonathan Eames, May, 1776; Elisha Parmele, May, 1778; Aaron Bancroft, Aug. 1778; Samuel Kendall, May, 1780; Asa Packard, April, 1783; Lemuel Hedge, July, 1783.
All these teachers were graduates of Harvard College.
I have not found the materials for a consecutive list at a later period. Very few of them appear to have selected teaching as a permanent employment; only one indeed died in the servi
t. Sam. Whittemore, 1743-1746, 1748-1757, 1759, 1762.
Stephen Prentice, 1744.
Thomas Sparhawk, 1744, 1745, 1747, 1750-1764.
Abraham Watson, 1745-1749, 1757– 1760.
Caleb Dana, 1746, 1748, 1749.
John Butterfield, 1747.
John Wyeth, 1750-1756. 30
Gershom Cutter, 1757.
William Dana, 1757, 1765-1768.
Joseph Adams, Jr., 1758, 1769-1771.
Ephraim Frost, Jr, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1763-1768, 1772-1777.
Ebenezer Stedman, 1759-1764, 1767– 1776, 1786-1790, 1796-1801.
Henry Prentice, 1761-1765.
Abraham Watson, Jr., 1765, 1766.
Joseph Wellington, 1769-1773, 1776.
Abijah Learned, 1769-1771.
Thomas Gardner, 1769-1775.
Edward MarrWatson, 1747-1749, 1757, 1758, 1765, 1766.
John Wyeth, 1750-1756.
Joseph Adams, Jr., 1758.
Ebenezer Stedman, 1759-1764, 1767– 1776.
Ephraim Frost, Jr., 1760, 1761, 1763 -1768, 1772, 1775-1777.
William Dana, 1765-1768.
Joseph Wellington, 1769-1771.
Thomas Gardner, 1769-1775.
John Cutter, Jr., 1774.
Nathan<
as) 18 Dec. 1760.
His children were, William, b. 12 July 1743, d. 13 Sept. 1743; Ruth, b. 10 Ap. 1745, m. – Wiswall; living in 1784; Mary, b. 26 Feb. 1746-7, d. young; Sarah, b. 4 June, 1749, m. John Hildreth of Boston, 3 Jan. 1776; Hannah, bap. 4 Oct. 1761; Hannah, bap. 3 Oct. 1762; William, bap. 1 July 1764; Margaret, bap. 15 June 1766; Mary, bap. 18 Sept. 1768, m. Edmund Winship, 3 Dec. 1789; Lydia and Hannah, twins, bap. 27 Feb. 1774.
William the f. was a Captain in two campaigns, 1758, 1760, in the French War. Towards the close of life he became poor, and d. in the almshouse, 11 Dec. 1796, a. 79.
6. Samuel, s. of Edmund (3), grad.
H. C. 1748, taught school at Medford, and preached for several years, though he was probably never ordained.
He d. 23 Aug. 1775, a. 53.
Appleton, Nathaniel, s. of Hon. John Appleton, and grandson of President Rogers, was b. at Ipswich, 9 Dec. 1693, m. Margaret, dau. of Rev. Henry Gibbs of Wat. 1719-20, and had Margaret, b. 29 Nov. 1720, m. Rev.
Timothy, s. of John (4), m. Beulah Prentice, 1759.
No record of children is found.
Deborah, owned the covenant 3 Dec. 1727.
Hannah, was pub. to Edward Giner of Sudbury 8 Feb. 1736.
Jason, was a corporal in the army, during the French War, in 1760.
Beale, Thomas, had a grant of land in 1634; and in 1635 owned and occupied the easterly half of the estate at the N. E. corner of Brighton and Mt. Auburn streets; and purchased the other half about 1650.
He owned also four acres, fronting on onsideration of £ 1,500 sterling, he conveyed to his son Thomas Brattle all his real estate in Cambridge.
When the British troops evacuated Boston he went to Halifax, N. S., and there d. 25 Oct. 1776.
6. Thomas, S. of William (5), grad.
H. C. 1760, and was Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Mass.
Historical Society. He was in Europe when the Revolutionary War commenced; and, perhaps chiefly on account of his father's apostacy, he was proscribed as an absentee in 1778.
eth 12 Oct. 1716, and Martha, dau. of Ichabod Brown.
His children were Ruth, b. 28 June 1717, m. John Hunt of Watertown; William, b. 7 Dec. 1718; Martha, b. 29 Feb. 1719-20, m. John Cheney (pub.
23 Sept. 1738), and was living, his widow, in Rox. 1760; Margaret, b. 8 Nov. 1721, d. 17 Sept. 1722; Benjamin, b. 14 Jan. 1722-3, d. 21 Sept. 1723; Benjamin, b. 23 Oct. 1724, d. 21 Nov. 1724; Nicholas, b. 22 Nov. 1725; Peter, b. 16 Aug. 1728, was living in Rutland District (now Barre), 1760; John, b. 11760; John, b. 16 June 1730; Hannah, b. 15 Aug. 1732, m. John Wright, a physician in Camb.
(pub. 25 Jan. 1752-3), d. 9 Dec. 1800, a. 68; Benjamin, bap. 25 Aug. 1734; Ebenezer, bap. 10 July 1737; Thomas, bap. 15 July 1739, grad.
H. C. 1758, ord. at Walpole, N. H., 7 Jan. 1767, and d. 9 May 1813 (he was father to Thos. G. Fessenden, well known as an editor and a poet, who d. at Boston of apoplexy 11 Nov. 1837); Margaret, bap. 17 Jan. 1741-2, d. unm.
22 Feb. 1815, a. 73; Martha, bap. 19 Oct. 1746, according to