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MARY (MINOT) AINSWORTH.
Alberty pe: Forbes Co., Boston.
REV. LABAN AINSWORTH.
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Voted unanimously to Concur with the Church and Give Mr. Laban Ainsworth a Call to the work of the Gospel Minis- try in this town.
Chose John Gilmore, Joseph Bates, Eleaz' Spofford Moses Worcester and Abel Parker, Comee to Draw up articles con- cerning the encouragement the town will give Mr. Ainsworth to settle with us in the Ministry and report.
Report.
We the aforsaid Comee think the first minister should have the North end of the two Sentre Lots, also the mountain Lot, (No. 3, Range 2,) and in money thirty Pounds and to quit- claim his right to Lots disposed of belonging to the first minis- ter.
Voted, that the Comee report be given to Mr Laban Ains- worth for an incoragement to settle with us in the ministry.
Voted to give Mr Ainsworth as a Salary seventy Pounds while he supplies the Desk in this town.
In September, the town
Voted to grant Mr Ainsworth liberty annually to visit his Friends twice each year of two Sabbaths at each time, if he ac- cept the call of the town.
Voted to alter the sentence in a former vote, to as long as he is the Gospel minister of sª town ; instead of while he supplies the Desk in sd town.
In November, 1782, the town
Voted that the Ordination of Mr Ainsworth be the second Wednesday in December next.
Chose Mr. E. Spofford Lieut. Emery and Mr John Gilmore a comee to Provide for the Council on sd day.
Chose Samuel Parce, Capt. Spaulding, Nathan Hall, Lt. Buss and Samuel Emery, to take care of the meeting house on sd day.
Result of the Ordaining Council 1782, Dec. 10.
Newhampshire Jeffry Dec. 10th 1782
At an Ecclesiastical Council being convened by letters mis- sive from the Chh of Christ in the town aforsaid to assistance in setting apart for the work of the gospel ministry, Mr Laban Ainsworth, their pastor elect, were present the following chh's. represented, The Chh. of Christ in New Ipswich, Fitzwilliam, Dublin, Keene, Woodstock (Con ) Ashford (Con.) and Tem- ple.
I Made choice of Rev. Mr. Farrar, Moderator of sd Concil.
2 Noah Miles Scribe-having called upon God for direction- proceeded.
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I Examined a copy of the procedings of the Concil in forming the Chh.
2 The call and offers made to Mr. L. Ainsworth for his en- couragement by the Chh. and freeholders of sd Town
3 His answer to their call. In the affirmative.
4 His Confession of Faith.
5 He presented himself for examination to answer such ques- tions as might be proposed to him. He exhibited several pieces of his sermons.
6 Opportunity given for objections.
7 Adjourned till Wednesday ye. IIth at 9 o'clock.
8 Wednesday ye. Irth. Having met according to adjournment.
I Mr Ainsworth received as a member of the Chh in conse- quence of a letter of recommendation from the Chh. of Christ in Woodstock.
2 Unanimously agreed to proceed to ordination.
The Parts.
The introductory prayer to be performed by Noah Miles : the sermon to be delivered by Revd Mr Farrar : the ordaining prayer by Revd Mr Hall : the charge by Revd Mr. Brigham : the right hand by the Revd Mr. Judson : the concluding prayer by the Revd Mr. Sprague.
Copied from an attested copy, signed, Noah Miles, Scribe.
Mr. Ainsworth continued in service for a period of nearly fifty years. In 1831 Rev. Giles Lyman was ordained as a colleague, and preached in town till 1837, when, on account of ill-health, he asked and received his dismission. He re- moved to New York; afterwards preached in Ashburnham and Gardner, and in 1841 removed to Marlborough and preached there twenty-eight years ; then left on account of ill-health, and removed to Winchendon, where he died No- vember 16, 1872, aged 70 years. Mr. Lyman was born in Belchertown, Mass., March 16, 1802 ; graduated at Am- herst 1827, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1830. He married, Dec. 14, 1835, Louisa Whitney, of Winchen- don.
Josiah D. Crosby was settled in 1838, and dismissed in 1850.
Leonard Tenney, settled 1845, dismissed 1857.
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BAPTIST SOCIETY.
John S. Batchelder, settled 1858, dismissed 1865. Rufus Case settled 1868, removed 1875.
DEACONS.
Daniel Emery, Eleazer Spofford, William Smiley,
Jesse Maynard, David Gilmore, Abel Spaulding.
Richard Spaulding, Gurley A. Phelps,
In 1850 a second Orthodox Congregational Society was formed and a church incorporated the same year, and a meeting-house built at East Jaffrey.
MINISTERS.
Feb. 28, 1851, Rev. J. E. B. Jewett preached, and was or- dained Sept. 26, same year ; dismissed July 13, 1852.
George A. Adams, F. D. Austin, Silas W. Allen.
D. N. Goodrich,
William H. Dowden,
DEACONS.
Liberty Mower,
Isaac S. Russell.
BAPTIST SOCIETY.
The Baptist Society in Jaffrey was formed in April, 1820, and in 1829, April 6, the following notice was published in the Keene Sentinel, viz. :
We Benjamin Prescott, Alpheas Crosby, Paul Hunt, and others, have formed ourselves into a Religious Society, by the name of the First Baptist Church and Society in Jaffrey, and are hereby known by that name.
Joseph Joslin, Clerk.
The church was formed in 1814, May 28. Previous to this time the Baptists of Jaffrey, Rindge, New Ipswich, Temple, and Sharon belonged to a church of that order in Temple, which church voted, May 3, 1814, to divide and form two churches, one in New Ipswich and one in Jaffrey. The Baptists of the towns of New Ipswich, Temple, and
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as many as chose in Sharon, became members of the church in New Ipswich ; and the Baptists of Jaffrey, Rindge, and such as chose in Sharon, became members of the church in Jaffrey. The members of the church in Jaffrey were as follows :
Benjamin Prescott,
Alpheas Crosby,
Elizabeth Newell,
Abel Parker, Isaac Kimball, Hannah Davis,
Moses Hale, Joel Adams,
Sally Stevens.
Joseph Joslin,
Rachel Prescott,
Thomas French,
Sybil Hale,
On the 28th of May, 1814, the above members met at the house of Joseph Joslin, and organized by choosing Benj. Prescott moderator, and Joseph Joslin clerk. It was then voted to hire preaching every third Sabbath during the year ; to give ordained ministers $3 per day; Benj. Prescott and Thomas French to be a committee to procure preach- ing, and Abel Parker, treasurer. Fifty dollars was voted to be raised for that year, and that the church should hold its meetings in the school-house in District No. I. March 12, 1818, the church voted to employ Elder Parkhurst once in two months the ensuing year. April 14, 1825, it voted to have Brother Cummings two Sabbaths every two months. On Feb. 13, 1826, it was decided to have preaching twelve Sabbaths in the year; in March, 1827, two Sabbaths in that year ; and in March, 1830, it was decided to have preaching regularly, and a minister settled over them, and Calvin Greenleaf was installed pastor June 25, 1831.
The number of members of the Baptist church at the formation, 1814, was 13; in 1851, 165; in 1866, 113; in 1870, 91.
DEACONS.
Benjamin Prescott,
William E. Goodenow, Levi Pollard,
Joseph Joslin,
Oren Prescott, Joseph Joslin, Jr.
John Sanderson,
David Chadwick,
Josiah Mower,
Oliver Prescott,
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MEETING-HOUSE.
PASTORS.
John Parkhurst, 1818.
Elder Cummings, 1825.
Calvin Greenleaf, 1831-1835.
Appleton Belknap, 1835-1846.
A. E. Reynolds, 1866-1869.
E. J. Emery, 1869-1871 ; settled in Swanzey.
J. S. Haradon, 1873; d. Aug. 4.
E. H. Bailey, 1846-1861 ; d. Jan. 1875.
4, 1868. Leonard J. Dean, 1875 ; a graduate
Franklin Merriam, 1862-1865. of Newton Theological Seminary.
Preachers licensed by the Baptist church of Jaffrey :
Isaac Kimball, John Nutting,
William Dutton.
Wm. C. Richards, Joseph Pollard,
MEETING-HOUSE.
The meetings of the Baptist church and society were held as voted, in the school-house in District No. 1, till 1822. After the passage of the toleration act by the legislature in 1819, the Baptists were no longer taxed for the support of the minister settled by the town, but had the privilege of using the same for the support of the one of their choice. The use of the meeting-house for public preaching was, in 1822, also divided by the town among the different denom- inations of Christians according to the valuation of their property. From this time the Baptists occupied the house their proportion as assigned till 1830.
On the 5th of February, 1829, the church voted to build a meeting-house near the house of Mr. Melville, and chose Benj. Prescott, Joseph Joslin, and David Chadwick a com- mittee for that purpose. The house was raised on the 25th and 26th of June, 1829. The house was completed and ready for use June 12, 1830. June 30, 1830, the house was dedicated. The dedication sermon was preached by Elder Fisher, of West Boylston, Mass. In 1873 the house was repaired, with the addition of a vestry, and such other im- provements as were deemed necessary.
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LEGACIES.
John Conant, $ 1,000. Dea. John Sanderson, $900. Samuel Ryan, $1,000.
UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY.
The First Universalist Society, Jaffrey, N. H., was organ- ized Nov. 16, 1822. Capt. John Stone was chosen modera- tor ; Caleb Searle, clerk ; John Cutter, treasurer ; Mr. John Cutter and Col. Oliver Prescott, committee. Notice of the organization was published in the New Hampshire Sentinel, printed at Keene.
PASTORS.
Delphus Skinner, 1824.
Warren Skinner, 1826.
C. C. Clark, 1854, 1855. N. R.Wright and Andrew O. War-
J. D. Williamson, 1830. ren, 1855, 1856.
Robert Bartlet, 1833-1835 or 1836. E. W. Coffin, 1857-1867.
J. V. Wilson, 1835-1838. J. P. McCleur, 1869,
Stillman Clark, 1839-1851. W. J. Crosby, 1870, 1871.
S. W. Squires, 1852, 1853. James H. Little, 1875.
A church was formed in 1858, and numbers at this time (1878) 48 members. A Sunday-school, organized in 1845, numbers 60 members. They have also a ladies' circle, for benevolent purposes.
MEETING-HOUSE.
The present meeting-house was built in 1844, and a bell placed in the belfry in 1860, and one of superior tone in 1870.
CHAPTER VIII.
EDUCATION-PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
T HE system of free schools was early adopted in Massa- chusetts, and by it introduced into New Hampshire during her jurisdiction. New Hampshire, on becoming a state, adopted her laws for their support. In the grant of the town of Jaffrey the Masonian Proprietors made provi- sion for the support of a free school by a gift of three hun- dred acres of land. In 1775, two years after the incorpora- tion of the town, eight pounds was raised for a school, to be divided into five parts. In December of that year the town
voted to sell one of the school lots, and to use the interest on the proceeds of the sale for the support of a school. In 1777 the town voted to pay the interest of £100 for two years for the use of a school ; in 1778, £12; in 1779, £200 (depreciated currency) ; in 1781, £1000; in 1783, £50 ; in 1785, £50; in 1786, £30 ; in 1787, £40 ; in 1788, £40; in 1789, £50; in 1790, £40; in 1791, £60; in 1792, £65 ; in 1793, £80 ; in 1794, £80; in 1795, $200 Federal money ; afterwards the town raised what the law required.
After the vote of the town in 1775 to divide the money into five parts, no other division appears to have been made till 1778, when it was voted to divide the town into eight districts ; in 1779, into ten districts. In 1786 it was again voted to divide the town into eight districts. In 1791 the town voted that the school-districts remain as they were at
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first. No further alteration was made in the number of districts till 1795, when a district was taken from No. 7, and numbered II. These districts were without metes and bounds till 1828, when a committee was chosen to effect the same.
The districts were numbered as they now are, beginning with the south-east district, which was numbered I. There were five districts on the south line of the town, three from the west through the centre, and three on the north line of the town,-eleven in all.
School-houses were almost unknown to the first settlers. Their schools were taught in private houses ;- in district No. 3, in the house of James Stevens ; in No. 5, in the house of Phineas Spaulding ; in No. 10, in the house of Alpheus Crosby. No attempt on the part of the town was made to build school-houses till 1788. The town then voted that each school-district should build a school-house within eighteen months ; and in case of neglect on the part of any district the selectmen were authorized to build at the ex- pense of the district. The number built by this vote is not recorded : probably not many, if any : it was easier to vote than to build. In 1791 the town voted £135, to be laid out in building school-houses, and chose a committee for that purpose ; but this committee was no more successful under this vote than the selectmen were under the other. But little was done by the town in building school-houses, but to vote and reconsider, till 1795, when the town voted that the selectmen assess the money to complete and finish the ten school-houses in town as soon as the committee ascertain the sum, and also the uncollected balance of the £135 formerly voted to build school-houses. In October of the same year the town voted that the selectmen be directed " to assess one half of the sum each undertaker is to have for building and finishing the school-house this year, and the other half next year." In 1796 the town voted to build a school-house in district No. 11, which cost $116.16.
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SCHOOL-HOUSES.
The job of building and finishing the ten school-houses was sold at public vendue for the sum of eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighteen cents. From the building committee's report, it seems that the cost of each house was about one hundred dollars, and if took from 1788 to 1797, a period of nine years, to build and finish them. They were small, rude affairs, about twenty feet square, with three small windows of fifteen lights each, of seven by nine glass. The seats extended across one side of the house, with a narrow alley between them, and a table for the teacher's desk, and warmed by an open fire-place. In the middle district the house was a little larger, with more seats and larger windows. The houses were built of the best material, as lumber was very abundant, but the workmanship was coarse and rough. The houses were built by the side of the road, with no play-ground but the road itself.
In some of the districts the location of the school-house was not easily made, as no road run through the centre, and consequently the house could not be built there : hence a controversy arose in relation to the location. To settle such matters of disagreement, the town appointed a committee of three,-Roger Gilmore, Adonijah Howe, and Samuel Buss,-for the purpose of locating houses. The committee made some locations, but none were satisfactory, and the houses in districts Nos. 6, 9, and I I were settled by a vote of the town. In the centre district the location was made by a special committee chosen by the town. The location made was very near the south-west corner of the burying- ground. It was afterwards changed for one near the resi- dence of J. D. Gibbs. The old academy building was after- wards taken for a school-house. In district No. 9 the school-house was built in several locations, but none were satisfactory, which ultimately led to a division into two districts, now numbered 9 and 13.
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SCHOOL-TEACHERS.
Of the early teachers but little is known. Some of the early settlers had been engaged in the business of school- teaching previous to their settlement in town ;- in District No. 5, Phineas Spaulding; in No. 9, Abel Parker; and others probably in other districts. The earliest record of money paid teachers was in 1790 :
Gave Reuben Briant two orders for keeping school in the North East District, and Asa Bullard eight orders for keeping school.
In 1793 we find the following receipts, given that year :
March 1, 1793. Received Seven Pounds four shillings in full for teaching school three months in the center District Pr me
Luke Lincoln
March 4, 1793. Then recd of the Selectmen of Jaffrey three pounds in full for boarding school Master twelve weeks. Pr me
Jacob Danforth
March 4, 1793. Then recd of the Selectmen of Jaffrey three pounds twelve shillings in full for my son Amos Parker keep- ing school six weeks. Pr. me. Samuel Parker.
Rufus Houghton was a teacher in districts Nos. 3 and 10 for many years. Samuel Litch was the most distinguished among the early teachers. He taught the school in his own district nineteen years, many years in the centre district, and in many other districts. His pupils not only feared but loved him, and always remembered his services with grati- tude.
In the second generation were many distinguished teach- ers, who made it a business of teaching school in the winter for many years. Among them appear the names of Asa Parker, Edward Spaulding, and Thomas Adams.
The distinguished female teachers were Sally Stevens, who taught fourteen summers in her own district; Hitty Brooks, who married Samuel Pierce ; Maria Blanchard ; and Sarah Robbins, who has taught forty terms of school.
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SCHOOL-BOOKS.
SCHOOL-BOOKS.
Samuel Litch, the most distinguished of the early school- teachers in Jaffrey, in lecturing on that subject at a public meeting, said that the first books in use by our public schools were the New England Primer, Psalter, and the New Testament. For the more advanced scholars the Bible was used. In 1720 the Youth's Instructor was introduced, a book of 144 pages, divided into three parts: Part I, Reading and Spelling; II, Letters and Punctuation ; III, Arithmetic.
The first arithmetics were those of Bonnycastle and Emerson ; also one called the Young Man's Companion.
At a later period Dilworth's, Percy's, and Webster's spelling-books, Scott's Lessons, American Preceptor, Under- standing Reader, Columbian Orator, Pike's and Adams's arithmetics, Alexander's and Murray's grammars, Morse's and Cummings's geographies.
The selectmen, previous to 1738, were ex officio the man- agers of the public schools. They received the money raised, and hired the school-teacher, subject to the vote of the town. In 1782 the town voted not to hire a master by the year. In 1786 the town voted that the selectmen pro- vide school-masters for the districts. In 1788 the town vot- ed to hire a master for one year. In 1792 the town voted to hire four school-masters for five months and one for six months the present year, to keep school three months in the middle district and two months in each of the other dis- tricts. In 1788 the town voted to divide the money among . the districts according to poll and estate. In 1795 the town voted that the money be equally divided. In 1796 the money was divided among the school-districts according to the sums each district pays. This method continued in practice till 1828, when the selectmen were authorized to make the division of school-money. In 1798, at the annual town-meeting, agents, one in each district, were chosen by the town to receive the money and expend the same for
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schooling, hire the teachers, and manage the affairs of the districts. In 1828 the metes and bounds of the districts were fixed, and each district became a body politic, and chose its own agents. Previous to 1808 their agents were subject to the supervision of the selectmen, agreeable to the vote of the town, passed May 28, 1801.
Voted, That the several Agents or Superintendents of the several School-houses in the town for the time being be at all times amenable to the Selectmen for all the money or orders they may receive for the purpose of schooling, and if the same be not laid out for the purpose of schooling according to law the Selectmen are hereby directed to call such money out of the de- linquents agents hand and to cause the same to be duly laid out for the benefit of the inhabitants for which it was originally de- signed, and in any case any of the Agents or Superintendents aforsaid shall not do their duty faithfully, the Selectmen for the time being, on complaint made to them, are hereby authorized on considering all the circumstances, to abrogate any particular act or acts, of such Agents or Superintendents.
The selectmen were by this vote ex officio superintending school committee. To this committee the Rev. Mr. Ains- worth was added, at the annual town-meeting in 1807. In 1809 a committee was chosen,-Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Samuel Dakin, Jonathan Fox, and Joseph Joslin,-who have the honor of being the first superintending school commit- tee. They were known at this time as inspectors of schools. Their first report was in 1820. The committee chosen that year were Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Samuel Litch, and Luke Howe. The law requiring a superintending school commit- tee was passed in 1808.
The first report of the school committee on record was made in 1820.
SCHOOL REPORT, 1820.
To the town of Jaffrey, their committee appointed to inspect their schools respectfully report.
That we have visited generally the schools near the opening and close of each school, except those, of which we had no information at their commencement or ending.
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SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
That Students in Geography have excelled and those in Arithmetic and Grammar have gone behind those who have studied the same sciences in former schools.
In the art of reading and writing, we have observed many grades from many laudible specimens to those in which very little progress was discernable.
From the great diversity of Books used in Schools Teachers are put to great inconvenience ; they are compelled to make as many Classes as there are different authors brought to school or require the parents to purchase new books. To remedy this evil, a convention of teachers did unanimously recommend Scott's Lessons, Columbian Orator, and American Preceptor, with Cummings Geography and Atlass.
While we have generally been gratified in observing com- mendable zeal and exertion in the Teachers for the benefit of their pupils, We have nevertheless thought it important that agents should cautiously avoid employing those of an oposite character.
In visiting the schools, we could not avoid seeing, that intentional injury had been done to School-houses. We have seen where a house has not suffered by the injuries of time, yet have been rendered cold and uncomfortable by ill-intended violence.
All of which is submitted by,
Laban Ainsworth, Samuel Litch, Luke Howe.
Voted to accept the above report.
SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Laban Ainsworth, till 1820.
Thomas Adams, 1816-17.
George W. Adams, 1854-6. Frank D. Austin, 1860-1-2. E. K. Bailey, 1847-9-50-2-3-4-5-6- 7-9. Frederick W. Bailey, 1866-7-8.
Appleton Belknap, 1838-9-40-5. Rufus Case, 1869-70. David C. Chamberlin, 1855.
E. W. Coffin, 1859-60-1-2-3-4-5. J. D. Crosby. 1838-39-40.
Stillman Clarke, 1839-40-1-2-5-6-7- 9-50. Benjamin Cutter, 1835-6.
Samuel Dakin, 1809-11-13.
Enville J. Emery, 1872.
Jonathan Fox, 1809.
John Fox, 1830.
John S. Batchelder, 1859-60-61-2-3. D. N. Goodrich, 1873.
Calvin Greenleaf, 1831-2.
Luke Howe, 1819, '20-25.
J. S. Haradon, 1874.
J. E. B. Jewell, 1851-2. Joseph Joslin, 1809.
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F. Kendall, 1855.
Samuel Litch, 1813-15-17-19-20-6- '41-2-5-6.
Giles Lyman, 1832-37.
Parker Maynard, 1825.
Franklin Merriam, 1864.
Asa Parker, 1835-6.
C. J. Parker, 1835-6.
Samuel Patrick, 1826-7.
Clarence E. Parks, 1871.
G. A. Phelps, 1858,
Oliver Prescott, 1827. Edward Spaulding, 1821-5-6-7,
David Spaulding. 1831-5-6, '41-2.
S. W. Squire, 1853.
Leonard Tenny, 1846-7-9, '50-1-2- 3-4-6-7. George A. Underwood, 1855. J. V. Wilson, 1837-8.
PRIVATE SCHOOL.
In 1795 an attempt was made to establish a private school, and a bond given, signed by Rev. Laban Ainsworth, Eleazer Spofford, Roger Gilmore, Joseph Cutter, Adonijah Howe, Benj. Cutter, Samuel Adams, William Pope, and Joseph Thorndike for that purpose. Each individual was to pay ten pounds L. M. ($33.33) towards erecting a suitable house, and the town, at the annual meeting, March 3, 1795, voted to give them a lease of a location west of the meeting- house. No house appears to have been built, but a school was opened under the instruction of Joseph Dillon, which after a short time closed.
ACADEMY.
March 12, 1805, annual town-meeting.
Art. 20. To see if the town will take any shares in the Acad- emy to be built in this town or give any land on which to build a house.
The town voted to give David Page, Jr., and others who are or may become Proprietors thereof, a piece of land southerly of Mr. Ainsworth's, not exceeding one acre and a quarter, and chose a committee of three to stake out the same and give a lease to the proprietors for a term not ex- ceeding 999 years, on condition that the proprietors will outlay and set up a school, and continue the same five years in seven. Chose Roger Gilmore, Abel Parker, and Benja- min Prescott, committee.
SCHOOL HOUSE, EAST JAFFREY. ERECTED 1853, BY DISTRICT NO.2.
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MELVILLE ACADEMY.
A school was taught by Josiah Forsaith, from 1807 to 1809, inclusive. He then went to Newport, N. H., and the school closed and the land was not leased.
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