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namely, all the inhabitants above Samuel Orcutt's in 

 Beechwood street," and those "of Rocky Nook, at 

 Straits Pond, and the Nicholses excepting Jaazaniah 

 Nichols and Jeremiah Mansfield," "may draw their pro- 

 portion of the money granted by the Town of Hingham 

 towards the building a school-house — provided they use 

 the same in building a school-house or school-houses." 



The people on King Street were voted the "liberty to 

 join with the two arms abovesaid if they see cause so 

 to so." 



There is no further evidence that either of these 

 "arms" attempted to erect a building with their small 

 shares, 



Samuel Holbrook, the first-named schoolmaster of the 

 precinct, was employed for two seasons ; and then, in 1737, 

 a Mr. Dommings assumed the ferule. 



The next young man to teach in our community was a 

 Cohasset boy, who was born, probably, at the famous Lin- 

 coln homestead, in the south end of the precinct, during 

 the year 171 7 — the very year the precinct was born — 

 and who became afterwards so influential in gaining town 

 rights that we have called him the father of the town. 

 Deacon Isaac Lincoln, when about twenty years of age, 

 had the courage to assume control over the boys of his 

 own community ; and it may be that this school experience 

 gave him some prestige in the community which enabled 

 him in later years to secure for his fellow citizens the 

 charter of the town. 



A few years later than Isaac Lincoln's teaching days 

 a son of Deacon Lazarus Beal kept school during the 

 summer of 1748, from May i to August 25, at a salary 

 of ;^5 per month. A summer school was considerably 

 easier to keep than a winter one, for the big boys were 

 off on the fishing schooners or busy upon the farms, so 

 that only the smaller boys and the girls had to be cared for. 



But the summer school was an evidence of a larefer 



