A Report of Trustees for Nunda School
District No 2, 1828
In 1828 Henry Jones, a local
cabinetmaker who had, along with Judge Carroll, laid out the streets
of the growing settlement, recorded the official "Report
of the Trustees for 1828."
The report provides an interesting
look at early public education in Nunda. School No 2 was located
on the present day McMaster Property across from the Keshequa
Central School parking lot, and was built in 1826. It was the
first frame school in the Town, and replaced the log school built
three years earlier. (See
the first school meeting in Nunda.)
This report is found in
the Record Book for District No 2. We have tried to recreate the
text as accurately as possible. Nundahistory.org thanks the Bell
Memorial Library for allowing us to photograph the record.
Sources
Record book "Property
of School District No 2nd, Nunda" Bell Memorial Library
Frost, "From the Indian
to the Airplane" p 4
Frost, Early Years p 20
Courtesy of Bell Memorial Library |
Report of Trustees for 1828
To the commissioners of common Schools of
the Town of Nunda, We the trustees of School district No 2 in
Said Town, in conformity with the Statute for the Support of
Common Schools, do certify and report That the whole time any
School has been kept in our district during the year ending on
the date hereof and since the date of the last report for said
district, is five and a half months & that the time during
Said year and Since Said last report Said School has been kept
by teachers duly appointed and approved in all respects according
to Law is five and a half months. That the amount of money received
in our district from the commissioners of Common Schools during
the Said year and Since the date of the last report is $30.77
and that the Same has been expending in paying teachers duly
appointed and approved in all respects according to law. |
That the number of children taught in Said
district during Said year and Since Said last report is 65. and
that the number of children residing in our district on the 1st
day of January Instant. who are over five & under Sixteen
years of age is 73 and that the names of the parents or other
persons with whom Such children respectfully reside and the Number
residing with each are as follows
| Barnabas Wright
2 |
Ryley Merrill
4 |
Daniel Ashley
4 |
| John Wait 4 |
Stephen Haynes
4 |
George Gouther
(?) 4 |
| Richard Bowen
1 |
Widow Smith 4 |
Wm Stevenson 1 |
| Henry C Jones
5 |
John H Townsend
3 |
Wilson Roberts
1 |
| Asa Heath 2 |
David J. Conklin
2 |
Jonas Richter
4 |
| Noah Warren 1 |
Warren Daniels
1 |
Wm Hoyt 1 |
| James H. Rawson
2 |
Ladock (?) Herrick
1 |
Henry Townsend
3 |
| Elias Rawson 1 |
Ethan Waters 2 |
Granville Sherwood
2 |
| Lindsey Joslyn
6 |
Reuben Pierce
1 |
R.R. Sherwood
1 |
| Thomas Rathbun
1 |
Joseph Cole 1 |
Abram Porter 2 |
| Leander Hills
1 |
William Gould
1 |
Total 72 |
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And we do further report that our School has
been visited by the Inspectors of Common Schools.or one of them during the year preceding
this report. (?), and that the Sum paid for teachers wages over
and above the Public money apportioned to Said district during
the Same year amounts to $23-. Dated at Nunda this first day
of January One Thousand Eight hundred & twenty nine.
Ryley Merrill
John Wait Trustees
H.C. Jones Clerk. |
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