John D. Everitt Teaching Contracts and Poll List

Contract of 03-December-1827

      We the subscribers of the township of Montague county
of Sussex and state of New Jersey, do agree with John D.
Everitt to teach a regular English day school in the stone
schoolhouse near George Neldens in Montague, for the term
of three months, for which service we promise to pay him
one dollar and fifty cents for each schollar we shall sign
for or send on or before the expiration of sd term, said
Everitt is to teach Reading Writing and arithmetic, And
board himself, and we the subscribers do agree to furnish
the school with fire wood in an equal proportion according
to the number of schollars, we shall sign for or send dur-
ing the term. To commence the 3rd of Decm. 1827.
 
Subscribers Names               Subscribers Names
 
Usal C. Hagerty         2
James Suitor            1
Isaac Davis             1-1/2
John Hull        two    2
Ebes. Cole              1/2
James Stoll      Three  3
J. L. Hensen            1-1/2
Thomas Cole             1
Moses Snoven gn         1
Isaac Clark      Three  3