Essex Gazette, May 14, 1771.
Boston school-books in 1790.
The School Committee in Boſton have ordered that the following Books be uſed in the Reading Schools of that town, viz.
The HOLY BIBLE;
WEBSTER's SPELLING-BOOK;
The Young Ladies' ACCIDENCE;
Webſter's American SELECTION of Leſſons in Reading and Speaking;
The CHILDREN'S FRIEND;
MORSE's GEOGRAPHY abridged; and
The NEWSPAPERS, occaſionally.
Salem Gazette.
ANECDOTE.
When Oliver Cromwell firſt coined his money, an old cavalier looking upon one of the new pieces, read this inſcription on one ſide, God with us; on the other ſide, The Commonwealth of England. I ſee, ſaid he, God and the Commonwealth are on different ſides.
Salem Mercury, June 26, 1787.