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Commonwealth Museum   Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin
Commonwealth Museum Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin

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The Old Deluder Satan Law, 1647

"Every town of fifty families must hire a schoolmaster. Every town with a hundred families must establish a grammar school." Literacy would frustrate schemes by that "old deluder Satan."

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