Esq., Rev. Ezekiel Cheever, of Williamsburg, Mass., Frederic Tudor, Esq., Hon. Isaac P. Davis, Dr. John C. Warren, George Bass, Esq., Hon. Richard Sullivan, Rev. Dr. Parkman, Rev. Dr. Lowell, Rev. Dr. George G. Ingersoll, Dr. John W. Webster, Hon. Sylvester Judd, Hon. James Savage, Rev. Dr. William Jenks, Charles Hayward, Esq., Dr. George Hayward, Dr. Asa Alford Tufts of Dover, N. H., Rev. J. Peele Dabney, Hon. Edward Everett, Dr. S. D. Townsend, Hon. John Gorham Palfrey, William Hayden, Esq., Rev. Samuel Gilman, Rev. Dr. N. L. Frothingham, Ellis Gray Loring, Esq., John L. Hayes, Esq., of Portsmouth, N. H., Rev. Cazneau Palfrey, Rev. Samuel May, jr., Charles Warren, Esq., Robert Treat Paine, Esq., Edward Wigglesworth, Esq., Francis Jenks, Esq., Dr. B. B. Appleton, Charles H. Parker, Esq., Hon. John C. Park, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, D. C. Ballard, Esq., J. L. English, Esq., Thomas Bulfinch, Esq., R. G. Parker, Esq., George P. Sanger, Esq., Rev. Ebenezer Cheever of Newark, N. J., Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, M. D., W. H. S. Jordan, Esq., Duncan Bradford, Esq., Thomas S. English, Esq., Thomas B. Curtis, Esq., Mr. Edward Tuckerman, Mr. William T. Harris, Rev. J. F. W. Ware, William W. Greenough, Esq., Mr. William J. Delano, Mr. Alexander H. Everett, jr., Mr. Erastus C. Pease, Messrs. Metcalf & Co.; to Mrs. Fannie Hunt, Mrs. Tompson of Portsmouth, N. H., and to other persons who will find the information furnished in their kind communications embodied in the following pages.

The Association's committee on the History of the School in 1844, consisted of B. A. Gould, William Wells, S. J. Bridge, John C. Park, Charles K. Dillaway, E. S. Dixwell, Francis Gardner, and Edward E. Hale. In 1845, 1846 and 1847, of most of the same gentlemen, with the addition of Rev. Messrs. Young and Ellis, and of Messrs. Joseph Hussey and Thomas Farrington. The date given to a class is always that when it joined the School.

The memoranda of titles and the dates of deaths are inserted in a few instances, without any effort for completeness.

Where a literary degree is affixed to any name, it is one given by our University at Cambridge, unless some other institution is specified.

The names of ordained ministers are printed in Italics.

The death of any person is noted by a star against his name. Two stars signify that his connection with the School was closed by his death.

In Chapter II. those pupils who completed the whole course are distinguished by the sign. † In several cases, where they completed the course in a term shorter or longer than the usual period of seven years, that fact is indicated by a figure annexed

to the † †5 meaning that the pupil completed the full course in five years.

The interruption which will be noticed between April 19, 1775, and November 8, 1776, is the suspension caused by hostilities, the siege of the town, and consequent confusion. The school was resumed, by vote of the town, on the day last named.

Since 1814 the regular course has been one of five years. Some occasional changes in its length between 1789 and 1814 are indicated in notes to the catalogue.

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The order of names in the second chapter follows that of the manuscript from which it is printed. It is believed, however, that in later years, at least, that order was merely the order in which the boys came to the examination on the day appointed for it. The first comer stood first on the register, and so of the rest. Until 1814 boys usually entered at the age of seven years. In 1814 a regulation was made by which none younger than nine years old were admitted. In 1836 the limit was fixed at ten years. In 1847 it has been fixed at twelve years of age.

The materials gradually collected for a sketch of the history of this School are now so full, that the committee trust that in a future edition of this catalogue such a sketch may be laid before its Alumni. It will be seen from this catalogue that the School is the oldest institution for learning in the United States. Its history has been closely connected with that of the influence and worth of the town which established it.

BOSTON, August 9, 1847.

EDITORIAL NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

The rules adopted by the Committee in preparing the Catalogue in 1847 have been followed in the present edition as far as possible. All names are inserted under the year of entrance, and in cases of re-entrance are not repeated. Names of ordained ministers are in italics. The name of the College by which they were conferred is appended to all literary degrees, except that when a person is a graduate of any college, all subsequent degrees, if not otherwise indicated, are to be understood as given by his Alma Mater, and when no date is given, the degree was received in course.

The dates of death are given as perfectly as it has been possible to ascertain them, but many have probably escaped our notice. A star against a name signifies the death of the person, and two stars that he died while a member of the School. With the names of instructors, all literary degrees and other titles of honor are given under the highest official position held in the School. On some of the pages the numerical order of the notes may be incorrect, owing to the insertion in the plates of additional matter obtained after the pages were stereotyped.

*See note at 1738.

† H. G. Otis describes this distinctly-that the boys tried to be at Lovell's house early for examination.

The 13th of the 2d moneth, 1635.

Att a Generall meeting upon publique notice Likewise it was then generally agreed upon, that our brother, Philemon Pormort, shalbe intreated to become schole-master, for the teaching and nourtering of children with Boston Town Records, p. 3.

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We find this name variously spelled Pormort, Portmort, Pormont, Portmont, Pormorte, Purmont, Permont, Porment, Pormet, Purmount; but in Boston Town Records and in the registry of his marriage, Pormort. He married, at Alford, England, Susannah, dau. of Wm. Bellingham. Children, Elizabeth, b. Feb., 1628-9, [m. Nathaniel Adams, of Boston, Nov. 24, 1642.] Martha, b. Nov. 24, 1633.

28, 6th Month, 1634, Philemon Pormort and Susann his wife, received into First Church. Lazarus the sonne of Philemon Pormort and Susan his wife was borne 28° (12°) 1635. Annah the daughter (of the same) 3° (2°) 1638. Pedajah the sonne (of the same) 3o (4°) 1640. Susan the wife of Philemon Pormort dyed 29 (10) 1642. Boston Town Records. After the banishment of Rev. John Wheelwright in 1638 for his adhesion to Mrs. Hutchinson, and for his seditious sermon, he established himself in Exeter. Pormort did not sign the "Remonstrance," but sympathized with him, and "1638, 6th of 11 moneth," with Wheelwright and others, was dismissed from First Church, Boston, "unto the Church of Christ at the falls of Paschataqua, if they be rightly gathered and ordered." He afterwards went to Wells, and seems to have returned to Boston.

† 12-6 (Aug.) 1636. At a general meeting of the richer inhabitants there was given toward the maintenance of a free schoolmaster for the youth with us, Mr. Daniel Maud, being now also chosen thereunto. (A number of subscriptions follow. See Savage's Boston Town Records, p. 165.

note to Winthrop's New England, p. 265.)

Apr. 17-1637. Also that Mr. Danyell Mawde, scholemaster, shall have a garden plott upon like condition of building thereon if need be.

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Boston Town Records, p. 13.
Mather in the "James," on

Rev. Daniel Maude arrived from England with Richard the 3d of June, 1635, a little after the school had been opened. He had been educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, and was a student there while John Wilson and Ezekiel

Rogers were at Christ's. Wilson took his first degree the year before Maude, and they two are the oldest Cambridge graduates who came to New England. At the time he became our Head Master he was about fifty years old. He was admitted to the First Church, Oct. 25, 1635,- and admitted freeman May 25, 1636. Mr. Savage is mistaken in thinking that the customary token of respect is omitted in the record: for he appears as "Mr. Daniell Maude." It has been suggested that he sympathized with Wheelwright. But he was not one of the signers of the "Remonstrance," - and, when, in 1642, the Church in Dover, N. H., needed a minister, and sent to the Boston Elders to desire their help, these elders named Mr. Maude, who went there in 1643, and ministered to that congregation, till he died in 1655. He left no children. Mather says he had been a minister in England: Hubbard, that he was "a good man, of a serious spirit and of a peaceable and quiet disposition." His salary at Dover was forty pounds a year.

* The Town Record of Boston, says only "Mr." Woodbridge. We believe him to have been the first minister of Andover, in whose biography by Mather there is a year or two at this time unaccounted for. Mather, however, does not say that he kept the School. He was born at Stanton, near Highworth, in Wiltshire, England, about 1613. He went to Oxford, and remained till required to take the oath of conformity; declining to do which he took a course of private studies. He came to New England about 1634. His biography is in Mather's Magnalia, Book iii. p. 219.

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See the letter of Gov. Thos. Dudley to John Woodbridge in Winthrop's New England, Vol. II, (*253,) pp. 308-10, also Whitman's Hist. Anc. & Hon. Art. Co. 2d Edit. p. 143. Aug. 3, 1645. Divers free schools were erected. . . . At Boston . . . . they made an order to allow forever 50 pounds to the master and an house, and 30 pounds to an usher, who should also teach to read and write and cipher, and Indians' children were to be taught freely.... Winthrop's New Eng. Vol. II, (*214) p. 264.

† At a town meeting held April 11, 1650, "It is also agreed on that Mr. Woodmansey ye schoolmaster shall have fifty pounds p. an. for his teaching ye schollers and his pportion to be made up by ratte." Boston Town Records, p. 88.

The records of the town give us the following additional items of information in regard to him: 1644, 26. 1. Seth Woodmancy born, son of Robert and Margaret. Aug. 26th, 1658, Mr. Woodmansy's house to be repaired.

Mr. Woodmansy is the name of a settler in Ipswich in 1641 who had removed thence before 1648. N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg. ii. 174. For Robert Woodmansey's Will, see ib. xvi. 55.

Benjamin Tompson was son of Rev. Wm. Tompson of Braintree. He was a physician, and poet. He was the author of an elegy on S. Whiting in Mather's Magnalia. In 1700 he became Master of the Grammar School in Roxbury. He died in 1714, aged 71. There is a letter from him to Increase Mather in the Mather papers, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. 4th series, Vol. VIII, p. 635.

Appointed

Jan. 6,

1671 EZEKIEL CHEEVER*

Died Aug. 21, 1708.

Left Office Aug. 21, 1708

* Ezekiel Cheever was born in London, Jan. 25th, 1614. There is a tradition that he was, when a boy, at St. Paul's school in London. He came to Boston, in New England, in June, 1637; went, probably the next spring, to New Haven; there married and kept school. He removed from there to Ipswich, Mass., in December, 1650, and was the first Master of its Grammar or Free School. His first wife died in New Haven in 1649. At Ipswich, Nov. 18th, 1652, he married for his second wife, Ellen Lathrop of Beverly. He next moved to Charlestown and entered upon the duties of School Master there, Nov. 26, 1661, at £30 a year. From Charlestown he came to Boston. At a meeting of the magistrates held the 29th of the 10 mo. 1670, "it was agreed and ordered that Mr. Ezechiell Cheeuers should be called to, & installed in, the ffree schoole as head Master thereof, which he, beinge then present, accepted of: likewise that Mr. Tompson should be inuited to be an assistant to Mr. Cheeuers in his worke in the schoole; wch Mr. Tompson beinge present desired time to consider of, & to giue his answere: And vpon the third day of January gaue his answere to Major Generall Leueret in the negative, he haueinge had, and accepted of a call to Charlestowne."

The 6th day of 11 mo the Magistrates met again and "beinge met repaired to the schoole and sent for Mr. Tomson who, when he came, declared his remouall to Charlestowne-& resigned vp the possestion of the schoole & schoole house to the Gouernr & ca, who delined the key & possestion of the schoole to Mr Ezechiell Cheeuers as the sole Mastr. thereof. And it was further agreed that the said Mr. Cheeuers should be allowed sixty pound p an. for his seruice in the schoole, out of the towne rates, & rents that belonge to the schoole-and the possestion & vse of ye schoole house."

Among the Hutchinson papers at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, is one containing a petition from Ezekiel Cheever to Sr: Edmund Andros, Governor, that he may continue in his place as schoolmaster and may receive satisfaction for the arrears of salary due him.

At a meeting of the selectmen of Boston, May 29, 1693, it was ordered that Mr Ezekell Cheever and the other school-master shall be paid quarterly, and that orders be passed to the Treasurer for it Mr Cheever salery to be sixty pounds in money.

In 1699, his grandson Ezekiel Lewis, (q. v.) was appointed his assistant.

At a town meeting, March 10, 1701, it was "Voted that a House be Built for Old Mr Ezek Cheever the Latine School Master, and it was further Voted, that the Selectmen to Take Care about the Building of it."

At a Town Meeting March 13, 1703-4, "it was Voted that a New School House be build instead of the Old School House in wch Mr Ezekiell Chever teacheth, and it is Left wth the Selectmen to get the same accomplished."

The book with which his name is usually associated, "The Accidence," was probably written by him when in New Haven. This book passed through eighteen editions before the Revolution, and was used as generally as any elementary work ever known, says Dr. Bentley of Salem; and Mr. Samuel Walker says it was the favorite little book of our youthful days, and "has probably done more to inspire young minds with the love of the study of the Latin language than any other work of the kind, since the first settlement of the country." "I have found it the best book for beginners in Latin, . . and no work of the kind have I ever known, that contains so much useful matter in so small a compass." Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris says::-"I know of no elementary work so well calculated for the beginner as Cheever's Accidence, - preeminently perspicuous, concise and comprehensive." He was also author of a work entitled "Scripture Prophecies Explained,"