New London County CT Archives History .....School Teachers In Early Colchester 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ct/ctfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Barbara W. Brown buwbrown@comcast.net August 20, 2008, 12:40 pm

Colchester Town Treasurer's Records:
   Dec. 25, 1713: James Newton, Jr. credit for keeping school 4 months & 4 days 
in ye year 1712/3.....L00/06/08
   1723: Ensign Ephraim Wells credit to money paid to Samuel Wells for his wife 
keeping school.....L2
   Dec. 24, 1717: To Nathaniel Loomis, Jr. for money payd by Thomas Loomis, 
collector, for your service in keeping school the year 1716
   1723: Lt. John Skinner, credit to keeping school two months the winter past 
at 50 pence? per month.....L5
   May 10, 1719: Then agreed or bargained with Mr. John Lin to keep school nine 
months from this day forward and if the abovesaid Lin do faithfully perform the 
duty of a schoolmaster in teaching the scholars that shall come to school 
in "reding and riting and sifring and gramar" then we promise and engage to pay 
to the abovesaid John Lin twenty-six pounds in current money of this Colony.  
As witness our hands (signed) Joseph Chamberlain, John Skinner
   May 12, 1720: Received then of Ebenezer Dibble the sum of ten pounds five 
and six pence which is in full of the scholar's rate which appears by a receipt 
from Mr. Lin, schoolmaster (Note: Dibble was tax collector)
   Sept. 8, 1724: Than rec'd in full of what is due to me for keeping school in 
Colchester it being thirty pounds (signed) Nathaniel Loomis, Jr.
   Memorandum: That Nathaniel Loomis, schoolmaster, entered upon his word of 
keeping school June 20, 1720: being agreed with to keep school for one whole 
year from the date aforesaid, for the consideration of 33 pounds.  Pr James 
Newton, Joseph Wright (Selectmen)
   Mar. 21, 1722: Kept school this year - Nathaniel Foote, Nathaniel Gilbert, 
James Newton, Nathaniel Loomis, Jr.
   1722: Ruth, wife of Samuel Wells, to keeping school 10 weeks @40s
   1724: Mrs. Hannah Coleman, to keeping school 16 weeks and a halfe @ 7s 6d 
week
   1722: Ens. Nathaniel Foote kept school 4 months & 2 wks @ 50s per month
   1724: Ens. Nathaniel Foote kept school 6 weeks @ 50s per month 


Additional Comments:
These records are located at the Colchester Town Clerk's Office

File at -- http://files.usgwarchives.net/ct/newlondn/history/other/schoolte125gms.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ctfiles/

File size: 2.6 Kb