32 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
gone. Little Moll had a large double tooth drawn yesterday. She 
has had a great deal of the tooth ache since we came to Carlisle. 
That the Lord may protect and preserve you all and incline your 
hearts to know and to love him is the prayer of your 
Affectionate father 
SAMUEL Bairp. 
Samuel Baird died on the 27th of that July, aged 
forty-seven. In 1834 young Spencer was sent to a Friends’ 
boarding school five miles from Port Deposit, Maryland, 
kept by a Dr. McGraw. At the end of six months he 
joined his mother, who had removed to Carlisle after 
the death of her husband, and in 1835 attended the Car- 
lisle grammar school, an adjunct, or, as it would now be 
called, a preparatory school, of Dickinson College, of 
which the Rev. Stephen G. Roszel was principal. At 
that time the school contained about seventy pupils. 
As it is certain that conditions which prevailed at 
Carlisle had much to do with the formation of his early 
tastes, some details in regard to the place where young 
Baird and his brothers grew to manhood and were edu- 
cated may properly be recorded here.? 
The town of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsyl- 
vania, was laid out in 1751 by Nicholas Scull, Surveyor 
General, pursuant to orders from Governor James Hamil- 
ton, acting for the Proprietaries of Penn’s purchase. 
It consisted originally of sixteen rectangular plots with 
a central open square situated between Conodoquinet 
Creek on the north and a stream flowing on the east 
from a fine source, called after an Indian interpreter who 
settled there about 1720, Le Tort’s spring. 
2See “Charter and ordinances of the Borough of Carlisle, to 
which are prefixed incidents of the early history of the town,” etc. 
Carlisle, printed at the Herald office, 1841. 8vo., 64 pp., 2 maps. 
