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Excerpt from First Sabbath School: In Framingham, Mass;, From 1816 to 1868, With a Sketch of the Rise of Sabbath Schools
The first steps towards gathering a class Of youth for religious instruction, in Framingham, were taken by Miss Nancy Bent and Miss Abagail Stone.
These young ladies, who were intimate friends, mutually agreed to make an effort, each in her own circle of acquaintances, to establish a weekly meeting of children of both sexes, for the special purpose of moral and religious improvement. The leading object was the study of the Bible. This was in the summer of 1814.
Miss Stone formed a class of those living in what is now the village of Saxonville, which met on Saturday afternoons at the house of her grandfather, Colonel Micah Stone.e how many children joined the class, and from what families, cannot be ascertained.
The house stood on the corner, near the large elms, opposite the counting-room of the Corporation.
At the same time Miss Bent invited the chil dren of her neighbors to meet her at her father's house, - also on Saturday afternoons. The children of the Boynton, Abbott, Hastings, and Herring families, and some others, to the number of fourteen or fifteen, accepted the invitation.
These children were from four to ten years Old. They would start from home soon after dinner, taking their braiding - which was the child's work of those days, and at which they could keep busy without interfering with their recitations. They were received at the old mansion - so shaded by spreading oaks and fragrant locust trees - with a cordial welcome, which made the most timid feel quite at home.
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