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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. 32 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 32 0 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 9 1 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 6 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 6 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 4 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 4 0 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
, whom it would not be profanation to call sacred, and who never seemed young to their pupils, continued, through many years, to teach the young their first steps on the high and perilous ladder of learning. With what fidelity they administered the accustomed kisses, alphabet, and birch, some of us can never forget. Twelve cents per week, paid on each Monday morning, secured to each pupil an abundance of motherly care, useful knowledge, and salutary discipline. Our town rejoiced in a Marm Betty. After all, these schools were more important to society than the march of armies or the sailing of fleets; for they laid well the first foundation-stones of that immortal edifice,--human character. Since 1799, a law had existed in the town, pledging it to pay for the instruction of poor children at the dame schools. Whittling seems native to New England boys. March 7, 1808, the town voted to repair the seats and benches in the schoolhouse. In 1817, female teachers for the female
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
28, 1750; m.1st, Benjamin Swinerton. 2d, L. Thompson.  d.John, b. Apr. 26, 1752.  e.Samuel R., b. Jan. 21, 1755.  f.Emerson, b. Apr. 21, 1758.  g.Lucy, b. Jan. 7, 1761; d. Nov. 7, 1777. 14-47Thomas Hall m. 1st, June 30, 1737, Judith Chase; 2d, Huldah----; removed late in life to Cornish, N. H., and there died, 1797. He had--  47-112Percival, b. Mar. 15, 1740-1.  113Thomas, b. Mar. 23, 1742-3.  113 a.Sarah, b. Aug. 28, 1745.  b.Thomas, b. Dec. 1747.  c.Mary, b. June 10, 1750.  d.Betty, b. June 9, 1753.  e.Moses, b. Aug. 27, 1755; d. in Guildhall, Vt.  f.Judith, b. Sept. 16, 1757.   And by second wife,--  114Moody, b. Feb. 25, 1760.  114 a.Huldah, b. July 26, 1761. 14-48ZACCHEUS removed to New Braintree, m. Mary----, and had (born in Sutton)--  48-114 b.Elias, b. Sept. 23, 1743.  c.Mary, b. Sept. 17, 1745.  d.Zaccheus, b. July 1, 1749.  e.Aaron. 14-51Willis Hall, of Sutton, was deacon, representative, &c., and a man of wealth. He m., 1st, May 15, 1