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" ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the Church and Commonwealth, the 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... "
Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the ... - Page 160
by United States. Bureau of Education - 1870
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East Hartford: Its History and Traditions

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...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 35

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...
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Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845

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...
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Occupied Reading: Critical Foundations for an Ecological Theory

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,...
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Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England, Volume 2

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...
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Church and State in the Modern Age: A Documentary History

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...
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Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care ...

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...
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The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia ...

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...
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Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural ...

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...
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People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630-1860

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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