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George Savary,* Moses Parker, Esq.,f William Green- 

 ough J and others, promising to pay certain proportions 

 or shares, in the erection of a building for academy 

 purposes. 



The building was raised July 4, 1821, was finished and 

 occupied for a school in November of the same year, con- 

 sisting of about twenty-five scholars, male and female, 

 mostly, but not wholly, of this place. 



Mr. Stephen Morse, a native of the town and gradu- 

 ate at Dartmouth, was the first teacher, with a female 

 department during the two summer terms, first taught a 

 few weeks by Miss Harriet Wood, || but most of the time 

 of those and the two succeeding summer terms of the 

 next year by Miss Mary Frothingham V of Newburyport, 

 afterwards the wife of Rev. William Withington. 



The school was no sooner in operation than application 

 was made to the legislature for an act of incorporation, 

 which was obtained, incorporating Rev. Gardner B. Perry, 

 Dr. Benjamin Parker, William Greenough, Esq., Dr. 



*Capt. GEORGE SAVARY, son of Major Thomas and Polly [Rollins] Savary, was 

 born January 30, 1793, at Bradford [Groveland]. A boot and shoe manufacturer 

 and trader; representative and senator of Massachusetts legislature. Married 

 Louisa, dau. of Benjamin Balch of Salem. Died at Groveland, March 28, 1854. 



t MOSES PARKER (son of Bradstreet and Rebecca [Balch] Parker) was born 

 April 20, 1756. Trader and ingenious mechanic; did much for the academy and 

 town. Died July 9, 1837. 



t WILLIAM GREENOUGH, son of William; a trader and farmer; representative 

 of Massachusetts legislature; born at Bradford [Groveland] Oct. 25, 1763; mar- 

 ried Abigail Parker (sister of Benjamin Parker); died Oct. 7, 1851. 



Rev. STEPHEN MORSE, son of Deacon Thomas and Rebecca [Cole] Morse, was 

 born at Bradford [Groveland], Feb. 24, 1794; graduated at Dartmouth College, 

 1821; at Andover Theological Seminary, one year; married Martha, daughter of 

 Dr. Jona. Kittredge of Salisbury; settled in the ministry at Merrimac and Troy, 

 N. H., Biddeford, Me, and at Post Mills, Vt. In 1847, on account of ill health, re- 

 tired to Thetford, Vt., where he died May 22, 1855. 



II HARRIET WOOD, daughter of Abner Wood of Newburyport. 



IT MARY FROTHINGIIAM of Newburyport; a successful teacher; married Rev. 

 William Withington,"an Episcopal minister of Dorchester; died young. 



