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

HISTORY OF DORCHESTER. 459
house, and afterwards in the school-house in winter,
the building having been made more comfortable
by the filling in, before mentioned. Mr. Crane also
kept an evening school, to teach the apprentices and
other boys in the fundamental branches of reading,
writing and arithmetic. In the year 1796, " Ebenezer Trescott and others were allowed one hundred
dollars." The sums before this date, were six, nine,
fifteen, and twenty pounds per annum. Miss Polly
Crane, of Milton, kept the school in the summer of
1797; Dr. Gould, of Dedham, in the winter of 1797
and 98. They were followed by Messrs. Nathaniel
Heaton, Peck, Rev. William Montague, Perley
Lyon and Griffin Child. The latter kept the school
of 1803 and 1804, being the last teacher who taught
in the old school-house. His salary was " thirteen
dollars a month and board for the six winter months.
The district paid two dollars a week for his board.
Miss Martha Sumner kept the school in the summer of 1803." Mr. Griffin Child continued to teach
the school in the Winters of 1804-05 and 1805-06.
He afterwards taught the school at the Lower Mills.
Miss. Susan McIntosh and Miss Clarissa Sumner
taught in the summers of 1805 and'6. Mr. Win.
Fox, of Woodstock, Conn., taught the school about
three years; Mr. Waldo Fox one year, until the
spring of 1810. The town gave the district, in the
years 1804,'5 and'6, the sum of $226 39; in 1807,
$300. The latter sum was allowed each year, until
about the year 1816, when another school-house
having been built at the " Upper Mills" district, an
annual school was established and kept in each