90 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



Ware, & other Goods ; suitable for the situation, and purchased, all 

 of which will be sold at prime cost — Two or three hundred pound of 

 the purchase may be credited two or three years, if the purchaser 

 should wish. For furthur particulars, apply to the Subscriber, now 

 trading on the Premises. David Moors. Groton, April lo, 1798. 



" Independent Chronicle : and the Universal Advertiser " (Boston), Monday, 

 April 16, 1798, page 4. 



SCHOOLMASTER. 



To the honourable his Majesties Justices of the Court of General 

 Sessions of the Peace To be holden at Charlestown within &' for y. 

 County of Middlesex on the Second Tuesday of March 17 17/18 



Whereas we the Subscribers Selectmen of Groton have been In- 

 formed that y^ Town of Groton hath been Presented by y': Grand 

 Jury for want of a School Master which was to have been answered 

 y*: Last Court but the Presentment afores"* being variously Construed 

 it was at Length ordered that y': Selectmen of Groton Should be ap- 

 prized thereof & Certify this Court how many famiUes there is in 

 our Town Now these are to Certify & Informe Your honours that 

 There is not one hundred families which are Ratable or able To Con- 

 tribute anything to y" Publick & we presume the Grand Jury Niver 

 Intended a Grammar Schoole by said Presentment. And Ever Since 

 Said Court in December Last we have been Provided with a Schoole 

 Master To Teach Children To read & Wright as the Law in this Case 

 provides & Directs. Which Premises being Considered we hope 

 Groton Will be Discharged from Said Presentment. We have also 

 appointed M! John Ames to present this to your honours To whom 

 you may Give Credit 



from yo' honours Humble Serv" 



Simon Stone "^ c / .» ^ 



\ Selectmen of 



JohnSheple \ ^^^^^^^_ 



Jonathan BoidenJ 

 Richard Warner 

 Joseph Lakin 



[Indorsed] Groton Selectmen 

 Rep'sentation abt 

 a School 



Considered 

 & Done 



