...therefore ordered by this court, and authority thereof, that every township within this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towns to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to...

...years later, in 1647, by that famous law which ordered, " That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write...

...is conceded to have been of New England origin. Massachusetts enacted a law, as early as 1647, "that every township, after the Lord hath increased them...fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all the children to read and write " ; and when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families,...

...Harvard College was laid as early as the year 1636, and eleven years afterwards it was enacted " that every township after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, ^ball appoint one to teach all children to write and read, and where any town shall increase to the...

...assisting our endeavours, — ' " It -is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint, &c."* Bequests also were left in the early times of the colonies, for " gospel"...

...assisting our endeavours, — " It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint, &c."* Bequests also were left in the early times of the colonies, for " gospel...

...Lord assisting our endeavors: — It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint teachers," etc. What has wrought the great social changes in nations from savage...

...of a system of local schools which is still the glory of America. " Every township," it was enacted, "after the Lord hath increased them to the number...one to teach all children to write and read ; and when any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a grammar school."...

...in the graves of our forefathers," in 1647 it was ordered in all the Puritan 1647. colonies " that every township, after the Lord hath increased them...householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to read and write ; and where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall...

...Lord assisting our endeavors — It is therefore fir-Jtred, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to...