The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

HISTORY OF DORCHESTER. 539
MOSES EVERETT, JR., son of Rev. Moses and
Lucy (Balch) Everett, was born November 25th,
1775; graduated at Harvard College in 1796;
taught school "on the upper road," in the now
Gibson School district; removed to Ohio in or
about the year 1800, and died at Gallipolis, in that
State, November 30th, 1814, aged 39.
Ebenezer, his brother, who graduated at Harvard
College in 1806, taught school in Dorchester, commencing in the autumn of that year. The school
in the second district, where he taught, was at that
time kept for six months, in the cold season, on
the lower road, now Adams Street, and the remainder of the year in the brick school-house, on
Meeting-house Hill.
Rev. Enoch Pratt, Griffin Child, and Hon. Ebenezer Everett, are among the few of the early teachers
who now survive. Mr. Silas Randall, a native of
Stow, Mass., who graduated at Brown University in
1804, was the immediate predecessor of the lastmentioned Mr. Everett in District No. 2. The contemporaries of said Mr. E. were-in District No. 1,
Mr. Nathaniel Clap (H. C. 1805); in Districts 3 and
4, Messrs. Kingsbury and Child. Charles and Thomas Everett, brothers of Moses Everett, Jr., and
Ebenezer, were, it is believed, subsequently, for
short periods, teachers in the brick school-house on
Meeting-house Hill.
LEMUEL CRANE, eldest son of Elijah and Sarah
(Houghton) Crane, was born in Milton, March 18th,
1757, and, with his parents, removed soon after to