Life and times in Hopkinton, . he following were original members of this society :Samuel Curtice, Tyler B. Hardy, Willard Allen, George Warren M. Kempton, John F. Burnham, CharlesE. Taylor, William A. Patterson, Grovenor A. Curtice,David N Patterson, Lewis Howard, John L Taggart,Thomas B. Jones, Sylvester W. Perry, Edward B. Kemp-ton, James M. Burnham, Charles H. Danforth, JonathanClark, James E. Taggart, Elijah Spencer, Daniel B. Aus-tin. The church was erected the same year, at a cost of some-thing over $2,000, on land purchased by the society ofSamuel Curtice, and was dedica
Life and times in Hopkinton, . he following were original members of this society :Samuel Curtice, Tyler B. Hardy, Willard Allen, George Warren M. Kempton, John F. Burnham, CharlesE. Taylor, William A. Patterson, Grovenor A. Curtice,David N Patterson, Lewis Howard, John L Taggart,Thomas B. Jones, Sylvester W. Perry, Edward B. Kemp-ton, James M. Burnham, Charles H. Danforth, JonathanClark, James E. Taggart, Elijah Spencer, Daniel B. Aus-tin. The church was erected the same year, at a cost of some-thing over $2,000, on land purchased by the society ofSamuel Curtice, and was dedicated on the 16th of Novem-ber. It is a neat and tasty edifice. The society, thoughsmall, is active. The following have been preachers: Rev. Lewis Howard, from 1870 to 1873; Prof. J. , 1871; Rev. Ezekiel Adams, D. D., 1875; A. Steele, 1876; Rev. Lewis Howard, 1877-78; H. Leet, 1879-81; Rev. N. M. Bailey, 1882-83 ; Holman, 1884; Rev. Robert T. Walcott, 1885 to1887; Rev. Edwin S. Coller, WILLIAM H. LONG. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 197 CHAPTER LIV EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. In the progress of this work, we have noted frequent actsof the town relating to schools of different grades. We nowpurpose to consider facts that have as yet been untouched,or only partially stated. The records are too meagre toafford adequate knowledge of the first schools and school-houses. Previously to 1805, the law providing for a townsystem of schools, the number of places of public instruc-tion increased, and when, in the year mentioned, a districtsystem came into vogue, it found its own implied conditionspractically in operation. Schools continued to increase innumber under the district system till they reached twenty-one, though they were numbered inconsecutively from oneto twenty-four. In 1877, the different school-districts inHopkinton, as classified and numbered by custom and law,were as follows: District No. a uu««auautiuaauuauuaa 1 Village. 2 Emersons hill. 3
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