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SCHOOL PROGRESS SINCE THE REVOLUTION.
During the revolution, the schools as well as other like objects were comparatively neglected in the all-absorbing inter-
*Among John Adams' pupils here were sons of Judge Chandler, Timothy Paine, and other distin- guished men of the time. (See page 84.) John Adams was promised by Col. Doolittle, Nathan Baldwin and others, the office of Register of Deeds if he would settle here.
+ On the receipt of the news of the siege of Fort William Henry, Aug. 4, 1757, and its subsequent surrender, in response to commands from the Governor and conneil ordering the colonels of all the regiments to hold each man in readiness for the service, the whole militia of Worcester marched westward, Aug. 10, under Col. John Chandler, Jr. ; one company of fifty-six men being headed by. Capt. James Goodwin with Noah Jones as lieutenant, David Bancroft, ensign, and Dr. Nahum Willard. surgeon ; another company of fifty-four men was under Maj Gardner Chandler with Capt. John Curtis, Lieut. Luke Brown and Ensign Asa Flagg. (See page 75.) Sept 17, following, when Gen. Amherst halted here, another Worcester company was raised, of which Capt. Samuel Clark Paine (a brother of IIon. Timothy Paine) was captain, with Daniel McFarland, (afterward captain) as lieutenant, Col. Samuel Ward (afterwards of Lancaster) as ensign : this latter company being at- tached to the regiment of Col. Abijah Willard of Lancaster, of which regiment Rev. William Craw- ford, John Adams' successor as school master in Worcester, was chaplam, and Col. Samuel Ward promoted adjutant. In 1761, Capt. Thomas Cowden, (afterwards of Fitchburg), who had served as lieutenant, was promoted captain, and took twenty-five men with him from Worcester iuto the service.
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est of the war, but the important matter of education soon re- ceived its wonted prominence, stimulated by the fact that in 1785, the town was again presented by the Grand Jury for neg- lect of its grammar school ; and arrangements were then made for a thorough re-organization of the school system in the centre district, in co-operation with Dr. Elijah Dix, Hon. Joseph Allen, Hon. Levi Lincoln, senior, Nathan Patch, Dr. John Green, senior, John Nazro, Palmer Goulding and others, who had united in a joint stock company, and procured land on the west side of Main street, on which was erected the build -. ing so long and well known as the "Centre School House." This structure was described by Rev. Peter Whitney in 1793, as "a large and handsome school-house, about 60 by 30 feet, and two stories high, on the lower floor of which are two apart- ments, one for a grammar school, and the other for an element- ary school ; in the upper story is a large hall, (with a fire place at each end,) used by the scholars on their exhibition days ; on the top is a cupola with a bell."
Of the two schools opened in this new house, that for the com- mon or elementary studies began under the tuition of Samuel Brown; and the other for the higher branches of academic in- struction as a " Classical School" under Thaddeus Mason Har- ris* in the fall of 1787, succeeded by Thomas Payson, after- wards master of the Franklin Latin Grammar School in Boston. Among those who succeeded the latter were many who subse- quently became distinguished in various ways, including Prof. Calvin Park of Brown University, father of Rev. Dr. Edwards A. Park of Andover Theological Seminary ; Dr. Jacob Bigelow
* Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., son of William Harris, a school- master in Charlestown, was born July 17, 1768, and died April 3, 1842, having been for forty years settled minister in Dorchester, where he was in- stalled in 1793. He came to Worcester immediately after his graduation at Cambridge in 1787, and kept the " Classical" school one year. He married a daughter of Dr. Elijah Dix. Clarendon Harris, for the last fifty-five years a prominent citizen of Worcester, is the fifth of their ten children. The grandfather, Wm. Harris, was obliged to leave Charlestown, where he was engaged teaching school, on the burning of that town by the British, in June, 1775, and retired into the country, to a place then called Choxet or Chockset, now Sterling, (formerly a part of Lancaster.) In the spring of 1776, he joined the union army with a captain's commission, and was ap- pointed paymaster in Col. David Henley's regiment. He died in Sterling, Oct. 30, 1778.
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of Boston, Rev. Dr. John Nelson of Leicester, Rev. Dr. Jona- than Going, Rev. Leonard Worcester, noticed elsewhere; and George Folsom, noted for his antiquarian research. Hon. Charles Thurber of New York was master of the Latin Gram- mar School for ten years subsequent to 1830, and Warren Laz- ell of the English Grammar School for eighteen years subse- quent to 1828. Hon. Peter C. Bacon, then a law student in the office of Gov. Davis and Judge Allen, was the predecessor of Mr. Thurber as Latin Grammar master in 1829, and Leonard Worcester, Jr., was Mr. Bacon's predecessor. John Wright, afterwards of Lowell, succeeded Mr. Thurber in 1841, and Rev. R. B. Hubbard, afterwards of Sunderland, was the successor of Mr. Wright till 1845.
In the year 1800, ten school houses were built in different sections of the town, each from 18 to 25 feet square, at a cost of from $202 to $270 each, one in each of the eight districts, and two in the centre district, one of the two latter being the little structure on Summer street, partially torn down, opposite the present Summer street school-house ; and the other on the south-east side of the old common, previously alluded to. The eight outer districts in which these houses were built in 1800, were designated and located as follows : 1st, Tatnuck, 25 feet square, cost $270.27; 2d, Jones', near New Worcester, 24 feet square, $270.27 ; 3d, Fiske's corner, near Northville, 22 feet square, $247.75 ; 4th, Burncoat Plain, 22 fect square, $247 .- 75 ; 5th, Burbank's, at Quinsigamond Village, 22 feet square, $247.74 ; 6th, Baird's, on Grafton road, 22 fect square, $247 .- 75 ; 7th, Gates', near corner of Plantation street and Bloom- ingdale road, 20 feet square, $225.22; 8th, Thaxter's, at North Worcester, 18 feet square, $202.70.
In 1826 there were nine districts, with five schools in the centre district, the schools in the outer districts kept from five to eight months. The number of scholars was then 1027 in a population of 3700.
In 1837 there were twelve districts, and the whole number of public schools in them, 27; number of scholars in winter, 1195, and in summer, 1206; appropriation for schools, $4500, with an additional amount of $2500 in the centre district.
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Within the last one hundred years the annual appropriation for schools has increased from £100 (or about $400) to about $150,000. In 1785, it was £150, in 1788 it had increased to £200, in 1795 to £250, and in 1803, when the currency had changed, it was $1400, increased to $1500 in 1806, to $1700 in 1717, to 82500 in 1824, $3000 in 1832, and $3600 in 1835. During the latter year, when the number of registered . children between the ages of 4 and 16 was 923, the average attendance was 859. Fifteen years later, in 1850, when the population of the town had advanced from 6500 to 17,000, and the number of permanent schools in the centre district had in- creased from five to twenty, besides those in the then thirteen outer districts, the expenditures for schools and school-houses had increased to $31,292. Twenty years later, in 1870, when the population had advanced to over 41,000, of which the aver- age number belonging to the schools was 6385, the expenditures for schools and school-houses amounted to the liberal sum of $259,425, the largest total of any year, $138,997 of it being for school-houses, of which so large a number of costly ones were built about that period, including the present elegant High School building, all of which made the annual expenditures of this department for several years near that period much larger than they have ever been, before or since.
During the year 1876, the expenditures for schools and school-houses amounted to $145,109, somewhat less than for several previous years. In a present population of over 50,000, the average number belonging to the schools during the past year was 7503, and the average daily attendance 6926, out of an estimated school population of 9,391 between the ages of 6 and 16, and 8,801 between 5 and 15.
The total valuation of the present thirty-four school-houses and school lots in different sections of the city, comprising in all about 16 2-3 acres of land, is about $323,000. Twenty-five of the school-houses are of brick. The present number of school-rooms is 174, and of teachers 194, the salaries of the lat- ter amounting last year to $114,190. The highest annual salary now paid for a teacher, $3000, seems large, when contrasted with the $333.33 voted to be paid to Thomas Payson as pre-
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ceptor of the High or Latin Grammar School in 1795, or $750 to the grammar master in 1837, but the wonderful progress in everything else since those days has rendered a corresponding increase necessary in the expenditures for public school in- struction.
The old centre district school-house on Main street was used till about 1844, (the last few years for schools of a lower grade.) when it was sold, raised up one story, and moved forward about twenty feet to its present position, where it has since been oe- cupied for stores, offices, &c., and been known successively as " Wait's Block," and " Fletcher's Block." The tier of bricks then added to the outside walls, has given it the appearance of a brick structure, but an examination of the two upper stories on the inside discloses the upper hall and two lower rooms of the old Classical and Latin Grammar School-house of 1789. At the time this was sold over thirty years ago, another school- house, of brick, costing $14,000, was erected just north of it, which, after being used about twenty years, was about a dozen years ago sold to David S. Messenger, and converted by him into stores and dwellings; more spacious structures in different sections of the city, now taking the place of this as well as of other former structures for educational purposes. The first brick school-house erected in the town, was that on Thomas street, built in 1832, and for a dozen years it was the largest school-house in the place, the Classical and Latin Grammar School being kept there for many years previous to the opening of the first High School building on Walnut street, in January, 1845. This last was a very creditable structure for its time, cost- ing about $25,000, and well answered its purpose until the rap- idly growing wants of the city demanded increased accommoda- tions, when the present commodious and elegant edifice was erected on its site, and opened the first week in January, 1871. The present brick school-house on Thomas street was erected in 1850 on the site of the former one, then removed to East Worcester. It was the only Grammar School in the city aside from the High School, until the Grammar School-house on Sycamore street was built in 1855, that in New Worcester fol-
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lowing in 1857, others being added from year to year until there are now ten Grammar School-houses in different sections of the city, costing from $30,000 to $50,000 cach, exclusive of the High School building which cost $200,000.
Caleb B. Metcalf, for the last twenty years principal of the Highland Military Academy, was the successor of Warren Laz- ell as principal teacher in the Thomas street school-house for eleven years from 1846 to 1857, since which time the number of Grammar Schools of the highest grade has increased to ten, the present principal of longest experience in them being Ed- ward I. Comins, now of the Woodland street School, who in 1864 succeeded James H. Newton, (the successor of C. B. Metcalf,) as principal of the Thomas street School.
PRINCIPALS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
The principals of the High School, since the erection of the first High School building on the corner of Walnut and Maple streets, have been : Elbridge Smith, who began with the open- ing of the new structure the first week in January, 1845, and continued three years to 1848 ; Nelson Wheeler four years to 1852; George Capron three years to 1855 ; Osgood Johnson one year to 1856 ; Homer B. Sprague three years to 1859; Harris R. Greene seven years to 1866 ; John F. Claflin one year to 1867 ; Ellis Peterson three years to 1870; A. II. Davis three years to 1872 ; Ellis Peterson four years to 1876 ; Joseph W. Fairbanks, the present principal, being now in his second year.
The first assistant principals, during this time, have been : Hasbrouck Davis in 1845 ; Wm. E. Starr eleven years to 1857 ; the latter's successors to this time being P. W. Calkins, J. H. Winn, James K. Lombard, Henry Shippen, H. P. Boyden, M. S. Snow, A. H. Davis, Roswell Parish and Edward H. Davis.
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS.
After Warren Lazell resigned his position as principal teach- er of the Thomas street Grammar School in 1846, he was chosen sceretary of the school committee, and his successors in the lat- ter capacity were Henry J. Howland, Augustus Tucker and
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Hon. Wm. W. Rice, till the year 1857, when the office of Super- intendent of schools was created. The first superintendent was Rev. George Bushnell, the first pastor of the Salem street Congregational Church, who officiated one year when the of- fice was abolished, and created again the following year, since which time the school superintendents have been : Rev. J. D. E. Jones, seven years from 1859 to 1866 ; Col. B. P. Cheno- weth, three years to 1869 ; the present superintendent, Albert P. Marble, being now in his eighth year of service
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS. ETC.
CHAPTER XII.
SELECTMEN.
Having given, on pages 28 and 29, the names of the leading town officials from 1722 to the revolution, a continuation to the present time is proper here. Those acting upon the board of selectmen, during the contest with the mother country, were Co1. Benjamin Flagg, Col. Ephraim Doolittle, Joshua and David Bigelow, Samuel Curtis, Josialı Pierce, Wm. Young, Jonathan Stone, Samuel Miller, Dea. Nathan Perry, Robert Smith, Col. Ebenezer Lovell, Nathaniel Brooks, Samuel Brown, Col. Edward Crafts, Capt. John Gleason, and Wm. McFarland, to 1783. Dea. Nathan Perry was nine years a member of the board previous to 1789, six years chairman ; Samuel Brooks was selectman ten years to 1793 ; Samuel Curtis eight years to 1795 ; Daniel Baird six years to 1790; Rev. Joseph Wheeler five years to 1792 ; Col. Phinehas Jones two years to 1797; Dea. Jolin Chamberlain fifteen years, Judge Nathaniel Paine eight years, and David Andrews five years to 1802; Judge Benjamin Heywood eight years to 1800; Col. Samuel Flagg was chairman of the board eighteen years from 1790 to 1807: Joseph Holbrook was selectman four years to 1809; Nathaniel Harrington seven years to 1809; Judge Edward Bangs six years to 1808, and his son, Edward D. Bangs, two years to 1824 ; Maj. Ephraim Mower twelve years to 1810 and his nephew, Capt. Ephraim Mower, three years to 1817 ; Thomas Nichols seven years to 1815; Nathan White thirteen years to 1820 ;
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Dea. Nathaniel Stowell six years to 1821, and in 1837 ; Capt. Peter Slater four years to 1822; Wm. Chamberlain three years to 1824; Dr. Abraham Lincoln was chairman of the board fif- teen years to his death in 1824, and Judge Pliny Merrick and Otis Corbett, successively chairman, three years each to 1830 ; John Gleason, Jr., was selectman nine years to 1826; F. W. Paine in 1827 ; Asahel Bellows in 1830; William Eaton eleven years to 1830; Gen. Thomas Chamberlain three years to 1829, and in 1838 and 1839; Dea. Alpheus Merrifield five years and Henry Heywood two years to 1832; Jonathan Harrington two years to 1833; John Flagg seven years to 1834; Guy S. Newton four years to 1835; Gen. E. L. Barn- ard two years to 1836; Jonathan Harrington in 1832 and 1833 ; Benjamin Butman in 1828, 1834 and 1835 ; Joseph Converse and Samuel Banister in 1837 ; John P. Kettell in 1838 and 1839 ; Wm. A. Wheeler in 1840 and 1841 ; Henry Goulding and William Barber in 1842.
Judge Charles Allen was chairman of the selectmen in 1832, Judge Thomas Kinnicutt in 1836, and Col. Isaac Davis in 1837. Col. John W. Lincoln was chairman of the board eight years between 1833 and 1845, and Frederick W. Paine six years be- tween 1831 and 1848, both being on the same board three years besides, Mr. Paine serving as chairman during the last two years of the town organization.
The oldest surviving member of the former town organiza- tion is the venerable Benjamin Flagg, selectman in 1831 and in 1837, who completed his 87th year, June 12, 1877. The next oldest is Hon. Isaac Davis, who was chairman of the board in 1837, the first year the selectmen's reports were printed. The next oldest is Hon. Stephen Salisbury, who served in 1839. The next oldest surviving members are: Albert Curtis, who served in 1840 and 1841 ; Henry W. Miller, who served five years to 1845 ; Darius Rice, four years to 1845 ; Edward Earle, four years to 1846 ; Samuel Davis and Jonas Bartlett, members in 1846, the latter also serving in 1847 ; and Horatio N. Tower and Albert Tolman, selectmen in 1847, the last year of the town.
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WORCESTER A CITY.
The legislative act establishing the city of Worcester re- ceived the signature of Gov. George N. Briggs, Feb. 29, 1848, and the first city government elected under it, was inaugurated April 17, 1848, with Ex-Gov. Levi Lincoln, Mayor, and the fol- lowing Aldermen : Parley Goddard, Benjamin F. Thomas, John W. Lincoln, James S. Woodworth, Wm. B. Fox, James Esta- brook, Isaac Davis and Stephen Salisbury, of whom four only, Judge Thomas, Col. Davis, and Messrs. Salisbury and Wood- worth, now survive. Of the twenty-four members of the first common council, Gen. Thomas Chamberlain, president, nine now survive, as follows: Charles Bowen, John Gates, Darius Rice, Benjamin F. Stowell, Gov. Alexander H. Bullock, Albert Curtis, Dea. Daniel Goddard, Wm. T. Merrifield, and Calvin Foster.
MAYORS.
The seventeen mayors for the twenty-nine years of the city government have been : Levi Lincoln in 1848; Henry Chapin in 1849 and 1850 ; Peter C. Bacon in 1851 and 1852, during whose administration the official year was changed to Jan. 1; John S. C. Knowlton in 1853 and 1854; George W. Richard- son in 1855 and 1857 ; Isaac Davis in 1856, 1858 and 1861; Alexander H. Bullock in 1859; Wm. W. Rice in 1860; P. Emory Aldrich in 1862 ; Daniel Waldo Lincoln in 1863 and 1864 ; Phinehas Ball in 1865 ; James B. Blake five years to his death, Dec. 18, 1870, by the explosion at the gas house, he being also elected for 1871, Henry Chapin serving as Mayor ad interim until a successor was chosen by the people, Jan. 30, following; Edward Earle from January 30, during the year 1871; George F. Verry in 1872 ; Clark Jillson in 1873, 1875 and 1876; Edward L. Davis in 1874 ; and Charles B. Pratt in 1877.
OFFICERS OF COMMON COUNCIL.
The presidents of the common council have been : Gen. Thomas Chamberlain in 1848; Jonas M. Miles in 1849; Charles Washburn in 1850 and 1851; John F. Burbank in 1852; Wm. N. Green in 1853 ; Col. James Estabrook in 1854 ;
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Hon. George M. Rice in 1855, 1856 and 1857; Hon. E. B. Stoddard in 1858 ; Col. John W. Wetherell in 1859 ; Joseph H. Walker in 1860; James E. Estabrook in 1861; Philip L. Moen in 1862 and 1863; Richard Ball in 1864; Wm. E. Starr in 1865 and 1866; Edward L. Davis in 1867 ; Stephen Salisbury, Jr., in 1868; Samuel V. Stone in 1869 ; Charles G. Reed in 1870, 1871 and 1872; Samuel R. Heywood in 1873 ; Enoch H. Towne in 1874; Charles Ballard in 1875 ; Thomas J. Hastings in 1876 ; George E. Boyden in 1877.
The clerks of the common council have been : Wm. A. Smith four years to 1852; Warren Adams in 1852; Lewis A. Maynard in 1853 ; Wm. A. Smith seven years more to 1860; John A. Dana five years to 1865; Henry L. Shumway ten years to 1875 ; S. Hamilton Coe in 1876 and 1877.
TOWN AND CITY CLERKS.
Jonas Rice in 1722 and 1724, and from 1731 to 1753 ; Ben- jamin Flagg, Jr., in 1723 and 1730; Daniel Heywood in 1753 ; Timothy Paine, eleven years to 1764; Clark Chandler, eleven years to 1775; Nathan Baldwin, four years to 1778; Wm. Stearns, Nathaniel Heywood and Joseph Allen 1781; Daniel Goulding to 1783; Wm. G. Maccarty to 1784; Daniel Gould- ing to 1787 ; Theophilus Wheeler to 1792: Daniel Goulding to 1800 ; Dr. Oliver Fiske to 1803 ; Daniel Goulding again to 1808; Enoch Flagg to 1815 ; Levi Heywood, (uncle of the pres- ent Levi and Seth Heywood of Gardner,) three years to 1818 ; Dr. Benjamin Chapin, (brother of the late Dea. Lewis Chapin,) fifteen years to 1833 ; Samuel Jennison, three years to 1836 ; Charles A. Hamilton, twenty years to 1856 ; Samuel Smith, twenty-one years to 1877; Enoch H. Towne, the present in- cumbent, from Jan. 1, 1877.
' TREASURERS.
Daniel Heywood in 1722, and from 1732 to 1736; Henry Lee in 1723 and 1728 ; Nathaniel Moore in 1725, and in 1730 and 1731 ; James Taylor in 1726 and 1727; Judge Wm. Jen- nison in 1732; Gershom Rice from 1736 to 1739; Benjamin Flagg, Jr., from 1739 to 1741 ; John Chandler, (the second
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judge,) from 1741 to 1753 ; his son, the last judge, twenty-two years from 1753 to 1775, except the year 1761, when Capt. John Curtis was treasurer ; Dea. Nathan Perry, four years to 1779; Dr. John Green and Capt. Wm. Gates to 1781; Dea. Nathan Perry, again nine years to 1790; Judge Benjamin Heywood, five years to 1795 : Samuel Chandler, three years to 1798; Dr. Oliver Fiske to 1800; Theophilus Wheeler to 1803 ; Col. Samuel Flagg, five years to 1808 ; Levi Lincoln, (afterwards governor,) seven years to 1815 ; James Wilson, (postmaster,) fourteen years to 1829; Samuel Jennison and Asa Hamilton to 1831; Charles A. Hamilton to 1833 ; Chas. G. Prentiss to 1837; William Greenleaf to 1840; Stephen Bartlett to 1844; John Rice to 1847 ; John Boyden to 1850 ; George W. Wheeler, twenty-two years to 1872; Wm. S. Bar- ton, the present treasurer, from Jan. 1, 1872.
CITY MARSHALS.
The city marshals have been : George Jones five years to 1853 ; Alvan Allen in 1853; Lovell Baker, Jr., in 1854; Jonathan Day in 1855 ; Frederick Warren three years to 1859 ; Col. Wm. S. Lincoln in 1859; Col. Ivers Phillips in 1860; Col. Levi Barker in 1861; Wm. E. Starr in 1862 : Charles B. Pratt three years to 1866; Joseph B. Knox in 1866; A. B. R. Sprague to June 10, 1867, when he resigned, was succeeded by Col. James M. Drennan 43 years to 1872; Jonathan B. Sibley in 1872; W. Ansel Washburn in 1873 : Maj. A. D. Pratt in 1874: W. Ansel Washburn Jan. 1875, to the present time.
REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL COURT.
During the 150 years that Worcester has sent representa- tives to the General Court, 178 of her citizens have filled that office. But one representative was sent each year till 1796, when another was added, and two more in 1807, making three from the latter date till 1830, when five began to be sent; in- creased to six in 1834; seven in 1835; eight in 1836 and 1837; reduced to five in 1838; six in 1839 and 1840; and then, (the basis of representation being changed,) three each
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year to 1851 ; five from 1851 to 1866; and six from the latter date to 1876 ; eight being sent the present year, one from each ward. The district system first went into effect at the election in November, 1857, before which time all the representatives from the same town or city were voted for on one ticket, as also all the senators from the same county.
The following is a list of the representatives from Worcester, beginning with the first one in 1727. The year of service giv- en is that following the election. Since 1830, the election of State officers has been in November, and they have taken their seats the January following. Previous to 1830, they were elected the fore part of May, took their seats on " old election" day, the last Wednesday in May, and after the ceremonies of inauguration, the appointment of committees, and other pre- liminaries, adjourned till winter, the main part of the session, coming in the first months of the following year, their terms of office holding for one year till the succeeding May.
Capt. Nathaniel Jones in 1727 ; Judge William Jennison in 1728, 1729 and 1730 ; Palmer Goulding in 1741 ; the second Benjamin Flagg in 1731, and seven years more from 1743 to 1751 ; John Chandler, (the second judge,) ten years from 1732 to 1742, and his son, the third judge. from 1752 to 1755 ; Timothy Paine, eight years to 1764; Col. Ephraim Doolittle, three years to 1767 ; Joshua Bigelow, six years to 1773; Col. Ebenezer Lovell, David Bigelow, Dr. John Green and Ezekiel Ilowe to 1778 ; Samuel Curtis, eight years to 1786; Samuel Brooks in 1787 and 1788; Timothy Paine, three years to 1791 ; Col. Samuel Flagg, eight years to 1799, the first Levi Lincoln serving with him in 1796; Judge Nathaniel Paine in 1800 and 1801; Samuel Curtis in 1802; Samuel Curtis and Judge Edward Bangs in 1803 ; Col. Samnel Flagg and Judge Edward Bangs in 1804, 1805 and 1806 ; Bangs, Curtis and Maj. Ephraim Mower in 1807; Bangs, Mower and Col. Flagg in 1808 ; Bangs, Mower and Nathan White in 1809; Bangs, Mower and Dr. Abraham Lincoln in 1810 and 1811; Bangs, Abraham Lincoln and Wm. Eaton in 1812; Abraham Lincoln, Wm. Eaton and Nathan White in 1813 and 1814 ; Abraham Lincoln, Nathan White and Levi Lincoln in 1815 and 1816 ; Abraham Lincoln, Levi Lincoln, Jr., and Edward D. Bangs, six years to 1822 ; Levi Lincoln, Jr., (that year speaker, and afterwards gov- ernor,) Abraham Lincoln and Wm. Eaton in 1823 ; Abraham Lincoln, Wm. Eaton and Samuel Harrington in 1824; Wm. Eaton, Col. John W. Lincoln and Otis Corbett in 1825 and 1826; John W. Lincoln, Otis Corbett and S. M. Burnside in 1827 ; Otis Corbett, Wm. Eaton and Pliny Merrick in 1828 ; Corbett, Eaton and Rejoice Newton in 1829 ; Charles Allen, Dr. Benjamin Chapin, Rejoice Newton, Wm. Eaton and Frederick Wm. Paine in 1830 ; Otis Corbett, Wm. Eaton and Rejoice Newton in 1831 ; Luther Burnett, Jr., Capt. Lewis Bigelow, Dea. Nathaniel Stowell, Otis Corbett and Jubal Har- rington in 1832 ; Charles Allen, Silas Brooks, Dea. Lewis Chapin, Alfred D. Foster, Windsor Hatch and John W. Lincoln in 1833; Charles Allen, Lewis Chapin, John Flagg, A. D. Foster, Windsor Hatch and John W.
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