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" ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors. It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty... "
Report of the Commissioner of Education, with Circulars and Documents ... - Page 85
by United States. Department of Education - 1868
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The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of ...

Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1849 - 296 pages
...Free. By this law, every town, containing fifty householders, was required to appoint a teacher, " to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read ;" and every town, containing one hundred families or householders, was required to " set up a grammar...
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The Code of 1650: Being a Compilation [of] the Earliest Laws and Orders of ...

Connecticut - 1850 - 136 pages
...towne, to teach all such children, as shall resorte to him, to write and read, whose wages shall bee paid, either by the parents .or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general!, by way of supplye, as the major pa rte of those who order the prudentialls of the townc, shall appointe ; provided,...
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The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] ...: Records of ...

Connecticut - 1850 - 648 pages
...Towne to teach || all such children as shall resorte to him, to write and read, whose wages shall bee paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the Inhabitants in generall by way of supplye, as the maior parte of those who order the prudentialls of the Towne shall...
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Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Volume 2

Charles Sumner - 1850 - 498 pages
...forefathers." This law obliged towns having fifty families " forthwith to appoint one " within their limits " to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to write and read." (Ancient Charters, 186.) It is on this legislation that the Public Schools of Massachusetts have been...
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Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House

Michigan. Legislature - 1850 - 574 pages
...Lord hath increased them to fifty honsehojders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns, to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to write and to read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children or by the inhabitants...
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An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of ...

Nathaniel Bouton - 1851 - 94 pages
...householders, the law required, that then, forthwith, they should " appoint one within their toune, to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to write and read, whose • 4 wages shall be paid, either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants...
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De Bow's Review, Volume 15

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1853 - 694 pages
...hows-holders, shall then forthwith appoint one within theire towne to teach all such children as shall resorte to him, to write and read ; whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of snch children, or by the inhabitants in generall, by way of supplye, as the major parte of those who...
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Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England ...

Massachusetts (Colony) - 1853 - 362 pages
...hath increased ym to y* number of 50 houshold™, shall then forthwth appoint one wthin their towne to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write & reade, whose wages shall be paid cithr by y* parents or mast™ of such children, or by y* inhabitants...
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Annual Report, Volume 49

Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education - 1904 - 446 pages
...ordered that every township within this jurisdiction * * * of the number of fifty households shall appoint one within their town to teach all such children...such children, or by the inhabitants in general." The charter which William Penn received contained in it the requirement that the government of the...
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The Massachusetts Teacher and Journal of Home and School Education, Volume 9

1856 - 594 pages
...jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fify householders, shall thenceforth appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to read and write ; that wages shall be paid either by the parents, the masters of such children, or by...
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