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ox wagon,
$20 00
1 horse,
100 00
1 hay wagon, 60 00
1 horse,
150 00
1 roller, . 10 00
1 hog,.
45 00
1 drag,
3 00
4 pigs,
112 00
1 harness,
3 00
7 pigs,
37 50
1 harness,
20 00
2 horse carts,
50 00
2 cart harness, . blanket and halter, 6 00
2 ox carts,
35 50
ox sled,
6 00
1 robe,
5 00
ox wagon, .
50 00
3 ox yokes, . 12 00
1 sleigh,
10 00
4 manure forks, 6 00
-
14
2
May
9,
David Binney, ·
57
38
-
August 5,
William Ryan,
36
10 .
-
19
4
6,
Leroy Tirrell,
23
52
52
1,
Robert Davis,
62
52
-
Angeline Rosey,
13
-
52
Betsey Overy,
82
52
Elizabeth Tirrell,
45
52
1,
Different persons,
25 00
-
36
6 hoes, $3 00
bench vice, $3 00
ox chains,
5 00 churn, . 6 00
iron bars, . 7 00
baskets and lantern, 3 00
3 axes,
. 4 bu. beans,
12 00
meal, 12 00
300 lbs. pork, 66 00
4 ploughs, 30 00
1 horse hoe, . 5 00
1 horse rake, 7 00
135 bu. potatoes,
135 00
38 lbs. tea, 49 40
40 lbs. butter, 22 00
carpenter's tools, 10 00
33 lbs. coffee, 3 96
cheese and soap, 3 80
beef, 37 50
fish, 7 20
molasses, . 40 00
1 hay-chopper, . 3 00
sugar and rice, . 1 94
1 winnowing machine, 10 00
1 corn-sheller, . 7 00
crackers, 1 50
beetle and wedges, 3 00
hard soap, 4 80
wood-saws and horse, 3 00
bush hooks and spade, 4 50
6 hay forks, 5 00
corn, . 16 00
scythes and snaths, 3 00
steps and puller, 3 50
2 stone-hammers, . / 16 00
mowing machine, 100 00
grass seed, .
10 00
covered wagon, ; 40 00
2 scrapers, 15 00
2 drag rakes, 2 00
6 rakes,
3 00
7 tons English hay, 245 00
10 hens, . 7 50
2} tons salt hay, . 45 00
turnips and cabbage, 3 00
salt . 2 00
tripe,
4 50
35 cord wood, .
155 00
flour,
3 00
3 tons hard coal,
45 00
mackerel, . 10 00
manure,
200 00
ice chest, . 6 00
$2,514 30
force pump,
9 00
SAMUEL CURTIS, LEMUEL TORREY, JAMES TIRRELL,
Overseers of the Poor of Weymouth.
7 shovels,
6 00
hay poles, 1 00
bacon, . 32 20
30 lbs. lard, . 7 50
2 sleds, 5 00
2 harrows, 9 00
1 grindstone, 7 00
1 wheelbarrow, 2 00
1 seed-sower, 7 00
3 ladders, 3 00
beets and carrots, 3 00
1 Bucklin harrow, . stone tools, 10 00
10 00
2 picks, . 3 00
2} tons fresh hay, . 25 00
40 hay caps,. 25 00
3 00
MARRIAGES
Registered in the Town of Weymouth for the year 1864, where one or both parties were residents of Weymouth.
1864.
Jan. 7. Moses G. Rogers, of Vermont, and Susan Loud, of Weymouth.
10. Joseph Lemer, of Weymouthı, and Bridget McGratlı, of Weymouth.
10. Asa T. French, of Weymouth, and Jane E. Reed, of Weymouth.
12. Joseph H. Bass, of Weymouth, and Rachel A. Bowls, of Wey- mouth.
14. I. D. Howe Pettes, of Weymouth, and Emily M. Howe, of Wey- mouth.
20. Edward E. Pool, of Weymouth, and Jane L. Fogg, of Weymouth.
25. James Trainer, of Weymouth, and Adalaide Phillips, of Quincy.
30. Daniel Griffin, of Weymouth, and Mary Cleary, of Weymouth.
Feb. 7. Joseph H. Reamy, of Weymouth, and Mary J. Curley, of Wey- mouth.
8. Joseph Mathews, of Weymouth, and Josephine Goutier, of Wey- mouth.
11. Israel A. Dailey, of Weymouth, and Julia F. Whitcomb, of Wey- mouth.
14. James Fitzgerald, of Weymouth, and Margaret Kenny, of Wey- mouth.
21. Philip Fraher, of Weymouth, and Julia Collins, of Weymouth.
24. Henry Willey, of New Bedford, and Mary F. Cowing, of Wey- mouthı.
March 4. Laroy S. Smithi, of Edgartown, and Eliza Redman, of Weymouthlı. 18. William McDevitt, of Weymouth, and Margaret Devine, of Ab- ington.
April
3. Orin Pool, of Weymouth, and Lydia A. Sinclair, of Weymouth.
6. David Dunbar, of Weymouth, and Frances C. Osgood, of Wey- mouth.
10. Theodore A. Barrett, of Weymouth, and Mary Davis, of Wey- mouth.
17. Thomas Ryan, of Weymouth, and Mary A. Hanley, of Weymouth.
26. Henry B. Makepeace, of Weymouth, and Marietta Waters, of Weymouth.
4. Eliphalet H. Belcher, of Weymouth, and Sarah W. Estes, of Weymouth.
10. Edwin L. Joyce, of Quincy, and Selenda P. Peterson, of Wey- mouth.
13. William W. Hayden, of Weymouth, and Deborah R. Spear, of Weymouth.
14. George O. Miller, of Weymouth, and Emma Redman, of Wey- mouth.
May
38
May 17. Luther P. Hatch, of Weymouth, and Lizzie W. Clark, of Wey- mouth.
28. Patrick Hart, of Weymouth, and Catherine Longergan, of Wey- mouth.
-
June
7. Isaac Porter, of Braintree, and Adaline Hunt, of Weymouthi.
4. Moses L. Tillson, of Bridgewater, and Nancy A. Thayer, of Wey- mouth.
5. Charles H. Hunnebell, of Abington, and Lydia M. Richards, of Weymouth.
5. John Loring, of Weymouth, and Mary A. Hersey, of Weymouth.
8. Daniel H. Blanchard, of Abington, and Ann R. Weston, of Wey- mouth.
18. Charles C. Davis, of Weymouth, and Celia W. May, of Wey- moutlı.
25. Peter T. Hersey, of Weymouth, and Carrie A. Pottle, of Wey- mouth.
30. Martin V. B. Joy, of Weymouth, and Lydia F. Rogers, of Ply- mouth.
July
21. William Stoddard, of Weymouth, and Maria A. Penney, of Maine.
10. Robert Lonergan, of Weymouth, and Margaret Leary, of Wey- mouth.
24. John Nelligan, of Weymouth, and Catherine Moore, of Wey- mouth.
Aug. 30. George H. Shaw, of Weymouth, and Mira E. Fisk, of Holliston. 4. Reuben Loud, Jr., of Weymouth, and Mary G. Rogers, of Ver- mont.
7. James M. Rogers, of Weymouth, and Elsie L. Rideout, of Wey- mouth.
12. Daniel B. Mckenzie, of Weymouth, and Mary E. Cushing, of Weymouth.
19. Joseph Larmey, of Weymouth, and Sarah F. Mitchell, of Wey- mouth.
27. Charles J. McMarrow, of Weymouth, and Mary L. McGrath, of Weymouth.
Sept. 12. Philip Mathews, of Weymouth, and Mary Plant, of Weymouth. .
25. James Ryan, of Weymouth, and Catherine Molorny, of Wey- mouth.
1. . Alfred L. Bates, of Weymouth, and Catherine E. Stowell, of Hingham.
10. Charles H. Thompson, of Wareham, and Eliza E. Blanchard, of Weymouth.
, 14. Frederic W. Ingraham, of Braintree, and Rosa A. Bates, of Wey- moutlı.
17. George W. Spear, of Weymouth, and Mary E. Pratt, of Wey- moutlı.
22. George W. Cleverly, of Weymouth, and Abby L. Stowell, of Weymouth.
29. Napoleon Tellier, of Weymouth, and Ann E. Torrey, of Wey- mouth.
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Sept. 25. Mark W. Dunbar, of Weymouth, and Ann M. Marrow, of Wey- moutlı.
11. John Coyle, of Weymouthi, and Winifred Doyle, of Weymouth.
Oct. 23. James F. Burke, of Weymouth, and Mary Flynn, of Weymouth.
30. John McCarthy, of Weymouth, and Elizabeth McGuire, of Wey- mouth.
5. Gilman B. Loud, of Weymouth, and Lydia M. Shaw, of Wey- mouth.
13. Jeremiah Barrett, of Weymouth, and Mary Kearsey, of East Bridgewater.
2. Andrew Swears, of Weymouth, and Katie L. Pike, of Weymouth. 5. Willliam W. Sampson, of Weymouth, and Loretta A. Loud, of Weymouth.
11. George B. Cushing of Weymouth, and Hannah C. Urquahart, of Weymouth.
25. Josiah Reed, of Weymouth, and Mary J. Ainsworth, of Worces- ter.
29. Henry A. Stoddard, of Weymouth, and Mary McAllister, of Wey- moutlı.
Nov. 23. Charles Hawes, of Weymouth, and Mary E. Barker, of Wey- mouth.
30. David Richards, of Weymouth, and Viva C. Hanson, of Wey- mouth.
30. Augustus E. Tirrell, of Weymouth, and Fannie L. Crafts, of Bos- ton.
30. Parker E. Lane, of Weymouth, and Emma F. Tirrell, of Wey- mouth.
5. E. Frank Beals, of Weymouth, and Emily C. Torrey, of Wey- mouth.
16. J. Warren Hardwick, of Weymouth, and Margaret W. M. White, of Weymouth.
3. Jason L. Randall, of Weymouth, and Addie A. Corthell, of Brain- tree.
2. Frederic Coolidge, of Weymouth, and Rachel P. Coolidge, of Quincy.
8. William A. Clarke, of Upton, and Eliza A. Binney, of Weymouth.
8. J. Emmons Derby, of Weymouth, and Ella J. Torrey, of Wey- mouth.
25. Andrew J. Simpson, of Boston, and Lavina M. Joy, of Wey- mouth.
24. Job T. Ferris, of Lowell, and Eliza Cully, of Weymouth.
A true copy of the original record of the above items.
FRANCIS AMBLER, Town Clerk.
Dec.
40
BIRTHS IN 1864. 3
Whole number of births registered in Weymouth,
239
Number of births where both parents were natives of United States,
129
Number of births where fathers were natives of United States and mothers foreign, 6
Number of births where mothers were natives of United States and fathers foreign, 8
96
Number of births where both parents were foreign, .
.
239
Number of births where both parents were natives of Weymouth, Excess of births over deaths, 60 .
23
Attest :
FRANCIS AMBLER, Town Clerk.
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DEATHS
Registered in the Town of Weymouth, for the Year 1864.
AGE.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
Jan. 3,
Marcia A. Harrington . Edward Dowd .
14
9
Lung Fever & Cons'n, Not given,
Marshfield. Weymouth.
9, 14, 14,
C.of Thos&AnnCornell, Samuel Hawes, Joseph Loud, Tilley Willis, ·
86
24
Old Age, .
18,
19, 20,
Mary J. Greenough, C. of A F&M M Trufant Rev. Henry Mayo, . James Dowd, . Charles Gaulis, Nancy S. Torrey,
61
17
Tuberc's consumption,
1
Not given,
1
51
6
Consumption,
N. Hampshire.
24,
5, 7, Child of N. & E. Leduc, Samuel L. French, . Child of T. & E.Counell, Child of W.W. & J. W., Stoddard (twin,)
32
11
21 1
-
31,
27,
Feb. 2,
Nellie V. Thayer, Steplien E. A McGill, Lydia M. Bates, .
1
17
6
Consumption,
3, 5, 7,
Deborah T. Loud, Louisa L. Clark, . Dorothy Rand,
69
-
17
Cholera Infantum, Consumption,
Vermont. Weymouth.
9. 9. 13, 16, 17,
Aurelius L. Tirrell, William Goodman, . Lilian M. Cushing, John Tirrell,
B 1
4 69
12
71
12
1
-
1
1
8,
1
1
13,
53
52
.
100
5
15
1
65
10
Consumption,
N.Bridgewater.
2
10
Scarletina,
Weymouthı.
41
2
21
Consumption,
Boston.
87
10
25
Old Age, .
Weymouth.
13, 15,
Deborah L. Enos,
1 67
7 9
13 10
Pleurisy,
Cohasset. Weymouth.
16, 23,
Caleb Joy, .
70
3
10 Paralysis,
Orleans.
27,
19
6
2
10 1
Croup, Lung Fever, -
4
Dropsy,
Rhode Island. Weymouth. England.
17, 6. 24.
Eddie L. Henderson,
4
33
9
24 12
Consumption, Killed in Battle,
East Boston. Weymouth.
27,
James G. Raymond,
18
5
34
1
27
22
22
Hanson. Middleboro'.
1 Convulsions,
Weymouth.
Killed in Battle,
Maine.
-
14
Unknown, .
Weymouth.
9,
79 30
25
Pneumónia,
Not given, "
5
Membraneous Croup, Not given, Chronic Bronchitis, 1 Congestion of Brain, Canker,
"
21, 7, 29, Mar. 2,
Clarissa Parrott, C. of Emily M.Phillips, Arthur L. Kennison, Daniel Donahoe, . Margaret Hanley, Pamelia G. Sutton, Isaac L. Blanchard,
Boston. Weymouth.
14, 3,
8,
10,
April 2, 3, 10,
28, 6. 14, 29, May
Anna M. Hunt, Stephen E. Tirrell, Jesse Dyer, . Child of P. & C. Burke, Fidelia W. Wing, Emily L. Carter, . Thomas Sidaway, Jared Tirrell, Susan Loud, Sarah M. King, David Pratt,
46 10 8 60 43
6
4
5
1
Unknown,
Weymouth,
21,
-
25,
26
9
Erysipelas & Infi. St'lı Consumption,
"
John McGreavey,
1
Unknown,
25.
David B. Burrell,
28.
John McCarthy, Dennis McAuliff, Josialı Thompson. Jr.,
Lyman T. Holmes, Bridget McGreavy, Jasonf L. Deshon, Owen P. Munroe,
26
1.070
- Not given, Killed in Battle, " -
Ireland.
30,
8, 18, 6, May June 2,
.
40
15
Not given,
Brookfield. Newburyport. Weymouth. Eastham.
17
Croup,
Weymouth.
Weymouth.
10,
5 6713351134 1811 7 3 1 3 5 8 4
-
4,
1
90
3
Old Age, .
Apoplexy,
66
21, 1, 1,
Lung Fever,
-
2
Stoppage,
"
8 Not given,
Paralysis,
1282521211567193481 2 5 1 2 2 1 5 5 7 9 3 4 8
13 28 3
Whooping Cough, Diptheria,
Consumption,
Weymouthı. =
56
11 70
20
Meningitis, Brain Fever,
10, 13,
183 3 8
44
22
Not given,
Polly Brown,
73
5 7
Ella F. Torrey, Jacob A. Dyer, C. of JM & MT Dunbar, Vista R. Clapp, Ann F. Noyes, Samuel T. Cushing, Ebenezer Nash, . Mary J. Coyle,
17 29
Disease of Head,
Consumption, .
Salome Thayer,
79
29
-
17 Typhoid Fever,
5*
42
AGE.
Date of Deatlı.
Name of Deceased.
:
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Disease or Cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
June S, 14, 20, 9,
William Ryan, Samuel C. Taylor, Jonathan Trufant,
4
26
9 17
81
3
6
S
3
Consumption,
12,
Susannah Hunt,
73 22
5
5
Not given,
26,
Julia M. Tirrell,
15,
C. of W. & J. M. Tirrell, Charles E. Cushing,
21
7
27
Dysentery,
11, 1.
Elizabeth W. Stoddard, Bridget Ryan, Jason Smith,
22 28
11
29
1
55
1
7
9
20
Accidental,
1
Consumption;
3
Not given,
14, · 24, 27, 28, 27,
C. of T. W. & E.A.Pray, Charley W. Pease, Mary E. Coffee,
7
1
8
Dysentery,
11 Whooping Cough, Teething, 1
1
10 10
-
6
1
32
1
19,
Edward E. Loud,
1
-
30,
John Q. Hunt,
23 1
5
2
7
11
2
1
17
Not given,
1
4
1
1
1
Not given,
5
7
Dysentery,
"
9
Dysentery,
14,
Edith C. Burrell, Jennie S. Lovell, . Silas Wesson,
S5
3
27
Paralysis,
15, 16, 20,
Charles W. Johnson, Mary Cloutman,
38 1
7
52
11
1
37
4
- 21
Cholera,
24,
Henry P. Mathew, Sarali E. I. Tuck, Nellie A. Stoddard, Louisa Pratt, Bridget Quillon, .
7
7
17
13,
15,
Hanorah Murray, William Ryan, .
/ CT
6
1,
Eugene C. White, Child of W. & E. Walsh
4
27
22,
Sept.12,
13,
Margaret Totman, Ruth W. Lincoln,
18
6
52 2
1 1
3 23
Consumption, . Peritonitis,
25,
Julia A. Smith, John Lynch,
17
-
22
2
Not given, Consumption,
Weymouth. Ireland.
25,
Joshua C. Day,
11
27,
May Bell Pratt,
4
55
11
4 Infl. of Bowels,
Weymouth.
27,
Mary K. Gould;
13,
Sarah H. Loud,
11
26,
Cornelius Shea, Henry W. Jackson,
-
24,
Ellis V. Lyon, .
21
1
25,
Harriet D. Morse,
20
6
5
Oct. 5,
Luther A. Read, .
-
9
14
Cholera Infantum, Infl. of Bowels, Consumption, Indigestion, teething,
Ireland. Weymonth. Bridgewater.
Weymouthı. 66
-
Scarletina,
25,
6
Diptheria,
-
Killed in Battle, "
Boston. Quincy.
Jul
9. 10,
William O. Sargent, Charles F. Paine, .. 37
Weymouth. Randolph. Weymouth.
Hingham. Weymouth.
66 West Scituate. Abington. Weymouth:
12, 11, 11. 13, 13,
Clara P. Thayer, Bridget Quillon,
2
Canker,
15
Convulsions,
(Parents Unknown,) Pneumonia,
22, 23, 23,
Horace L. White, Mary Hollis, Jonathan C. Martin, Deborah B. Sprague, Betsey French,
61 69 28 S
1
7 26
Acute Dysentery, Not given, Cholera Infantum,
4
Not given, Cholera Infantum,
4
10
3
Spine Complaint, Infl. of Bowels,
20,
Ernest L. Shores, . William A. Holbrook, Mary Bates, .
20 85
11 1
4
Consumption, . Typhoid Fever, Old Age, .
Typhoid Fever,
17,
18, Merton E. Pratt
39
S
10 Consumption,
Brighton. Ireland. Quincy.
19,
1
24 Diptheria, Cholera Infantum, 20
Braintree.
6, 7,
Anna Vining, Herbert W. Stowell,
G 6
12 12 Marasmus,
Weymouth.
21 Consumption,
100 3
10 24
Dysentery, .
Hingham.
1 1 49 32
3
5
- 11 12
Cholera Infantum, Cancer and Infl. Lungs, Typhoid Fever,
24,
Newbury. Pembroke. Weymouth.
26. 26. 11, 15,
Michael F. Leahey,
7 5
6
10,
Catherine E. Boyle, George E. Cushing. Arthur C. Stoddard, Frank C. Linnell, Abby J. Hawes,
4
27 8
Dropsy on Brain, Killed in Battle, Cholera Infantum, Dysentery, .
66
-
Typhoid Fever,
66
Ang. 1,
3, 3,
Adeline W. Raymond, Abigail Bates, .
1
1
1
2
16 Consumption,
21,
3
6
17
Dropsy on Brain,
11
Spine Complaint, Wounds rec'd in Battle, Heart Disease,
Weymouth. Taunton. Weymouth.
Braintree. Scituate. Weymouth.
16, Edwin L. Joyce, 22, William L. Burrell, William Tirrell,
Not given,
Disease of Heart, Canker,
31, Sarah J.Stoddard (twin) 31, Sarah J. Rice,
Cholera Infantum, Dysentery,
Grafton. New York. Weymouthı.
11
8.
26; 29, Edward W. Hardwick, 19, James Trainer, Jr., . Bernard Doherty,
10 Very suddenly, Dropsy,
30 5
Weymouth.
4
Susie E. Wise,
43
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AGE.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Disease or cause of Death.
Place of Birth.
Oct.
6.
Edward W. Clapp, .
8
25
Cholera Infantum,
7,
Laura E. Badger.
2
4
9
Diptheria,
15,
Mary J. Bates,
25
11
5
Consumption,
16,
Matilda M. Torrey,
0
16
Typhoid Fever,
2,
Henry W. Pratt, .
17
4
21
Consumption,
Susan French,
63
9
5
Complication of Dis.,
16,
Eliza S. Livingston,
39
1
9
21
Dysentery,
25,
Mary J. Damon,
53
1
13
Consumption,
11,
C. of O. and S. L. Bates (twin),
Not given,
66
21,
Ira W. Bragg
31
6
Yellow Fever,
N. Hampshire. Weymouth.
Nov. 2,
8,
Mary Smith,
62
5
62
1
19
Apoplexy,
7,
Katie J. Rice,
21
9
3
Peritonitis,
Hingham.
8,
Christina E. Rockwood, C. of H. & M. Kennison,
14
3
S
Consumption,
Hanson.
29,
Rebecca E. Pratt,
2
10
12
Diptheria,
29,
C. of E. V. & L. A. Ray- mond,
1
29
Whooping Cough,
66
30,
Jane A. Thompson,
46
5
17 Dropsy,
Dec.
25,
Johanna Sheehan,
33
-
1
Consumption,
Infl. of Lungs,
Weymouth. 6
10, 16,
Nancy Bicknell,
83
19 Heart Disease,
Hingham.
12,
Eliza Leduc,
27
1
1
Infl. of Bowels,
Ireland.
20,
Eliza A. Callehan,
4
4
20
Membraneous Croup,
25,
Thankful S. Dowse,
73
24,
Albert W. Spear, .
4
2
Diptheria,'
31,
Aurelia R. Cushing, .
15
11
12 Consumption,
20,
C. J. C. & M. E. Gordon,
Mary E. Gordon, .
23
1
20
Congestion of Brain, Typhoid Fever,
Maine. Weymouth.
Eliza A. Loud,
32
1
Burnt to Death,
Abington.
*
Elliot Tombs,
26
1
1
Consumption, .
W. Boylston.
6
Consumption,
14,
Stella Bartlett,
C. of Wm. & S. M. Loud, Carrie A. Pratt,
19
10
9 Heart Disease,
Not given,
17,
1
Not given,
Weymouth.
2,
Phebe Lidaway,
Charles S. Dejordy,
1
11
5
Lung Fever,
16,
William R. Lovell,
40
Consumption,
Weymouth. 66
Keene, N. H. Weymouth.
28, 4,
Charles Pratt, .
72
1
28
* Date of Death not returned.
- A true copy of the original record of Deaths.
FRANCIS AMBLER Town Clerk.
I
9.
1
66
7, James Dyer,
George W. White,
2
26 Pneumonia,
Weymouth. Ireland.
1
3
1 00
1
1
Weymouth. Vermont. Weymouth. 66
66
66
44
ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT.
DISTRICT.
Polls.
Personal estate.
Real estate.
Child'n.
District No. 1, .
.211
$110,468
$207,786
158
2, .
104
59,105
167,514
58
3,
449
161,544
382,464
344
4, .
208
96,470
182,729
124
5,
200
112,355
163,869
139
6, .
163
44,260
111,649
124
7, .
169
74,510
187,801
149
8, .
178
134,825
237,431
141
9, .
318
143,630
291,019
289
10, .
118
58,675
115,164
94
11, .
88
5,035
49,249
87
Total,
·
2,200
$1,000,877.
$2,096,675
1,707
Total valuation, .
. $3,097,552 00
Total tax for year 1864,
$51,013 28
Rate per cent. on $1,000,
$15 00
Total number dwelling houses, .
1,380
Total number horses,
520
Total number cows,
·
429
Total number sheep, .
105
Total number acres land,
9,567
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REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
THE School Committee of the Town of Weymouth respect- fully submit the following Report :
APPROPRIATION, AND MANNER OF EXPENDITURE.
The sum appropriated by the town for the support of Schools was $9,700, one thousand of the sum being a special appropriation for the support of a High School, to be kept at the Town-House; the whole to be expended under the direc- tion of the Committee. Your Committee found, upon consulta- tion, that the interests of the town and its various localities required the establishing of thirty-one schools, beside the High School; viz., seven Grammar, one. Mixed, ten Intermediate, thirteen Primaries. We also adopted the following tariff of wages : for male Grammar teachers (if those competent could not be obtained for less), $500 per year ; for female Grammar, and Mixed, $6 per week; for Intermediate, $5} per week; for Primary, $5 per week. The length of high, grammar, and mixed schools, to be forty weeks. Intermediate, and primaries, thirty-eight weeks; thereby adopting the democratic doctrine, that each scholar of the same grade in town, should have the same length of school, and a teacher of the same value (in a
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pecuniary sense, at least). This tariff of wages was considered as low as it could be made, and command even respectable talent for teachers. Upon comparing the result of the above with the appropriation, we found that it would be impossible to establish six grammar schools, to be taught by male teachers, as the year previous, and keep within your appro- priation ; consequently we located a grammar school with male teacher at the north part of the town, one at the south, one at the Landing, and an extra school at the east. Subse- quently, upon action of the town, a male teacher was substituted for the female, at East Weymouth. We found it necessary, in order to retain our very efficient teacher of the High School, to advance his compensation. Some of the teachers have been in the market for better pay ; and have left, to the great injury of schools. We have expended your appropriation with that economy and faithfulness which we believe the great cause of education demands ; and, although the incidental expenses have greatly advanced during the year, the expense incurred has not exceeded much, if any, the sum appropriated.
SUPERINTENDENT.
In accordance with the vote of the town, we employed a Superintendent of Schools, at a salary of $500. Rev. D. F. Goddard, Superintendent of the previous year, was engaged. After entering upon his work with his accustomed enthusiasm, and getting the schools into running order, he resigned. Feel- ing it obligatory upon us to carry out the vote of the town, and that under the circumstances the schools were like sheep with- out a shepherd, we made all due haste to fill the vacancy, and Rev. Calvin Terry was chosen to the position. Your Committee believe, that the true ideal of a Superintendent is a live man, with good judgment, common-sense, and of sufficient attainments to examine critically any of our teachers and schools, and who is willing with an undivided interest to devote his whole time, when they are in session, to the interests
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of the schools. With such a Superintendent, we believe the interests of the schools would be promoted, and, in a large town like this, money well spent. The market value of the services of a Superintendent of this description, we believe, is much more than the sum authorized to be paid. The Superin- tendent has the sole charge of the schools, subject to the direction of the Committee as a whole; and his duties, if properly attended to, must be very arduous. We have thirty- two schools; the teachers are to be examined by him in connection with the Committee ; also all applicants for admis- sion to the High School. Lectures once a month to the High School. Monthly report to the Committee, and a visit as often as once a month to each school, which would make some three hundred and twenty regular visits, beside a great many special, which would be necessary. You will see at a glance that these duties, if faithfully performed, would absorb all of the Superintendent's time. The efficiency of very many of our teachers, and the consequent welfare of the schools, depend very much upon the Superintendent.' If a teacher who has had no previous experience, goes into a school, and is allowed unadvisedly to experiment away the first month of the term, much valuable time may be lost to the school, and many practices may obtain that will run. on through the term, to its great injury. Now this teacher may possess all the requisites for success, and yet, for the want of a few words of timely
advice and counsel at the starting-point, may make a failure
with the school; and the same may be the case with even experienced teachers. Then, again, a teacher may pass a bril- liant theoretical examination, and yet upon going into a school may prove to be entirely destitute of the practical qualifica- tions necessary, if the Superintendent is so anxious to pay tribute to the "hand that feeds" as to allow it to drown out all his moral courage,-or, in other words, if he is destitute of that Yankee product, sometimes denominated "pluck,"- so that he glosses over manifestly incompetent teachers, the schools
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must suffer on, possibly through the year. Your Committee do not offer this in any sense as a criticism upon our past Super- intendents, of whom the duties enumerated have not been rigidly required, for obvious reasons; but simply to direct your attention to the importance of the subject, so that if you deem it expedient to employ a Superintendent, his compensa- tion may be such as will command a suitable person, of whom your Committee may exact the full performance of his duties. We would recommend to the town the employment of a Super- intendent, the compensation to be fixed by the Committee.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
After your Committee had located the grammar schools for the year, and given permission for scholars in two or three contiguous districts to attend the same school, the town voted to re-establish the district lines. We thought that, as the schools were then in progress, and many parents presented remonstrants against the exclusion of these children from the schools, that to then exclude them would materially injure the schools. We have therefore allowed this arrangement to remain in full force through the year; but, in the future, unless some arrangement is made by the town, it will be the duty of your Committee to see, that a scholar resident in a particular district receives only the school privileges existing in that district, - of course, excepting the High School. We feel that this is a matter of much importance, and should receive the careful consideration of the town.
It appears to us that there should be at least four grammar schools, taught by male or first-class female teachers, located in the four principal centres of population in town, and of such a grade as to afford a good practical education for all those who may not wish to attend the High School. The old system of mixed schools has, to use an expression of common parlance, "played out," in towns of the size of ours. No business man could remain solvent any great length of time,
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and conduct his business upon any such principle. By estab- lishing these grammar schools, we can have a system that approximates to a thoroughly graded system.
TRUANCY.
There is one great evil connected with our schools; and that is, the large ratio of absentees. We believe that this is not in very many cases traceable to the parents, or to circumstances of necessity, but to the truancy of the child; and in this con- nection we would recommend the passing, by the town, to carry into effect an Act passed by the Legislature, February 14, 1862, By-laws something like the following, which have been adopted in many towns with good results : -
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