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Hardcopy submitted by Shirley Houck, electronic text by Joyce Riedinger, September 3, 2000


(W)=Whole District (J)=Joint District
Common School Districts
TOWN OF HANCOCK
Jan. l - Dec. 31, 1855


 
Dist. Dist.   School    Year   Material    1855     District            School-house Location
No.   Town(s) Located   Built  Built    Condition   Trustees
   
 1( ) No Report was found for this District Number.
       
 2(J) Hancock Hancock   18--   ----     ------      Abraham Sprague     On present State Route 30,
                                                    Thomas T. Williams  about 1/2 way beween Harvard
                                                    Daniel D. Sprague    & the Hancock/Colchester Town Line

 3(W) Hancock Hancock   1855   wood     good        Clark Landfield     Village of Harvard
                                                    H.B. Clauson

 4(W) Hancock Hancock   1854   wood     good        Ambrose S. Twaddell Shown as #3 on Gould Map. 
                                                    James M. Twaddell   (Present village of East Branch)

 5(W) Hancock Hancock   1853   wood     good        George Read         Readburn
                                                    William H, Brown
                                                    H.J. Lewis

 6(W) Hancock Hancock   1855   wood     good        James Wheeler       Not shown on Gould Map, but
                                                    Sherman S. Lewis    possibly on City Brook Road, off
                                                                        State Route 17 East
 
 7 W) Hancock Hancock   18--   -----    -----       James D. Turner     On present Peas Eddy Road, near "Hawk 
                                                    Joel Lakin          Point" as shown on Gould Map
                                                    Omar Parks
       
 8(W) Hancock Hancock   18--   -----    -----       John Knight         On present State Route 17, on village of 
                                                    Elsira Thomas       Hancock side of Hawk Mountain

 9(W) Hancock Hancock   1851   -----    -----       E.K. Carrier        In Village of Hancock
                                                    N.G. Hyatt

10(W) Hancock Hancock   18--   wood     poor        William Knight      Near intersection of Stockport Road &
                                                    Edward Doyle        present State Route 17
                                                    Samuel Doyle 
       
ll( )  No Report was found for this District Number. 
       
12(W) Hancock Hancock   1852   logs     good        Octave Bonnefond    In French Woods
                                                    William Leumesden

13(W) Hancock Hancock   18--   -----    -----       Harvey Hughs        On present State Route 28, near Basket
                                                    Israel Palmer       Pond

14(W) Hancock Hancock   1850   wood     good        George Labarr Jun   Not shown on Gould Map, (Between Lordville & Stockport)
                                                    William Manley      Village of Hancock & Hancock/Tompkins Town Line

16(W) Hancock Hancock   1854   wood     good        James M Miller      Not shown on Gould Map. Report refers to children
                                                    William B. Smith    from Trout Creek
       
17( ) No Report was found for this District Number.
       
18(W) Hancock Hancock   1853   wood     good        Jno. H. Kiersted    Cadosia Valley
                                                    John Palen

19(W) Hancock Hancock   1800   wood     bad         Squire J. Miller    Not shown on Gould Map.
                                                    Laurens Apley
       
20(W) Hancock Hancock   18 --  ----     ----        Hiram Fish          Not shown on Gould Map, but probably near present
                                                    John Fish           Village of Fishs Eddy. "Set off in May 1855."

21(J) Hancock Hancock   18--   wood     good        Richard Sands       Not shown on Gould Map, but 3/4s way to Route 10
      & Tompkins                                    Riley Read          on Sands Creek Road.
       
NOTE: The school-houses were sited, to the best of our ability, by reference to the Gould Map, the Beers Atlas & present day County Highway Maps.


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