| Joseph Olcott Goodwin - East Hartford (Conn.) - 1879 - 264 pages
...pains .£16. In 1650 the General Court made it obligatory upon towns having fifty householders to " appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to write and read, whose wages shall- be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1894 - 1074 pages
...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 - History - 1982 - 454 pages
...Court agreed, "that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith...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... | |
| Alan A. Block - Education - 1995 - 270 pages
...therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith...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,... | |
| Stephen Innes - Business & Economics - 1995 - 432 pages
...mandated that all townships with fifty or more households "forthwith appoint one within their towne to teach all 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... | |
| J. F. Maclear - Church and state - 1995 - 534 pages
...increased them to the number of 50 housholders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towne to teach 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... | |
| Victor R. Fuchs - Political Science - 2008 - 364 pages
...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 - Elite (Social sciences) - 1998 - 298 pages
...increased them to the number of 50 householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towne to teach 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... | |
| James W. Fraser - Education - 2000 - 296 pages
...therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith...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... | |
| David Jaffee - History - 1999 - 334 pages
...By 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 being... | |
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