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between those dates ; and in these several entries he is given 

 the title of Doctor. The last date found in the records, when 

 any payment was made, is August 13, and perhaps about this 

 time he left town. On February 3, 1745 [-6] there was paid 

 to " William Lawrence for his keeping the Grammar School 

 the term of six months in said town in old tennor 60-0.0," — 

 which extract from the treasurer's book bears out the suppo- 

 sition that Dr. Richardson's service as teacher ended in the 

 summer of 1745. He was teaching the Grammar School at 

 Woburn during the years 1747 to 1749. No trace of him is 

 found among the files of papers at the Middlesex Probate 

 Office in East Cambridge. 



BENJAMIN SHATTUCK. 



Dr. Benjamin Shattuck was the second son of Stephen 

 and Elizabeth (Robbins) Shattuck, and was born at Littleton, 

 on November 22, 1742. He graduated at Harvard College 

 in the Class of 1765, and studied medicine under the 

 instruction of Dr. Oliver Prescott. After learning his pro- 

 fession, he settled at Templeton, on the special invitation 

 of the inhabitants of that town, where he had a large 

 practice. 



On April 12, 1772, Dr. Shattuck married Lucy, only daugh- 

 ter of Jonathan and Rachel (Howard) Barron, who outlived 

 her husband. The widow married, secondly, on July 7, 1796, 

 the Reverend Asaph Rice, of Westminster. She was born at 

 Chelmsford, on December 19, 1753, and died at Templeton, 

 on April 5, 1821. 



Dr. Shattuck's wife was a half-sister of the late Dr. Amos 

 Bancroft, of Groton. Their mother for her first husband 

 married Jonathan Barron, who was killed at the Battle of 

 Lake George, on September 8, 1755; and they had three 

 children, Jonathan, Lucy, and Benjamin. She married as 

 his second wife, Captain Edmund Bancroft, of Pepperell, the 

 father of Dr. Bancroft; and this kinship accounts for the 



