 It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and...  The New England Magazine - Page 3851906Full view - About this book
 | 1894 - 1074 pages
...aftr ye Lord heth increased y™ to y* number of 60 household", shall then forthwlh appoint one w^in their towne to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and reade ; . . . and it is furthr ordered, y' where any towne shall increase to y" numb' of 100 families... | |
 | John R. Stilgoe - 1982 - 454 pages
...increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read."55 Not every town obeyed the order but since each ordinarily employed a learned clergyman, formal... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 pages
...towneship in this Jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of 50 housholders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towne...all such children as shall resort to him to write & reade, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants... | |
 | Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 pages
...them in an unknowne tongue" — the Court mandated that all townships with fifty or more households "forthwith appoint one within their towne to teach...such children as shall resort to him to write and reade, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants... | |
 | Alan A. Block - 1995 - 270 pages
...increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read. (Smith, 1986, 13) First, we must understand that by this law education was considered to be reading,... | |
 | Victor R. Fuchs - 2008 - 366 pages
...keeepe men from the knowledge of y Scriptures, . . . evy towneship in this jurisdiction . . . shall appoint one within their towne to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read" (252). While legislative language is not always a reliable guide to the factors that led to passage... | |
 | Darren Staloff - 1997 - 293 pages
..."that every towneship in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of 50 householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within...all such children as shall resort to him to write & reade, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants... | |
 | David Jaffee - 1999 - 334 pages
...1647 the General Court had required every town of fifty families to "appoint one within their own town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read" and those towns reaching one hundred families to "set up a grammar school, the master thereof... | |
 | James W. Fraser - 2000 - 296 pages
...increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read."2 Five years earlier the colony's legislature passed another law also requiring that every parent... | |
 | James Davison Hunter - 2008 - 342 pages
...increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read.2" Similarly, the General Assembly of Maryland passed an act in 1723 to make provision for "the... | |
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