The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-15
How q SchOOlmaster was Paid ON Long
Island over 200 Years Ago.

The following is copy of the agree
ment made between the town of Hunt
ington, L. l., and Jonas HouldswOrth,
its first schoolmaster. This copy has
been made for the Journal of Education
by VIM. S. Pelletrau, editor of the
Southampton Town Records, recently
printed by order of the town:
"a covenant and Agreement made
the eleventh day of february 1867 at
corte or -Towne meeting, Betwixt ye
Inhabitants of ye Towne of Huntington
of the one partie, and Ionas HouldswOrth
of the other partie, whereby the said
1onas Houldsworth doth engage himself
to the said inhabitants during the term
of four years.. to be expired from the
thirteenth day of April next ensuing
the day of the date hereof. For to
school such persons or children as
shall be put to him for that end by the
said inhabitants. And likewise the said
Inhabitants doth also engage themselves
to the said Ionas Wordsworth for to
build him sufficient house, and to give
him with We said house q PARCEL of
grounde adjoining to it for accommoda-
ton thereunto. And furthermore the
said inhabitants doth likewise engage
themselves to pay unto We said tomas
Houldsworth and in consideration of his
said schooling twenty-five pounds on
accompt and his dat for the first year.
And also to allow him what more may
come in by ye schooling of any that may
come from other parts. The said TWEEN.
ty-five pounds is to be paid ye said To-
mas fOlloweth. Three pounds twelve
shillings in butter, at six pence per
pound. and seven pounds two shiilings
in good well-sized merchantable wam-
pun that is well strung, or strand, or in
such comodityes as may suit him
for clothing, these to be paid him
by ye first Of October. and three pounds
II shillings in corne, one-halfe
in wheat and We other in Indian, at three
& five shillings per bushel provided it
be good and merchantable), to be paid
BIZ ye first of march, and x-teen pounds
IA pounds shillings, in well thriving
young cattle, which shall then be be-
twixt two & four years old, the one-half
being in the steare kind, these to be de-
livered him ye yeare is expired. And
also the two next ensuing yeares. To
pay the said Ionas HOuldswOrth f35 per
yeare with ye aforesaid allowance of
what may come in by such as come from
other parts. The said f35 is to be paid
as followeth WIZ: Is in butter at 6
pence per pound, and flO in such wam-
pun as is above mentioned, or in such
cOmmodityes as will suit him, these to
be paid ye first of October. And five
pounds in corne by ye first March,
the halle in wheat, and the other in
Indian, at five and three shillings per
bushel, SO that it be good and merchant
able. And fifteen pounds in well thriv-
ing young cattle betwixt two and four
years old. the half being in the steare
kind. These are to be delivered when
the yeare is expired, (being valued by
Indifferent men.) And the fourth or
last yeare to pay to the said Ionas Houlds-
worth 40 pounds in such pay as is above
mentioned, according to the nature and
time proportionably, and at the afore-
said times of payment. ALSO, it is agreed
of that firewoOd to be gotten and brought
for the scho0le when ye season shall re-
quire it by such as send their children
to schoOle. And that the said Ionas
Houldsworth shall have liberty yearly
for to chuse foure men that shall be
bound to him for the true performances
IT the foresaid engagement