Would take a few young Ladies, _&c._ to teach them Spelling,
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, at his School near the
Cornfield. ALSO, French taught and translated by said
_Britt_.
_Boston Gazette_, April 27, 1767.
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Where were or where was, as the case might be, the "Cornfields" or
"Cornfield" of Boston in 1763? Martin Gay kept a store or lived near
there, and in 1767 Master Britt kept a school for young ladies near the
"Cornfield."