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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
Esq. Mr. James Wyman Mr. Eben Hall Junr and Mr Richard Hall be a Committee to see that the Schoolhouse is Built agreeable to Contract. This building was finished before Jan. 15, 1796, for on that date William Woodbridge was paid the final instalment on his contract of £ 220. Capt. Joseph Wyman was the last teacher in the old building, our second school-house, as well as the first in the third, the brick house on the land back of the meeting-house, his term of service extending from August, 1793, to May, 1796. Under the authority to pay at the private schools the tuition of young children whose parents could not afford to do so none seem to have availed themselves of the privilege till the year 1797, when Eliza Francis presented her bill for schooling Mrs. Butterfield's three children and received on Jan. 10, 1798, an order on the Treasurer for $6.84. The town passed the same vote regarding the payment of tuition in 1799, again in 1800, and also in 1801, when they voted that t