A rabbit hole I fell down today on Massachusetts property taxes and school funding

In order:

• 1620: Mayflower passengers arrive in Plymouth (start of the Plymouth Colony)
• 1630: Massachusetts Bay Company starts in Boston
• 1634: Taxation of every man's assets and products of his abilities passed by Mass Bay Colony
• 1635: Boston Latin School founded
• 1636: Harvard founded
• 1646: Taxation of "visible estate" (a property tax) 
• 1647: "Old Deluder Satan" law requires a school for every settlement of fifty families and a grammar school of every settlement of a hundred paid either by parents and masters OR by the settlement as a whole

This of course both leaves a lot out and oversimplifies, BUT I thought the interaction of taxation and education in Massachusetts interesting.

If you're coming to the MASS/MASC Conference next week, this is background research I was doing for the "70 on 70" session at 12:30 on Wednesday.