. Bethany sketches and records . see. Here on the Sabbath our ancestors met for public they convened on the hist Wednesday of each December,and on other speshall days, to discuss the civil questions of theparish. At a meeting of this kind held in December. 1763, it was votedthat Timothy Peck, John White and Jesse Bradley be a commiteyto take care of the school money of this society. Again Oct. 22,1764, it was Voted that the school money for this society shall be SCHOOLS. 105 divided into three equall parts and to be laid out for Schooling inthe most proper plaisses in this Society
. Bethany sketches and records . see. Here on the Sabbath our ancestors met for public they convened on the hist Wednesday of each December,and on other speshall days, to discuss the civil questions of theparish. At a meeting of this kind held in December. 1763, it was votedthat Timothy Peck, John White and Jesse Bradley be a commiteyto take care of the school money of this society. Again Oct. 22,1764, it was Voted that the school money for this society shall be SCHOOLS. 105 divided into three equall parts and to be laid out for Schooling inthe most proper plaisses in this Society, it being left with the Com-mitty to say where it shall be laid out. It seems evident that thethree schools were organized in the South, North and East Dis-tricts, which correspond to the Centre, Gate and Downs Dis-tricts of the present day. As there were no schoolhouses in the lasttwo districts, the schools were taught in private dwellings. Duringthe year following the school money was expended in maintainingthe above IHl-, DOWNS STKEl^T SCHOOLHoL Si:. In December, 1770, Daniel Beecher, Jesse Bradley, and EzraSperry were elected to be a Com for this Society to take care ofthe bank and School money the year insewing. It was votedthat the above Com shall divide the School money into Destrictsaccordmg to their discresion. A schoolhouse was erected in the North District in 1781, atthe junction of the Cheshire Road with the Straits Turnpike. Oneof the teachers was Isaac Judd, brother of Chauncey who waskidnapped during the Dayton Raid. This schoolhouse saw manyyears of service and was not replaced until 1880. I06 BETHANY. A schoolhouse was built in the East or Downs District before1800. It stood nearly opposite the present edifice and was occupiedfor more than a hundred years. It was detnolished in 1900. Eventhe young- people can remember this old, unpainted schoolhouseby the roadside. From the records we learn that the Beecher District, then calledthe Southeast, was est
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