...School. And one of the last acts of his life was to deed seventy-five acres of land to trustees " to and for the maintenance, support, and encouragement of...part of Roxbury commonly called Jamaica or the Pond Plain for the teaching and instruction of the children of that end of the town (together with such...

...did not cease with the founding of the Roxbury Latin School. A short time before his death he gave an estate of about seventy-five acres of land to certain persons and their heirs for the support of a school and schoolmaster in that part of Roxbury then called the Pond Plains, or...

...Roxbury, and to their and to each or to either of their natural heirs' successively forever, and to and for the maintenance, support and encouragement of a school and school-master at that part of said Roxbury commonly called Jamaica or Pond Plain, for the teaching and instructing of the children...

...the cause of education were not confined to this school. In 1689, the year previous to his death, he conveyed an estate of about seventy-five acres of land to certain persons and their heirs for " the maintenance, support, and encouragement of a school and school-master at that part of Roxbury...