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Grammar School

A school in Bristol County, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1898 and 1911.

The line reading Weir Grammar School in the 1898 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1898 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1898Weir Grammar Schoolthe scanned index
1903Grammar Schoolthe scanned index
1911Grammar Schoolthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Grammar School
Weir Grammar School

Named in the 1883 county history

The history of Bristol County was published 15 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

March 23 1734 Ye 23d of ye month called March 173f voted, that such vilage shall have free toleration to elect a school master for each vilage, to be paid by a rate upon each vilage if the said vilages see cause to elect one, & that vilage which shall clear the town of being fined for want of a grammar school master, by procuring a lawfull one, shall receive ten pounds fro be paid by the whole town in general & that every person or persons in each of sd vilages shall have free access or liberty to send their children to sd master for benifitt of the lattin tongue but no other: at an annual meeting in March 1733, voted - That William Lake as grammar school master at forty five pounds pr annum : Voted, - That all people who receive benifitt of ye sd schoolmaster, by sending their children, shall frankly give sd master their proportionable part of his dqet, washing & lodging - also he shall be removed by order of the selectmen.

Read the chapter on Dartmouth Town.

Named in the same survey

12 establishments

The surveyors walked Bristol County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1898 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1903 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1903
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1903 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1903
The index line reading Cooks Hotel in the 1903 atlasCooks Hotelhotel1903
The index line reading High School in the 1903 atlasHigh Schoolschool1903
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1903 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1903
The index line reading Park Hotel in the 1903 atlasPark Hotelhotel1903
The index line reading Unity Church in the 1903 atlasUnity Churchchurch1903
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1903 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1903
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1911 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1911
The index line reading Foundry, at Easton Furnace in the 1911 atlasFoundry, at Easton Furnacefoundry1911
The index line reading Post Office in the 1911 atlasPost Officeice house1911

Other schools in the atlases

2

Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Bristol County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Bristol County, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.