"James Hart, or Master Hart as he was usually called, was one of the early teachers of Parsonsfield. He came from Epping or Newmarket, N.H., about 1790 and left in 1807, having remained seventeen years. He taught in the western, middle, eastern, and southern sections of town, changing his residence to accommodate himself to his business. While teaching in the southern section, he kept his school in Jesse Wedgewood's dwelling-house, as I heard my father say, who attended his school when a small boy, probably about 1796. He was an Englishman, born in Berkeley in 1748, and governed his school with the rigorous style of the school teachers of England."
