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Connecticut settlers of the "Ten Farms" at Eastchester early 

 set aside a piece of land for school purposes and erected a 

 school-house in 1683. The same site was occupied for school 

 purposes for a period of about two hundred years. The 

 English settlers of Westchester, early established a school. 



The school and schoolmaster there were maintained by the 

 Propagation Society, the latter being assigned from London 

 and paid an allowance by the society. The inhabitants also 

 contributed toward the support of both, and the school- 

 master assisted the rector by instructing his pupils in the 

 Catechism. The first recorded schoolmaster in Westchester 

 was Edward Fitzgerald, in 1709. 



October 30, 1709, the Reverend John Bartow writes: 

 "We want very much a fixed school at Westchester; if Mr. 

 Daniel Clark, my neighbor, now in England, should wait upon 

 you, desirous of that employment, I recommend him as a 

 person worthy of it; being of good report, a constant com- 

 municant, and, being a clergyman's son, has had a pious and 

 learned education." The recommendation was apparently 

 effective, as Mr. Daniel Clark was schoolmaster from 17 10 to 



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In this latter year, according to the reports of the society: 

 " Mr. Charles Glover is appointed schoolmaster at Westchester 

 with a salary of £18 per annum, as he is recommended under 

 the character of a person, sober and diligent, well affected to 

 the Church of England, and competently skilled in reading, 

 writing, arithmetic, psalmody, and the Latin tongue, provided 

 he comply with the Society's rules in sending certificates of 

 the number of his scholars." He held the position until 17 19. 

 The society's abstracts for that year say: "To Mr. William 

 Forster, schoolmaster at Westchester, who has been recom- 

 mended as a person very well qualified to instruct the youth 



