 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 25by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 293 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1871 - 538 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 then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1872 - 528 pages
...years later, in 1647, by that famous law which 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... | |
 | 1873 - 532 pages
...is conceded to have been of New England origin. Massachusetts enacted a law, as early as 1647, "that every township, after the Lord hath increased them...fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all the children to read and write " ; and when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families,... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - 1873 - 566 pages
...Harvard College was laid as early as the year 1636, and eleven years afterwards it was enacted " that every township after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, ^ball appoint one to teach all children to write and read, and where any town shall increase to the... | |
 | James Harrison Rigg - 1873 - 556 pages
...assisting our endeavours, — " 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, &c."* Bequests also were left in the early times of the colonies, for " gospel... | |
 | James Harrison Rigg - 1873 - 542 pages
...assisting our endeavours, — ' " 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, &c."* Bequests also were left in the early times of the colonies, for " gospel"... | |
 | Evangelical Alliance. Conference - 1874 - 788 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 teachers," etc. What has wrought the great social changes in nations from savage... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1875 - 912 pages
...of a system of local schools which is still the glory of America. " Every township," it was enacted, "after the Lord hath increased them to the number...one to teach all children to write and read ; and when any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a grammar school."... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 584 pages
...in the graves of our forefathers," in 1647 it was ordered in all the Puritan 1647. colonies " that every township, after the Lord hath increased them...householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to read and write ; and where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 620 pages
...Lord assisting our endeavors — It is therefore fir-Jtred, 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... | |
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