Master Turner was William Turner, a fashionable dancing master of
Boston, who afterward resided in Salem, and married Judith, daughter
of Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem, who died in 1829, aged one
hundred and one years. It was recalled by an old lady that the
scholars in the school of her youth marched through Boston streets,
to the music of the fiddle played by "Black Henry," to Concert Hall,
corner Tremont and Bromfield streets, to practice dancing; and that
Mr. Turner walked at the head of the school. His advertisements may
be seen in Boston and Salem papers, thus:--
"Mr. Turner informs the Ladies and Gentlemen in Town and Country
that he has reduced his price for teaching from Six Dollars Entrance
to One Guinea, and from Four Dollars per month to Three. Those
ladies and Gentlemen who propose sending their children to be taught
will notice no books will be kept as Mr. T. has suffered much by
Booking. The pupils must pay monthly if they are desirous the School
should continue."