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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) 2 2 Browse Search
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of nine or ten years old, throughout the whole country, but can read and write, and say his catechism. Nov. 30, 1719, a special meeting was held, to see if a school shall be established for four months. Voted in the affirmative. Also voted that the town will allow Mr. Davison three pounds money for keeping the school the time above said, and also to diet him for the town. Heretofore, schools had been kept in private houses; but, Feb. 22, 1720, it was voted to build a schoolhouse. Dec. 12, 1720: Two schools proposed and organized for the first time; one for the west end, and the other for the east. Mr. Caleb Brooks was engaged to keep the west school for three months, at two pounds per month; Mr. Henry Davison the east, at the same price. In these ways, primary instruction was provided for. Although, in their votes, they used the word established, it could not be strictly true; for there was no school established, as we understand the term. Money raised for schools was not
Ann, b. Aug., 1801.  3Albert, b. May, 1803.   He m., 2d, Lydia Fesenden, of Lexington; and d. Sept. 19, 1851, leaving, by his second wife,--  4Edwin, b. June, 1815.  5Adaline, b. 1817.  6Emmeline M., b. Dec., 1819.  7Lydia A., b. Dec., 1821.  8Cordelia, b. Dec., 1823.  1TOMPSON, Jonathan, m. Abigail----, and had--  1-2Phebe, b. Jan. 15, 1713.  3Ruth, b. Oct. 30, 1715.  4Jonathan, b. Apr. 10, 1720.   By 2d wife, Lydia Nutting, whom he m. Feb. 25, 1720, he had--  5Lydia, b. Dec. 12, 1720.  1Tufts, Peter, was b. in England, in 1617; parents and birthplace unknown. There are, however, persons bearing the name in Lancashire; and, between Little Baddow and Malden, co. Essex, there is a village called Tuftes. Peter Tufts was one of the earliest and largest land-owners in our town of Malden; and it is perhaps a fair supposition, that he named his home for his English birthplace. He is supposed to have immigrated 1638-40; and was admitted a freeman, May 3, 1665,