The files contain some assignments of pay and receipts for pay from teachers. Not all accounts include the names of parents or ages of students. Periodically a teacher would file an attendance chart, showing the number of days per month that each student was present in school. The trustees of the Catholic school at Cobb Neck filed affidavits concerning the indigent children being taught there in order to receive money from the school fund. In 1832 and 1837 commissioners reported on the boundaries of several school districts.
Some documents provide other tidbits of interesting information.
The 1836 folder contains a printed flyer from the Institution for the Cure of Stammering in New York City. In the latter entries are arranged chronologically by year and then numerically by election district number and school district number. Most of the reports for 1839 and 1840 concern the establishment of primary school districts, acquisition of lots, construction of school houses, and requests for funds to defray expenses. The more detailed documents contain location information on the lots, names of sellers or donors, and building contracts with specifications for construction and furnishings. A few schools opened before buildings were constructed.