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Welsh, Michael
1 50
1 50
Widdelin, W. Charles
1 50
1 50
Weeks, Stephen
1 50
1 50
Wells, D. John, Rev.
1 50
1 50
Woodis, P. John
1 50
1 50
Wright, Elisha
1 50
1 50
Wilmarth, L. Calvin
1 50
1 50
Williams, Peter
1 50
1 50
Williams, Lyman
1 50
1 50
Young, J. William
. 50
1 50
2 96
2 22
5 18
West, G. Charles
6 66
366
Woods, Thomas
NON-RESIDENT TAX PAYERS IN 1861.
Names.
P. Estate.
Total Tax.
Lovell, Henry, Abington
$ 30 34
$ 1 48
Quincy, Josiah,
Boston
513 56
Hawes, John, heirs of,
66
2 96
Relknap, C. Andrew, estate of,
66
19 24
Emmons, H. Nathaniel,
92 50
Codman, Richard,
66
4 44
Warren, C. John, Dr.,
2 59
Warren, Jonathan,
74
Faxon, Nathaniel,
14 80
Wright, H. Isaac, or by whom owned,
10 36
Fisher, Sidney,
7 40
Sullivan, W. Manning,
6 66
Spear, Alfred,
2 22
Allen, L. Benjamin,
40 70
O. C. & F. R. R. Corporation,
89
Evans, William,
3 70
92 50
Thompson, A. Newell,
66
74
Appleton, A. Samuel
66
87 32
Webster, Albert,
74
Patten, Thomas,
2 22
Sargent, Anderson,
66
2 22
Barney, S.,
66
2 22
Eaton, William,
4 44
White, Nancy,
66
5 18
Hugh, Owen,
66
1 48
Samuel & Aaron Gay,
3 70
Jackson, Francis,
66
73 26
Pray, G. Lewis,
66
1 48
Milliken, Francis,
14 06
Spear, T. Henry,
$ 14
Baker, P. William,
31 82
Welsh, F. Wilson,
11 10
Fury, Thomas,
1 48
Adams, Alvan,
74
Bent, A. Albert,
66
1 48
Crooker, Henry,
66
11 84
Crooker, Oliver,
22 20
Souther, Henry,
66
34 78
Tuckerman, W. George,
66
37
Souther, John,
66
62 53
Fowle, Frances Ann, Mrs.,
8 88
7
22 94
Thayer, F. Gideon,
66
Stoddard, Charles,
66
66
1 11
Nott, H. G.,
66
98
Names.
P. Estate.
Total Tax.
Lathe, Abigail,
Boston
74
Halstram, Jonas, Jr.,
5 18
Hall, B. Thomas,
66
8 88
Wood, Lewis,
7 40
Brooks, Isaac,
23 68
McCarty, John,
74 74
Potter, Edward,
Braintree
2 96
Hunt, Moses,
66
6 66
Hollis, Josiah,
1 11
Holbrook, Abel,
60
9 25
French, Asa, heirs of,
66
2 59
Hollis, N. D.,
74
Hollis, Caleb,
4 81
Hollis, Joseph,
1 48
White, J. Adoniram,
66
5 18
Hobart, S. Charles,
5 18
Thayer, S. & Co.,
1 48
Hollis Institute, Trustees,
66
2 22
Thayer, Elisha, heirs of,
66
3 70
Robbins, Robert,
66
1 11
French, S. Samuel,
1 48
Peniman, Daniel,
74
French, Adam,
2 22
Hayward, Jonathan,
74
Dyer, Samuel & Asa,
66
74
Dyer, Isaac,
66
74
Hayward, Charles,
66
2 22
Hobart, Elisha, estate of,
2 22
Stetson, Caleb,
66
1 11
Thayer, B. David,
66
37
Denton, James,
66
2 59
Veazie, Lemuel or Samuel,
66
1 48
Veazie, Rachel,
66
74
Arnold, V. Samuel, estate of,
Bates, David,
18
Arnold, S. Stephen,
66
2 22
Crane, Francis,
66
Hayden, D. Samuel,
66
18
White, L. Elliot,
66
Adams, Jedediah, heirs of,
Bridgewater
Adams, Peter, heirs of,
66
Wyman, B. Thomas,
Charlestown
Goodhue, Coleman,
Canton
Morse, Lewis,
66
Morse, Bethuel,
66
2 22
Hunt, George,
66
1 48
Davenport, John, Jr.,
66
1 85
3 70
Farrington, Nathan,
74
Spaulding, Gordon,
29 60
Pratt, Norton,
13 32
5 18
Hayden, Susan, Mrs.,
5 92
1 11
Wintwarth, Abel,
1 85
1 48
Veazie, Lemuel,
1 48
74
Thayer, David,
1 11
5 92
Dyer, Joseph,
66
7 40
White, Austin,
20 72
French, Samuel,
66
3 33
66
White, John,
66
5 18
. 85
99
Names.
P. Estate.
Total Tax.
Blackburn, Winthrop,
Canton
$
$ 74
Gaffrey, Owen,
1 48
Leland, Richard,
Dedham
. 48
Chamberlin, C. Isaac,
1 48
Colburn, William,
59
Gay, Luther,
66
2 96
Dean, Lemuel,
74
Raymond, Roland,
3 70
Smith, John,
74
Eaton, Ebenezer,
Dorchester
. 96
Minot, B. O. John,
66
1 48
Minot, John, estate of,
1 48
Ridgeway, W. A., .
66
2 96
Glover, F. Benjamin,
1 85
E. King and C. P. Tileston,
8 88
Pierce, F. Lewis,
66
22
Wood, A. Charles,
66
15 91
Preston, Edward,
66
2 96
Dacy, Cornelius,
66
17 02
Chamberlin, H. William,
66
5 92
Blanchard, W. Hiram,
66
42 55
Spear, Daniel,
66
74
Gleason, Roswell,
66
92
Thayer, Minot,
2 96
Spear, Charles,
66
1 11
Robison, James,
8 14
Town of Dorchester,
5 92
Smith, S. Increase,
66
1 48
Forster, Warren,
66
1 48
Stephens, Ansel,
66
2 96
Cushman, Arad,
66
5 92
Hardwick, M. James,
66
37 00
Holmes, Bradford, North Easton
1 48
Nichols, G. T., Freetown
1 48
Lincoln, S. Bela, Hingham
7 40
Hollingsworth, Amor,
Milton
20 72
Baker, J. Edmund,
60
22
Tucker, W. David,
66
3 70
Redger, T. O., estate of,
66
28 12
Rodger, T. O. & Co.,
25 90
70 30
Tucker, Jesse,
66
7 40
Cook, Artemas,
66
1 48
Babcock, J., and heirs of E. Pope,
66
2 22
Babcock, Josiah,
66
25 16
Babcock,, J. & S., and J. Emerson,
52 17
Copeland, L. Charles,
4 44
Cook, Samuel,
66
4 44
Copeland, L. C., and J. Babcock, Tucker, Susannah,
66
3 70
Babcock, Samuel,
66
5 18
Babcock, Samuel, and J. Emerson, Johnson, Alfred,
66
2 22
Tucker, Lewis,
74
Tucker, Isaac, heirs of,
1 48
Tucker, James, heirs of,
1 48
Wadsworth, F. F. & J.,
66
2 22
55 13
Tucker, J. & D.,
66
2 22
66
66
L 48
Elmes, Cornelius,
66
92
66
66
100
Names.
P. Estate.
Total Tax.
Tucker, Nathan,
Milton.
Hall, W. George,
66
6 66
Payson, A. George,
5 18
White, Penelope,
15 54
Webster, R. Hannalı,
7 40
Pierce, Charles,
1 48
Beal, Benjamin, heirs of,
66
5 18
Beal Jonathan,
22 20
Churchill, Asa, heirs of,
66
3 33
Churchill, Asa,
66
13 32
Adams, Lemuel, heirs of,
3 70
Bates, Owin,
5 18
Holmes, Samuel,
66
2 22
Field, Ebenezer, estate of,
66
2 22
Babcock, Lemuel,
22
Gannet, R. S.
: 18
Whitney, Mary, Mrs.
66
: 18
Rand, John, heirs of,
66
40
Horace, Thomas, estate of,
13 32
Hutchinson, C. Daniel,
66
10 36
Littlefield, Samuel,
40
Reed, Warren,
66
3 70
Thayer, Jason,
66
62
Baker, F. W.,
66
1 48
Copeland, Isaac, Hunt, Thomas,
66
2 22
Sias, Joseph,
1 48
Hall, James,
2 96
Crossman, Nathan,
1 48
Hunt, Thomas, Widow,
66
2 22
Raymond, George,
66
2 22
Cook, Samuel, and Hunt, J.,
66
5 18
Hunt, H. Charles,
66
5 92
Hunt, A. William and Joseph,
7 40
Simons, Sylvanus,
66
1 48
Farrington, John,
66
3 70
Caswell, T. Betsy, Mrs.,
60
4 44
Breck, Charles,
5 92
Breck, Chas., & Blanchard, W. Hiram,
66
1 48
Breck, Charles and James,
66
2 96
Safford, F. N.,
66
80 66
Adams, Samuel,
66
22 20
Railway, Granite Co.,
44 40
231 62
Twombly, T. and Webb J.,
66
2 22
Farry, Simon,
66
1 11
Thayer, Henry,
66
2 22
Adams, H. Edward,
14 80
Buntin, Jesse,
Randolph
Hunt, Abiel, and Howard, Joshua,
9 62
Hunt, Joshua,
66
6 66
Mann, J. A., 66
2 22
Mann, O. Benjamin,
66
4 44
Hayward, B. Thomas,
66
35 52
Breck, James,
2 96
Forbes, M. John,
Hunt, Josiah, 66
1 48
93 98
Hayward, Abiel,
3 70
18 50
Spear, Joshua,
10 36
66
1 11
66
-
55
101
Names.
P. Estate.
Total Tax.
Mann, Elisha, Jr.,
Randolph.
74
White, Nathan,
66
2 96
Mann, Alvin,
66
2 96
White, Warren,
2 96
Preseott, A. A.,
66
5 18
Beal, C. Moses,
66
2 96
Belcher, Ephraim, heirs of,
66
74
Thayer, Rufus,
66
3 70
Wales, Jonathan,
66
1 48
Wales, John, 2d,
2 22
Porter, Elijah,
66
74
Belcher, Luther,
66
74
Spear, Joshua and Binney L.,
66
1 48
Freneh, Zenas, heirs of,
2 96
Hunt, Elisha, heirs of,
66
1 11
Hunt, John,
66
7 40
Mann, Seth, 2d,
66
23 68
Alden, B. Horatio,
6 66
Jordan, T. John,
66
74
Mann, J., and Mann, S. William,
2 96
Adams, Thomas,
Roxbury
70 67
Adams, Thomas, guardian,
66
47 36
Naham Ward, estate of,
66
13 32
Merrill, J. J.,
66
1 48
Conly, James,
West Roxbury
1 48
Smith, Melanthon, guardian,
66
18 50
Tufts, Cotton, heirs of,
Weymouth
4 44
Loud, Joseph & Co.,
52 54
Washburne, Cyrus,
36 26
Marsh, F. George, estate of,
66
74
Hunt, George,
4 44
Atherton, Samuel, Stoughton
1 85
Norwood, Romulus, Roekport
22 20
Norwood, Romulus, and Torry, Solomon, heirs of, Roekport
9 62
Hayward, John, Scituate
11 10
Baker, Calvin, Pembroke
2 96
Davis, Solomon, Truro
1 48
Mitehell, Joseph, Melrose
1 48
Pray, William,
2 22
Colburn, Joseph, Needham
1 48
Nesbit, John, Northfield, Vt.
2 22
Pratt, R. Jolin, City of New York
8 88
Beal, Horaee, 66
18 50
Hathaway, Benjamin, Plymouth
5 92
Dammon, Benjamin,
1 48
Brown, David, Provincetown
1 48
Skelton, P. C.,
residence not known
1 48
Mathes, Charles,
66
66
7 40
Mathes, Jacob,
66
66
5 92
Gass, Philman,
66
66
26 64
Decount Laparte,
8 88
Preseott, F. B.,
4 44
Maliff, Michael,
5 18
Butler, Levi, or Thayer, F. Gideon, residence not known
14 80
Cahill, William,
residence not known
74
Denton, Augustus,
66
9 62
7
66 66
60 66
66
66
66
38 82
66
102
Names.
P. Estate.
Total Tax.
Pratt, Albert,
residence not known
10 36
Bussell, F. A.,
66
66
[ 11
Spaulding, William,
66
66
1 48
Nash, William,
66
13 32
Rawson, A. Washington,
66
66
74
Coles, Salathiel,
66
66
40
Osborne, T. William,
66
66
1 48
Baily, C. B.,
74
Paulsam, John, Rev.,
66
8 88
Norcross, Josiah,
66
60
37 00
Farnam, M. D.,
66
2 22
DELINQUENT TAX - PAYERS OF 1861.
Arnold, F. Daniel
$ 9 27
Cook, Mrs., heirs of, $2 22
Austin, L. Stimson,
1 50
Clancy, John, 5 94
Allen, William,
1 50
Curtain, John, or by whom owned, 8 88
Alden, Frederick,
1 50
Buckly, Thomas, heirs of, 2 22
Clark, M. Francis, 93
Bass, Josiah, 99 92
Costelle, Wm., or by whom
Burrel, Charles,
3 72
owned, 4 44
Cushing, Hiram, 1 50
Chamberlain, Artemas, 1 50
Badger, L. C.,
28 14
Chamberlain, W. A. George,
3 72
Badger, C. Leon,
34 06
Cuniff, Patrick,
1 50
Burke, James, 8 16
Carrigan, Patrick, 1 50
Brine, O. John,
10 38
Carter, James, 1 50
Balkam, Cyrus,
48 86
Carrol, Michael,
1 50
Boyd, William,
5 94
Colyer, W. George,
1 50
Bradford, James, or by whom owned, 4 44
Davis, C. John,
1 50
Brine, O. Thomas, 3d.
7 42
Dearborn, G. Horatio,
16 30
Blanchard, Rebecca,
13 32
Donnoher, Dennis,
8 16
Brown, E. Edwin,
1 50
Donnoher, Bartholomew,
31
Beathel, John,
1 50
Dinnegan, Daniel, 27 40
Brigham, Alonzo,
1 50
Donnogan, Michael,
6 68
Boyd, Patrick,
1 50
Donnovan, Timothy, 2 61
4 44
Burr, Henry, Jr.,
1 50
Daily, Daniel,
2 24
Curtis, Charles,
28 14
Douglas, Francis,
8 90
Chubbuck, C. Wm.
11 86
Dowd, James,
1 50
Clements, Joel,
11 86
Devine, Dennis,
1 50
Churchill, Thaddeus,
12 60
Donnoher, Dennis,
1 50
Chapin, S. Eliphas,
27 40
Dunworth, Patrick,
1 50
Curran, Felix,
9 64
Dunn, Edward,
1 50
Canan, Mathew,
1 50
Driscoll, Bartholomew,
1 50
Cuniff, Thomas,
5 94
Dawson, Michael,
1 50
Coffee, John,
5 20
Daily, Edward,
1 50
Conglin, Arthur,
14 82
Dyer, William,
1 50
Claxton, Thomas,
2 98
Doland, James,
1 50
Cannally, Eugene,
2 24
Deaton, William,
1 50
Breading, J. Daniel,
6 68
Badger, Ezra,
7 79
Drake, Thomas,
24 44
Bishop, Richard,
74
Driscoll, John,
104
Ela, A. Samuel,
$5 94
Gogan, Patrick, $1 50
Ela, C. F. Elisha,
5 94
Hall, S. William, 2 98
Edwards, James,
2 24
Hardwick, P. William, 1 50
Edwards, R. Samuel,
40 72
Hayden, Jonathan,
5 20
Edwards, R. S. & H. C.
68 82
Hayden, Nathaniel,
9 64
Ewell, A. Jacob, 1 50
Hayden, Charles,
2 24
Elcock, Charles,
1 48
Hayden, L. George,
1 50
Elwell, Alonzo,
6 68
Hunt, Asa,
1 50
Elwell, James,
1 50
Hinckly, William, heirs of 11 10
French, T. Joseph,
14 08
Haly, Patrick,
2 61
Hogan, Cornelius,
2 24
French, Alden, or by whom owned, 5 94
Faxon, Benjamin, Mrs.
4 44
74
Ferren, Joseph, Mrs.
8 14
Howly, A. Ellen,
8 51
Forster, P. Greenleaf,
1 50
Hartney, Michael, 7 42
Fagin, Edward,
8 16
Hartney, John, 1 50
Ford, Daniel,
9 64
Hanson, Joshua,
1 50
Follen, John,
6 68
Harburn. Patrick,
1 50
Foran, Patrick,
2 24
Howe, M. Francis,
1 50
French, Harvey, Jr.,
2 16
Howard, Charles,
1 50
Fenton, Michael,
1 50
Ivers, Michael,
1 50
Farrel, Bartholomew,
1 50
Ivers, Lawrence,
1 50
Flood, James,
1 50
Jones, J. George,
7 60
Foran, James,
1 50
Jones, H. William,
15 56
Forbes, James, 2d,
1 50
Joyce, Edwin,
1 50
Finnegan, Thomas,
5
20
Jones, Nelson,
1 50
Ford, Jeremiah,
1 50
Jenkins, James,
1 50
Falvey, Eugene,
50
Jenkins, Horace,
1 50
Follett, N. Wm.,
1 50
Kelley, James,
6 68
French, Harvey,
1 50
Kimball, G. William,
12 60
Follen, John,
1 50
Kelly, Dennis,
1 50
Field, A. William,
1 50
Kingsly, N. Allen,
8 16
Glover, E. John,
7 42
Kelly, James, 2d,
1 50
Guy, Timothy,
34 80
Kain, John,
1 50
Glover, Polly,
3 70
Kidder, B. George,
1 50
Gallagher, Barnard,
5 94
Lunt, H. Theodore,
8 90
Gibbons, Patrick,
5 20
Lines, Cornelius,
5 20
Gore, Henry,
5 94
Lahy, Michael,
8 16
Gregnon, Thomas,
7 42
Lyons, John,
3 72
Garvin, Patrick,
7 42
Lennon, Thomas,
1 50
Green, A. Charles,
64 38
Lennon, Patrick, 1 50
Gerry, James,
7 42
Lane, Michael,
1 50
Goodhue, Michael,
11 86
Linnahan, Cornelius,
1 50
Glover, M. Erastus,
1 50
Lyons, R. Benjamin,
1 50
Grinny, Jeremiah,
1 50
Lewis, William,
1 50
Gerry, James, 2d,
1 50
Moore, W. E., estate of
14 80
Glennon, William,
1 50
Megan, William,
5 94
Gregg, Robert,
1 50
Morrity, Cornelius,
5 20
Garrity, Michael,
1 50
Mahoney, Daniel, 2d,
4 46
Hernon, Michael, or by whom owned,
105
Morrity, Dennis,
$ 74
Richards, W. Geo., heirs of $ 5 18
Mecarey, Michael,
3 35
Richards, Louisa, Mrs. 22 20
McGowan, Michael,
5 20 Richards, Joseph, 10 38
Richards, M. Luther, 9 64
Marden, Francis, or by whom owned, 2 96
Richards, Augustus E. 11 12
Megan, William, 2d,
3 72
Rideout, Luke, Jr., 1 50
Martin, F. Ephraim,
8 16
Rowell, Benjamin,
5 20
McMahon, Anthony,
4 83
Rowell, Peter, 2 98
McIntyre, G. L.,
1 50
Rice, James,
1 50
Megan, John,
1 50
Roach, G. Henry,
6 68
Newcomb & Chapin, or by whom owned,
11 84
Richardson, B. Lewis,
1 50
Newcomb, W. Paul,
8 90
Rhoades, Simon,
1 50
Newcomb, M. Winslow,
10 38
Rily, D. Charles,
1 50
Newcomb, William,
7 42
Reardon, Daniel, Jr.,
1 50
Newcomb, Benjamin,
10 38
Ring, D. D.,
1 50
Newcomb, Georgianna, Miss 1 44
Ring, John,
1 50
Nightingale. Daniel, 1 50
Reed, James,
1 50
Nightingale, Alpheus,
8 16
Russel, W. George,
1 50
Nightingale, N. Edwin,
2 24
Souther, L. Francis,
7 40
Nightingale, Elihu,
1 50
Smith, Martin,
3 72
Nightingale, Nathaniel,
74
Stiles, William,
11 86
Nightingale, P. Edward,
2 24
Swift, Mark,
7 42
Nutting, Abel,
1 50
Sutherland, George,
8 90
Owen, Owen,
10 38
Shortell, Thomas,
4 46
Owens, Patrick,
1 50
Spear, H. Samuel,
2 24
Owens, Thomas,
1 50
Shea, Jeremiah,
2 98
O'Connor, Dennis,
1 50
Smith, G. Thomas,
1 50
Pope, M. Ozias,
11
12
Sullivan, Timothy,
1 50
Pope, R. Edward,
11 10
Scales, Ebenezer,
1 50
Pope, Edmund,
8 60
Smith, Wellington,
1 50
Pope, A. John,
1 50
Simonds, William,
1 50
Parker, John,
51 82
Stanton, Morris,
1 50
Parker, John, Jr.,
2 24
Shay, William,
1 50
Parker, W. George,
7 42
Smith, Francis,
1 50
Pickernell, William,
5 20
Turner, W. Isaac,
8 16
Turner, Andrew,
1 50
Page, R. Peter,
14 08
Turner, Clarissa, estate of
4 44
Penniman, Stephen,
11 12
Tirrell, Job,
1 50
Perry, L. Leonard,
4 44
Torry, Joshua,
74
Perry, N. Samuel,
8 16
Torry, William, estate of,
44 40
Philbrook, P. David,
83 54
Thomas, H. George,
5 20
Philbrook, G. Moses,
1 50
Tanza, William,
5 94
Pope, E. Charles,
1 50
Tucker, W. Thomas,
11 86
Parrott, John,
1 50
True, Gilbert,
5 94
Pine, John,
1 50
Tilden, W. Thomas,
1 50
Pierce, William,
1 50
Twist, M. C. Thomas,
1 50
Powell, Michael,
1 50 Underwood, C. John, 15 56
Pratt, G. Albert,
1 50 Underwood, Ebenezer, 1 50
Page, John,
12
Robbins, Oliver,
5 20
106
Vinal, Paul, $ 1 50
White, P. Isaiah,
11 86
Wood, W. Jason, 1 50
Whicher, W. Joseph,
1 50
Willard, Solomon, estate of 9 62
Walker, William, 20 90
Wentworth, P. Josiah 8 90
Wyman, George, 1 50
Woodman, A. George, 1 50
Welsh, Michael, 1 50
Robison, James, $ 8 14
Stephens, Ansel, 2 96
Cushman, Arad, 5 92
MILTON.
Hollingsworth, Amor, 20 72
Tucker, Isaac, heirs of 1 48
Beal, Benjamin, heirs of 5 18
Beal, Jonathan,
22 20
Churchill, Asa, 13 32
Baker, F. W., 1 11
RANDOLPH.
White, Nathan, 2 96
Alden, B. Horatio, 6 66
ROXBURY.
Merrill, J. J., 1 48
Crowly, James, 1 48
Smith, Melancthon, guardian of J. Brummet, 18 50
WEYMOUTH.
Hunt, George,
4 44
NEW YORK CITY.
Pratt, John R., 8 88
Maliff, Michael, 5 18
Dyer, Samuel and Asa,
74
Dyer, Joseph,
74
Russell, F. A.,
1 11
Spaulding, William, 1 48
Farnum, N. D., or John East- man, 2 22
Ridgeway, W. A. 2 96
Wood, A. Charles,
15 91
Osmund, T. William, 1 48
Spear, Daniel,
74
Baily, C. B.
74
Spear, Charles,
1 11
Paulsome, John, Rev.
8 88
Total amount of taxes of 1861, unpaid, $ 2,074.20.
NON RESIDENTS.
BOSTON.
Warren, Jonathan,
74
Wright, H. Isaac,
10 36
Fletcher, Sydney, 7 40
Webster, Albert, 74
Hugh Owen,
1 48
Tuckerman, W. George,
37
Wood, Lewis, 7 40
McCarty, John,
74
BRAINTREE.
Potter, Edward, 2 96
Thayer, S. & G., 1 48
Thayer, Elisha, heirs of
7 40
Cahill, William, 74
Gaffney, Owen, 1 48
DORCHESTER.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF QUINCY,
FOR SCHOOL YEAR
1861-2.
BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER, PRINTERS, 4 SPRING LANE. 1862.
REPORT.
In compliance with the law, the School Committee submit the following Report on the schools of Quincy, for the year 1861-2.
We shall make no personal criticism of the teachers. We see no necessity for such criticism ; and we feel that much injustice might be done to them from our own imperfect knowl- edge of their schools. If a teacher is unfit for his place it is the duty of the Committee to remove him ; if his merits over- weigh his faults, the Committee should counsel and advise with him in private. It serves no good purpose to parade, in a public report, the faults and foibles, or alleged faults and foibles, of a teacher ; or give a semi-judicial opinion of con- demnation of his character.
The critic himself cannot always feel sure that he has made due allowance for the thousand and one causes which cooperate to make the school what it is. He may not be fresh in the studies pursued in the school, or the modes and methods of teaching and disciplining the pupils. He may not have seen the school in all its phases. He may have dropped in when the school was in a bad mood, and things were all awry. He may have gone into the school when it was in its best estate. Sometimes school committees have some fond notions of their own-whims, crotchets, puzzles, or conceits-with which they seek to gauge and measure the schools. Then there is the liability to do injustice by speaking of the several teachers personally, from fear, favor or affection, not to mention resent- ment at some real or fancied indignity.
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And thus we are led to consider for a moment that part of the Common School System which President Sears, in one of his reports to the Board of Education, pronounces the weakest -the supervision of the schools.
There are twenty-one schools in this town. The Committee consists of six members. It seldom happens that all the mem- bers are able to attend to their duties. This multiplies the labors of the other members, or else, as is apt to be the case, deprives some of the schools of proper care and attention. Moreover, a thorough and efficient supervision of the schools requires men of peculiar qualifications-peculiar, in being adapted to the work to be done. Foremen on the ledges are not taken from farms or machine shops. Ships are sent to sea not under the charge of landsmen. The fact that a man is a clergyman, physician, or lawyer, is not conclusive evidence of his fitness for the duties of a school committee-man. Very few professional men are disposed to revive and review their earlier studies, and acquaint themselves with modern text- books and modes of teaching and developing the minds of children. It is one thing to have the capacity to understand the answers to questions and to follow the pupils as they work out examples and problems on the blackboard, and quite another to be able to put the questions, to test the accuracy and cer- tainty of the operations of the pupils, to sound the depths of their knowledge, to teach the teacher, to point out defects and faults and suggest improvements, and to raise the tone and character of the school by setting before it, in vivid and impres- sive forms of illustration and speech, a high ideal of what a school should be.
We shall never have, under our present system, a satisfac- tory and effective supervision of the schools. It is asking too much of business and professional men to give to the schools sixty or seventy days in a year-the time which a strict compliance with the law demands of each member of the committee in this town. It is unreasonable to expect it.
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The law provides for the appointment of a superintendent of the schools but under limitations which tend to make it of no effect. In those cities and towns, wherein superintendents of schools have been appointed, the beneficial effects are declared to be manifest and unmistakable.
. The neighboring town of Weymouth, at its last annual meeting, instructed the committee to appoint a superinten- dent of the schools. Gloucester has had such an officer for many years. Boston, New Bedford and other places in the State have each a superintendent, while out of New England, in New York and the Western States, the schools are under the supervision of superintendents and disburdened of the cumbrous and inefficient machinery that school committees are often found to be. We would recommend the town to appoint or cause to be appointed a superintendent of schools. In that event, the school committee would receive no com- pensation for their services, unless the town voted to pay them. It was in the contemplation of the law in such cases, we believe, that committees should receive no pay for their labors.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
We feel that we can perform no higher service for the interests of education among us than by calling attention particularly to the defects and deficiencies of elementary in- struction in our public schools. Committees have frequently expressed their sense of the importance of thoroughness, in the rudiments-in reading and spelling especially, and have . made the subject a leading topic in their reports. Yet the want of thoroughness in teaching the elementary branches continues to be a great defect in our system of education and, although the evil seems to have been checked and somewhat abated, during the last year, still its present magnitude demands serious attention. Many boys and girls leave our schools every
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year, it is feared, who cannot write a letter in a clear, legible hand-writing, and which shall be free from errors in punctua- tion, spelling and grammar.
The elementary branches consist in reading, spelling, writing, grammar and arithmetic. Upon a knowledge of these rudi- ments, learning and scholarship are based, and indirectly and in large measure, character itself. No wise man builds a house upon weak and insecure foundations. Why should children advance to higher studies before laying deep and strong the elements of all learning ?
He who is imperfectly grounded in the elements is an intel- lectual cripple, and must hobble on through life. His intellec- tual gifts may be large, and his natural judgment strong, but what do they profit him, if he cannot give fit and forcible expression to his ideas and opinions by his lips or his pen ? In all higher branches, with what timidity, hesitation, doubts, and perplexities, does he advance, as an army into an enemy's country, fearing every moment the foe whom he has left unsubdued behind him. "Beware of the man of one book." Why ? because he is master of that book. So is it with all knowledge ; accuracy and certainty make men confident of what they know, and positive and decided in their ideas and opinions.
The attention of your Committee was arrested by the imper- fection manifested by many of the candidates for admission into the High School, at the beginning of the school year. The faults were so general that we feel ourselves justified in making this sweeping remark. The spelling was specially bad. There were exceptions. The general imperfection which thus marks and characterizes the scholarship of our schools is not wholly chargeable upon the teachers. "As is the teacher so is the school," is a saying which must be taken with some qualifica- tions and allowances. If teachers had power to compel the pupils to a constant and punctual attendance ; if they could
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claim, and enforce their claim, to properly graded schools ; if they could limit the number of their pupils to forty-the utmost limit permissible, in the opinion of wise and learned men and teachers in this country and Germany ;- if teachers had authority to this extent, we might complain of much of the evil existing in our schools. As things are in some of our schools, we might as well charge the teachers with the personal defects and malformations of their pupils as of their imperfect mental habits and attainments. A perfect teacher in a Pri- mary School of one hundred pupils would fail to make a perfect school.
It will be found a reasonable estimate that, in many of our Primary Schools, the time devoted to each pupil by the teacher is less than five minutes in a day, and even this short time is mainly occupied with recitations simply, keeping close to the text-books, leaving no time for explanations and illustrations, for the teacher is obliged to hurry on to the next. Let us take, for an example, a Primary School of sixty pupils. Let us deduct from the six hours spent in the school-room the time occu- pied in calling the school to order, at the opening of the school morning and afternoon, in the morning exercises of reading the Scriptures and singing, in calling the roll, in general admoni- tions to the whole school, in marshalling the classes, in attend- ing to the multitudinous little wants, wishes and troubles of children, in recesses, in the long drilling devoted to the slow, dull or inconstant ones ; it will be found that one-fourth of the time is thus spent, leaving less than five minutes to a child to be divided into not less than two parts and generally four, for the recitations of the day. If such is the case in a school of sixty, how must it be in a school of seventy, eighty, ninety, or a hundred pupils ? We have had Primary Schools during the last year of a hundred pupils.
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