APPENDIX. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Mr. Daniel Pinneo 6 0 0
Mr. Thomas Miner 3 0 0
Mr. Nathaniel Holbrook 3 15 0
Mr. Henry Woodward 3 0 0
Mr. Abel Marsh 4 10 0
Mr. Lionel Udal 4 10 0
Lebanon Proprietors, 1440 acres.
Mr. Thomas Storrs, 20 acres.
Capt. Nathaniel Hall, 50 acres.
John Salter, Esq., 50 acres.
Mr. Nathaniel Storrs, 50 acres.
Mr. Constant Southworth, 100 acres.
Mr. Huckens Storrs, 100 acres.
Mr. Amariah Storrs, 20 acres.
Mr. Nehemiah Easterbrook, 50 acres.
Capt. Samuel Storrs, 50 acres.
Mr. Aaron Storrs, 200 acres.
Mr. Huckens Storrs, Jr., 100 acres.
Mr. Jedediah Hebard, 100 acres.
Mr. Oliver Griswould, 100 acres.
Mr. Levi Hyde, 100 acres.
Mr. Israel Gillet, 100 acres.
Mr. Rufus Baldwin 100 acres and 1 10 0
Mr. John Gillet 100 acres and 1 10 0
Mr. Eliezer Robinson, 50 acres and 2 5 0
Mr. Charles Hill 7 10 0
Major John Slapp 1 10 0
Mr. Joseph Wood 3 15 0
Mr. Silas Waterman 1 2 6
Mr. John Griswold 15 0
Mr. David Bliss 15 0
Mr. Joseph Martin 1 2 6
Mr. Benjamin Fuller 7 6
Mr. Azariah Bliss 3 15 0
Mr. William Dana 7 10 0
Mr. William Downer 3 7 6
Mr. Joseph Tilden 4 14 6
Mr. Samuel Mecham 1 7 0
Mr. Benjamin Wright 2 14 0
Mr. Benjamin Parkhurst, 50 acres land.
Mr. David Rowland, 200 acres.
Mr. Josiah Wheeler, 50 acres.
Mr. Jacob Burton 67 acres, and £1 0 0
Mr. Ebenezer Ball, 33 acres.
Mr. Thomas Murdock, 33 acres and £0 10 0
Mr. Elisha Crane, 33 acres and 10 0
Mr. Philip Smith, 33 acres and 1 0 0
Mr. Joseph Hatch, 33 acres and 1 0 0
Mr. Josiah Burton, 20 acres.
Mr. Israel Brown, 27 acres and £0 10 0
Mr. Daniel Baldwin, 13 acres and 1 10 0
Mr. Francis Fenton, 33 acres.
Capt. Hezekiah Johnson, 80 acres and £1 0 0
Mr. John Serjeant, 40 acres and 2 10 0
Mr. Timothy Bush, 40 acres and 2 0 0
Mr. Peter Thatcher, 40 acres and 15 0
Mr. Daniel Waterman, 24 acres and 15 0
Mr. John Slafter, 40 acres and 1 0 0
Mr. Samuel Hutchinson 2 10 0
Mr. Medad Benton 2 0 0
Mr. John Hatch 2 10 0
Mr. Samuel Partridge 2 5 0
Mr. Elisha Partridge 10 0
Mr. Jonas Richards 10 0
Mr. John Hutchinson 1 0 0
Mr. Elisha Burton 1 10 0
Mr. Nathan Messenger 5 0
Mr. John Wright 1 0 0
Mr. Aaron Wright 1 10 0
Mr. Francis Smalley 1 0 0
Mr. Joseph Ball 1 0 0
Mr. Jonathan Ball 5 0
Mr. Samuel Brown 2 5 0
Mr. Samuel Waterman 7 6
Mr. Samuel Partridge, Jr. 10 0
Mr. Ebenezer Jaques 7 6
Mr. Timothy Smith, 90 acres land.
Mr. Jonathan Curtiss, 120 acres and 3 15 0
Mr. Benjamin Davis, 40 acres.
Mr. John Ordway, 90 acres.
Maj. Joseph Storrs, 110 acres.
Mr. John House, 100 acres.
Mr. Jonathan Freeman, 40 acres.
Mr. Nathaniel Wright, 40 acres.
Mr. Otis Freeman, 40 acres.
Mr. Gideon Smith, 21 dollars.
Mr. Nath. Woodward, 16 acres land.
Mr. Isaac Bridgman, 40 acres.
Mr. Knight Sexton, 80 acres and £15 0 0
Mr. James Murch 30 0 0
Mr. Simeon Dewey, 50 acres land and 7 10 0
Mr. Benjamin Rice 7 10 0
Mr. Asa Parker, 50 acres.
Mr. Edm. Freeman, Jr., 40 acres.
Mr. Isaac Wallbridge, 40 acres and 18 0
Mr. David Mason 2 0 0
Mr. Jeremiah Trescot 18 0
Mr. Habakkuk Turner 7 10 0
Mr. Samuel Rust 15 0
Mr. Edmond Freeman, 50 acres.
Mr. William Johnson, Jr. 1 2 6
Rev. Gideon Noble, 40 acres.
Mr. Abner Barker, 30 acres.
Mr. Prince Freeman, 50 acres.
Mr. Abel Johnson 1 2 6
Mr. William Johnson 3 15 0
Mr. Russel Freeman 18 0
It should be remarked that many of the above named were unable to fulfill their promises. The College received in all about 10,000 acres of land.
EXTRACT FROM HANOVER TOWN RECORDS.
"Met according to adjournment, November 12, 1770. The following vote was passed:
"Whereas, John Wright, David Woodward, Edmund Freeman, Otis Freeman, Isaac Walbridge, Isaac Bridgman, and John Bridgman, have agreed to give the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D., 300 acres of land in this town, voted, that the above-mentioned persons may give deed of 300 acres of land in the land now lying undivided among the proprietors, as follows, namely, to begin at Lebanon line at the bound of a lot of land lately given by the Hon. Benning Wentworth, Esq., to the Trustees of Dartmouth College; then in the east line of said lot about 300 rods, to the southwest bound of the 17th hundred-acre lot west of the half-mile line, then south sixty-four degrees, east about 168 rods, or so far as that a line to run parallel with the first-mentioned line and running to Lebanon will make 300 acres, said land to lie to the above-mentioned persons for so much in their next division on the respective original rights they now own; i. e. to John Wright 40 acres, to David Woodward 50 acres, to Isaac Bridgman 50 acres, to Edmund Freeman 40 acres, to Isaac Walbridge 40 acres, to Otis Freeman 50 acres, to John Bridgman 30 acres. And whereas, the persons whose names are hereafter mentioned have covenanted and agreed to give to the Trustees of Dartmouth College, for the benefit of said college, the following quantities of land, namely, Knight Sexton 100 acres, Joseph Storrs 100 acres, John House 100 acres, John Ordway 100 acres, Jonathan Curtice 140 acres, Tim. Smith 100 acres, Edmund Freeman 50 acres, Prince Freeman 50 acres, Jonathan Freeman 50 acres, Nathaniel Wright 50 acres, Nathaniel Woodward 20 acres, Simon Dewey 50 acres, Benjamin Davis 50 acres, Asa Parker 50 acres, voted, that the above-named persons may give a deed of all the undivided land lying east of the piece aforementioned, and south of the hundred-acre lots in the 1st and 3d ranges of hundred acres in the 1st division of hundred-acre lots, and west of the two-mile road, and north of Lebanon line, it being about 1,000 acres, be it more or less, to lie for so much to the original rights aforementioned as the present owners of said rights have subscribed to give, reserving proper allowance for highways for the benefit of the town."
OTHER PROPOSED DONATIONS.
"We the subscribers hereby severally promise for ourselves, our heirs, etc., to pay to the Rev. Mr. Eleazar Wheelock, or such other person or persons who shall be appointed to receive the same the sums respectively affixed to our names for the founding and supporting a school for the education of Indian youth and others to be paid in land whereon to build a proper house or houses and in provisions and in materials for building such house or houses which shall be judged necessary for the support of said school, provided said school be fixed in the first society in Hebron and there continued. Witness our hands this 17th January, 1765.
David Barbur £80
Alex Phelps 50
John Phelps 50
Asahel Phelps 20
Joshua Phelps 16
Ebenezer Gilbert 16
Increase Porter 20
Benjamin Sumner 10
Obadiah Horsford 50
Silvanus Phelps 15
Israel Morey 20
Stephen Palmer 5
Aaron Stiles 10
Isaac Ford 10
Ichabod Buell 10
Lijah Buell 10
Alexander Mack 6
Stephen Stiles 7
Eliphalet Case 10
Benjamin Day 20
Asa White 2
Eliphalet Youngs, Jr. 2
Saml. Phelps 5
Israel Post 20
Nathl. Phelps 10
Stephen Barbur 30
Neziah Bliss 15
Samuel Fielding 2
Oliver Phelps 2
Pelatiah Porter 15
Eleazar Strong 10
Thomas Post 15
Saml. Gilbert, Jr. 20
Thos. Summer 5
Abijah Rowlee 10
Danl. Tillotson 20
Ephraim Wright 2
Saml. Jones 20
Danl. Porter 15
Oliver Barbur 8
Worthy Waters 10
Zebulon Strong 2
Jonathan Birge 1
Story Gott 25
Solomon Huntington 4
Solomon Tarbox 15
Elisha Mack 10
David Carver 10
Adam Waters 10
Samuel Bicler, Jr. 14
Ichabod Phelps 20
Ichabod Phelps, Jr. 10
Eliphalet Young 10
Samuel Gilbert 65
Benjamin Buell 20
Thomas Tarbox 10
Mr. Wheelock's correspondence indicates that the School was kept one year at Hebron, by Mr. Alexander Phelps.
"At a meeting of the First Company of the Delaware Purchasers (so called), held by adjournment at the Town-house in Norwich, on the 3d day of January, a. d. 1769,
"Voted that this Company do now grant to the Indian Charity School under the care of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D., of Lebanon, six miles square of land, to be laid out on the westermost part of this Company's purchase upon Delaware River, upon condition said School shall be erected on the Susquehannah Purchase (so called).
"The above is a true copy of the vote of the First Company of the Delaware Purchasers.
"Test Elisha Tracy, Clerk for said Company."
"At a meeting of the Second Company of the Delaware Purchasers (so called), held by adjournment at the Town-house in Norwich, on the 3d day of January, a. d. 1769,
"Voted that this Company do now grant to the Indian Charity School under the care of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D., of Lebanon, six miles square of land, to be laid out for the use of said School on the westermost part of this Company's purchase of land upon Lacawack River, upon condition said School shall be erected upon the Susquehannah Purchase, so called.
"The above is a true copy of the vote of the Second Delaware Company.
"Test Elisha Tracy, Clerk for said Company."
In September, 1768, Messrs. Williams, Woodbridge, Sergeant, Willard, Brown, Goodrich, Gray, Pixley, Jones, Curtis, Bement, Wilson, Stoddard, Bouton, Dean, Fuller, and others, proposed to give various sums, ranging from $5 to £150, provided the College, should be located, agreeably to their wishes, at Stockbridge, Mass. During the same year, Zephaniah Batcheller writes from Albany, stating that Captain Abraham J. Lansing will give, in all, more than two hundred acres of land, suitably located for buildings and other uses, and worth £2,500, provided the College is located at Lansingburg, N. Y.
"Province of New Hampshire, June 18, 1770. At a proprietor's meeting, lawfully warned and held at my dwelling-house in Lyme in the province above said, voted to lay out to the use and benefit of Dartmouth College fifteen hundred acres of land, ... provided said Trustees shall fix or build said college in the township of Lyme, south of Clay Brook.
"A true copy of file
Test Jonathan Sumner, Proprietor's Clerk.
Lyme, June 18, 1770."
"January 22, 1770. Proprietors' meeting at Hampton.
"Whereas a charter for a College to be erected in the western part of this province, by the name of Dartmouth College, has been granted under the great seal of said province, with a special view of Christianizing the several Indian tribes in America, therefore in consideration of the many advantages that would accrue to the proprietors of Orford if said College could be settled in said town, and that the same pious design might be carried into immediate execution,
"Voted, in case said College should be settled in said township, to give and grant for the Use and Benefit of said College, for ever, one thousand acres of land in said town. Also, whereas the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock is appointed president of said College, and doubtless will settle himself and family in the town where the College shall be, where it will be very necessary he should have some land to settle upon, therefore, for encouraging and promoting the same,
"Voted to give and grant unto the said Eleazar Wheelock, his heirs and assigns for ever, one thousand acres of land in said town. They also
"Voted (conditionally) to give to the said Eleazar Wheelock the sum of one hundred pounds lawful money."
Piermont offered one thousand acres of land to secure the College. Other towns, not mentioned hereafter, among them Canaan, Boscawen, and Cornish, are said to have presented some attractions to Dr. Wheelock.
"Honorable and Reverend: In the capacity of agent for the towns of Newbury and Haverhill, I promise and engage (if Dartmouth College is placed in said Haverhill in New Hampshire) that out of the subscriptions of said Haverhill and Newbury and the town of Bath, that three thousand acres of land shall be laid out in a convenient form at the corner of Haverhill, adjoining the southwest corner of said town of Landaff, and one thousand acres more, laid out in a gore, in Bath adjoining said town of Landaff, and the three thousand acres in Haverhill as above; and also I engage to give five hundred acres more to the Honorable and Reverend Trust of said College, for the use of said College, in a handsome form, round said College, if set in said Haverhill; provided it is not set on lands already laid out, which if it is to lay out said five hundred next adjoining, in a convenient form, as also to make and raise a frame for a building two hundred feet long and eighteen feet broad, one story high, or a frame or labor to that value. The above I promise to perform at or before the first day of November next. The frame I promise to set up on demand. Witness my hand,
Jacob Bayley.
"Portsmouth, June 29, 1770. "To the Honorable and Reverend Trust of Dartmouth College."
Newburyport, March 6, 1770.
Reverend Sir: I have lately received an account from Plymouth of a subscription being opened and there is already three thousand dollars in labor, provisions, etc., subscribed; also another here worth one thousand dollars, provided the College is fixed in Campton, Rumney, or Plymouth; also being sensible that you will be at great expense to move into a new country, have opened another subscription for Rev. Dr. Wheelock, which will be generous; I have lately heard that the College is to be fixed before the meeting of the trustees, which is the reason of Mr. Call's journey, the bearer of this, who is a friend to the Indian cause, and in time past has been a means of collecting a considerable for them. I should be much obliged if you would inform me the time the College will be fixed, and I will bring or send the subscriptions, which I make no doubt will be generous when completed. If it should not be agreeable to the trustees to fix the College in any of the above mentioned towns, these subscriptions will not do any hurt to the College nor Dr. Wheelock, but spur on others to outdo. I think, where it is fixed, they ought to do generously, as it must help them much. I conclude with our family's and my duty to you and Madam Wheelock, and regards to all the family, and remain your most obedient servant,
Moses Little.
"P. S. We hear that the most generous subscription is to carry the College, provided the place is suitable; hope what we offer Dr. Wheelock will not be any damage, for it is not done as a private thing, but are willing the trustees and everybody else should know.
"M. L. has subscribed:
20 thousand boards. 20 tons hay, three years, is 60 tons. 10 bushels wheat, three years, is 30 bushels. 10 bushels rye, three years, is 30 bushels. 10 bushels Indian, three years, is 30 bushels. 10 days labor, three years, is 30 days.
"Also use of house and barn and land pasturing round it, twenty acres cleared; also Esq. Brainerd, one right of land, etc., in Rumney; also sent a man with a subscription, to be followed, we hope, in proportion and more than proportion to the above. Expect some hundred bushels grain yearly for three years, also land and labor; and if the above is not enough subscribed by Moses Little, Dr. Wheelock shall have liberty to improve as much of his land as he pleases."
"Albany, May 9, 1767.
"Reverend Sir: I have had the pleasure to see your letter, directed to the mayor of this city and others. The subject of it was a very agreeable one. To encourage literature indicates a great mind; to civilize savages, with a view to their eternal happiness, evinces a goodness of heart and a charitable disposition truly commendable; whoever attempts it has a right to claim the assistance of every worthy member of society. I shall be happy if I can be any ways instrumental in promoting the success of your humane plan; I am informed that Mr. Mayor and the other gentlemen of the corporation have expressed an equal desire, and I make no doubt but their offers will be such as a corporation ought to make who are impressed with a sense of its general utility. I could say much of the advantages that would accrue from fixing the School near this city, but as you have doubtless considered this affair with attention, you will have anticipated all I could say on the subject. I shall only remark that I have observed with much satisfaction that the morals of my fellow-citizens are much less vitiated than those of other cities that have an immediate foreign trade, and consequently import the vices of other climes; to this, give me leave to add, that a becoming economy is what characterizes our people, and may, by way of example, have a very good effect on the Indian children, and such others as might be allowed to take their education in the proposed seminary.
"Should you, however, reverend sir, after receiving the proposals of the corporation, think them inadequate to the advantages the city would receive, or should you, for reasons that do not occur to me, think a more remote situation more eligible (which I wish may not be), I then, sir, will make an offer, to forward the charity. But though I have already fixed on the proposals I intend to make, I must yet declare that those that I am told the city intends to offer appear to me to have the advantage in point of fulfilling the intentions of the gentlemen at home, but perhaps it may be thought otherwise, and I be mistaken.
"Whenever, sir, this or your other affairs may call you into this county, I shall be extremely glad to show you any civilities in my power, and beg you will make my house your home, where I try to keep up to the good old adage, 'to welcome the coming and to speed the going guest.'
"I am, with much respect, reverend sir, Your most obedient, humble servant,
Ph. Schuyler."
"To the Rev. Mr. Wheelock.
"February 10, 1770.
"Reverend Sir: As I understand that Colonel Alexander Phelps, Esquire, has been on business of importance relative to your College, to wit, the consulting the honorable trustees, at Portsmouth, concerning the place where it will be best to set the said College, and as there is great engagedness and large subscriptions making by the Proprietors and others of the towns of Plainfield, Hartford, Harford, Lebanon, Norwich, Hanover, and some other back towns, for the said School, if said School should be set in Hanover, in the Province of New Hampshire, now, sir, I suppose that Colonel Phelps never heard of this subscription, and I apprehend he has not laid this donation, with the circumstances of the place, before the Board at Portsmouth.
"Trusting in your wisdom and willingness to hear everything of consequence to said School, I would therefore pray that the place for the said College may not be fixed on till the donations may be gathered and the circumstances of the place be properly laid before their Honors.
"P. S. I suppose there can be as much or more said in favor of its going to the said town of Hanover than any town on the river, which will be laid before their Honors in writing, if desired.
"From their humble servant and well-wisher to said School,
James Murch."
In a later letter he says:
"Now, sir, we all hope you will view the place yourself, and the people well all be satisfied that the College will be set in the best place for its benefit; or, if a disinterested man should come and view the places, and make a representation, it is generally thought it would come to Hanover or Lebanon. Now, sir, I shall endeavor to set before you some of the benefits of this place for the College. First, here is a large tract of land of near three thousand acres or more, all lying together, and the greater part some of the best of land. I shall only add that there may be a good road to Portsmouth; and it is in a line to Crown Point from Portsmouth; and a very narrow place in the great river, for a brig; and it is by a long pair of falls; and where salt and other articles, brought up the river, will be cheaper than they will be further up.
"Having given some short hints of what is commonly talked of where I have been, I hope you will condescend to forgive what is amiss in this broken letter.
"So I remain, yours to serve,
James Murch.
"Hanover, New Hampshire, March 13, 1770.
"P. S. I would inform you we all got up here well."
"The Company expected to attend Commencement at Dartmouth College, August 26, 1772, with his Excellency Governor Wentworth, viz.: The Honorable Mark Hunking Wentworth, Esq.; George Jaffrey, Esq.; Daniel Rogers, Esq.; Peter Gilman, Esq.; the Honorable John Wentworth, Esq., Speaker of Assembly; Major Samuel Hobart, Esq., John Giddinge, Esq., Colonel John Phillips, Esq., John Sherburne, Esq., Members of Assembly; John Fisher, Esq., Collector of Salem; Colonel Nathaniel Folsom, Esq.; Rev. Dr. Langdon, of Portsmouth; Rev. Mr. Emerson, of Hollis; Dr. Cutter; Dr. Bracket; Samuel Penhallow, Esq.; William Parker, Jun., Esq.; Benjamin Whiting, Esq., High Sheriff of Hillsboro' County; Honorable Samuel Holland, Esq., Surveyor-General of the Northern District of America and a Councillor of Canada; Thomas Mac-donogh, Esq., Secretary to the Governor. About ten more are invited, but I think uncertain whether they'll undertake the journey." From Gov. Wentworth.
"Dartmouth College, June 3, 1777, at break of day.
"My dear Sir: I trust you have received my two late letters, by my son and Sir Trimble, with orders, if you can to good advantage, to make sale of my tenement at the Crank, and pay my debts to Mr. Dean, Mr. Watson, and yourself. If you have successfully attempted the affair, or shall soon so do, I should be glad to see you, and if it may be with the remainder of the money as soon as may be; or if you could, before you come, visit Dr. Mead, who was principal of, and agent for, the first grantees of the town of Landaff, the settlement of which is now retarded and discouraged by the influence of Mr. Joseph Davenport, who has inspired an apprehension in the minds of the populace that they shall be exposed to a quarrel, if they should settle there, etc. I wish I could send you a copy of the College Charter, and enable you to discourse understandingly with Dr. Mead, and let him see how amply this incorporation is endowed, and how independent it is made of this government or any other incorporation; that the first object of the royal grant of said township was the dispersed Indian natives, and to this corporation only in trust for that purpose; that such a matter of controversy can be decided by no judicatory but supreme, or one equal to that which incorporated it, that is the Continental Congress; that unless they can prove that the fee of those lands was not in reality in the king when the charter thereof was given to the College and the grant made to the grantees (however irregular and unkind the steps taken may have been), they will find it difficult, if not impracticable, to recover it. However, to prevent any expense in that matter, quiet the minds of people and facilitate the settlement, as well as exercise proper regard to those who have looked upon themselves injured thereby, I would propose some conditions of agreement with those first grantees, whereby I might obtain their quitclaims to the premises; that is, either a sum of money, or some other way. What if you should see Dr. Mead and discourse with him before you come hither? But the bearer is waiting. Accept love to you and yours, etc., from your affectionate,
"Mr. Jabez Bingham, Jun."
This letter was evidently written by President Wheelock.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTER.
"Since there is great misrepresentations by some concerning my life and education, I take this opportunity to give the world, in few words, the true account of my education. I was born a heathen in Mmoyanheeunnuck, alias Mohegan, in New London, North America. My parents were altogether heathens, and I was educated by them in their heathenish notions, though there was a sermon preached to our Mohegan tribe sometimes, but our Indians regarded not the Christian religion. They would persist in their heathenish ways, and my parents in particular were very strong in the customs of their forefathers, and they led a wandering life up and down in the wilderness, for my father was a great hunter. Thus I lived with them till I was sixteen years old, and then there was a great stir of religion in these parts of the world both amongst the Indians as well as the English, and about this time I began to think about the Christian religion, and was under great trouble of mind for some time. I thought the religion which I heard at this time was a new thing among mankind, such as they never heard the like before, so ignorant was I, and when I was seventeen years of age I received a hope, and as I begun to think about religion, so I began to learn to read, though I went to no school till I was in my nineteenth year, and then I went to the Rev. Mr. Wheelock's to learning, and spent four years there, and was very weakly most of the time; this is the true account of my education.
Samson Occom.
"Boston, Nov. 28, 1765."
Mr. Occom spent the closing years of a useful life at Brotherton, N. Y., where he died, in 1792, aged nearly seventy.
"A List of Charity Scholars (in Rev. E. Wheelock's School), from 1754 to 1767:
John Pumpshire, a Delaware. Jacob Woolley, a Delaware. Samson Woyboy. Joseph Woolley, a Delaware. Hezekiah Calvin, a Delaware. Joseph Johnson, a Mohegan. David Fowler, a Montauk. Aaron Occom, a Mohegan. Samuel Kirtland, of Norwich. Isaiah Uncas, a Mohegan. Amie Johnson, a Mohegan.
Joseph Brant, Negyes ——, Center ——, dead, }Mohawks.
Miriam Stores, a Delaware.
Moses ——, Johannes ——, }Mohawks.
Sarah Wyog, a Mohegan. Enoch Closs, a Delaware. Samuel Tallman, a Delaware. Daniel Mossock, a Farmington.
Abraham Primus, Abraham Secundus, Peter ——, }Mohawks.
Patience Johnson, a Mohegan. Samuel Gray, of Boston. Mr. Samuel Ashpo, a Mohegan. Eleazar Sweetland, of Andover. Jacob Fowler, a Montauk. Manuel Simon, a Narraganset. Hannah Poquiantus, a Nehantic. Hannah Garret, a Narraganset. Mary Sequettass, a Narraganset. David Avery, of Norwich. David McCluer, of Boston. Mr. Titus Smith, of South Hadley.
William Primus, William Secundus, Elias ——, }Mohawks.
Mr. Theophilus Chamberlain, of South Hadley.
Susannah, Katharine, Mary ——, }Mohawks.
David ——, an Oneida. Mr. Aaron Kinne, of Volentown. Mundeus, Jacob, Oneidas. Sarah Simons, a Narraganset. Charles Daniel, a Narraganset. John Green, a Mohawk. Sam'l Johnson, a member of Yale College. Allen Mather, of Windsor. William, an Oneida. Paulus, a Mohawk. Seth ——, a Mohawk.
John Shaddock, Toby Shaddock, }Narragansets.
Levi Frisbie, of Branford.
Abigail ——, Martha ——, }Narragansets.
Toby Shadock's wife and child. Margaret ——."
In the "History of the Five Indian Nations," by Cadwallader Colden, we find the following paragraph:
"The French priests had (from time to time) persuaded several of the Five Nations to leave their own country and to settle near Montreal, where the French are very industrious in encouraging them. Their numbers have been likewise increased by the prisoners the French have taken in war, and by others who have run from their own country because of some mischief that they had done, or debts which they owed to the Christians. These Indians all profess Christianity, and therefore are commonly called the Praying Indians by their countrymen, and they are called Cahnuagas (Caghnawagas) by the people of Albany."
"An agreement between the Reverend Doctor Eleazar Wheelock, president of Dartmouth College, and Mr. John Smith, late tutor of the same, with respect to said Mr. Smith's settlement and salary in capacity of professor of the languages in Dartmouth College.
"Mr. Smith agrees to settle as Professor of English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, etc., in Dartmouth College, to teach which, and as many of these and other such languages as he shall understand, as the Trustees shall judge necessary and practicable for one man, and also to read lectures on them, as often as the president, tutors, etc., with himself shall judge profitable for the Seminary. He also agrees, while he can do it consistently with his office as professor, annually to serve as tutor to a class of students in the College. In consideration of which, Dr. Wheelock agrees to give him (the said Mr. Smith) one hundred pounds L. My. annually as a salary to be paid one half in money and the other half in money or in such necessary articles for a family as wheat, Indian corn, rye, beef, pork, mutton, butter, cheese, hay, pasturing, etc., as long as he shall continue professor as aforesaid, and that he shall have these articles delivered to him at the same price for which they were usually sold before the commencement of the present war in America, viz.: that he shall have wheat at 5s. per bushel, rye at 3s., Indian corn at 2s. 6d., fresh beef at 3d. per lb., salt beef at 4½d., fresh pork at 4½d., salt do. at 7d., fresh beef at 18s. per ct., do. pork at 25s., mutton at 3d. per lb., butter at 3d., cheese at 3d., bread at 2d., hay at 30s. per ton, pasturing per season for horse 30s., for cow 20s., and also to give him one acre of land near the College for a building spot, a deed of which he promises to give him whenever he shall request the same. Doctor Wheelock also agrees that Mr. Smith's salary, viz.: one hundred pounds annually, shall not be diminished when his business as professor shall be so great that it will render it impracticable for him to serve as a tutor to a class in College; and that Mr. Smith shall not be removed from his professorship except the Trustees of Dartmouth College shall judge him incapacitated therefor, and also that Mr. Smith's salary shall begin with the date hereof. Doctor Wheelock also promises to lay this agreement before the Trustees of Dartmouth College to be confirmed by them at their next meeting. Mr. Smith also promises that whenever he shall have a sufficient support from any fund established for the maintenance of a professor of languages, he will give up the salary to which the agreement entitles him.
"In testimony whereof, we have hereunto interchangeably affixed our hands and seals this 9th day of November, 1777.
"Eleazar Wheelock. [L. S.] "John Smith. [L. S.]
"In presence of: "Sylvanus Ripley. "Joseph Mottey."
"July 3, 1816. The Governor and Council appointed Hon. Josiah Bartlett, of Stratham, Hon. Joshua Darling, of Henniker, Hon. Wm. H. Woodward, of Hanover, Matthew Harvey, Esq., of Hopkinton, and Levi Woodbury, Esq., of Francestown, Trustees of Dartmouth University, and on the following day added Henry Hubbard, Esq., of Charlestown, Dr. Cyrus Perkins, of Hanover, Aaron Hutchinson, Esq., of Lebanon, and Daniel M. Durell, Esq., of Dover. On the same days, Hon. John Langdon, of Portsmouth, Hon. William Gray, of Boston, Mass., Gen. Henry Dearborn, of Roxbury, Mass., Rev. Thomas Baldwin, of Boston, Hon. Joseph Story, of Salem, Mass., Hon. W. Crowninshield, of Salem, Mass., Hon. Benjamin Greene, of Berwick, Me., Hon. Cyrus King, of Saco, Me., Elisha Ticknor, Esq., of Boston, Hon. Clifton Claggett, of Amherst, Hon. Dudley Chase, of Randolph, Vt., Gen. Henry A. S. Dearborn, of Boston, Hon. Jonathan H. Hubbard, of Windsor, Vt., Hon. George Sullivan, of Exeter, James T. Austin, Esq., of Boston, Hon. Levi Lincoln, Jr., of Worcester, Mass., Hon. Albion K. Parris, of Paris, Me., Amos Twitchell, M.D., of Keene, Hon. William A. Griswold, of Danville, Vt., Hon. Clement Storer, of Portsmouth, and Rev. David Sutherland, of Bath, Overseers of Dartmouth University."
CONTENTS OF CULVER HALL.
Culver Hall has 1. The Hall Collection of Minerals, worth $5,000 by estimate when presented to the College about forty years since. 2. Minerals and rocks collected since, of no great value. 3. Minerals, fossils, and a collection of 2,000 specimens from Maine deposited by Professor Hitchcock. 4. A small zoological collection. 5. A large cast of animals from Ward's University Series. 6. Antiquities. In the story below is one room devoted to an excellent herbarium, another to the natural objects obtained from the States of New Hampshire and Vermont. These are largely those collected by the State Geologist, consisting of 4,000-5,000 specimens illustrating the rocks. A wall of sections, where specimens have been collected along thirteen lines east and west through New Hampshire and Vermont; and colored geological profiles behind, on the wall. A case of maps, ten in number, showing such physical features of New Hampshire as these: geological structure, surface geology, distribution of fauna, distribution of trees, areas occupied by forests in 1874, hydrographic basins, isothermal lines, amount of annual rainfall, distribution of soils and the topography by means of contour lines. There is a large model or relief map of the State on a table, scale one mile to the inch horizontally, and 1,000 feet to the inch vertically, about fifteen feet long, with the town boundaries, names of villages, rivers, ponds, railroads, and mountains inserted in their proper places; other collections are of the economic products of New Hampshire and Vermont, their minerals and fossils. A large collection of birds and 1,000 species of insects are here also, presented by Professor H. Fairbanks.
The Geological recitation room has a large map of the United States in it, and a case of drawers containing minerals, rocks, fossils, models of crystals and other collections for use in giving instruction. The laboratory is in two parts, one for general and the other for analytical instruction. Agricultural College library in second story, and several recitation rooms. Small working shop for Thayer Department in the basement.
PICTURES IN THE HALLS OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
1. Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D., Founder. 2. Rev. Francis Brown, D.D. 3. The Same. 4. Rev. Bennet Tyler, D.D. 5. Rev. Nathan Lord, D.D., LL. D. 6. Ebenezer Adams, A. M., F. R. S. 7. Rev. Roswell Shurtleff, D.D. 8. Nathan Smith, M.D. 9. Cyrus Perkins, M.D. 10. Charles B. Haddock, LL. D. 11. William Chamberlain, A. M. 12. Dixi Crosby, M.D., LL. D. 13. Albert Smith, M.D., LL. D. 14. Rev. Benjamin Hale, D.D. 15. Ira Young, A. M. 16. Rev. David Peabody, A. M. 17. Rev. Sam'l G. Brown, D.D., LL. D. 18. Rev. Dan'l J. Noyes, D.D. 19. Edwin D. Sanborn, LL. D. 20. Stephen Chase, A. M. 21. Edmund R. Peaslee, M.D., LL. D. 22. John S. Woodman, A. M. 23. Rev. John N. Putnam, A. M. 24. Rev. Charles A. Aiken, D.D., Ph. D. 25. Hon. James W. Patterson, LL. D. 26. William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth. 27. John Phillips, LL. D. 28. Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker, D.D. 29. Hon. Daniel Webster, LL. D. 30. The Same (large picture). 31. The Same (head and bust). 32. Hon. Jeremiah Mason, LL. D. 33. Hon. Jeremiah Smith, LL. D. 34. Hon. Joseph Hopkinson. 35. Amos Twitchell, M.D. 36. Richard Fletcher, LL. D. 37. Hon. Matthew Harvey. 38. Hon. Charles Marsh. 39. Hon. Rufus Choate, LL. D. (in action). 40. The Same (head and bust). 41. Richard B. Kimball, LL. D. 42. Abiel Chandler. 43. Samuel Appleton, A. M. 44. Rev. Samson Occom. 45. John Conant. 46. Gen. Sylvanus Thayer, LL. D. 47. Hon. John Quincy Adams, LL. D. 48. A Knight in Armor. 49. A Lady (a companion picture). 50. Supposed to be a portrait of an Italian poet. 51. An untouched photograph of the original of Stuart's Washington. 52. An untouched photograph of Daniel Webster. 53. A bust of Rev. Nathan Lord, D.D., LL. D. 54. John Hubbard, A. M. 55. Alpheus Crosby, A. M. 56. Thomas R. Crosby, M.D. 57. Pres. J. Wheelock. 58. Rev. George T. Chapman, D.D.
The picture gallery also contains six slabs, with seven heroic figures, from Nineveh, the gift of Sir Henry Rawlinson, obtained by Rev. Austin H. Wright, D.D., of Ooroomiah, Persia.
In 1862 an inventory of the Philosophical Apparatus belonging to the college was taken, and the transfer was made to the Appleton Fund; the amount of this inventory was $2,352.75. While Rev. H. Fairbanks occupied the chair of Natural Philosophy about $800 was paid out. Prof. C. A. Young expended over $5,000 for apparatus while he had charge of the department. Most of the apparatus is in good condition, and its value is not far from $10,000.
For the Astronomical Department Prof. C. A. Young raised among the Alumni and friends of the college, mostly in New England, over $5,000, to put the Observatory in good condition.
Recent liberal donations to the College from the State, and from Hon. E. W. Stoughton, of New York, have enabled the Faculty to put the Medical Building in complete repair throughout. A suitable room for a Pathological Museum has been finished, which is frequently receiving specimens of diseased structure. The supply of plates, models, etc., is very ample, and is freely used in illustration of the lectures.
LEADING DONORS TO THE ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT, SINCE THE DEATH OF THE FOUNDER.
Samuel Appleton, founder of the Appleton Professorship. George H. Bissell ($24,000), founder of Bissell Hall. Henry Bond, for the Library. Salmon P. Chase. David Culver ($25,000), founder of Culver Hall. William E. Dodge. Israel Evans, founder of the Evans Professorship. Richard Fletcher. James W. Grimes. Frederic Hall, founder of the Hall Professorship. Jeremiah Kingman, for Scholarships. Aaron Lawrence, founder of the Lawrence Professorship. Joel Parker, for the Library. John Phillips, founder of the Phillips Professorship. William Reed, founder of Reed Hall. George C. Shattuck, founder of the Shattuck Observatory. Isaac Spalding. Edward S. Tobey. John Wentworth. Henry Winkley ($25,000). Miss Mary C. Bryant, for the Library. Mrs. Betsey Whitehouse, for Scholarships. The sums given by the above average perhaps about $15,000. It is worthy of remark that a majority of these donations were made or received during the administration of President Smith.
There are at present ten principal edifices erected for the use of the various departments of the College:
Dartmouth Hall and the Medical College, erected during the administration of Pres. John Wheelock; Thornton, Wentworth, and Reed Halls, Shattuck Observatory, and the Chandler Building, erected or completed during the administration of President Lord; Bissell, Culver, and Conant Halls, erected during the administration of President Smith.
During the latter period the President's chair received an endowment of $30,000, and more than sixty scholarships an endowment of $1,000 each.
Recent bequests to the various departments from Tappan Wentworth, John D. Willard, Richard Fletcher, John S. Woodman, and Joel Parker will amount, when available, to over $700,000.