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Mr. James McCombs, of Greene Township, has handed us a very aged document, gathered from his deceased father's old papers. We copy about as it appears on the faded surface of the original:
Article of agreement between David McCombs Teacher, and we the undersigned subscribers all of Hanover Township, Beaver County, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, witnesseth that the said McCombs doth agree to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic to the best of his skill for the term of six months, in the Traves school house; school to commence as soon as the school is made up, and to keep regular hours. We the subscribers do agree to pay the said David McCombs, at the rate of four dollars and seventy-five cents per scholar, one half in grain, payable quarterly. We do also agree to make the school house comfortably and furnish fuel and very necessary for the convenience of teaching. The said teacher reserves every other Saturday and one week in harvest to himself, all other lost time to be made up. The school may be ruled by three trustees chosen from among the employers, such as they may think fit, whose duty it shall be to visit the school at least once every month and make such regulations as they may think the school needs; each party shall be free at the end of every quarter by showing good reason. In testimony we have set our names April the 7th, 1830, the grain to be de
livered in harvest:
Wirt. P. Hammond, 3
John Gibb, 2
Peter Lance, 2
Alexander Gibb, 1-1/2
George White, 1-1/2
Chas. Smith, 2
Jno. Creery, 1
Wm. Mars, 1
Wm. Nickleson, 1
David McCombs, 2
Chas. Anderson, 1- 1/2
Esther Hartford, 1- 1/2
Jas. Hartford, 1/2
Jacob Stiffler, 1
Mary Harper, 1
Wrn. Harvey, 1