SCHOOLS. - The first record pertaining to schools was at a meeting of the fathers in March, 1727, when a "committee" was appointed " to hire a school dame to keep a school during the summer season and where it shall be kept, and to provide a place for the woman’s board." There is no record, however, of building a school house until in the month of December, 1734, when the town voted to James Wood thirty-two pounds for building the school house and "to have all the stones yt lieth about ye meeting house provided he should build it before ye last of April, 1735." The school house was to be "seven rods south of the meeting house twenty-one by sixteen feet and seven feet between Joynts." This action of the board took place at the first meeting of the town officers after Somers had been incorporated as a town. In the year 1751 it was voted to build five school houses.
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