Report of the Committee on Public Instruction on the Subject of Making Provision for an English High School for Boys (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Always provided that none of the inhabitants of the said Town of Roxbury, that shall not join in this act with the rest of the Donors, shall have any further benefit thereby than other strangers shall have who are no inhabitants.

It may have been partly in consequence of this proviso, debar ring the children of those who were unable to contribute to the support of this school from participating in its advantages, that, in about 1675, Mr. Thomas Bell bequeathed a large amount of property for the maintainance of a school-master and free school for the teaching and instructing of Poor Men's Children at Rox bury aforesaid forever, and to be for no other use, intent, and purpose whatsoever.

Mr. Bell was one of the wealthy men of the town, a generous man, and one of liberal mind. The property which he thus de vised, was to be left in the charge of the minister and two head officers [deacons] of the church at Roxbury, and their successors, as trustees, forever. A question subsequently arose about the form of the devise, and the General Court, in 1677, decided that the declared intent of Mr. Thomas Bell, both in his life and at his death, in his will, was the settlement of his estate in Rox bury, upon that free school then in being at his death in said Town.

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