USA > Massachusetts > Norfolk County > Braintree > Town annual report of Braintree, Massachusetts for the year 1869-1879 > Part 44
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47
Parents are requested to sign this Report, and return it to the Teacher.
Teacher.
61
A short examination is held by the teacher each month, which insures careful reviews, as well as greater attention to each lesson. An additional advantage is, that the parents are kept constantly informed as to their children's progress, and home influence, so great an aid to the teacher, is secured. In this connection we would particularly call the attention of parents to the impor- tance of requiring from their children attending schools above the Intermediate grade at least one hour's faithful study at home each day.
GRAMMAR AND INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.
Any revision of studies with us must necessarily con- template very gradual changes. The necessity of en- forcing a higher standard of scholarship for admission to the High School is, however, apparent; and the teach- ers of the Grammar Schools have been informed that hereafter the Committee will be more strict in the mat- ter of admission to the High School. While the exami- nations will not be made more difficult, the percentage will be somewhat raised, and a more rigid rule applied as to rejections, with a view of securing a greater degree of thoroughness in preparation, and completion of the requirements, especially in history and arithmetic.
It is unnecessary to state here in detail the text- books and limits of study prescribed in the different schools. It is sufficient to say that an effort is making to raise the standard of scholarship in the Grammar and Intermediate Schools ; but to be successful it must be persistent and untiring, calling for the constant aid of parents, teachers, and scholars, for it must of necessity be very gradual.
The Committee voted last summer to place the Gram-
.
62
mar Schools in charge of male teachers. In the opinion of the Committee, time unnecessarily expended in disci- pline is worse than wasted ; and it is a matter of experi- ence, that, with boys and girls of the Grammar School age, a word or a look from a master will usually prevent disorder that a lady-teacher could only check by corporal punishment, so often demoralizing in its effects upon teacher and pupil.
The Committee have been fortunate in the selection, as masters of the Grammar Schools, of young men who have shown themselves zealous, and well adapted to their work.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
The success of the Primary School depends mainly upon the personal influence of the teacher, and the in- struction should be chiefly oral.
The drawing-cards recently introduced prove inter- esting to the children, and a valuable step in object- teaching, several original designs of much merit being shown at the recent examination of one of the Primary Schools.
We do not favor, however, the introduction of draw- ing into the other schools, and learn, that, though taught extensively in the schools of nearly all our large cities, it is not spoken of approvingly by many of the best educators, and is likely to fall into disfavor. It should be left to individual tastes and to special schools.
DISTRICT SCHOOLS.
A source of much weakness to the Braintree school system are the outlying District Schools. Extent of ter- ritory renders them an apparent necessity ; but the Com- mittee, impressed with the marked benefits which would
63
result from concentrating the system, and bringing the scholars into regularly graded schools, have made an effort in that direction.
They find that the scholars of most, if not all, the District Schools, can be conveyed to and from the cen- trally-situated graded schools in teams provided with careful drivers, and at a considerable saving of expense to the town. The irregularity of attendance from which the District Schools now suffer so severely would be in this way doubtless greatly lessened.
Upon attempting to introduce this plan with the West-street School, however, the Committee, to their surprise, were met with so strong a remonstrance from the people of that section, who seemed to feel that they were in some way abridged of their full school privi- leges, that the plan was abandoned, though the Com- mittee are still of opinion that it was a move in the right direction. Indeed, the method of transportation to relieve over-crowded schools has been in successful operation for some months past in the East district.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Whatever differences of opinion may have existed, or may still exist, in regard to the pecuniary relations between the Town of Braintree and the Thayer Acad- emy, there can be but a universal desire that this insti- tution should be of as direct benefit as possible to our people in an educational point of view.
The Academy is practically free to-day to the children of this town; all of even such moderate scholarship as will hardly suffice to entitle them to remain within its walls being permitted to attend free of tuition, - an arrangement which will continue so long as the present endowment remains unimpaired.
64
This institution, one of the best of its kind in the country, is enabled, with its ample endowment, to furnish better instruction in the higher departments of knowl- edge, whether in the classics, modern languages, or sci- ences, than our High School can ever hope to supply.
While, then, the High School cannot be merged in the Academy, even were it desirable, and the town must continue to maintain a high school with facilities for the study of the higher English branches and the Latin, Greek, and French languages, there will be no practical difficulty in making it substantially an English school.
The regular course should be shortened to three years, and be exclusively an English one, adapted to fitting our young men for mechanical, agricultural, and business pursuits, and, generally, for occupations other than those purely professional and scientific. The Latin, Greek, and French languages, facilities for the study of which we are required by statute to supply, should be made elective studies, with the distinct recommen- dation, however, of the Committee, that all who intend to fit for college, or who have the means and leisure to make a special study of the classics, modern languages, or sciences, should enter the Thayer Academy, - a rec- ommendation which would unquestionably be universally accepted.
The initiatory steps have already been taken to carry out the foregoing plan.
A circular setting forth the proposed course of study was recently distributed, in advance of this Report, among the parents of the High School scholars.
The new course will be introduced very gradually, not to interfere more than is necessary with studies already begun by those now in the school. History has
65
been introduced into all the classes, Swinton's Outlines of the World's History being the prescribed text-book.
SCOPE OF INSTRUCTION.
It is a very difficult matter, in these days when the field of human knowledge has so widened, to define with precision the limits of public education.
We do not propose to discuss here the important question, so fully argued by President Eliot and other able thinkers, how far the State is bound to provide the higher education for the masses, and whether rendering such higher education accessible to the people generally is, as is claimed, an evil, fostering a distaste for the necessary drudgery of most useful employments.
Maine is trying the experiment of disestablishing her High Schools, - curiously, too, at a time when the High School system, though essentially American, has met with so marked a eulogy from the French Centennial Commission.
But we are learning to-day that there is another edu- cation than that of the college and the library ; that every man's occupation can be so ennobled by the high thought that may be put into it, that it shall be of itself a liberal education. The so-called liberal professions have no longer, if they were ever supposed to have, a monopoly of brains; and it is among our leading merchants, bankers, and manufacturers, that we often look for the clearest and broadest views in practical affairs, and often, too, for the highest culture.
Again, the education of the school is not our life- work ; it merely prepares us for it, furnishes us the tools to do that work with. The mind must be trained, and given its proper bent; and yet we must so widen the
66
scope of the education we furnish as to enable each mind to choose the right direction, -to know its calling.
We can train the intellect that is to grapple with men and things, with the world's great problems, by better mental discipline, surely, than a smattering of Latin and Greek. However valuable a thorough study of the classics may be (and we do not underrate its value), surely the brief years before the boy is compelled to stand and hold his own among men can be employed to better advantage with subjects equally adapted to mental discipline, and better suited to his wants and the wants of our age.
This tendency has indeed, here and there, run to wasteful extremes, overcrowding courses of study, and giving an education of mere fact-knowledge to the utter loss of essential mental discipline. Greater thorough- ness we certainly need in every department of life. We Americans are in too great haste to seize the world's prizes to think much of laying a sure basis on which to build.
But there is a golden mean. We need not over- crowd the time of teacher or scholar: so much attention must be paid to each of the sciences, and so much only, as will enable the student to find the true inclination of his mind, and to pursue further investigation for himself.
The study of a single science is a life-work. The merest rudiments are all we can give; but these we are bound to bestow.
The following is the course of study adopted for the High School, subject to such modification as experience may prove necessary : -
67
FIRST YEAR.
First Term. - Commercial Arithmetic, English Grammar and Rhetoric, General History, Physical Geography.
Second Term. - Algebra, Rhetoric, General History, Physical Geography.
SECOND YEAR.
First Term. - Algebra, Natural Philosophy, General History, Astronomy.
Second Term. - Geometry, Natural Philosophy, General His- tory, Civil Government.
THIRD YEAR.
First Term. - Geometry, Botany, Civil Government, Chemistry. Book-keeping.
Second Term. - Trigonometry, Geology, Political Economy, Physiology, Book-keeping.
Exercises in Reading, Declamation, Composition, Spelling, Drawing, and Penmanship, during the entire course.
Diplomas of graduation will be conferred upon com- pletion of this course.
That no one may be deprived of any of the privileges now enjoyed, pupils may, if they choose, take an extra year, and in that case may elect in the regular course Latin, Greek, and French, or either of them, in place of chemistry, botany, and geology, or either of them. If feasible, French will be introduced also as an elective in the regular course.
SCHOOL APPARATUS.
For many years no appropriation has been asked for school apparatus, and the expenditure by committees for this object has been very light. Our schools are consequently deficient to-day in this respect. Maps and
68
books of reference are the most pressing needs. And are we quite satisfied to send our children, at an age when the imagination is most active and should be trained and given scope in the right direction, into school-houses with bare walls and no opportunity what- ever for visual instruction ?.
There should be some, not necessarily extensive, ad- ditions to the scientific apparatus of the High School.
The Committee, therefore, ask an appropriation of at . least two hundred dollars for this purpose.
SCHOOLHOUSES.
There is need of considerable repairs and improve- ments in and about the Iron-Works Schoolhouse.
The building itself can scarcely be considered safe, having but a single narrow entrance and winding stairs, a defect that should be remedied without unnecessary delay.
The underpinning and steps should be replaced, the fence and privy thoroughly repaired, and the yard graded.
New blackboards are needed in each schoolroom, and a well and pump have long been a desideratum.
A small outlay for sodding here and about the other schoolhouses would go very far towards relieving the barren, desolate appearance said with much truth to be characteristic of the rural schoolhouses of this coun- try.
Mr. Freeman A. Arnold, who served as a member of this Committee during a portion of the school-year, resigned early in the fall to accept the position, which he now holds, of Master of the Pond Grammar School ;
69
and Mr. Eben Denton was subsequently chosen to fill Mr. Arnold's place on this board.
N. L. WHITE, NOAH TORREY, G. H. ARNOLD, J. M. CUTTING, EBEN DENTON, B. L. M. TOWER, J
School Committee.
Statistical Table of the Schools.
No. OF SCHOLARS.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE.
No. OVER 15 YEARS.
No. UNDER 5 YEARS.
LENGTH OF TERMS.
WAGES PER MONTH.
Summer.
Winter.
Summer.
Winter.
Summer.
Winter.
Summer.
Winter.
Summer.
Winter.
Summer.
Winter.
High
41
57
39
55
25
28
0
0
5
5
45
45
Pond Grammar
50
56
43
46
1
2
0
0
5
5
42
42
44
42
341
323
0
0
0
0
5
5
32
32
62
63
42}
41
0
0
0
0
5
5
32
32
Union Grammar
46
34
36
30
2
0
0
0
5
5
42
42
Intermediate
34
41
28
35
0
0
0
0
5
5
32
32
Primary .
54
53
453
42
0
0
0
0
5
5
32
32
Iron-Works Grammar
34
50
23
40
0
0
0
0
5
5
42
42
Intermediate
50
44
41
36
0
0
0
0
5
5
32
32
Primary .
70
77
57
59
0
0
0
0
5
5
32
32
31
25
0
1
0
0
5
5
42
42
East Grammar .
0
0
5
5
28
32
Primary
46
22
30
20
0
0
0
0
5
5
32
32
South-east.
27
35
161
29
0
0
6
3
5
5
32
32
South
47
42
31
29
3
3
1
1
5
5
32
32
South-west
·
.
20
21
17
16
0
1
0
1
5
5
32
32
West.
·
19
18
13
13
1
2
3
1
5
5
32
28
·
.
·
·
·
·
·
·
.
·
·
.
.
.
33
36
24
27
0
0
Middle
·
.
·
·
·
·
·
·
.
Intermediate
Primary .
·
70
SCHOOLS.
§ $140
$140
66
48
29
·
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF BRAINTREE
FROM
FEB. 1, 1879, TO FEB. 1, 1880,
TOGETHER WITH THE
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TOWN.
.
BOSTON : ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, NO. 34 SCHOOL STREET. 1880.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SELECTMEN AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
ANOTHER financial year of the town has closed, and in accordance with the By-Laws of the town, we most respectfully submit the following report : -
The street leading from Shaw Street to Quincy Avenue has been built the past year, by the order of the county commissioners. It also has been ac- cepted by them, and opened for public travel.
Elliot Street has been laid out by the selectmen, and accepted by the town. It has been graded at an expense of $194.70. A further appropriation of $300 is necessary to gravel the road, and to build railings wherever needed.
The selectmen have received petitions asking for the laying out and building of two different roads to connect Elliot Street with Commercial Street. Both of these routes have been surveyed, and there is no question of the necessity of building a road to con- nect those two points, thereby connecting the terri- tory on Elliot Street with the rest of the town.
4
The only question is, which of these routes shall be built, or whether another route cannot be selected which will better accommodate the public travel.
The selectmen are of opinion that further surveys should be made, and then the question can be decided more intelligently.
At the last annual meeting the sum of $600 was raised and appropriated for repairs on the Iron Works School-house, and the expenditure was intrusted to the hands of a competent committee. In making these repairs the committee assumed the responsibil- ity of expending an amount more than double the sum appropriated, and at a special meeting the town was called upon to appropriate the additional sum of $800 to make good this deficiency. The town at that meeting made the appropriation, but coupled with its vote a protest against the unauthorized act of the committee, which was entered upon the rec- ords. The selectmen have recently been requested to draw their order on the treasury for a further sum of $25 for the same purpose, which they have declined to do without specific instructions from the town.
If the town can legally be made responsible for such claims, we think some action should be taken to prevent similar committees, hereafter chosen, from expending more than the amount appropriated. If it is understood that such committees have unlimited power to pledge the credit of the town, without regard to its vote, the result will be to leave to the discretion of a few men the decision of a question
5
which, in our judgment, ought never to pass from the control of the town; viz., how much of its money shall be expended for a given object. We do not think the town is prepared to adopt such a course.
S. W. HOLLIS, Selectmen
ABIJAH ALLEN, of
ANSEL O. CLARK, Braintree.
6
SCHOOLS.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Charles E. Stetson, teaching 10 weeks, at $35
$350 00
Charles E. Stetson, teaching 30 weeks, at $30 .
900 00
Martha Reed, teaching 40 weeks, at $11.25,
450 00
Joel F. Sheppard, coal 11 80
Michael Brandley
35 92
E. T. Ellis, kindlings
6 00
-
$1,753 72
POND SCHOOL.
Freeman A. Arnold, teaching 40 weeks, at $10.50
$420 00
S. Ella Torrey, teaching 40 weeks, at $8 . 320 00 E. M. Thompson, teaching 40 weeks, at $8, 320 00
Michael Brandley, coal 44 90
6 00
·
1,110 90
UNION SCHOOL.
Wellington Record, teaching 40 weeks, at $10.50
$420 00
Inez M. Rogers, teaching 20 weeks, at $8 .
160 00
F. M. Stebbins, teaching 20 weeks, at $8 .
160 00
S. L. Burnham, teaching 40 weeks, at $8 320 00
M. Brandley, coal
17 96
R. Allen Gage, care of house
70 00
R. A. Gage, shavings. ·
1 20
E. T. Ellis, kindlings . Mrs. Carney, cleaning house
12 00
12 00
1,173 16
IRON WORKS SCHOOL.
E. L. Bradford, teaching 303 weeks, at $10.50 $321 30
E. A. Newton, teaching 7 days, at $2 . 14 00
E. A. Newton, teaching 1 week .
10 50
Alverdo Mason, teaching 7 weeks, at $10.50, 73 50
Avis A. Thayer, teaching 40 weeks, at $8 . 320 00
E. T. Ellis, kindlings
7
Inez A. Penniman, teaching 10 weeks, at $8, $80 00 Inez A. Penniman, teaching 30 weeks, at $7, 210 00
Galen E. Pratt, care of house 66 45
E. L. Bradford, cash paid for cleaning house, 2 00
E. T. Ellis, kindlings 9 00
$1,106 75
EAST SCHOOL.
Victoria P. Wilde, teaching 394 weeks, at $10.50 .
$417 90
Nettie L. Burt, teaching 10 weeks, at $8 80 00
210 00
Nettie L. Burt, teaching 30 weeks, at $7 Jesse Burrell, care of house
36 00
Jesse Burrell, shavings
30
Michael Brandley, coal
26 94
E. T. Ellis, kindlings
10 50
781 64
SOUTHEAST SCHOOL.
Ina G. Cutting, teaching 10 weeks, at $8
$80 00
Ina G. Cutting, teaching 30 weeks, at $7 210 00
Michael Brandley, coal
13 47
L. A. McGaw, care of house
7 50
J. M. Cutting, Jr., care of house
7 50
Martha Penniman, cleaning house
1 50
E. T. Ellis, kindlings
3 00
322 97
SOUTH SCHOOL.
M. E. C. Bannon, teaching 40 weeks, at $8,
$320 00
Thomas Downey, care of house .
11 25
M. Brandley, coal
13 47
Mrs. Boyle, cleaning house ·
1 50
E. T. Ellis, kindlings
10 50
356 72
SOUTHWEST SCHOOL.
Helen A. Williams, teaching 393 weeks, at $8,
$316 80
Oscar E Ellis, care of house 15 00 . .
3 00
WEST SCHOOL.
Marcia A. Keith, teaching 20 weeks, at $7 . $140 00
Susie M. Reed, teaching 20 weeks, $7 140 00
Elisha Savil, care of house
15 00
M. Brandley, coal
6 73
E. T. Ellis, kindlings
.
.
7 50
·
334 80
309 23
.
.
.
T. T. Ellis, kindlings
.
8
MIDDLE STREET SCHOOL.
Lottie E. Allen, teaching 40 weeks, at $8 . $320 00
Ellsworth A. Hollis, care of house 15 00
M. Brandley, coal 13 47 .
E. T. Ellis, kindlings
. 9 00
$357 47
Total cost of schools
$7,607 36
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF SCHOOLS.
H. L. Thayer, conveyance of children $180 00
C. E. Stetson, table for books of reference . 3 00
C. E. Stetson, lettering diplomas 10 00
C. E. Stetson, printing programmes
5 50
C. E. Stetson, chemicals, erasers, and ink . 4 60
Gunn & Bliss, report cards
4 00
E. P. Hayward, tuning piano at Union School
3 50
J. M. Arnold, dippers, dusters, brooms, brushes, Union School 6 56
E. L. Bradford, pail and dipper, Iron Works School . P. D. Holbrook & Co., brooms and crayons, South School 1 15
80
P. D. Holbrook & Co., basket, coal-hod, etc , Pond School 3 45
P. D. Holbrook & Co., crayons and broom, Middle Street School
1 48
P. D. Holbrook & Co., brush and duster, Iron Works School 2 68
1 55
Julia F. Hayward, erasers and books, Union School 2 20
Julia F. Hayward, erasers and books, Iron Works School 31 95
Julia F. Hayward, crayons and books, West School 1 00
Julia F. Hayward, crayons and books, East School 8 42
Julia F. Hayward, book, Middle Street School 1 00
Julia F. Hayward, crayons, erasers, etc., South School, 5 23 Julia F. Hayward, crayors and books, Southeast School 2 70
Julia F. Hayward, crayons and books, Southwest School 5 40
Julia F. Hayward, crayons and books, Pond School 11 22
Julia F. Hayward, crayons, High School ·
40
Julia F. Hayward, book for poor boy . 95
P. D. Holbrook & Co., brush, curtain, and fixtures, High School
9
Julia F. Hayward, stationery and stamps, school com- mittee $3 00
George C. Thayer, 600 school reports 4 00
New England School Furnishing Co., ten dozen erasers, C. G. Esterbrooks, printing questions for examination of candidates for High School 4 00
13 75
Lee & Shepard, reference book
8 00
L. A. H. Butler, books for poor children
2 14
L. A. H. Butler, drawing cards and book for desk, Union School 4 00
E. Savil, broom, West School 38
Wm. Bowditch, broom, East School 30
W. A. Green, repairing clock, Southeast School . 95
W. A. Green, repairing clock, High School 75
$340 01
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF SCHOOL-HOUSES.
Morrill Williams, repairs Southwest School-house $2 65
Morrill Williams, repairs on fence, Southwest 3 00
Robert Hamilton, labor and stock repairing Union School-house 12 18
James Croke, repairs on out-house, Iron Works . 1 00
R. A. Gage, glass and setting and repairs, Union
6 95
R. A. Gage, repairs on Middle Street School-house
75
William R. Penniman, repairs South School-house 4 87 William R. Penniman, pedestals for chairs, Pond William R. Penniman, labor, etc. 3 30
7 00
J. B. Rhines, lumber for East School-house
37 51
E. L. Bradford, setting glass, Iron Works . Joseph I. Bates, grate and labor, Union
20
2 00
Joseph I. Bates, grates, repairs on stoves, etc., Iron Works 18 55
Joseph I. Bates, repairs on stove, East .
11 41
Michael Brandley, two loads loam, Pond
1 50
William H. Cobb, repairs on Pond School-house .
1 40
Robert Brooks, setting glass, Iron Works . .
1 00
Henry McElwyn, slating blackboards, East
5 74
Henry McElwyn, slating blackboards, Union 8 14
Henry McElwyn, slating blackboards, West 2 86
2 40
L. R. Barnes, slating blackboards, Pond
8 96
L. R. Barnes, repairs of blackboards, Pond
50
L. R. Barnes, slating blackboards, Middle Street
3 88
L. R. Barnes, glass and setting, Southeast . 1 50
50
Henry McElwyn, slating blackboards, Southwest
J. W. Thayer, glass and setting, Middle Street George W. Kelly, cleaning well, Pond
1 00
10
G. E. Pratt, keys for Iron Works $ 75
J. F. Sheppard, four posts, Iron Works 1 40
A. W. Peterson, labor and material, Union . 20 10
A. W. Peterson, labor and material, West .
1 05
A. W. Peterson, labor and material, Southeast 2 60
A. W. Peterson, labor and material, Middle Street 9 60
A. W. Peterson, labor and material, Iron Works 6 00
1 62
A. A. Linnell, repairing stove, Southwest .
50
John Maloney, cleaning out-house, Iron Works Hayward Bros., labor and material, East
1 00
S. W. Pratt, repairs on stoves, Union 18 39
7 63
H. A. Berry, labor and material, West .
1 70
$228 09
IMPROVEMENT OF IRON WORKS SCHOOL-HOUSE AND GROUNDS.
Paid Loud & Pratt, for lumber . $324 00
George A. Cushing, for carpenter work 245 03
John A. Robertson, balustrade and posts for piazza
67 75
John A. Robertson, window frames, brackets, etc.
29 89
Watson & Bisbee, stairs
80 00
A. W. Hastings & Co., doors and sashes
30 34
George S. Baker, hardware
.
26 00
James West, painting
93 67
S. W. Pratt, tin roofing
20 76
John Kelly, cementing tin roof
7 35
Charles Wilson, underpinning and steps
61 00
Alden Bowditch, cutting and setting underpinning and steps 5 50
R. B. Carter, stone
2 50
Robert Orr, building fence, 145 feet at $0.50
72 50
W. I. Jordan, iron posts
8 25
P. A. Wales & Son, pump and platform
36 00
B. J. Loring, labor on well and grading yard, 3819% days at $1.75 per day . 68 08
B. J. Loring, cash paid for powder and fuse ·
4 00
B J. Loring, use of tools and sharpening Patrick Sullivan, labor, 333 days, $1.50
50 10
William H. Renn, labor, 2018 days, $1.50
31 20
Patrick McCormick, labor, 3 days, $1.50 Jacob Dexheimer, labor, 20% days, $1.50 . Jacob Dexheimer, labor, 17 days, $1.62
4 50
31 35
.
27 54
A. A. Linnell, Russia pipe, High
5 00
H. A. Berry, labor and material, Union ·
5 35
11
Paid Andrew Gott, horse, cart, and self, 163 days, $3, Matthew Smith, horse, cart, and self, 3 days, $3, Mrs. Dolan, cleaning . ·
$49 00
9 00
5 25
John W. Dolan, cleaning ·
4 38
$1,400 29
SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS.
SAMUEL S. FRENCH, Surveyor.
S. S. French, labor, 92 days, at $2
$184 00
S. S. French, horse and cart, 133 days, at $1.50 .
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.