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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal . (search)
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, John S. Edgerly : and his home on Winter Hill (search)
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Charlestown schools within the peninsula Revolutionary period (search)
Charlestown schools within the peninsula Revolutionary period By Frank Mortimer Hawes
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In giving our brief sketch of Mr. Sweetser, we are not able to state precisely when his term of service ended as schoolmaster.
January 20, 1755, he was chosen town clerk till the March meeting.
In May, 1761, and perhaps earlier, he was serving in that capacity permanently.
He held this office until his death, which occurred suddenly January 15, 1778.
His school labors, like those of Mr. Harris, may have ended with the disastrous events of 1775.
An obituary notice of him may be found in the Boston Gazette, under date of his death.
Seth Sweetser, Jr., born February 5, 1704, was of the fourth generation from the original settler of the same name, who came to this country from Tring, Hertfordshire, Eng. He graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1722, and, with the exception of the year 1750–'51, was schoolmaster in his native town from July, 1724, for fully fifty years