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Boston Nov. 3d, 1781
Whereas application has been made to the trustees of Phillips Academy to procure and employ a suitable person to instruct a number of youth in the French language, We the subscribers hereby engage to pay unto their Treasurer our respective proportions of the sum that shall be engaged for the support of such instructor, provided it should not exceed twenty dollars per annum for each Scholar.
Isaac Sears
J. Lowell
Nat Barrett
Sam Broome
Ebenezer Parsons
Joseph Lee for two
Charles Miller
James Hall
Margaret Phillips
John Brown Cutting
Tho. Martin
Joshua _Tabyon
Isaac Phillips
John Simpkins
Box 1 Folder 55-56
Phillips Family Papers
Phillips Academy Archives & Special Collections