John Tileston's School, 
 
 BOSTON, 1778-1789 : 1761-1766. 
 
 Also, his Diary from i-j6i to rj66. 
 
 BY D. C. COLESWORTHY. 
 
 " What now appear to be only trifles, in after years will become 
 important facts." WILLIAM GOOLD. 
 
 BOSTON : 
 
 ANTIQUARIAN BOOK STORE. 
 1887. 
 
 '
 
 WILLIAM BLAKE TRASK, 
 
 A MODEST, UNASSUMING CITIZEN, A COURTEOUS, 
 
 CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN, 
 
 WHOSE PERSEVERING RESEARCHES AND UNWEARIED LABORS IN THE 
 
 ANTIQUARIAN FIELD HAVE BEEN A SOURCE OF PLEASURE 
 
 AND PROFIT TO THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS 
 
 OF THE PURITANS, 
 
 OUR EXCELLENT FRIEND FOR MORE THAN A THIRD OF A CENTURY, 
 THIS LITTLE WORK IS RESPECTFULLY AND GRATE- 
 FULLY DEDICATED.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The people of New England owe a large 
 debt of gratitude to her noble army of 
 faithful and efficient teachers many of 
 whom, to instruct themselves and their 
 children, have labored through a long series 
 of years in patience and with persever- 
 ance, receiving in many instances but few 
 words of encouragement, and a meager 
 remuneration. 
 
 As a concise introduction to the account 
 of one who labored probably longer than 
 any other individual in his vocation in New 
 England, I have given a chapter on the 
 early schools of Boston. One cannot fail 
 to notice the great improvement that has 
 been made in the mode of teaching during 
 the past two centuries, and the excellent 
 facilities now afforded for the cultivation of 
 the mind and the elevation of the affec- 
 tions. Undoubtedly the schools of New 
 England, and especially the schools of Bos- 
 ton,' come the nearest to perfection of any 
 in this country or the world. The most
 
 6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 capable teachers are secured, whilst no 
 narrow policy warps the judgment of our 
 committees, prompting them to withhold 
 any reasonable amount of money that can 
 be judiciously expended in the advance- 
 ment of the cause of education, or in the 
 moral improvement of the rising genera- 
 tion. 
 
 I have added short sketches of a few 
 New England teachers who spent a large 
 portion of their lives in preparing our 
 children and youth for lives of prosperity 
 and usefulness, whose names deserve to be 
 held *in grateful and perpetual remem- 
 brance.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Adams, John, 34. Burrill, Susan, 32. 
 
 Adams, Mr., 39. Buxton, Me., 25. 
 
 Alle.i, Mr., 73. Byfield Parish, 22. 
 
 Appleton, John, 27. 
 Atlantic and St. Law- Capen, 47. 
 
 rence Railroad Com- Carter, Mr., 39, 79. 
 
 pany, 24. Carter, Nathaniel H., 23. 
 
 Cartwright, Capt., 74. 
 
 Bagley, John, 24. Central Church, 21. 
 
 Baker, 47. Charlestown, 19. 
 
 BaLard, 74. Chase, Aquila, 31. 
 
 Barret, Deacon, 79. Chase, Caleb, 24, 31. 
 
 Barret, Samuel, 76, 77. Chase, Wm. D., 32. 
 Beckett, Sylvester B., 27. Cheever, Ezekiel, 19. 
 Bingham, Caleb, 37, 39. Cheever, Ira, 21. 
 Blanchard, Caleb, 76. Checkley, Mr., 77, 78. 
 Boroughs, Capt., 78. Chelsea, 21. 
 Boston, 19,38,41,43,47. Chester, N. H., 31. 
 Bostonians, 39, 40, 48. Chichester, N. H., 28. 
 Boston Latin School, 30. Clark, Daniel, 25. 
 Bowen, Penuel, 78. Cobbitt, 47. 
 
 Boyd, 47. Coffin, C, 73. 
 
 Bradford, Mass., 31. Coffin, Charles, 34. 
 Bright, Mrs., 68. Coffin, Eliza, 73.
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Coffin, Lydia, 34. 
 Coffin, Mary Barrett, 34. 
 Cogswell, William, 24. 
 Colesworthy, D. C, 27. 
 Colesworthy, Daniel P., 
 
 42, 47. 
 Collins, 47. 
 Commencement, 41. 
 Coney, Daniel, 69. 
 Contribution money, 80. 
 Cotton Hill, 14. 
 Crowell's lot, 14. 
 Cummings, Alex., 75. 
 Cummings, Sumner, 24. 
 Cushman, Bezaleel, 23. 
 Cutter, Edward F., 24. 
 Cutter, William, 25. 
 
 Darracott, William, 75. 
 Dartmouth College, 31. 
 Day of fasting, 72. 
 De Cheserau, 74. 
 Dere Island, 13. 
 Diary from 1 761 to 
 
 1766-71. 
 
 Dickey, Capt., 77. 
 Dorchester, 16, 33. 
 Doubt, Dr. Nyott, 76. 
 Doubt, Mrs., 78. 
 Dow, Neal, 24. 
 
 Draper, Mr., 74. 
 Dummer Academy, 22. 
 Duren, Charles, 26. 
 Duren, E. F., 26. 
 Dwight, Wm. T., 32. 
 
 Early Schools in Bos- 
 ton, 13. 
 
 Eell, Sarah, 68. 
 Election, 41. 
 Eliot school-house, 17. 
 Empress of Russia, 71. 
 English grammar, 40. 
 Europe, 24. 
 Evening school, 71. 
 Everett, Edward, 36, 45. 
 Exchange street, 43. 
 Exeter, N. H., 23. 
 
 Faneuil Hall, 44. 
 Field, Mary, 36. 
 First Parish Church, 25. 
 Fowles, Rebekah, 33. 
 Fox, Edward, 26, 27. 
 
 Gardner, Francis, 30. 
 Genealogical Register, 24. 
 Governor and Council, 43. 
 Granary burial ground, 35. 
 Grant, Anna, 79.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Greenleaf, Stephen, 75, Jenkin, Capt, 76. 
 76. Jewett, Jedediah, 27, 29. 
 
 Haines, Edward P., 27. 
 Hamlin, Cyrus, 29. 
 Hampton, N. H., 31. 
 Harrod, Benj., 68. 
 Harvard College, 22, 30. 
 Hebron, Me., 23. 
 Hicks, Hezekiah, 15. 
 Hicks, Zachariah, 34. 
 High School, Portland, 
 
 25. 
 
 High Street Church, 29. 
 Holbrook, Abia, 16. 
 Holmes, Nathaniel, 68. 
 Holyoke, Samuel, 16. 
 Howard, Joseph, 25. 
 Hutchinsons, 17. 
 Hutchinson, Edward, 14. 
 Hutchinson, Thomas, 14. 
 
 Illsley, Silas, 26. 
 Independence, 41. 
 Ingersoll, Elizabeth, 68. 
 Ingraham, 47. 
 Ipswich, 19. 
 
 Jackson, Henry, 28. 
 Jackson, Timothy, 69. 
 
 Kendall, Amos, 23. 
 King of Spain, 72. 
 King, Rufus, 22. 
 
 Langdon, Mr., 79. 
 Laughton, John, 79. 
 Leach, Mrs., 77. 
 Leache, Mr., 75, 79. 
 Leverett, T., 78. 
 Libby, Joseph, 25. 
 Lloyd, Dr., 77. 
 Longfellow, Henry W., 
 
 24. 
 Longfellow, Stephen, 
 
 22, 24. 
 
 Lothrop, Ellen, 21. 
 Lovell, John, 16. 
 Lovell, James, 16. 
 Love, Susan, 14. 
 
 Maine, 47. 
 
 Maine Congregational 
 
 Conference, 26. 
 Malcom, Mr., 78. 
 Marblehead, 21. 
 Martinico, 72. 
 Massachusetts, 33.
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Massachusetts Charita- 
 ble Society, 36. 
 
 Mather, Cotton, 20. 
 
 Merrill, James, 27. 
 
 Middlebury College, 29. 
 
 Moncton, Gen., 72. 
 
 Motley, John Lothrop, 
 30. 
 
 Moody, Franklin C, 27. 
 
 Moody, Samuel, 22. 
 
 Morrison, John H., 30. 
 
 Mountfort, 47. 
 
 Neats, Samuel, 79. 
 New England, 14, 19, 
 
 21, 30, 34, 37- 
 New Haven, 19. 
 New North Church, 80. 
 New York, 32. 
 North Bennet Street, 17 
 North Grammar School, 
 
 1 6. 
 
 North School, 15. 
 North Writing School, 
 
 15,34,37- 
 
 Old South Church, 43. 
 Old State House, 43. 
 
 Page, Thaddeus, 36. 
 
 Parents and guardians 
 of private scholars, 
 68. 
 
 Parker, Joel, 24. 
 
 Parsons, Theophilus, 22. 
 
 Patten, Stephen, 38. 
 
 Payson, Edward, 26. 
 
 Perkins, Jn'o, 72. 
 
 Phillips Academy, 31. 
 
 Phillips, Wendell, 30. 
 
 Pittman, 47. 
 
 Portland, 25, 28, 29, 31, 
 
 47- 
 
 Portland Academy, 24. 
 Portmorte, Philemon, 13. 
 Portsmouth, 28, 31. 
 Preble, Edward, 22, 24. 
 Prince, Mr., 71. 
 Prince, Hugh, 32. 
 Prince Street, 35. 
 Proctor, John, 15, 16. 
 Proctor, Master, 75. 
 Prophecies, 20. 
 
 Queen Street School, 15. 
 Roxbury, 43. 
 
 Salem, 21. 
 Saltonstall, Mary, 68.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 II 
 
 Scholars from 1761 to 
 
 1765,49. 
 Scholars from 1778 to 
 
 1789, 55. 
 
 Shattuck, George C, 30. 
 Shaw, Jason, 26. 
 Shepley, Ether, 24. 
 Shippard, William, 68. 
 Shurtleff, Roswell, 31. 
 Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., 
 
 30. 
 
 Sigourney, Capt., 72. 
 Smith, 47. 
 
 Smith, Henry B., 26. 
 Southack, Capt., 15. 
 South Boston, 16. 
 South End, 42. 
 Southgate, Horatio, 26. 
 South Grammar School, 
 
 1 6. 
 South Writing School, 
 
 15, 16. 
 Stackpole, Charles A., 
 
 26, 27. 
 
 State of Maine, 47. 
 Stevens, Mad'm, 73. 
 Strong, Caleb, 22. 
 Stuart, the celebrated, 
 
 44. 
 Symonds, Mr., 74. 
 
 Tansur singers, 74. 
 Third Parish Church, 
 
 26, 32. 
 
 Thomas, Elias, Jr., 79. 
 Thomson, Mr., 20. 
 Tileston, Hannah, 33. 
 Tileston, John, 16. 
 Tileston, Timothy, 33. 
 Tucker, Phil., 69. 
 
 Vernon, Capt., 74, 75. 
 Vermont, 26. 
 Vinal, John, 16. 
 
 Wainwright, Mr., 14. 
 Walpole, N. H., 30. 
 Washington, George, 
 
 41, 42. 
 
 Washington Street, 42. 
 Waterville College, 26. 
 Webber, Mr., 79. 
 Webb, Mr., 76. 
 Webb, Nathan, 36. 
 Webb, Sophia, 36. 
 Whitmore, Maj.-Gen., 
 
 7i. 
 
 Willard, President, 22. 
 Williams, 47.
 
 12 INDEX. 
 
 Will, Mr., 74. Writing School, Queen 
 
 Winslow, Albert, 32. Street, 16. 
 
 Wiswall, Peleg, 16. 
 
 York, Me., 22.
 
 EARLY SCHOOLS IN BOSTON. 
 
 THE first settlers of Boston, as soon as 
 they opened a house for public worship, 
 commenced looking after the education of 
 their children. As early as April 13, 1634, 
 at a meeting called by the inhabitants of 
 the town, "it was gen'ally agreed upon, 
 that our brother, Philemon Portmorte, shall 
 be entreated to become schoole-master for 
 the teaching and nourtering children with 
 us." 
 
 January 10, 1642, " Dere Island" was 
 ordered to be improved for the mainte- 
 nance of a Free School for the Town. 
 
 In the year 1647 a law was enacted, 
 by the General Court held in Boston, 
 for the establishment of Public Schools 
 throughout the province. One reason 
 given by our wise fathers for the education 
 of the young was, that " Satan " had a
 
 14 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 " strong hold of ignorance," and the estab- 
 lishment of schools and general instruction 
 would tend to counteract the influence 
 of that "ould deluder." This legislative 
 enactment was undoubtedly the first law 
 of a similar import in New England. 
 
 In March, 1652, the town provided for 
 the enlargement of the " skoole house." 
 
 March, 1696, it was voted in town- 
 meeting to build a house for a writing 
 school at Cotton Hill, "adjoining the ould 
 schoole house." 
 
 In 1717, a school-house was located 
 upon the Common, " adjoining to Crowell's 
 lott, over against Mr. Wainwright's." 
 
 March n, 1718, at a town meeting, 
 Thomas and Edward Hutchinson offered 
 to build a school-house at their own ex- 
 pense, for a free writing school at the 
 north part of the town, and it was voted 
 that part of the land bought of Mrs. Susan 
 Love be taken for that purpose. 
 
 At a town meeting, September 28, 1720, 
 a committee was appointed " to consider 
 about erecting a spinning school for the
 
 EARLY SCHOOLS IN BOSTON. I 5 
 
 instruction of the children in town," and 
 the committee recommended the building 
 of a house for this purpose " in the waste 
 land before Captain Southack's." 
 
 In 1739 there were five public schools 
 in Boston, in which nearly 600 pupils were 
 taught. In the South School there were 
 1 20 scholars; in the North School, 60; in 
 the North Writing School, 280; in Queen 
 Street School, 73 ; in the South Writing 
 School, 62. In May, 1749, the number 
 of scholars had increased to 705, and in 
 1757 to 741. 
 
 In 1743, Zachariah Hicks, usher in 
 John Proctor's writing school, who had 
 a salary of 150 pounds, petitioned for an 
 increase of pay, and 30 pounds were added. 
 
 The committee, appointed by the select- 
 men to visit the public schools in March, 
 1758, was accompanied by the representa- 
 tives of the town, overseers of the poor, 
 and by several clergymen and physicians. 
 They reported that the " Schools were all 
 in good order." They found in the North 
 Writing School 220 scholars ; in the
 
 1 6 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 North Grammar School, 36 ; in the South 
 Writing School, 240 ; in the South Gram- 
 mar School, 115; in the Writing School 
 in Queen Street, 230. Total, 841 scholars. 
 
 At this period there were also several 
 private schools taught in town. 
 
 In 1764, the town voted to pay the 
 following sums to the teachers : John 
 Tileston, of the North Grammar School, 
 100 pounds ; Peleg Wiswall, of the same 
 school, 100 pounds ; Abia Holbrook, of 
 the Writing School on the Common, 100 
 pounds, and John Vinal, his assistant, 50 
 pounds ; John Lovell, of the South School, 
 120 pounds; and James Lovell 60 pounds, 
 and John Vinal 50 pounds, ushers in the 
 same school ; John Proctor, of the Writing 
 School in Queen Street, 100 pounds, and 
 Samuel Holyoke, of the same school, 80 
 pounds. 
 
 By a legislative act in 1804, when a 
 portion of Dorchester, now South Boston, 
 was annexed to Boston, it was stipulated 
 that the proprietors of the land, among 
 other assignments, should set apart a lot
 
 EARLY SCHOOLS IN BOSTON. I/ 
 
 on which a school-house should be erected, 
 at some future period. 
 
 The school-house, where Mr. Tileston 
 taught, was a small building on North 
 Bennet Street, where the Eliot school- 
 house now stands. This is the lot given 
 to the town by the Hutchinsons. 
 
 From the commencement of the present 
 century the Boston schools have continued 
 to improve, so that now they are equal, if 
 not superior, to any schools in the country. 
 The best educated and most conscientious 
 teachers are employed, and no small amount 
 of money is yearly expended in various 
 channels by efficient committees, to secure 
 important results. Whatever has a ten- 
 dency to advance the pupils and elevate 
 the schools, is made available in every pos- 
 sible direction. It is questionable if in 
 any large city of the Union as much rigid 
 care is observed to educate the young and 
 to prepare them for the varied duties of 
 life. The schools of Boston are distin- 
 guished as model institutions, and the 
 youth who are trained in them, being thor-
 
 1 8 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 oughly prepared for any department in sci- 
 ence or trade, find no difficulty in securing 
 desirable positions ; the fact of their gradu- 
 ation being a guarantee of their fitness, 
 and the best recommendation they could 
 offer. Many of our successful merchants, 
 our statesmen, philosophers, and clergymen, 
 have graduated from the Boston schools, 
 and are now exerting a wide and salutary 
 influence, not only in New England, but 
 wherever civilization and religion have a 
 dominance. That our schools may con- 
 tinue to flourish and send forth streams to 
 elevate and bless our common country and 
 the world at large, should be the prayer of 
 every moralist and every Christian.
 
 EARLY TEACHERS. 
 
 EZEKIEL CHEEVER. 
 
 EZEKIEL CHEEVER was born in London, 
 January 25, 1614, and in 1637, at the age 
 of twenty-three years, he came to New 
 England, landing in Boston. In the fall 
 of the same year we find him in New 
 Haven, where, in 1638, he commenced 
 teaching a public school, and where he 
 continued his labors for about a dozen 
 years. In 1650 Mr. Cheever removed to 
 Ipswich, Massachusetts, taking charge of a 
 free school. After teaching eleven years 
 in this place, and making his school " fa- 
 mous in all the country," he removed to 
 Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1661, to 
 take charge of a free town school that had 
 been established in the place. After labor- 
 ing nine years in Charlestown, he removed 
 to Boston, January 6, 1670, where, not-
 
 2O MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 withstanding his age, he continued to teach 
 the " Free Schoole" for a period of thirty- 
 eight years. When he took charge of this 
 school " it was agreed and ordered," by 
 the committee, " that Ezechiell Cheevers 
 should be installed in the free schoole as 
 head master thereof : likewise that Mr. 
 Thomson should be invited to be an assist- 
 ant to Mr. Cheevers in his worke in the 
 schoole." It was also agreed " that the 
 said Mr. Cheevers should be allowed sixty 
 pounds p. an. for his service in the 
 schoole, out of the towne rates, and the pos- 
 session and use of y e schoole house." 
 
 Mr. Cheever was the author of one or 
 two school books and a volume of three 
 short essays on the Prophecies. He died 
 August 21, 1708, aged ninety-four years, 
 after having taught school for seventy 
 years. Cotton Mather preached a sermon 
 on the death of Mr. Cheever, a copy of 
 which lies before me. " He Dy'd, Longing 
 for Death," the good Doctor remarks. 
 
 At the close of his sermon, Mr. Mather 
 gives a quaint poem entitled,
 
 EARLY TEACHERS. 21 
 GRATITUDINIS ERGO. 
 
 The master was 
 
 " Praised and Lov'd of Well-instructed Youth," 
 and, 
 
 '.' All the Eight parts of Speech he taught to them, 
 They now Employ to Trumpet his esteem." 
 
 To " proclaim to Posterity " the worth 
 of so excellent a man, we are told that 
 
 " Ink is too vile a Liquor ; Liquid Gold 
 Should fill the Pen, by which such things are told." 
 
 Mr. Cheever was twice married. His 
 first wife, a New Haven woman, died in 
 1649. His second wife, Ellen Lothrop, of 
 Salem, died in 1706. He left several 
 children whose posterity are numerous 
 throughout New England. The late Ira 
 Cheever, deacon of the Central Church in 
 Chelsea, Massachusetts, and for many years 
 a teacher in Salem, Marblehead, and Bos- 
 ton, was a descendant of Master Cheever.
 
 22 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 SAMUEL MOODY. 
 
 SAMUEL MOODY, for thirty years Pre- 
 ceptor of Dummer Academy at Newbury, 
 Byfield Parish, Massachusetts, was born in 
 York, Maine, in 1725 ; and was a son of 
 Rev. Joseph Moody. He graduated at 
 Harvard College in 1 746, and taught school 
 in his native town until he was called to 
 take charge of the Academy. Mr. Moody 
 was a thorough Greek and Latin scholar, 
 and prepared for college many a student 
 who became celebrated in after life. 
 Among his pupils in York and Newbury 
 were President Willard, of Harvard ; Caleb 
 Strong, Governor of Massachusetts; Ed- 
 ward Preble, the distinguished Commo- 
 dore; Judge Stephen Longfellow, grand- 
 father of the poet ; Theophilus Parsons, 
 and Rufus King. 
 
 Mr. Moody was a remarkably faithful in- 
 structor, and labored indefatigably to im- 
 press upon the minds of his scholars their 
 duties to each other and to their Creator. 
 He was exemplary in the discharge of every
 
 EARLY TEACHERS. 23 
 
 duty, and prompt in all his engagements. 
 He died in Exeter, New Hampshire, De- 
 cember 14, 1795, aged seventy years. 
 
 BEZALEEL CUSHMAN. 
 
 BEZALEEL CUSHMAN, a native of Hebron, 
 Maine, was born September 14, 1785. His 
 father was one of the first settlers of the 
 town. Naturally a studious boy, at the 
 age of sixteen years he had acquired a 
 good knowledge of the common rudiments 
 of education, and was thought competent 
 to teach a district school, which he did to 
 the satisfaction of the committee; but 
 feeling the need of a more thorough educa- 
 tion, he prepared himself for college, and 
 entered Dartmouth, supporting himself 
 by teaching during his vacations. Mr. 
 Cushman graduated in 1811, in a class, 
 several of whom became celebrated. 
 Among others, Amos Kendall, Postmas- 
 ter-General ; Nathaniel H. Carter, whose
 
 24 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 letters from Europe, several years ago, at- 
 tracted no little attention, and which in 
 1825 were published in two octavo vol- 
 umes ; Caleb Chase, for several years a 
 teacher in Portland and other places ; 
 William Cogswell, D. D., first editor of the 
 GenedKogical Register ; Chief-Justice Joel 
 Parker and Ether Shepley, LL.D. 
 
 In 1815 Mr. Cushman took charge of 
 the Portland Academy, and for twenty- 
 six years continued in the faithful perform- 
 ance of his duties. Among his pupils 
 were Stephen Longfellow, Jr., Henry W. 
 Longfellow, Edward Cutter, Edward Preble, 
 Sumner Cummings, Neal Dow, and our 
 venerable friend, John Bagley, of Portland. 
 The latter two only are living. 
 
 In 1841 Mr. Cushman relinquished his 
 duties as teacher, and obtained through the 
 influence of his former pupils, a situation 
 as Surveyor of the Port of Portland, which 
 position he retained for the space of ten 
 years. He was subsequently clerk of 
 the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad 
 Company.
 
 EARLY TEACHERS. 2$ 
 
 A conscientious, upright, Christian gen- 
 tleman, for a long period Mr. Cushman 
 was one of the deacons of the First Parish 
 Church in Portland. He died June 21, 
 1857, aged seventy-one years and nine 
 months. 
 
 JOSEPH LIBBY. 
 
 JOSEPH LIBBY was born in Buxton, Maine, 
 December 13, 1793. He learned the trade 
 of a blacksmith, but seriously injuring 
 himself while at work, he was not able to 
 continue his laborious employment, and 
 commenced a course of study preparatory 
 to a collegiate education. He entered Bow- 
 doin, and graduated in 1821, in the class 
 which contained among others William 
 Cutter, Daniel Clark and Joseph Howard. 
 
 Soon after leaving college Mr. Libby 
 was chosen principal of the High School in 
 Portland, which had just been established, 
 where he continued a faithful and efficient
 
 26 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 teacher for nearly thirty years, preparing 
 scores of young men for entering college, 
 and for various duties in life. The writer 
 was one of his pupils in 1824. Among our 
 school-mates at this period were Bishop 
 Horatio Southgate ; Edward Payson, son of 
 the distinguished divine, and the author of 
 several entertaining works ; Charles A. 
 Stackpole, an able writer and ready 
 speaker ; Rev. Silas Ilsley, a Baptist 
 clergyman ; Professor Henry B. Smith, a 
 distinguished theologian ; Deacon E. F. 
 Duren, the indefatigable scribe of the 
 Maine Congregational Conference; Judge 
 Edward Fox, one of the ablest lawyers that 
 Maine has produced ; Charles Duren, now 
 settled over a Congregational church in 
 Vermont ; Jason Shaw, who entered 
 Waterville College and died while an 
 undergraduate; and several others who 
 have been more or less distinguished. 
 
 For more than a third of a century 
 Mr. Libby was a deacon in the Third Par- 
 ish Church, and for as long a period he 
 was superintendent of the Sabbath-school
 
 EARLY TEACHERS. 2/ 
 
 connected with the parish. Always ready 
 to speak in public, he took an active part 
 in the conference meetings, and his seat 
 was seldom vacant. 
 
 In 1850 Mr. Libby resigned his position 
 as principal of the high school ; at which 
 time a large number of his former pupils 
 assembled, and made arrangements for a 
 public meeting, to present to their faithful 
 teacher some memorial of their respect 
 and love. 
 
 A committee was chosen for this purpose, 
 consisting of the following : Jedediah Jew- 
 ett, Charles A. Stackpole, Edward Fox, 
 John Appleton, D. C. Colesworthy, Ed- 
 ward P. Haines, Franklin C. Moody, Syl- 
 vester B. Beckett, and James Merrill; all 
 of whom, with the exception of Charles A. 
 Stackpole and the writer, after a period of 
 thirty-five years, have passed away. 
 
 Accordingly in August the old pupils 
 convened and presented to Mr. Libby a 
 beautiful silver pitcher. John Appleton, 
 then a member of Congress, made an 
 appropriate address, which was happily
 
 28 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 responded to by Mr. Libby. It was an 
 interesting occasion to all concerned. 
 
 Mr. Libby died August 27, 1871, aged 
 seventy- seven years. 
 
 HENRY JACKSON. 
 
 HENRY JACKSON was born in Chichester, 
 New Hampshire, August i, 1783. For 
 several years he taught school in various 
 towns in his native State, until 1811, when 
 he was called to teach in Portsmouth. 
 There he remained, faithful in the discharge 
 of his duties, until 1824, when the school 
 committee of Portland induced him to re- 
 move to that town and take charge of one 
 of the principal schools in the place. He 
 continued his labors for the space of twenty- 
 six years, when in 1850, on the 22d day 
 of August, he died at the age of sixty- 
 seven years. 
 
 In the winter of 1828 Mr. Jackson 
 taught an evening school for young trades-
 
 EARLY TEACHERS. 2Q 
 
 men and apprentices, where we had the 
 pleasure of being numbered among his 
 pupils. Cyrus Hamlin, LL.D., the distin- 
 guished missionary, and now President of 
 Middlebury College, was also one of the 
 scholars. On one occasion Mr. Jackson 
 gave out the subject of profane swearing 
 as an essay for the pupils to write upon. 
 A committee was appointed to decide to 
 whom the prize should be awarded, and it 
 fell to Cyrus Hamlin. 
 
 Mr. Jackson for several years was a 
 member of the Third Parish Church. At 
 the formation of the High Street Church 
 in 1831, he was set off with the writer 
 and several others, to help form the new 
 society, where he continued an active and 
 useful member until the day of his death. 
 
 Kind, genial, and intelligent, Mr. Jack- 
 son secured the love and affection, not only 
 of his pupils, but of scores of friends who 
 sadly grieved when he departed. Mr. 
 Jackson was the author of an arithmetic 
 that was used for many years in the schools 
 of Portland.
 
 3<D MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 His old pupils have erected over the 
 remains of Mr. Jackson a substantial monu- 
 ment as a token of their respect for his 
 memory. 
 
 FRANCIS GARDNER. 
 
 FRANCIS GARDNER was born in Walpole, 
 New Hampshire, March 15, 1812, and 
 graduated at Harvard College in 1831, in 
 the class with Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, John 
 Lothrop Motley, George C. Shattuck, Wen- 
 dell Phillips, John H. Morrison, and other 
 men of distinction. Soon after leaving 
 college he took charge of the Boston Latin 
 School, where he remained a devoted and 
 efficient instructor until his death a 
 period of more than forty years. Mr. Gard- 
 ner probably fitted more pupils for college 
 than any other teacher in New England. 
 
 In 1843 Mr. Gardner with great labor 
 prepared a dictionary of the Latin Ian-
 
 EARLY TEACHERS. 31 
 
 guage, which has oeen extensively used in 
 Boston and other places. 
 
 Mr. Gardner died January 10, 1876, aged 
 nearly sixty-four years. 
 
 CALEB CHASE. 
 
 CALEB CHASE was born in Chester, New 
 Hampshire, February 4, 1783. He was a 
 descendant of Aquila Chase, who emigrated 
 to this country and settled in Hampton, 
 New Hampshire, in 1640. Mr. Chase fitted 
 for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 and in 1807 entered Dartmouth College. 
 While an undergraduate he connected him- 
 self with the Congregational church, under 
 the care of Rev. Roswell Shurtleff. Grad- 
 uating in 1811, he commenced teaching in 
 Bradford, Massachusetts. In 1817 we find 
 him in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where 
 he taught the principal school in the place 
 for two or three years. In 1820 Mr. Chase 
 removed to Portland, Maine, and took charge
 
 32 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 of the center Grammar School, as successor 
 to Mr. Hugh Prince. The school-house was 
 on Back Street, now Congress Street, oppo- 
 site the Third Parish Church. The build- 
 ing was burnt in the great fire of July 4, 
 1866, which destroyed nearly one third of 
 the city. Mr. Chase, whose health was 
 impaired, relinquished his charge and was 
 succeeded by Mr. Albert Winslow. 
 
 After Mr. Chase gave up teaching, for a 
 season he kept a grocery store in Portland, 
 and died September 20, 1850, aged sixty- 
 seven years and seven months. The ser- 
 vices at his funeral were conducted by his 
 pastor, the late Rev. Wm. T. D wight, D.D. 
 
 Mr. Chase married Susan Burrill, who 
 died in 1856. He left several children. 
 William Dwight Chase, of Brooklyn, New 
 York, is the youngest son of Mr. Chase.
 
 JOHN TILESTON. 
 
 AMONG the early settlers of New Eng- 
 land we frequently find the name of Tileston. 
 John, son of Timothy and Hannah Tiles- 
 ton, who was born in Dorchester, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1701, was the father of John 
 Tileston, who married Rebekah Fowles, 
 January 21, 1730. These were the parents 
 of JOHN TILESTON, who was born in Bos- 
 ton, February 27, 1735. When John was 
 an infant, he was severely burnt by falling 
 into the fire, and the consequence was so 
 serious an injury to one of his hands that 
 the complete use of his fingers he never 
 recovered. He was thus incapacitated 
 for mechanical or other employments that 
 required the full use of his hands. Not- 
 withstanding this affliction the defective 
 hand became perfectly adapted to the hold- 
 ing of a pen and for writing. After leav-
 
 34 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 ing school, at the age of fourteen, young 
 Tileston was placed under the care of 
 Zachariah Hicks, master of the North 
 Writing School, in Boston, where he 
 served faithfully an apprenticeship of six or 
 seven years. A portion of this period Mr. 
 Tileston was a school-mate of John Adams, 
 the second President of the United States, 
 who through a long and busy life tenderly 
 remembered his early friend. They both 
 died the same year. ' 
 
 At the age of twenty-five, October 23, 
 1760, Mr. Tileston was married to Lydia 
 Coffin, daughter of Charles and Mary 
 Barrett Coffin. 
 
 In 1762 Master Hicks resigned his posi- 
 tion, and Mr. Tileston was elected principal 
 instructor in the school, which position he 
 retained, to the satisfaction of several 
 committees, until he reached the advanced 
 age of eighty-five years, when in 1819, feel- 
 ing the infirmities of years increasing, with 
 the decay of strength, natural to so long 
 and laborious a life, he found it neces-
 
 JOHN TILESTON. 35 
 
 sary to resign and retire from his active 
 duties. 
 
 As Mr. Tileston had devoted more than 
 seventy years to instructing the young, the 
 committee were induced to continue his 
 salary as- long as he lived. His death 
 occurred on Friday, October 13, 1826, 
 when he had nearly completed his ninety- 
 second year, and after a happy married life 
 of sixty-six years. Services at his funeral 
 were held at his late residence, No. 65, 
 Prince Street, on Saturday, where many of 
 his fellow-citizens and his old pupils col- 
 lected to pay their respects to one greatly 
 beloved. His body was interred in the 
 Granary burial ground. His wife, Lydia, 
 survived him four or five years, and died 
 May 21, 1831, aged ninety-five years. 
 Provision had been made by the proper 
 authorities to continue a salary sufficient 
 for the support of Mrs. Tileston during her 
 life. 
 
 Mr. Tileston's will is dated March 5, 
 1814. He left to his wife the property he
 
 36 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 possessed. The witnesses to the will were 
 Nathan Webb, Mary Field, and Thad- 
 deus Page. 
 
 Mrs. Tileston's will is dated October 20, 
 1827. According to the schedule her prop- 
 erty amounted to $5,233.67, which she left 
 to a nephew and four nieces, with a portion 
 to Sophia Webb. 
 
 Although Mr. Tileston was not wealthy, 
 he had frequent opportunities, which he 
 cheerfully improved, of bestowing chari- 
 ties liberally on the unfortunate and desti- 
 tute. Sympathizing with the poor and 
 distressed, he was one of the original 
 projectors of the Massachusetts Charitable 
 Society, which was one of the first benevo- 
 lent institutions in the Commonwealth. 
 He invariably attended the meetings of its 
 members, which comprised many of the 
 most respected and influential citizens of 
 Boston. 
 
 The late Hon. Edward Everett, who was 
 a pupil of Mr. Tileston, and who was inti- 
 mate with him as long as he lived, once 
 remarked : " The only murmurs I ever
 
 JOHN TILESTON. 37 
 
 knew him to utter were when he could do 
 no more good ; yet as fast as he had the 
 ability, he poured the oil and the wine upon 
 such as stood in need of assistance." 
 
 Mr. Tileston was a strict disciplinarian, 
 and his reproofs were administered with 
 impartiality, and his punishments with rare 
 judgment, as I have heard my father, who 
 was one of his pupils, often remark. He 
 never left in the minds of his scholars a 
 feeling of disgust or rancor. They re- 
 spected and loved him, even when he was 
 administering the severest reproofs. 
 
 Mr. Tileston's chirography was very 
 uniform and neat, as I have noticed in the 
 copy books in my possession, left by my 
 father. The copies were written by the 
 master, and the scholars endeavored to 
 imitate them. I have seen the handwrit- 
 ing of many of Mr. Tileston's pupils, who 
 generally were excellent penmen. Mr. 
 Caleb Bingham, author of the American 
 Preceptor and the Columbian Orator, who 
 was for many years an usher in the North 
 Writing School, under Mr. Tileston, wrote
 
 38 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 also a beautiful hand. I have before me a 
 letter from Mr. Bingham to my old friend, 
 the late Stephen Patten, of Portland, who 
 was for a season an instructor in the 
 school, which is a fine specimen of pencraft. 
 As a portion of the letter relates to the 
 school, I give an extract It is dated 
 Boston, August 29, 1792: "I know you 
 will participate in my joy, when I inform 
 you that I have gained a complete victory 
 over my school-boys. They are now near- 
 ly as still in the school as the girls. I was 
 obliged to relinquish my method of detain- 
 ing them after school, on account of Mr. 
 C.'s conduct. I resolved then to bring the 
 matter to a crisis, and know whether I was 
 master or not. I laid aside all books for the 
 day and spent it in preaching. The next 
 day I undertook to find what virtue there 
 was in the old maple whig of seventy-six* 
 I belabored them from day to day, till they 
 finally gave me the victory. Now and 
 then an old woman, and a few who are 
 
 1 This was a large ferule which had been used in 
 the school for many years.
 
 JOHN TILESTON. 39 
 
 not worthy the name of men, and who 
 oppose the doctrines of our forefathers, 
 have murmured, and complained to the 
 committee. But the boys are silent in 
 school, and that is the main object with us; 
 and I hope we shall be able to silence their 
 parents. A certain Mr. Adams, whom we 
 used to hear from last winter, came into 
 the school this day with a complaint 
 against the usher, and told us that he 
 would not allow of his boys' receiving cor- 
 poral punishment on any occasion what- 
 ever. We shall, therefore, expel them for 
 the next offence." 
 
 The good penmanship, for which Bos- 
 tonians have always been famous, is due in 
 a great measure to the labors of Mr. Tiles- 
 ton and his assistants, Mr. Bingham, Mr. 
 Carter, and others. The merchants, me- 
 chanics, and even the laborers of Boston, 
 eighty, ninety, and a hundred years ago, 
 who were taught in Mr. Tileston's school, 
 seemed to be particularly uniform and cor- 
 rect in their penmanship. A glance at 
 old letters, day-books and journals of this
 
 4O MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 period, is convincing proof of the thorough- 
 ness with which the pupils were drilled. 
 
 Previous to 1789 there were few if any 
 of the public schools in Boston where 
 English grammar and some other branches 
 of education were thoroughly taught, and 
 so it fell to the lot of the master of the 
 writing school to teach spelling, reading, 
 and grammar, and Mr. Tileston was equal 
 to the task. To this portion of his duties 
 Mr. Tileston gave particular attention. 
 He devoted several hours each day, from 
 which nothing diverted him, to the training 
 of his pupils. In early life I noticed that 
 the Bostonians, who were taught in Mr. 
 Tileston's school, were excellent readers 
 and generally correct in their spelling, and 
 seemed well fitted for almost any position 
 in life. So much for the judicious and 
 persevering labors of a faithful and devoted 
 teacher, who was a thorough disciplinarian 
 and sincerely loved his employment. 
 
 Afternoons, when school was not kept, 
 Mr. Tileston usually employed his hours 
 of relaxation, when the weather was favor-
 
 JOHN TILESTON. 4! 
 
 able, in fishing in the harbor, or in riding 
 through the neighboring towns. Frequent- 
 ly he took extended walks, accompanied 
 by some of his friends, which he seemed 
 particularly to enjoy. He was often asso- 
 ciated with two or three of his former 
 pupils, who esteemed it a perfect treat to 
 walk or ride beside the " Master," as he 
 was familiarly called, so dearly cherished 
 and tenderly beloved. The anecdotes and 
 reminiscences of former pupils, and of 
 earlier days, which he rehearsed, afforded 
 much diversion to them all. On Com- 
 mencement, Election, and Independence 
 days, he usually visited among his friends 
 abroad, where he was cordially received 
 and bountifully entertained. 
 
 When his old pupils visited Boston, after 
 a long absence, it gave him rare pleasure 
 to invite them to his house, where he 
 amply repaid them for their former kind- 
 nesses. 
 
 October 24, 1789, was a proud day for 
 Boston, and for Mr. Tileston in particular. 
 The illustrious personage, George Wash-
 
 42 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 ington, was to visit the place, and exten- 
 sive preparations were made by the town 
 authorities to receive him. And the no 
 little interesting part of the programme 
 was the appearance of the school children 
 in town, neatly dressed, with quills in their 
 hands, full of smiles and radiant with de- 
 light. My father, Daniel P. Colesworthy, 
 who died in Portland, in 1852, was one of 
 Mr. Tileston's pupils at this period. At 
 my request he wrote an interesting ac- 
 count of the occurrence which follows : 
 
 " When General Washington visited 
 Boston I was a school-boy. The day 
 before he arrived Master Tileston told all 
 the boys to come to school the next morn- 
 ing with clean faces, and dressed in their 
 best clothes ; each one to be particular to 
 bring a quill with him. We followed our 
 master's instructions, and accordingly the 
 next morning we marched with the schol- 
 ars belonging to the other schools in town; 
 our school taking the precedence, and the 
 South End school following in the rear. 
 We marched to Washington Street, as far
 
 JOHN TILESTON. 43 
 
 as the upper corner of Exchange Street, 
 where we halted opened to the right and 
 left and formed a line on each side of the 
 street, from Exchange Street to the Old 
 South Church. At about half past ten 
 o'clock the cannon on the Neck announced 
 Washington crossing the line between 
 Boston and Roxbury. The companies of 
 militia of Boston and vicinity were out to 
 escort him. A stage or bridge was built 
 from the Old State House to the stores on 
 the opposite side of the street, with arches 
 underneath. It was covered with damask. 
 Here the Governor and Council received 
 him. An anthem was sung, as Washing- 
 ton, with his hat in his hand, passed by us 
 on his light gray horse. We rolled our 
 quills between our hands, that the General 
 might notice us. When school was dis- 
 missed we called to see him, each one mak- 
 ing a bow, which he politely returned. I 
 saw him several times afterwards." 
 
 Mr. Tileston, being an unobtrusive man, 
 never expressed himself in a positive or dic- 
 tatorial spirit. He was social and kind to
 
 44 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 the most humble, and delighted especially 
 to converse with little children. He was 
 indeed a friend to the poor and unfortu- 
 nate, and all classes felt perfect freedom in 
 his presence. He had no children of his 
 own, and so he seemed to be the parent of 
 his whole school ; looking after them, 
 advising with them, and leading them in 
 paths of virtue and happiness. And so 
 for years his memory was cherished by his 
 pupils, till one and another yielded to the 
 divine mandate and passed away, to rejoin 
 their master, as we trust, in a better world. 
 The following is a proof of the little 
 esteem in which Mr. Tileston held himself. 
 Several of his former pupils proposed to 
 raise a sufficient sum of money to secure a 
 full length portrait of himself, to be painted 
 by the celebrated Stuart, and after it was 
 finished to place it in Faneuil Hall, or in 
 some other public place, but he would not 
 consent. Finally, after much persuasion, he 
 reluctantly yielded to the earnest desires 
 of his friends. Thinking seriously over 
 the matter, and feeling that no former
 
 JOHN TILESTON. 45 
 
 school-master had been thus honored, he 
 prevailed upon the gentlemen to relinquish 
 their design. 
 
 In speaking of Mr. Tileston, Edward Ever- 
 ett remarks : " Master Tileston was a writ- 
 ing-master of the old school. He set the 
 copies himself, and taught that beautiful 
 old Boston handwriting, which, if I do not 
 mistake, has in the march of innovation 
 (which is not always the same thing as im- 
 provement) been changed very little for 
 the better. Master Tileston was advancd 
 in years, and had found a qualification for 
 his calling as a writing-master in what 
 might have seemed, at first, to threaten to 
 be an obstruction. The fingers of his 
 right hand had been contracted and stiff- 
 ened in early life by a burn, but were fixed 
 in just the position to hold a pen and a 
 penknife, and nothing else. As they were 
 also considerably indurated, they served as 
 a convenient instrument of discipline. A 
 copy badly written, or a blotted page, was 
 sometimes visited with an infliction which 
 would have done no discredit to the beak
 
 46 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 of a bald eagle. His long, deep desk was 
 a perfect curiosity shop of confiscated balls, 
 tops, penknives, marbles, and jewsharps, 
 the accumulation of forty years. I desire, 
 , however, to speak of him with gratitude ; 
 for he put me on the track of an acquisi- 
 tion which has been extremely useful to 
 me in after life that of a plain, legible 
 hand." 
 
 Hundreds have remembered Mr. Tiles- 
 ton with the same grateful feelings. There 
 are but few living who attended his school. 
 I know of but two or three, and it was at 
 a period when Mr. Tileston was so infirm 
 that he did little except to superintend the 
 school, leaving the care of the pupils to his 
 ushers. The descendants of his scholars 
 are scattered all over New England, and, 
 indeed, they may be found in nearly every 
 State in the Union. 
 
 It is a matter of regret that we have not 
 a complete list of the names of Mr. Tiles- 
 ton's scholars, which number many thou-
 
 JOHN TILESTON. 47 
 
 sands during a period of more than seventy 
 years, but when he taught in colonial times, 
 and in the early days of the republic, as 
 much care was not taken as at the present 
 period to keep a perfect record. The first 
 list comprises the names of those who at- 
 tended his school from 1761 to 1765, and 
 the second from 1778 to 1789. We have 
 no list of the scholars from 1766 to 1777; 
 a period of eight or nine years. Neither 
 have we a record of those who were his 
 pupils beyond the year 1789. If there 
 were records kept we have not been able 
 to find them. However, what we have 
 given will, I doubt not, interest the de- 
 scendants of Mr. Tileston's scholars, where- 
 ever they may have taken up their abode. 
 
 At the commencement of the present 
 century, several of his old pupils removed 
 to Portland, as business was comparatively 
 dull in Boston ; inducements being held 
 out by the merchants of this thriving town, 
 in the district of Maine. Among others 
 we may mention the names of Baker, 
 Boyd, Capen, Cobbit, Colesworthy, Collins,
 
 48 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Ingraham, Mountfort, Pittman, Smith, and 
 Williams. Others went further east, and 
 their posterity are numerous in the State 
 of Maine. 
 
 The diary of Mr. Tileston is a meager 
 one ; but we have extracted from it every 
 line that would be likely to interest the 
 children of old Bostonians, and the de- 
 scendants of his pupils.
 
 SCHOLARS 
 
 WHO ATTENDED JOHN TILESTON S SCHOOL 
 FROM 1761 TO 1765. 
 
 Adams, Abraham 
 Adams, Benjamin 
 Allen, John 
 Andrews, John 
 Archibald, Edward 
 Atkins, Charles 
 Atkins, Henry 
 Atkins, Nathaniel 
 Atkins, Silas 
 Audebart, Josiah 
 Audebart, Philip 
 Ayers, Henry 
 Badger, Abel 
 Badger, Stephen 
 Baker, John 
 Ballard, Benjamin 
 Barber, George 
 
 Barber, Nathaniel 
 Barnett, Samuel 
 Barns, Thomas 
 Barrett, Samuel 
 Bass, Joseph 
 Bass, Philip 
 Bazin, Thomas 
 Bell, Daniel 
 Bell, William 
 Bennet, Michael 
 Bennet, William 
 Bicner, William 
 Bill, John 
 Biordan, Thomas 
 Blasdell, Ephraim 
 Blasdell, John 
 Blunt, John
 
 5<D MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Blunt, Ezekiel Checkley, John 
 
 Bouve, Gibbon Sharp Checkley, John W. 
 
 Brazer, Edward Checkley, Samuel 
 
 Breck, Daniel Cheever, Bartholo- 
 Bright, John mew 
 
 Brickford, Alexander Clark, Joseph 
 
 Brown, Ephraim Clark, Samuel 
 
 Brown, Gawen Clough, Goodwill 
 
 Brown, John Clough, John 
 
 Brown, Joseph Coffin, Charles 
 
 Brown, Joseph L. Colesworthy, New- 
 Burbeck, Henry comb 
 
 Burt, James Condy, Thomas 
 
 Butler, David Connell, James 
 
 Butler, Ephraim Coolidge, Benjamin 
 
 Butler, Gilliam Coolidge, John 
 
 Butler, Samuel Coppinger, Stephen 
 
 Carter, William Cross, John 
 
 Cathcart, John Cross, Joseph 
 
 Cartwright, Thomas Cross, William 
 
 Cartwright, Timothy Cullern, David 
 
 Gary, James Cumber, John 
 
 Gary, Samuel Cunningham, Thos. 
 
 Cazneau, Joseph Darracott, David 
 
 Chadwell, Benjamin Darracott, William
 
 SCHOLARS. 
 
 Davis, Solomon 
 Dickey, James 
 Dillehunt, William 
 Dinsmore, Archibald 
 Dobel, John 
 Dobel, Roleson 
 Dodge, Ebenezer 
 Dolbear, Benjamin 
 Doster, Andrew 
 Douglass, John 
 Eayers, Henry 
 Eddy, Joseph 
 Edes, Ebenezer 
 Edes, Jonathan 
 Eliot, John 
 Eliot, Samuel 
 Englis, Thomas 
 Eustes, Joseph 
 Farmer, Thomas 
 Foster, Edward 
 Francis, Archibald 
 Freeland, William 
 Gardner, John 
 Gardner, Thomas 
 Gibbons, Bouve 
 
 Goldthwait, Thomas 
 Gordon, William 
 Grandy, Joseph 
 Greenough, David 
 Greenough, Nathan- 
 iel 
 
 Greenough, William 
 Greenwood, Isaac 
 Griffith, John 
 Hammatt, Benjamin 
 Hammatt, Joseph 
 Hancock, Samuel 
 Harris, Samuel 
 Harris, William 
 Harrod, James 
 Harrod, Joseph 
 Hartt, Ralph . 
 Hatch, Ezekiel 
 Hatch, Nolen 
 Hayden, Elkanah 
 Heligar, Peter 
 
 Hemmenway, 
 
 Hervey, John 
 Hill, Edward 
 Hill, John
 
 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Hill, Nathaniel 
 Hill, Samuel 
 Hitchborn, Samuel 
 Hobby, John 
 Holland, Christopher 
 Hopkins, John 
 Hooton, John 
 How, John 
 How, Joseph 
 Howard, Nathaniel 
 Howard, Samuel 
 Howland, Joseph 
 Hutchinson, William 
 Ingerfield, John 
 Inglish, Alexander 
 Inglish, Thomas 
 Inglish, John 
 James, Thomas 
 Jenkins, Benjamin 
 Jenkins, Jonathan 
 Jones, Benjamin 
 Jones, John 
 Jones, John Coffin 
 Kiddle, James 
 Lambert, Nicholas 
 
 Langdon, Ephraim 
 Langdon, William 
 Larrabee, Thomas 
 Leach, John 
 Lewis, Jonathan 
 Lewis, Philip 
 Lillie, John 
 Loring, John 
 Lymmes, William 
 Marchant, William 
 Marble, Thomas 
 Marrable, Thomas 
 Marston, John 
 Maverick, Samuel 
 Maverick, Jotham 
 Matthew, Fairservice 
 McArthur, William 
 McCleary, Robert 
 McCleary, William 
 Mclntyre, Daniel 
 Mclntyre, James 
 Mclntyre, Robert 
 McLeod, Thomas 
 Milliken, James 
 Nazro, Isaac
 
 SCHOLARS. 
 
 53 
 
 Newell, Benjamin 
 Newell, John 
 Nichols, William 
 Ogilvie, George 
 Orr, John 
 Page, Benjamin 
 Page, Jonathan 
 Paine, John 
 Patten, Nathaniel 
 Philips, John 
 Pierce, Hardy 
 Pigeon, John 
 Prevear, Edward 
 Prichard, Benjamin 
 Prince, John 
 Prince, Joseph 
 Prince, Thomas 
 Procter, E. 
 Procter, Samuel 
 Pulling, Joseph 
 Rand, Waffe 
 Raymant, Samuel 
 Rea, Nathan 
 Rea, Uriel 
 Richards, William 
 
 Richardson, Richard 
 Richardson, Thomas 
 Rickey, George 
 Riddle, James 
 Riddle, Thomas 
 Ridgeway, James 
 Ridgeway, Samuel 
 Ridgeway, Thomas 
 Ridon, Thomas 
 Robb, George 
 Robb, James 
 Robb, Thomas 
 Roberts, John 
 Roby, James 
 Roby, William 
 Ross, James 
 Ross, Matthew 
 Saltonstall, Leverett 
 Saunders, Robert 
 Shaw, Francis 
 Shaw, John 
 Shaw, Samuel 
 Shaw, Thomas 
 Shaw, William 
 Sheppard, Thomas
 
 54 
 
 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Sigourney, Andrew 
 Sigourney, Anthony 
 Sigourney, Charles 
 Sigourney, Elisha 
 Skillin, Simeon 
 Skillin, Solomon 
 Smith, John Kilby 
 Smith, William 
 Smith, William K. 
 Smith, Richard 
 Soper, Benjamin 
 Spear, Nathaniel 
 Stavers, Bartholo- 
 mew 
 
 Stevens, John 
 Stevens, Wiswal 
 Stoddard, Thomas 
 Sweatser, Nathaniel 
 Symmes, William 
 Thayer, Cornelius 
 Thomas, James 
 Thomas, Jonathan 
 Townsend, David 
 Townsend, Thomas 
 Treat, Robert 
 
 Treat, Samuel 
 Trout, Thomas 
 Tudor, William 
 Turell, Joseph 
 Turner, Simeon 
 Vaughan, David 
 Vaughan, Nathaniel 
 Vaughan, William 
 Vernon, Thomas 
 Walker, Richard 
 Walsh, Jacob 
 Walsh, John 
 Webber, Richard 
 Webber, Seth 
 Wells, Francis 
 Wells, Samuel 
 Wendell, John P. 
 Whatley, Robert 
 White, John 
 Whiting, Joseph 
 Whitney, William 
 Whyte, James 
 Whyte, John 
 Widger, John 
 Willis, Charles
 
 SCHOLARS. 55 
 
 Willis, Nathaniel Woodman, Henry 
 
 Williston, Joseph Woolven, John 
 
 Williston, Josiah Wotton, James 
 
 Winter, Joshua York, John 
 
 SCHOLARS 
 
 WHO ATTENDED JOHN TILESTON'S SCHOOL 
 FROM 1778 TO 1789. 
 
 Abrahams, Ralph Alley, Nathaniel 
 
 Abrams, Joseph Ames, Thomas 
 
 Adams, John Andrews, Ebenezer 
 
 Adams, Joseph Andrews, Samuel 
 
 Adams, Joseph N. Andrews, William 
 
 Adams, Kidder Archer, Philip 
 
 Adams, Philip Atten, Anthony 
 
 Adams, Thomas Austin, Ebenezer 
 
 Adams, Thomas V. Austin, Thomas 
 
 Alesworth, Christo- Avery, Benjamin 
 
 pher Baber, Nathaniel 
 
 Alexander, Giles Bachoon, Benjamin 
 
 Alexander, William Badger, Daniel
 
 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Badger, John 
 Badger, Joseph 
 Bailey, Joshua 
 Baird, James 
 Baird, John 
 Baird, Joseph 
 Ball, Isaac Towns 
 Ballard, Daniel 
 Ballard, John 
 Bangs, Edward 
 Barber, Joseph 
 Barber, William 
 Barker, John 
 Barker, William 
 Barnard, John 
 Barnard, Moses 
 Barnes, Benjamin B. 
 Barret, Jeremiah 
 Barret, Joshua 
 Barret, William 
 Barrett, Smith F. 
 Barross, William 
 Barton, Jonathan P. 
 Barton, William 
 Bass, Elisha 
 
 Bass, John 
 Bass, Moses 
 Bass, Philip 
 Basset, Edward 
 Baty, Gideon 
 Baxter, Paul 
 Bayley, John 
 Bennet, William 
 Bennett, John 
 Bentley, Samuel 
 Berry, Ebenezer 
 Berry, Thomas 
 Blair, Victor 
 Blasland, Thomas 
 Blasland, William 
 Booth, John 
 Booth, Jonathan 
 Bowland, John 
 Boyd, Ebenezer 
 Boyd, John 
 Boyd, William 
 Braden, Bartholo. 
 Bradley, David 
 Bradley, Moses 
 Bragdon, Nathaniel
 
 SCHOLARS. 57 
 
 Breck, Joseph Carey, Edward 
 
 Breck, Samuel Carey, William 
 
 Breed, John C. Carlton, William 
 
 Brown, Nathaniel Carpenter, Samuel 
 
 Brown, William Casneau, William 
 
 Browne, Gibbins Caswell, Samuel 
 
 Browne, John Chadwick, Joseph 
 
 Bruton, John Chamberlane, Thos. 
 
 Buckminster, David Chamberlane, Edw. 
 
 Bulfinch, Samuel Champney, Caleb D. 
 
 Bullmore, John Champney, Joseph 
 Burdit, James White Chandler, Ebenezer 
 
 Burstead, Benjamin Chandler, John 
 
 Butler, Anthony Chandler, John T. 
 
 Butler, James Chandler, Joseph 
 
 Cabbot, Joseph Cheeseman, John 
 
 Cades, Samuel Cheeseman, Samuel 
 
 Callender, Ebenezer Christy, James 
 
 Callender, John Christy, Roland 
 
 Campbell, John Clark, Benjamin 
 
 Capen, Edward Clark, John 
 
 Capen, Stoddard Clark, Jonas 
 
 Capen, Thomas Clark, Joseph 
 
 Car, Benjamin Clark, Nathaniel 
 
 Carder, Richard Clark, Samuel
 
 58 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Clark, William. Cornell, Cornelius 
 
 Cleary, Robert Coverly, John 
 Clive, Philip George Craft, Edward 
 
 Clough, John F. Cross, Thomas 
 
 Clough, Joseph Cunningham, Wm. 
 
 Clough, William Cumber, John 
 
 Cobbit, Charles Curtis, Benjamin 
 
 Cobbit, John Gushing, Damon 
 
 Cobbit, Thomas Custain, Ezra 
 
 Cobbit, William Dakin, Joseph 
 
 Cole, Charles Daly, John 
 
 Cole, Elisha Darricot, William 
 
 Cole, Jacob Davies, Joshua 
 
 Cole, Samuel Davis, Elisha 
 
 Cole, Willam Davis, John 
 Colesworthy, Dan'l P. Davis, Joseph 
 Colesworthy, Nath'l Davis, Nathaniel 
 
 Collins, Clement Davis, Robert 
 
 Collins, John Davis, Samuel 
 
 Colpran, James Dawes, Edward 
 
 Conner, John De Cartevet, John 
 
 Cook, James Devens, Richard 
 
 Coome, Ezekiel Dillaway, Thomas 
 
 Cooper, John Dinsdell, John 
 
 Cooper, Samuel Doak, John
 
 SCHOLARS. 59 
 
 Doak, William Emmons, Joshua 
 
 Dodd, George Emmons, William 
 
 Dodge, Samuel Fairservice, Robert 
 
 Dodge, Unite Fanning, James 
 
 Dodge, William Fanning, Thomas 
 
 Dolbeare, Benjamin Farnham, Henry 
 
 Downes, Isaac Farnham, Newark 
 
 Downes, Shubael Farrey, John 
 
 Downes, Simeon Farrey, William 
 
 Drummond, Andrew Fellows, Jonathan 
 
 Drummond, George Felts, Richard 
 
 Dunnell, Samuel Fenley, Robert 
 
 Dyer, Joseph Fenno, William 
 
 Dyer, William Fitzgerald, Thomas 
 
 Edes, Edward Flagg, Benjamin 
 
 Edes, Thomas Floyd, Richard 
 
 Edwards, Abraham Folts, George 
 
 Edwards, Alexander Folts, William 
 
 Edwards, Richard Fosdick, Phineas 
 
 Eliot, Samuel Foster, John 
 
 Ellingwood, Ralph Foster, Moses Brown 
 
 Emmes, Clark Freeland, John 
 
 Emmes, Henry Freeman, Isaac 
 
 Emmons, Aaron Freeman, Thomas 
 
 Emmons, Henry Gardner, William
 
 6O MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Garrett, Joseph Hall, Jacob 
 
 Gallop, Benjamin Hall, Timothy 
 
 Gallop, Richard Hallen, Christian 
 
 Givin, Nathan Hallet, Job 
 
 Gleason, Benjamin Hallowell, Samuel 
 
 Godfrey, Moses Hallowell, William 
 
 Goldthwait, Benj. Haman, Casper 
 
 Goldthwait, John Haman, Edward 
 
 Goodridge, James T. Harding, Isaac 
 
 Goodridge, John Harris, Isaac 
 
 Goodridge, Sam'l W. Harris, Leach 
 
 Grabb, Samuel Harris, Samuel 
 
 Grant, James Harris, Stephen 
 
 Greenleaf, Oliver C. Harris, Nathaniel 
 
 Green, John Brown Harris, William 
 
 Green, Richard Harrison, William 
 
 Green, Robert Hartt, Edward 
 
 Greenough, David Hartwell, John 
 
 Greenough, John Haskell, Mark 
 
 Greenough, William Haskins, Richard 
 
 Groom, Richard Hatty, Michael 
 
 Hagger, Benjamin Hayden, Joseph 
 
 Haley, Charles Hayden, Samuel 
 
 Haley, Daniel Hausst, Joseph 
 
 Hall, Edward Hayter, Stephen
 
 SCHOLARS. 6 1 
 
 Heath, Andrew Hitchborn, John 
 
 Heath, E. Hitchborn, Nathan'l 
 
 Heath, Samuel Hitchborn, Philip 
 
 Heath, Thomas Hitchborn, Samuel 
 
 Heath, William Hodges, Charles 
 
 Heffron, Jeremiah Hodges, Leonard 
 Hemmenway, David Holland, Thomas 
 Herfimenway, Ebe'r Homer, Andrew 
 Hemmenway, Israel Homer, Samuel 
 Hemmenway, Joseph Homer, William 
 Hemmenway, Peter Hopkins, David 
 Hemmenway, Sam'l Hopkins, Henry 
 Henley, Charles Hopkins, Nathaniel 
 Henley, James Home, Joshua 
 
 Herdand, Nathaniel Hotty, Joseph 
 Hewes, Nathaniel P. House, Edward 
 Heyler, William Howard, Samuel 
 Higginson, John Howe, Nathaniel 
 Hiller, John M. Howe, Robert 
 
 Hillman, Robert Howe, Thomas 
 Hills, Elias Hudson, William 
 
 Hills, John Hunt, John 
 
 Hills, Samuel Hunt, Joseph 
 
 Hitchborn, Barret Hunt, Samuel 
 Hitchborn, Benjamin Hyler, William
 
 62 
 
 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Ingalls, Benjamin 
 Ingalls, Robert 
 Ingalls, Stephen 
 Ingerfield, Paul 
 Ingerfield, Peter 
 Ingerfield, Thomp'n 
 Ingersoll, Abraham 
 Ingersoll, John 
 Ingraham, Nathaniel 
 Ingraham, William 
 Jackson, Daniel 
 Jackson, George 
 Jackson, Henry 
 Jackson, John 
 Jarvis, Benjamin 
 Jarvis, John 
 Jarvis, Samuel 
 Jenkins, Joseph 
 Jenkins, Samuel 
 Jenkins, William 
 Jenks, Henry G. 
 Jenks, William 
 Jennison, John 
 Jennison, John L. 
 Jennison, Samuel 
 
 Jones, James 
 Kemble, Thomas 
 Kennedy, William 
 Kent, John 
 Kettell, Thomas 
 Kidder, Abraham 
 Kidder, Joseph 
 Kirkwood, James 
 Kissick, Francis W. 
 Knox, Barnabas 
 Knox, Robert 
 Kuddock, Samuel 
 Kust, Enoch 
 Laka, Samuel 
 Lamb, Samuel 
 Lambert, George 
 Lambert, John 
 Lambert, Thomas 
 Lambert, William 
 Langley, Daniel 
 Larkin, Freeman R. 
 Larkin, Samuel 
 Lask, Robert 
 Laughton, Dan'l W. 
 Lawrence, Joshua
 
 SCHOLARS. 
 
 Lawrence, Thomas 
 Leach, Melineuse 
 Lewis, Amos 
 Lewis, George 
 Lewis, James 
 Lewis, John 
 Lewis, Thomas 
 Lilley, Henry 
 Lillie, John S. 
 Lillie, Jonathan 
 Lillie, Thomas 
 Linn, James 
 Litchie, Thomas 
 Lombard, James 
 Lombard, Thomas 
 Lord, Alexander 
 Lord, John 
 Lord, Robert 
 Lord, Samuel 
 Lord, William 
 Loring, David 
 Loring, Edward 
 Loring, Henry 
 Loring, Joseph 
 Loring, Thomas 
 
 Loring, William 
 Lothrop, John 
 Low, Cornelius 
 Luckins, Thomas M. 
 Luckis, Benjamin 
 Magean, Moses 
 Makins, Samuel 
 Malborn, Godfrey 
 Mansfield, Amos 
 Marten, Abiel 
 Martin, John 
 Marstin, Nathaniel 
 Mason, Samson 
 Matchett, William 
 McCarty, Charles 
 McClarey, William 
 Mooris, Joseph 
 Meers, Daniel 
 Meers, Nehemiah 
 Meisories, William 
 Meisories, Joseph 
 Mellage, James 
 Mellage, John 
 Milldollar, Philip 
 Mills, James
 
 6 4 
 
 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Minns, Henry 
 Minns, Thomas 
 Mitchell, John 
 Moody, William 
 Moore, Thomas 
 Morgan, John 
 Morris, Thomas 
 Morse, Samuel 
 Moseley, David 
 Mountfort, Joseph 
 Neat, John 
 Newcomb, William 
 Newman, John 
 Newman, Joseph 
 Newman, Thomas 
 Newman, Timothy 
 Noble, Arthur 
 Noble, James 
 Noble, John 
 Norton, Elisha 
 Norton, Richard 
 Oliver, Benjamin 
 Oliver, Ebenezer 
 Oliver, Joseph 
 Oliver, William Pitt 
 
 Owen, Benjamin 
 Page, Benjamin 
 Palmer, Andrew 
 Palmer, Francis 
 Palmer, Samuel 
 Parkman, Samuel 
 Peak, John 
 Peak, Ralph H. 
 Pendexter, Alex. 
 Penny, Henry 
 Perkins, John S. 
 Perkins, Samuel 
 Pierce, John Badger 
 Pierce, Jonathan 
 Pierce, Joseph 
 Pierce, Thomas 
 Pierce, William 
 Piermont, John 
 Piermont, Thomas 
 Pike, Benjamin 
 Pike, Enoch 
 Pike, Timothy 
 Pittman, Joshua 
 Policy, Jacob 
 Pook, Charles
 
 SCHOLARS. 
 
 Presson, Nicholas 
 Prout, James 
 Pulsifer, David 
 Pulsifer, James 
 Ramsdell, David 
 Rand, Isaac 
 Rand, James 
 Rattey, William W. 
 Rayment, Edmund 
 Raymond, William 
 Rayner, John 
 Revere, Paul 
 Rhoades, Ebenezer 
 Rhoades, Isaac 
 Rhoades, Jacob 
 Rhoades, John 
 Rhoades, Stephen 
 Rice, Richard L. 
 Richards, John 
 Richardson, Jona. 
 Ridgeway, Philip 
 Riverley, William 
 Robbins, Francis 
 Robbins, James 
 Roberts, Benjamin 
 
 Roberts, John Tate 
 Roberts, Thomas 
 Roberts, William 
 Robinson, Benjamin 
 Robinson, Edward 
 Robinson, John 
 Rogers, Joseph 
 Rogers, Samuel 
 Rose, Philip 
 Ruddock, Edward 
 Ruddock, John 
 Salmon, John 
 Saunders, William 
 Savage, William 
 Seward, Benjamin 
 Seward, Thomas 
 Skelton, Stephen 
 Skelton, William 
 Sigourney, Anthony 
 Sigourney, Peter 
 Sinclair, Thomas 
 Singleton, Thomas 
 Skillen, John 
 Skillings, Neh. W. 
 Skinner, David
 
 66 
 
 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Skinner, Richard 
 Skinner, Simeon 
 Skimmer, William 
 Smith, Francis 
 Smith, Robert 
 Smith, Robert H. 
 Smith, William 
 Smithwick, Francis 
 Snelling, James 
 Snelling, John 
 Snelling, Joseph 
 Snow, Ambrose 
 Snow, Jeremiah 
 Snow, Thomas 
 Snow, Simeon 
 Spence, Peter 
 Starr, Joseph 
 Starr, William 
 Stevenson, Benj. 
 Stevenson, Thomas 
 Stillman, John 
 Stillman, Samuel 
 Stoddard, David 
 Stoddard, Seth 
 Stodder, Jonathan 
 
 Stone, Samuel 
 Swift, Benjamin 
 Symmes, John 
 Tate, Thomas Frail 
 Taylor, Benjamin 
 Tenneys, Richard 
 Thomas, Alexander 
 Thomas, George 
 Thomas, John 
 Thomas, Joseph 
 Thomas, Thomas K. 
 Thompson, David 
 Thompson, James 
 Tileston, John 
 Townsend, David 
 Townsend, Samuel 
 Tucker, John 
 Tucker, Samuel 
 Turner, William 
 Tyler, Edward 
 Tyler, Ellis 
 Vincent, George 
 Vincent, Joseph 
 Vincent, Thomas 
 Waine, Edward
 
 SCHOLARS. 67 
 
 Waine, Thomas B. Weld, Giles 
 
 Waine, William Wells, Benjamin 
 
 Walker, Ezekiel White, Ebenezer 
 
 Walker, John White, Samuel 
 
 Walker, Joshua Whitman, Edward 
 
 Walker, Newark J. Williams, Edward 
 
 Walker, Thomas Williams, John 
 
 Wallace, Samuel H. Williams, Thomas 
 
 Walls, Samuel Williston, Friend 
 
 Walls, Thomas Williston, John 
 
 Warner, Daniel Williston, Joseph 
 
 Waters, Samuel Woodward, William 
 
 Webb, Nathan Wyer, David 
 
 Webb, Thomas Wyer, John 
 
 Webb, William Yandells, Samuel 
 Welch, William
 
 PARENTS AND GUARDIANS 
 
 OF JOHN TILESTON'S PRIVATE SCHOLARS, 
 1761-62. 
 
 In 1761 and 1762 Mr. Tileston taught a 
 private school for boys and girls, in con- 
 nection with his public school, as I learn 
 from his diary and his ledger. He kept a 
 regular account with the parents and guard- 
 ians of his pupils, whose names are given 
 below. In his accounts with the parents 
 and guardians I find that they were all 
 charged with " Books, Pens and Ink." 
 The price of tuition was three pounds a 
 quarter. 
 
 Besides paying for their own sons and 
 daughters, Nathaniel Holmes paid for 
 Sarah Eell's schooling ; Benjamin Harrod 
 for Mary Saltonstall ; Mrs. Bright for 
 Elizabeth Ingersoll; William Shippard for
 
 PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. 69 
 
 Phil. Tucker, and Daniel Coney for Tim- 
 othy Jackson. 
 
 Adams, William Cheever, William 
 
 Allen, Widow Eliza. Clemens, James 
 
 Andrews, John Clough, John 
 
 Atkins, Henry Clough, Joseph 
 
 Atkins, Silas Coney, Daniel 
 
 Badger, Abel Crosby, Mrs. Mary 
 
 Bailey, James Dexter, Samuel 
 
 Baker, Widow Mary Dobel, John 
 
 Baker, Nathaniel Eliot, Andrew 
 
 Bass, Philip Emmerson, Edward 
 
 Boucher, Thomas Eustis, Joseph 
 
 Breck, Widow Fairservice, James 
 
 Breed, Nathaniel Goldthwait, Thomas 
 
 Bright, Mrs. Greenwood, Nath'l 
 
 Brown, John Hammett, Benjamin 
 
 Brown, Jonathan Hancock, Nathan 
 
 Butler, John Harrod, Benjamin 
 
 Butler, Mrs. Mary Hill, Alexander 
 Campbell, Mr. (tailor) Hobby, Rev. Mr. (of 
 Carey, Jonathan Reading) 
 
 Carey, Richard Holmes, Nathaniel 
 
 Checkley, Samuel Horton, John
 
 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 How, Joseph 
 Rowland, Nathaniel 
 Hutchinson, Thos. 
 Jenkins, David 
 Jenkins, Jonathan 
 Jones, Ichabod 
 Lenox, David 
 Lewis, Philip 
 Loring, Nathaniel 
 Page, William 
 Paine, William 
 Parkman, Mrs. 
 Phillips, Richard 
 Prebble, Col. 
 Procter, Benjamin 
 Pulling, John 
 Rand, Nathaniel 
 Rea, Uriel 
 Robb, James 
 Ruddock, John 
 
 Russell, James 
 Savage, Samuel P. 
 Shaw, Francis 
 Shippard, William 
 Sigourney, Andrew 
 Skillin, Simeon 
 Snelling, Mary 
 Spear, Nathan 
 Stoddard, After 
 Stone, Thomas 
 Thomas, Elias 
 Thomas, James 
 Thomas, William 
 Townsend, Shippy 
 Tudor, John 
 Turell, Joseph 
 Wells, Francis 
 Wendell, Mrs. Han- 
 
 [nah 
 White, John
 
 DIARY OF JOHN TILESTON. 
 1761 to 1766. 
 
 1761. Sept'r 15. Had a new Hatt of 
 Mr. Prince. Price 12. 
 
 Sept. 20. My old Hatt new lin'd. 
 
 Oct'r 12. Open'd Evening School. 
 
 Oct'r 24. Great wind. 
 
 Oct'r 26. Went to B y. Gave M r 
 5 Doll's. (Great storm.) Bot. 4 Cords 
 Wood, cost 2. Bot. 10 Baskets Char- 
 coal, ^3 os. od. 
 
 Nov. 4. Bo't 12 Baskets of Coal, $ 
 i os. 
 
 Dec. 6. Paid the Excise on Tea and 
 Coffee. 
 
 Dec. ii. His Excellency Major Gen- 
 eral Whitmore was drowned. 
 
 1762. Jan. 5. Died, Elizabeth, Em- 
 press of Russia. 
 
 Declared war against Spain.
 
 72 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Jan'y 15. Window's Sash put up new, 
 and fence painted and Cellar Doors ; new 
 Hearth ; new Floor ; new fence between 
 Latin School. 
 
 Feb. 1 6. Martinico taken by the Eng- 
 lish ; General Moncton, Commander. 
 
 April 14. Declar'd war (at Boston) 
 against the King of Spain. 
 
 May 7. 137 Boys at School at one 
 Time in the forenoon. 
 
 May 10. 139 Boys present at one Time. 
 
 May 17. 136 Boys present. 
 
 May 18. 140 Boys present. 
 
 May 19. 136 Boys present. 
 
 June 14. 158 Boys present at once 
 (afternoon). 
 
 July 3. I had of Mr. Jn'o. Perkins, 2 
 Rheams of Paper; one at 5-10; the other 
 at 4-10. 
 
 July 28 was observ'd as a Day of Fast- 
 ing and Prayer throughout the Province, 
 on account of the Scorching Drought. 
 
 July 30. We had a fine soaking rain, 
 almost all day. 
 
 Aug. i. 137 Boys present at school.
 
 DIARY. 73 
 
 Aug. 23. 133 Boys present (exclusive 
 of private scholars). 
 
 Aug. 27. Capt'n Sigourney sent me a 
 Jugg of Rum. 
 
 Sept. 7. Began to take in Wood at 
 School. 137 Boys present (exclusive of 
 private scholars). 
 
 Sept. 7. Took the house of Mad'm Ste- 
 vens, at ;ioo per annum. Lodg'd in it the 
 1 3th of September. (Graining.) 
 
 Sept. 7. 30 feet of Wood at School. 
 10 feet more Oct. 8. 
 
 Sept. 8. Bought a knife of Mr. S-g-d. 
 Cost 2os. old ten. 
 
 Sept. 22. 6 feet do. at house. 
 
 Oct. 8. 12 feet do. at do. 
 
 Oct. 10. 36 feet do. at do. 
 
 Sept. 30. We had our roast beef frolic 
 at hog Island. 
 
 Died the 3Oth Sept. Eliza. Coffin, 
 Daughter to Brother C. Coffin, aged 7 
 years and 9 months. 
 
 Oct. 21. Mr. Allen gave me a present 
 of z 1 5 s. old ten. 
 
 Oct. 29. Began to make Fire at School.
 
 74 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Began to take the Newspapers of Mr. 
 Draper, at $os. per annum. Paid 25^. in 
 part thereof. 
 
 Nov. 4. Bot. of Mr. Symonds .(our Milk 
 Man) 4 Barrels of Cyder at 50.?. old ten, 
 per Barrel ;io. 
 
 Nov. 6. Tack put up. 
 
 Nov. 15. Bot. 6 Baskets of Coal for 
 i i6s. 
 
 Nov. 16. The Tansur Singers at my 
 House. 
 
 J 763- Jan. 13. Renew'd my Licence. 
 Mr. Will and De Cheserau being my 
 bondsmen. 
 
 Feb. 2. Bot. 4 Baskets of Coal for 2os. 
 
 March 23. Capt'n Vernon sent me a 
 present 2 doz'n of pickle Limes, Cocoa 
 Nuts and other sort of Nuts. 
 
 Capt'n Cartwright sent me some pickle 
 Limes (a pail full). 
 
 April 26. My Desk brought home. 
 
 May ii. 145 Boys present (exclusive 
 of P. School). 
 
 Aug. 2. I had of Mr. Ballard 8 Cord-
 
 DIARY. 75 
 
 wood for my House and Aug. 3 I had 6 
 Cord for School at 6 per Cord. 
 
 Aug. 4. Our frolick at Spectacle. 
 
 Aug. 9. Capt'n Vernon sent me 1-2 
 Dozen Oranges. 
 
 Aug. 9. The Singers at my House. 
 
 Aug. 10. Peace proclaimed at Boston. 
 (Training Day.) 
 
 Thursday, 25th of Aug., died the Rev'd 
 Mr. Alex'r Cummings, ae 37. His dis- 
 order was the bilious Cholick. 
 
 Sept. 1 6. Mr. William Darracott took 
 the Key of the Barn he to give 5 Dol- 
 lars per year as rent for the same. 
 
 Sept. 23. B-r-d of Mr. L-h ^50 old 
 ten, to pay Interest for the same till paid. 
 
 Sept. 26. Lent Master Proctor 1,000 
 quils. Oct. 10, lent 1,000 ditto. Dec. 27, 
 lent Mr. Proctor 100 quils. Jan. 4, 2,000 
 ditto. 
 
 Oct. 22. I transplanted a Mulberry 
 Tree of Mr. Leache's. 
 
 Oct. 22. Stephen Greenleaf came to 
 my house.
 
 76 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 1764. Feb. 23. Singers at my House. 
 
 Ap'l 9. Stephen Greenleaf came again 
 after having the Small-pox. 
 
 I gave 3 pistoreens for my 6 Ovals. 
 
 Ingredients for I quart of Ink 4 
 ounces of Galls of Aleppo, 2 ounces of 
 Copperas, 2 ounces of Gum Arabic. 
 
 May 7. Capt'n Jenkin paid me and 
 made an allowance of 2os. for keeping me 
 so long out of my money. 
 
 June 7. Doct'r Nyott Doubt died. 
 
 Aug. 22. 147 Boys present, exclusive 
 of private scholars. 
 
 Sept'r 15. I had a pair of gold buttons 
 of Mr. Webb. 
 
 Oct'r 29. Paid Mr. Sam'l Barret ; 15.00. 
 Old Ten's, it being what I gave towards 
 building the new north Steeple. 
 
 I had a new Russel Gown. 
 
 1765. Feb'y 4. I had the following 
 Reams of Paper of Mr. Caleb Blanchard, 
 viz,, i of 9 ; i of 6, 7, 6 ; i of ,3, 15. 
 Total 19 2s. 6d. Paid the I4th of Nov'r, 
 1765.
 
 DIARY. 77 
 
 Feb'r 23. Bought a Hog which weigh'd 
 244 Ibs. Cost ^30 los. 6d. 
 
 March 14. Bought i Ream of Paper at 
 Deacon Barret's. Paid ^5 os. od. 
 
 March 30. Chimney swept and Bacon 
 put up. 
 
 April 22. Chimney swept in the Kitchen. 
 
 Ap'l i. Made I doz. Cyphering books 
 with 10 1-2 sheets in each. 
 
 April 6. Being Sabbath day Capt'n 
 Dickey's house caught on Fire in the 
 morning, just before the second Bell rung, 
 but was speedily extinguished. In the 
 afternoon of the same day we were again 
 alarmed by Mr. Checkley's house being on 
 Fire, and it like to have prov'd a great 
 Fire. Every thing was mov'd out of the 
 House, and the top of the House was in- 
 tirely broke open. 
 
 April 8. Mrs. Leach del'd of the 7th 
 son, successively. 
 
 April 22. Apply'd to Doct'r Lloyd. 
 
 April 30. Mr. Bartlett sent me a Dozen 
 of Bristol Beer.
 
 78 MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 April 30. Rev'd Mr. Penuel Bowen was 
 Ordained to the Pastoral Care of the New 
 South Church and Colleague with the Rev. 
 Mr. Checkley. (We broke up school and 
 went.) 
 
 May 1 8. Bought of Mr. Salter 8 Slates 
 for 48^., and 100 pencils for 15^. 
 
 June 12. Had of Mr. T. Leverett 2 
 Rheams of Paper. (July had 2 quires blue 
 paper.) 
 
 June 26. The Select Men visited the 
 Schools. 
 
 Aug. 2d. Had two Cords of Wood of 
 Mrs. Doubt, from Mr. Gable's Wharff, at 
 $ los. per Cord. 
 
 Aug. i. Made 6 doz. best books. 
 
 Aug. 8. Made I doz. Cyphering books, 
 10 1-2 sheets in each. 
 
 Aug't 21. Had of Mr. Malcom 12 Cord 
 and 1-2 of Wood (6 1-2 at School), at ^5 
 los. per Cord. 
 
 Sept. 1 6. Bought of Capt'n Boroughs 
 at the Town Dock ten thousand quills at 
 . per thousand. I likewise bought at
 
 DIARY. 79 
 
 the same place 4 thousand for Master 
 Proctor. 
 
 Sept. 14. Mr. Elias Thomas, jun., 
 bought Eleven Hundred Quills for me at 
 4s. per hund. Little after, Mr. Thomas 
 bought two thousand four hundred more. 
 
 Oct. 10. Made 5 1-2 doz. books, best 
 paper. 
 
 Nov. 14. I had a pair of double soled 
 pumps of Mr. Webber, ^3 IDS. 
 
 Nov'r 21. Died, Master Langdon (of a 
 fever) ae. 32 yrs. 
 
 Nov'r 27. Mr, Carter's Father died very 
 suddenly. 
 
 Dec'r 26. Miss Anna Grant died of a 
 Consumption. 
 
 1766. Jan'y 25. School Chimney al- 
 tered. Cost i 2s. 6d. 
 
 Sept. 4. I was a Bearer to Mr. John 
 Laughton's wife. 
 
 Sept. 29. Bought a Ream of Paper at 
 Deacon Barret's. Cost 6 i$s. 
 
 Nov. 20. Mr. Samuel Neats died, greatly 
 lamented by all who were acquainted with 
 him, aged 44.
 
 8O MASTER TILESTON. 
 
 Among other matters the Diary con- 
 tains the amount Mr. Tileston " put into 
 the Contribution box" every Sabbath for 
 several years, commencing 1763. The 
 amounts vary from ten and three pence 
 to nine shillings. The aggregate is a no 
 trifling sum for a man in moderate cir- 
 cumstances. 
 
 There is also " An Account of Contri- 
 bution Money for my Pew, since Jan'y ist, 
 1768," to Dec., 1774. The sums vary from 
 ten shillings to one, two, and three pounds. 
 Mr. Tileston worshiped at the New North 
 Church.
 
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