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' /" PORTSMOUTH FRIENDS MEETING HOUSI
Friends School opened in 1784 in upper
room of this building.

MOSES BROWN SCHOOL
Yearly Meeting School at Portsmouth 1784-1788
Friends' Boarding School at Providence opened 1819
Moses Brown School, name adopted 1904
Control of Lincoln School assumed for the education of girls
and Moses Brown School made a boys’ school exclusively 1926

MOSES BROWN, 1738-1836

Special friend of the poor and needy; counselor to the
troubled; physician to the poor and rich; apostle of tem­
perance; advocate of peace; patriot and pacifist; abolition­
ist; promoter and patron of industry; assemblyman and
joint author of the first proposed free-school legislation for
Providence; student of science; one of the founders of the
Providence Athenaeum, the Rhode Island Bible Society,
the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture in Rhode
Island, the Rhode Island Peace Society, and the Rhode
Island Historical Society; treasurer of the School Fund for
more than half a century; generous donor of land to, and
leading spirit in the founding of Moses Brown School.

Friends Boarding School — 1819