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Title: The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress
Year: 1877 (1870s)
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Publisher: (Concord, N.H. : J.N. McClintock)
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From that time laws 1805, he commenced practising athave, with great frequency, been Pittsfield. Here he showed an in-passed regulating educational mat- terest in education, as he conceivedters. The act repealing the law the idea of establishing an academy,requiring towns to have instruction He made certain proposals to thegiven iu Latin and Greek was prob- town, but they were rejected. Inably owing to the fact that pre- 1808 he removed to Pembroke,vious to this time nine acadamics had Rev. Mr. Burnham was born inbeen incorporated. Whatever may Dunbarton, November 18, 1775;have been the influence operative in graduated with honor at Dartmouththe abolition of such instruction, it college, in the class of 1804, and wasis evident that the class of work ordained pastor of the Congrega-attempted by the grammar schools tional church in Pembroke, in 1808.was now left to the academies. It Boswell Stevens, Esq, was born inappears, then, that very early was Pomfret, Connecticut, in 1782 ; grad-
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Pembroke Academy 399 uated at Dartmouth in the same classwith Rev. Mr. Burnham, and estab-lished himself in the practice of lawin Pembroke in 1807. Fortunate, indeed, was it for Pem-broke that three such men as theseshould become identified with itsinterests. Dr. Blanchard did notpossess a .vigorous.constitution ; hishealth began to fail him about theyear 1817, and his death occurredMarch 15, 1818. It appears thatduring his last illness he had con-versation with Mr. Burnham aboutthe disposition of his property, andthat it was at Mr. Burnhams sugges-tion that, in his will, which was datedJanuary 15, 1818, Dr. Blanchard,after makiug bequests to his friends(he was unmarried), left the residueof his property to found a kt publicschool or academy in Pembroke. The school was incorporated June25, 1818, as Pembroke Academy, al-though it has for many years beencalled Blanchard Academy. Thefirst board of trustees, appointed byDr. Blanchard, consisted of Rev. Abra-ham Burnham, Boswell Stevens, E

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