Excerpt from Prime Ancient Society of Fairfield, Connecticut, 1639-1889: An Historical Paper Dec. 27, 1661. The town voted that the schoolmaster have ten pounds towards his wages out of the Town rates, and it is ordered that the fifteen Pounds that remain out of his wages shall be paid by the masters and parents of such child ren as need teaching from six years old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.