A deed of gift of Dr. Shattuck and his wife, conveying to St. Paul’s School three pieces of land on the road running from Concord, containing in all fifty-four and one third acres, together with certain buildings, was presented and accepted at a meeting of the newly formed Board of Trustees held in Concord on September 5 and 6, 1855. The buildings were a large brick house (Dr. Shattuck’s summer home, the original Schoolhouse), a grist-mill (on site of Hargate), a sawmill, and Miller’s and Farmer’s cottages.

“We are desirous,” says the Deed, “of endowing a school of the highest class, for boys, in which they may obtain an education which shall fit them either for college or business; including thorough intellectual training in the various branches of learning; gymnastic and manly exercises adapted to preserve health and strengthen the physical condition; such aesthetic culture and accomplishments as shall tend to refine the manners and elevate the taste, together with careful moral and religious instruction.”