History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . time until 1844 when super-intendent of schools was voted for, the offices of commissioner and inspectorof schools having been abolished. Moses Conger was elected the firstsuperintendent of schoo!s in now Pine Plains. Under the above act, in 1795, two thousand and two hundred poundsschool fund was distributed to the County of Duchess—Putnam wasthen part of Duchess—and in the apportionment to the towns by the super-visor May 30, 1795, North East had 154 pounds, one shilling. Half of that,as
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . time until 1844 when super-intendent of schools was voted for, the offices of commissioner and inspectorof schools having been abolished. Moses Conger was elected the firstsuperintendent of schoo!s in now Pine Plains. Under the above act, in 1795, two thousand and two hundred poundsschool fund was distributed to the County of Duchess—Putnam wasthen part of Duchess—and in the apportionment to the towns by the super-visor May 30, 1795, North East had 154 pounds, one shilling. Half of that,as an additional amount—77 pounds 6 pence—was raised by tax on thetown making the amount of school fund 231 pounds, 1 shilling, 6 order for this amount—tne first under the act of 1795—was drawn May31, 1796, on the county treasurer, William Emott, Esq., by Ebenezer Dib-blee, John Folicn and John D. Pull. Ike act caused a gocd deal of dis-cussion as to its real meaning and intent, but good, bad and mixed, it was& new departure in the school system. A school district was called a. Frank Lineage. THE DISTRICT SCHOOL. 269 society, and the seventeen, the number then in Old North East, werereorganized to include all the territory in the town, and all the childrenfrom five to fifteen years old—about five hundred—the legal school districts covered a large territory, and from two to three miles wasnot an uncommon distance to go to school. It is scarcely to be doubted, however, that the school master and schoolhouse were respectively in existence years before 1795, but the school law•of that year made them a matter of public record. Ebenezer Dibblee wastown clerk of old North East in 1795-G, and was careful and conscientiousin his clerical duties in all things—including the first school recoids underthe law of 1795. There is not a complete list of school districts or societies on file forany year from 1795 to 1800, but the data at hand shadow the
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