...heth increased y™ to y* number of 60 household", shall then forthwlh appoint one w^in their towne to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and reade ; . . . and it is furthr ordered, y' where any towne shall increase to y" numb' of 100 families...

...Scriptures," provided for formal public schooling. "It is therefore ordered," the General Court agreed, "that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord...such children as shall resort to him to write and read."55 Not every town obeyed the order but since each ordinarily employed a learned clergyman, formal...

...meaning of the original might be clouded by false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers it is ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the lord...teach all such children as shall resort to him to read and write and require also that where any town shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof...

...endeavors. — It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty householders,...children as shall resort to him to write and read. (Smith, 1986, 13) First, we must understand that by this law education was considered to be reading,...

...mandated that all townships with fifty or more households "forthwith appoint one within their towne to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and reade, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants...

...and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, — It is therefore ordered, that every towneship in this Jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of 50 housholders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towne to teach all such children as shall...

...of y Scriptures, . . . evy towneship in this jurisdiction . . . shall appoint one within their towne to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read" (252). While legislative language is not always a reliable guide to the factors that led to passage...

...in the grave of the fathers, therefore the General Court provides by law that every township in the jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall maintain a school, and that every town with a hundred families shall set up a grammar school, the master...

...State, ed. Albert Bushnell Hart (New York, 1927), 1:351. 14. The act ordered "that every towneship in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of 50 householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their towne to teach all such children as...

...the law also moved quickly to counter Satan. The next sentence read, "It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord...such children as shall resort to him to write and read."2 Five years earlier the colony's legislature passed another law also requiring that every parent...