Excerpt from John Adams as a Schoolmaster Before the return home of the minister, John Adams was engaged to teach the school. Three weeks later, a horse and an attendant were sent from Worcester to the Adams farm in Brain tree, to accompany the schoolmaster to his new home. The jour ney of about sixty miles was made in one day. Arriving in Worcester, he went to board at the town's expense, at Major Nathaniel Greene's, one of the three to carry into effect the vote of the town to maintain a grammar school. Immediately after the young schoolmaster was settled in his work, he began to write a promised account of the situation of his mind. But the natural strength of his faculties being insufficient for the task, he felt obliged to invoke the muse or goddess who inspired Mil ton's pen, to help him sing things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. The result of this in a letter dated Sept. 2, 1755, is as interest ing today as when it was written for it reveals a poetic tendency of the man which later circumstances did not tend to develop. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.