 ... to take account from time to time of all parents and masters and of their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of this...  Historical Collections - Page 192by John Warner Barber - 1841 - 632 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Children's periodicals - 1842 - 404 pages
...Seven men ' (Selectmen) are to see that children, neglected by their parents, are employed, learnt to read and ' understand the principles of religion...country,' and if necessary, be bound out to service. 1664. As an inhabitant of Ipswich, living at a distance, absented himself with his wife from public... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 pages
...children, " The Selectmen of the town were directed, to see that children neglected by their parents, are learned to read and understand the principles of religion, and the capital laws of this country, and are engaged in some proper employment." The first Public School opened in Essex, then Chebacco Parish,... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 684 pages
...their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion* and the capital laws of the country." Selectmen were further empowered, "with consent of any Court or the Magistrate, to put... | |
 | Myron Oliver Allen - Wenham (Mass.) - 1860 - 224 pages
...their children, concerning the calling and the implement of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country." They were also required to see that the young were brought up to some trade or useful... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1861 - 682 pages
...their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion* and the capital laws of the country." Selectmen were further empowered, "with consent of any Court or the Magistrate, to put... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1865 - 680 pages
...their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion* and the capital laws of the country." Selectmen were further empowered, "with consent of any Court or the Magistrate, to put... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1897 - 1436 pages
...towns should sec to it that all parents and masters of children should see that they should be able to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country, on pain of fine to the disobedient and even the removal of children from their own families.... | |
 | Robert Crowell, David Choate - Essex (Mass. : Town) - 1868 - 502 pages
...children, the Selectmen of the town were directed, "To see that children neglected by their parents are learned to read, and understand the principles of...religion, and the capital laws of this country, and are engaged in some proper employment." The same year the town voted that there should be a free school.... | |
 | George Barrell Emerson - Digital images - 1869 - 48 pages
...their children, concerning the calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion, and the capital laws of this country, and to impose fines upon such as shall refuse to render such accounts to them when they shall be required... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1869 - 522 pages
...their children, concerning the calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion, and the capital laws of this country, and to impose fines upon such as shall refuse to render such accounts to them when they shall be required... | |
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