Lawrence Academy
Founded by 50 Groton townspeople (Including the above mentioned Samuel Lawrence,) in 1792 as Groton Academy, and chartered in 1793 by Governor John Hancock, Lawrence is the tenth oldest boarding school in the United States, and the third in Massachusetts, following Governor's Academy (1763) and Phillips Academy at Andover (1778). Lawrence's first headmaster was Samuel Adams Holyoke, a renowned musician. One of the school's first benefactors was Col. William Prescott, a trustee and patron. The Academy's motto is "Lux Omnibus Lucet"; however, the phrase on Lawrence Academy's seal is "Omnibus Lucet", in Latin, "Let light shine upon all."
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