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" 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... "
Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 25
by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 293 pages
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The History of Connecticut: From the First Settlement of the Colony ...

Gideon Hiram Hollister - 1858 - 808 pages
...therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof, that every township within 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...
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History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty, Volume 1

John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 684 pages
...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 householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write...
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History of New England, Volume 2

John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 670 pages
...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 householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write...
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History of New England, Volume 2

John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 664 pages
...assisting our endeavors, — " It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, affcdr 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...
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History of New England, Volume 2

John Gorham Palfrey - 1861 - 682 pages
...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 householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write...
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Ten Years in the United States: Being an Englishman's View of Men and Things ...

David W. Mitchell - 1862 - 372 pages
...two hundred years ago. In the colonial laws it was enacted " That every township, after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty householders,...one to teach all children to write and read ; " and on reaching a hundred families, the township was to set up a grammar-school, where youth might be prepared...
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History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: From ...

Charles Hudson - 1862 - 584 pages
...therefore ordered by this Court and authority thereof, that every township within this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to write...
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History of the United States of America, Volume 1; Volume 178

Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pages
...buried in the graves of our forefathers :" and it was ordered, in all the -puritan colonies, that " every township, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty honieholders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read ; and where any town shall...
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Annual Report of the Board of Education, Volume 26

Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1863 - 478 pages
...universal and free. The law provided : " 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 the town, to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to write...
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The History of the Great Republic: Considered from a Christian Stand-point

Jesse Truesdell Peck - 1868 - 774 pages
...deceivers, and that learning might not be buried in the graves of our fathers," it was ordered " that every town.ship, after the Lord hath increased them...one to teach all children to write and read ; and, when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a grammar-school,...
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