Charlestown School Committee is established.

Originally a temporary committee, it consists of Samuel Phipps and Jonathan Dowse, who are appointed to “inspect and regulate” the school and solve overcrowding. The first women teachers are also hired to teach the children of the poor and pupils living in remote areas beyond Charlestown Neck. A permanent school committee, charged “to visit the school once, at least, a quarter, to examine it and the children that were admitted to it,” is appointed in 1748. A new board is established in 1793.*