Concord Academy records and student compositions kept by schoolmaster Phineas Allen, 1828-[not after 1836].

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Concord Academy records and student compositions kept by schoolmaster Phineas Allen, 1828-[not after 1836].

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Academy records, 1828-1830, plus undated items, include list of scholars (1828), lists of studies pursued, and lists of order of declamation and examination. Student compositions (most undated) include pieces by Caroline Downes Brooks, Sarah Brown, Sarah D. Clarke, Nancy Harmstad, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman Hoar (piece dated 1829), George Moore, Frances Jane H. Prichard, and "T."

22 items ; 31 cm. or smaller.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Private school established in Concord, Mass., in 1822; opened in Sept., 1823. Original proprietors: Samuel Hoar; Abiel Heywood; Josiah Davis; Nathan Brooks; William Whiting. First schoolmaster George Folsom was succeeded by Josiah Barnes, then Richard Hildreth, then Phineas Allen, whose tenure lasted from 1827 to 1836. Allen's Concord Academy pupils included the children of families in Acton, Boston, Brookline, Concord, Grafton, Groton, Harvard, and Lincoln, Mass. Among Allen's stud...