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 I N that extent of territory which, through the Providence of 
 God, is now the fovereign Domain of the United States 
 of America, an attentive obferyer cannot but behold the foun¬ 
 dations of an Empire laid, which promifes to enlarge itfelf to 
 vail: ditnenfions, and to become the happy means of diffufing 
 Knowledge, Liberty and Happinejs, through every other part of 
 this American continent. 
 
 In a commercial view, it is almoft needlefs to mention the great 
 and growing importance of thefe dates; on account of their 
 rich variety of foil andproduce, their length of fea-coaft andother 
 conveniences of navigation, both internal and external. From 
 this variety fprings likewife one of the firft of earthly bleffings 
 -—A Bleffing, perhaps, not known in an equal degree by any 
 other people, living in the fame community or foederal union, 
 throughout the globe—-We have the faff of life-— Bread in 
 abundance, not only for ourfelves, and the immenfe number of 
 induftrious fettlers, conflantly flowing in among us from differ¬ 
 ent parts of the old world ; but likewife for exportation to fupply 
 the wants of others, and to multiply the fources and channels 
 of our trade. Nor is there a probability, under the favour of 
 Heaven, and a due exertion of our skill and indullry (as the 
 experience of near two hundred years can tell us) that we fliall 
 ever fufFer, through fcarcity or want. For, in fuch an extend¬ 
 ed country, and with fuch variety of foil and climate, if the 
 produ&ions of one kind, or of one part of the country, fhould' 
 fail, there will remain a fufiiciency of the other kinds, and thofe 
 the far greater part, unlefs (thro’ the direction of Providence 
 for its own wife purpofes) a revolution of feafons fhcruld take 
 place, whereof neither part experience or memory can fuggeft 
 any example or precedent. 
 
 Nor are the foil and climate thus favourable to the producti¬ 
 ons of the earth only ; but likewife to all the belt powers, both 
 of body and mind in the human fpecies; nurfing up a race of 
 bold and hardy men; who in the vindication and eftabliihmcnt 
 of their native rights and independence, have given the molt il- 
 luftrious proofs of their wifdom, valour and magnanimity during 
 a long and arduous contelt with one of the molt powerful na¬ 
 tions upon earth. And with the like exertions of virtue and 
 public lpirit, looking up to God as our protector and Guide, we 
 need have but little to fear from any future wars of the old 
 world or the new— fhould war, in ages hence continue to be the 
 unc/mflian mode of arbitrating the differences of Cllriftian na¬ 
 tions ! 
 
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 But, we may truft, the time is not diftant when “ Violence 
 “ fhall no more be heard upon earth; when nation fihall not 
 11 lift up fword againft nation, neither fhall they learn war any 
 u more.” As a prelude to that happy period, which (we are 
 a {lured) fhall yet come, may not thefe American Bates, even 
 now, <c beat their fwords into plough-ihares, and their fpears 
 into pruning-hooks?” Remote as we are in fituation, may we 
 not keep ourfelves alike remote in our inclination, from the in¬ 
 trigues, the ambition and the quarrels of the other powers of 
 the world; yielding as great a proof of moderation in peace as 
 of magnanimity in war? 
 
 The idea is truly animating, and in the hope of its being 
 realized, a friend to mankind cannot but adore that Providence 
 which (in portioning out the countries of the new world among 
 the nations of the old) gave that part of America, which feems 
 ordained to preheminence of improvement above the reft, to 
 an enlightened and civilized people—profefllng themfelves the 
 votaries of knowledge and freedom in their pureft and moft 
 improved Bate. For however flattering it may be to confider 
 the growth of thefe rifmg Jlates as tending to encreafe the wealth 
 and commerce of the world; they are to be confidered in ano¬ 
 ther more ferious view, as ordained to enlarge the fphere of 
 Humanity. In that view the great interefts of civil liberty, 
 the parent of every other focial blefling, will not be forgotten; 
 but every true citizen of thefe ftates will confider himfelf as a 
 chofen inftrument for fupporting her caufe in the new world, at 
 a time when drooping or decaying in the old; and will accord¬ 
 ingly rejoice to water the tender plant that hath taken root 
 among us, and to rear and ihelter it from the Jlorm, till it fhoot 
 up into a great tree, “ fending forth its boughs unto the ocean, 
 and its branches to the utmoft rivers.” But, in this great work, 
 we are not to truft to the moft fuccefsful ftruggles either againft 
 foreign or domeftic enemies, nor yet to the beft conftituted 
 forms of government for the prefervation of our civil or religi¬ 
 ous rights. We muft ftrive to maintain our own virtue—We 
 muft avoid the fnares of luxury, venality and corruption among 
 ourfelves. We muft regard the great concerns of religion and 
 another world. We muft attend to the rifing generation. The 
 fouls of our youth muft be nurfed up to the love of liberty and 
 klowledge; and their bofoms warmed with a facred and enlight¬ 
 ened zeal for every thing that can blefs or dignify their fpecies. 
 
 In fhort, lafting provifions muft be made, by good educati¬ 
 on, for training up a fucceflion of Patriots, Lawgivers, Sages and 
 Divines; for liberty 7 will not deign to dwell, but where her 
 fair companion knowledge flourilhes^ by her fide; nor can 
 government be duly aftminiftered but where the principles of 
 ! Religion, Juflice , Virtue, Sobriety, and Obedience for conscience- 
 sake, are upheld. 
 
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 Every well-regulated Seminary of Learning, therefore, that 
 promifes to exalt the genius of our country, and to become the 
 means of diffufing ufeful knowledge ftili further and wider over 
 this great continent, ihould be an objeft of general regard, 
 wherefoever it is founded; for in this refpeft, we have but one 
 common intereft to purfue. 
 
 It is hoped, then, that we may now have leave to mention 
 “ Washington-College, in the ftate of Maryland,” as an in- 
 ftitution of this kind, well worthy of the encouragment of the 
 public in its prefent infant-ftate, and more efpecially of the in¬ 
 habitants of the Peninjula for whofe more immediate advantage 
 it is founded. 
 
 Altho’ fome confiderable provifipn had been made by former 
 Legislatures of Maryland for the rudiments of learning in coun¬ 
 ty fchools, yet the ftate had been long without any public Temi- 
 nary of univerfal learning for. the benefit of youth, as is fet forth 
 more at large intheaclfor founding this college; a copy of which 
 follows, viz. 
 
 An ACT for founding a College at Chejler^ 
 [In Maryland .] 
 
 \7[7 h EREAS Inftitutions for the liberal education of youth 
 VV in the principles of virtue, knowledge, and ufeful lite¬ 
 rature, are of the higheft benefit to fociety, in order to raife 
 up and perpetuate a fucceflion of able and honeft men for dif- 
 charging the various offices and duties of the community, both 
 civil and religious, with ufefulnefs and reputation; and fuch in¬ 
 stitutions of learning have accordingly merited and received the 
 attention and encouragement of the wifeft and bell: regulated 
 ftates. 
 
 AND WHEREAS former legislatures of this ftate have, ac¬ 
 cording to their beft abilities, laid a confiderable foundation in 
 this good work, in fundry laws for the eftablifhment and encou¬ 
 ragement of county fchools, for the ftudy of “ Latin, Greek, 
 Writing, and the like;” intending, as their future circumftances 
 might permit, to engraft or raife, on the foundation of faid 
 fchools, more extenfive Seminaries of learning, by erecting one 
 or more Colleges or places of univerfal ftudy, not only in the 
 learned languages, but in philofophy, divinity, law, phyfic, and 
 other ufeful and ornamental arts and fciences. 
 
 AND WHEREAS this great and laudable undertaking hath 
 been retarded by fundry incidents of a public nature, but chiefly 
 by the great difficulty of fixing a fituation on either fliore of 
 this ftate, for a feminary of univerfal learning, which might be 
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 of equal benefit and convenience to the youth of both fhores; 
 and it having been reprefented to this General Alfembly, that 
 it would probably tend mod to the immediate advancement of 
 literature in this ftate, if the inhabitants of each fhore lhould- 
 be left to confult their own convenience, in founding and freely 
 endowing a college or feminary of general learning each for 
 themfelves, under the fanttion of law; which two colleges or 
 or feminaries, if thought mod: conducive to the advancement 
 of learning, religion and good government, may afterwards, by 
 common confent, when duly founded and endowed, be united 
 under one fupreme legiflative and vifitatorial jurifdi&ion, as 
 diftintt branches or members of the fame State University, 
 notwithstanding their diftance of fituation. 
 
 AND WHEREAS JoJeph Nicholfon, James Anderfon, John Scotty 
 William Bordley, and Peregrine Lethrbury , Efquires, William Smithy 
 Doctor in Divinity, and Benjamin Chambers, Efquire, the prefent 
 Vifitors of Kent county fchool, in the town of Chefter, have 
 reprefented to this General Alfembly, “ That the faid fchool 
 hath of late increafed greatly by an acceffion of ftudents and 
 fcholars, from various parts of the Eaftern Shore of this ftate, 
 and the neighbouring Delaware ftate; there being now about 
 one hundred and forty fludents and fcholars in the faid fchool, and 
 the number expetted foon to increafe to at leaft two hundred',— 
 and that the Latin and Greek languages, Englilh, French, Writ¬ 
 ing, merchants accounts, and the different branches of Mathe¬ 
 matics are thaught in the fame, under a fufficient number of 
 able and approved Mafters; that fundry of the Undents are pre¬ 
 paring, and defirous, to enter upon a courfe of philofophy, and 
 muft repair to fome other ftate, at a very grievous and incon¬ 
 venient expence, to finiih their education, unlefs they, the faid 
 Vifitors, are enabled to enlarge the plan of the faid fchool, by 
 engrafting thereon, a fyftem of liberal education in the arts 
 and fciences, and providing neceffary books and apparatus, with 
 an additional number of Mafters and ProfefforsAnd the faid 
 Vifitors have further expreffed their affurance, that if they were 
 made capable in law of erefting the faid fchool into a college 
 or general feminary of learning, for the Eaftern Shore or Pen- 
 infula between the bays of Chefapeake and Delaware, (main¬ 
 taining the original defign of the faid fchool, as a foundation 
 not to be violated) very confiderable fums could be raifed in a 
 few years within the faid peninfula, by free and voluntary con¬ 
 tributions, for the eftablifhment and fupport of fuch feminary; 
 And have accordingly prayed , that a law may be palled to ena¬ 
 ble them the faid Vifitors to enlarge and improve the faid fchool 
 into a college, or place of univerfal learning, with the ufual 
 privileges. Now this General Alfembly taking the faid petition 
 into their ferious confideration, and l?eing defirous to encourage 
 and promote knowledge within this ftate, have agreed to enact, 
 
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 and Be it enatted by the General Affembly of Maryland , That the 
 faid Jofeph Nicholfon, James Anderfon, John Scott, William 
 Bordley, Peregrine Lethrbury, William Smith, and Benjamin 
 Chambers, the prefent Vifitors of Kent county fchool, and their 
 fuccelTors, ihall have full power and authority to ereft the faid 
 fchool into a college or feminary of univerfal learning, and to in- 
 creafe the number of Vifitors and Governors thereof to twenty- 
 four, in manner following; that is to fay, 
 
 Firfi. The faid faid Vifitors of Kent county fchool, and thei,r 
 fuccelTors, for and during the term of. five years next after the 
 ^palling of this ad, are hereby empowered and made capable to 
 receive contributions and fubfcriptions for the faid intended col¬ 
 lege or feminary of univerfal learning, of any perfon or per- 
 fons who may be willing to promote fo good a defign; and in 
 cafe any number or denomination of contributors in any county 
 of the Eaftern Shore of this ftate, or of the peninfula afore- 
 faid, in the neighbouring ftates, ihall fubfcribe and engage to 
 pay towards the founding and fupporting the faid intended col¬ 
 lege, any fum not lefs than five hundred pounds current money, 
 payable in Spaniih milled dollars, or the value thereof, as the 
 fame may be at the times of payment, in good merchantable 
 wheat or tobacco, the faid Vifitors and their fuccelTors, may 
 covenant and agree with fuch fubfcribers and contributors, 
 that there lhall be one Vifitor and Governor of the faid college, 
 chofen for ever out of fuch county, for every five hundred 
 pounds of fpecie fo fubfcribed and paid, or fecured to be paid, 
 towards founding and fupporting the faid college, and that the 
 „ firfi: election of every fitch county Vifitor and Governor of the 
 faid college, lhall be made by the fubfcribers and contributors 
 in the 1 county, within three months after the fum of five hun¬ 
 dred pounds, or the value thereof, lhall be fubfcribed and paid, 
 or fecured to be paid as aforefaid; and due notice of the time 
 and place of election lhall be given to the fubfcribers and con¬ 
 tributors in every county, in fuch form and manner as ihall be 
 agreed upon by the Vifitors of Kent county fchool, and fet forth 
 in the preamble of the fubfcription papers, which the faid Vi¬ 
 fitors ihall fend into the feveral counties for obtaining fubfcrip¬ 
 tions towards founding and a fupporting the faid college. 
 
 Secondly. If the Vifitors of any county fchool on the faid 
 Eaftcrn Shore, for the more effeftual advancement of ufeful 
 knowledge, and the better promoting the good purpofes for 
 which fuch county fchools were originally founded, ihall be 
 defirous to engraft and confolidate the funds and eftate of fuch 
 county fchool, or any part or parts of the fame with the funds 
 and eftate of the faid intended college, the Vifitors of Kent 
 county fchool, for and during the term of five years next after 
 pafling this aft, (unlefs the faid college is fooner eftablilhed 
 
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 agreeably to the tenor hereof) and the Vifitors and Governors 
 of the college, at any time after the fame fhall be fo eftabliihed, 
 fhall have full power and authority to treat and agree with the 
 Vifitors of fuch county fchool, and to allow one Vifitor and 
 Governor of the college, to be for ever chofen from among the 
 inhabitants of fuch county, for every five hundred pounds which 
 any fuch county fchools may contribute towards founding and 
 fupporting the faid college, the nrft choice to be in the Vifitors 
 of luch county fchool; or in eonfideration of the faid five 
 hundred pounds contribution, or of any fum or eftate of greater 
 or lefs value, that may be thus given by any county fchool, to¬ 
 wards the faia college; any other privileges and advantages, in * 
 refpect to the. education of the youth of fuch county in the 
 colleg may be fixed and agreed upon, as fhall be judged rea- 
 fonehh- between the Vifitors and Governors of the college, and 
 the Vifitors oi fuch county fchool, inftead of fixing any Vifitor 
 and Governor to be for ever chofen from the faid county. And 
 all contracts and agreements truly and fairly made for founding 
 and fupporting the faid college as above fet forth, fhall be 
 good id effectual in law, according to the plain intent, and 
 the trim and legal conftru&ion of the fame; Provided always , 
 
 That the whole number of Vifitors and Governors of the faid 
 college, fhall never be more than twenty-four at one time, nor 
 under feventeen; and that not lefs than Seven of them fhall have 
 their ufual refidence in Kent county, and within feven miles of 
 the town of Chefter aforefaid. 
 
 Thirdly. When any of the firft Vifitors and Governors of the 
 faid college chofen as aforefaid on thq, part of any county, 6r 
 any of the Vifitors and Governors in general, fhalj die, or re,, 
 move out of the county for which he was chofen, or abfent 
 himfclf from four fucceeding quarterly meetings, without fuch 
 excufe or plea of necefifary abfence as fhall be deemed reafon- 
 able by a legal and juft quorum of the faid Vifitors and Gover¬ 
 nors, duly aflfembled at a quarterly vifitation of the faid col¬ 
 lege, fuch quorum fo aflembled, fhall proceed by a new election 
 to fill up the feat and place of fuch deceafed, removed or ab- 
 fenting member; having fpecial regard that in the room of a 
 deceafed, removed or abfenting Vifitor and Governor, from any 
 particular county, another of the fame county be always chofen 
 in his room and ftead. 
 
 And he it enatted. That when ten Vifitors and Governors of 
 the faid intended college fhall be chofen as aforefaid, in addition 
 to the feven Vifitors of Kent county fchool for the time being, 
 and when the faid feventeen Vifitors and Governors fhall, by . 
 an inftrument of writing under their hands, to the General Af- 
 fembly of this ftate, diredted and duly delivered, declare , that 
 they are willing and defirous to take upon them, and to dif- 
 
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 charge, the truft of Vifitors and Governors of the faid intended 
 college, and that an eftate, or fum and fums of money, not 
 Iefs than five thoufand pounds, current money, or the juft value 
 thereof (including the eftate of the faid Kent county fchool) 
 is in their hands, or fo fecured to be paid to them that they 
 will anfwer for the value thereof, and the application of the 
 fame towards founding, endowing, and fupporting the faid in¬ 
 tended college, according to their beft judgment, and the tenor 
 of this aft; provided always, that i'uch inftrument of writing 
 be lodged with the General Aflembly as aforefaid, within five 
 years after the paffing of this aft; that then and in fuch cafe, 
 the faid feventeen Vifitors and Governors, and fuch other per- 
 fon and perfons as they ihall choofe to make up and perpetuate 
 the number of twenty-four, agreeable to the tenor hereof, Ihall 
 be, and are hereby declared to be, one community , corporation and 
 body politic, to have continuance forever, by the name of “ The 
 .Vifitors and Governors of Washington College, in the ftate 
 of Maryland,’; in honourable and perpetual memory of his ex¬ 
 cellency General Wafbingtm, the illuftrious and virtuous com¬ 
 mander in chief of the armies of the united ftates; and by the 
 fame name they ihall have perpetual fucceflion,* provided ne- 
 verthelefs, that feventeen of the faid Vifitors and Governors, 
 ihall always be refidents on the Eaftern Shore of this ftate, but 
 that the feven additional Vifitors and Governors (to make up 
 and perpetuate the number of twenty-four) may be chofen from 
 this, or any part of the adjacent ftates, if they are fuch perfons 
 as can reasonably undertake to attend the quarterly vifitaftons, 
 and are thought capable, by their particular learning, weight 
 and charafter, to advance the intereft and reputation of the 
 faid feminary. 
 
 And be it enaSted, That the faid Vifitors and Governors, and 
 their fuccefi'ors, by the fame name, Ihall be able and capable 
 in law, to purchafe, have and enjoy to them and their fuccefi'¬ 
 ors in fee, or for any other Idler eftate or eftates, any lands, 
 tenements, rents, annuities, penfions or other hereditaments, 
 within this ftate, by the gift, grant, bargain, fale, alienation/ 
 enfeoffment, releafe, confirmation or devife of any perfon or 
 perfons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the fame; 
 and fuch lands, tenements, rents, annuities, penfions or other 
 hereditaments, or any lefier eftates, rights or interefts of or in 
 the fame, (excepting the eftate of the faid Kent county fchool) 
 at their pleafure to grant, alien, fell and transfer, in fuch man¬ 
 ner and form, as they ihall think meet and convenient for the 
 furtherance of the faid college; and alfo that they may take and 
 receive any fum or fums of money, and apy kind, manner or 
 portion of goods and chatties that ihall be given, fold or be¬ 
 queathed to them, by any perfon or perfons, bodies politic or 
 corporate, capable to make a gift, fale or bequeft thereof, and 
 
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 employ the fame towards erecting, fetting up and maintaining 
 the faid college, in fuch manner as they lhall judge moft necef- 
 fary and convenient for the inftru&ion, improvement and edu¬ 
 cation of youth, in the vernacular and learned languages, and 
 generally in any kind of literature, arts and fciences, which they 
 lhall think proper to be taught for training up good, ufeful and 
 accomplifhed men, for the lervice of their country in church 
 and ftate; and youth of all religious denominations and perfua- 
 fions, fhall be freely and liberally admitted to equal privileges 
 and advantages of education, and to all the literary honors of 
 the college, according to their merit, and the ftanding rules of 
 the feminary, without requiring or enforcing any religious or 
 civel tell whatfoever upon any ftudent, fcholar or member of 
 the faid college, other than fuch oath of fidelity to the ftate as 
 the laws thereof may require of the Vifitors, Governors, Maf- 
 ters, Profelfors and Teachers in fchools and feminaries of learn¬ 
 ing in general; nor fhall any preference be given in the choice 
 of any Vifitor and Governor of the faid college, or of the 
 Principal, Vice-Principal or any Profefloror Mafter, on account 
 of his religious perfuafion, but merely on account of his literary 
 and other neceflary qualifications to fill the place for which he 
 is chofen. 
 
 And be it enatted, That the faid Vifitors and Governors, and 
 their fucceftors, by the name aforefaid, fhall be able in law, to fue 
 and be fued, plead and be impleaded, in any court or courts, be¬ 
 fore any judge, judges or juftices within this ftate and elfewhere, 
 in all and all manner of fuits, complaints, pleas, caufes, matters 
 and demands, of whatfoever kind, nature or form they be; and 
 all and every other matter and thing therein to do in as full and 
 effeftual a manner as any other perfon or perfons, bodies poli¬ 
 tic or corporate within this ftate, or any of the united ftates of 
 America, in like cafes, may or can do. 
 
 And be it emftcd, That the faid Vifitors and Governors, and 
 their fucceftors, fhall have full power, and authority to have, 
 make, and ufe one common and public feal, and likewife one 
 privy feal, with fuch devices and inferiptiorrs as they fhall think 
 proper, and to afeertain, fix and regulate the ufes of both 
 feals by their own laws, and the fame leals, or either of them, 
 to change, break, alter, and renew at their pleafure. 
 
 And be it enaBed, That the faid Vifitors and Governors, and 
 their fucceflors, from time to time, and at all times hereafter 
 forever, fhall have full power and authority to conftitute and 
 appoint, in fuch manner as they lhall think beft and moft con¬ 
 venient, a Principal and Vice-Principal of the faid college, and 
 Profelfors, with proper Tutors and Aftiftants, for inftrutting 
 the Undents and fcholars of the faid feminary, in all the liberal 
 
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 arts and fciences, and in the ancient and modern tongues and 
 languages; who lhall be feverally Ailed Profeffors of fuch arts, 
 fciences, languages, or tongues as they lhall be nominated and 
 appointed for, according to each particular nomination and ap¬ 
 pointment; and the faid Principal, Vice-Principal, and Profef¬ 
 fors fo conftituted and appointed from time to time, lhall be 
 known and diftinguiihed forever as one learned body or faculty , 
 by the name of “ The Principal , Vice-Principal and Profeffors of 
 IVaJhington college , in the Jlate of Maryland ,” and by that name 
 lhall be capable of exercifing fuch powers and authorities as 
 the Vifitors and Governors of the faid college, and their fuc- 
 ceffors, lhall, by their ordinances, think neceffary to delegate 
 to them for the inflru&ion, difcipline and government of the 
 faid feminary, and of all the fludents, fcholars, miniflers and 
 fervants belonging to the fame; and the faid Principal and Vice- 
 Principal, Profeflors, fludents, fcholars, and fuch neceffary mi- 
 nifters and fervants as give conilant attendance upon the bufi- 
 nefs of the college, lhall be exempted from all rates' and taxes 
 on their falaries, and from all military duties, except in the cafe 
 of an attual invafion of the Hate, and when general military 
 law is declared. 
 
 And be it emtted, That the clear yearly value of the mef- 
 fuages, houfes, lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other here¬ 
 ditaments and real eilate of the faid college and corporation, 
 lhall not exceed fix thoufand pounds current money, to be rec¬ 
 koned in Spanifhmilled dollars, at the prefent rate and weight; 
 and all gifts, grants and bequefls to the faid college and corpo¬ 
 ration, after the yearly value of their eftates lhall amount to 
 fix thoufand pounds as aforefaid, and all bargains and purchafes 
 to be made by the faid corporation, which may increafe the 
 yearly value of faid eftate, above or beyond the fum aforefaid, 
 lhall be abfolutely void and of none effeft. 
 
 And be it enabled, That the faid Vifitors and Governors, and 
 their fucceffors, lhall meet at lead: four times in every year, in 
 Hated quarterly meetings to be appointed by their own ordi¬ 
 nances, and at fuch other times as by their faid ordinances they 
 may direct, in order to examine the progrefs of the fludents 
 and fcholars in literature, to hear and determine on all com¬ 
 plaints and appeals, and upon all matters touching the difcipline 
 of the feminary, and the good and wholefome execution of their 
 ordinances; in all which examinations, meetings and determin¬ 
 ations, fuch number Of the faid Vifitors and Governors, duly 
 met, (provided they be not lei's than feven) lhall be a quorum, 
 as the fundamental ordinances at firff, or any time afterwards 
 duly enafted by a majority of the whole Vifitors, lhall fix and 
 determine. 
 
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 And be it enatted. That a majority of the faid Vifitors and 
 Governors for the time being, when duly affembled at any quar¬ 
 terly, or other meeting, upon due notice given to the whole 
 body of Vifitors and Governors, lhall have full power and au¬ 
 thority to make fundamental ordinances for the government of 
 the faid college, and the inftruction of the youth as aforefaid, 
 and by thefe ordinances to appoint fuch a number of their own 
 body not lefs than feven, as they may think proper to be a quo¬ 
 rum for tranfacling all general and neceffary bufinefs of the faid 
 feminary, and making temporary rules for the government of 
 the fame; and alfo by the faid fundamental ordinances, to de¬ 
 legate to the Principal, Vice-Principal and Profeffors, fuch 
 powers and authorities as they may think bed: for the ftanding 
 government of the faid feminary, and the execution of the or¬ 
 dinances and rules of the fame; provided always, that they be 
 not repugnant to the form of government, or any law of this 
 date. 
 
 And for animating and encouraging the ftudents of the faid 
 college to a laudable diligence, induftry and progrefs in ufeful 
 literature and fcience, be it enacted, that the faid Vifitors and 
 Governors, and their fuccefiors, lhall by a written mandate un¬ 
 der their privy feal, and the hand of fome one of the Vifitors 
 and Governors to be chofen annually as their Prefident, ac¬ 
 cording to the ordinance to be made r 'for that purpofe, have 
 full power and authority to direct the Principal, Vice-Principal 
 and Profeffors, to hold public commencements, either on dated 
 annual days, or occafionally as the future ordinances of the faid 
 feminary may direft; and at fuch commencements to admit any 
 of the ftudents in the faid college, or any other perfons me¬ 
 riting the fame (whofe names lhall be feverally inferted in the 
 faid mandate) to any degree or degrees in any of the faculties, 
 arts and fciences, and liberal profeflions to which perfons are 
 ufually admitted in other colleges or univerfities in America or 
 Europe; and it is hereby enafted that the Principal, or in cafe 
 of his death or abfence, the Vice-Principal, and in cafe of the 
 death or abfence of both, the fenior ProfelTor who may be pre¬ 
 fen t, lhall make out and fign with his name, Diplomas or certifi¬ 
 cates of the admiffion to fuch degree or degrees, which lhall be 
 fealed with the public or greater feal of the faid corporation 
 or college, and delivered to the graduates as honorable and 
 perpetual teftimonials of fuch admiffion; which diplomas, if 
 thought neceffary for doing greater honor to fuch graduates, 
 lhall alfo be figned with the names of the different Profeffors, 
 or as many of them as can conveniently fign the fame; provided 
 always, that no ftudentor ftudents within the faid college, lhall 
 over be admitted to any fuch degree or degrees, nor have their 
 .name inferted in any mandate for a degree, until fuch ftudent 
 or ftudents have been firft duly examined and thought worthy 
 
C i3 ] 
 
 of the fame, at a public examination of candidates, to be held 
 one whole month previous to the day of commencement, in the 
 faid college, by and in the prefence of the faid Vifitors and 
 Governors, or of fuch quorum of them, not lefs than feven, as 
 the ordinances of the college may authorize for that purpofe, 
 and in the prefence of any other perfons choofing to attend 
 the fame; and provided further, that no perfon or perfons, ex¬ 
 cepting the ftudents belonging to the faid feminary, fhall ever 
 be admitted to any honorary or other degree or degrees in the 
 fame, unlefs thirteen of the Victors and Governors (of whom 
 the Prefident fhall be one) by a mandate undef their privy feal, 
 and figned by the hands of the whole thirteen, to the Principal, 
 Vice-Principal and Profefiors dire&ed, have fignified their ap¬ 
 probation and authority for the particular admiffion of fuch per¬ 
 fon to faid degree or degrees. 
 
 And be it enacted, That the Vifitors of Kent county fchool, 
 may fet alide and appropriate ten acres of the land belonging 
 to the faid fchool, where they fhall think moft convenient, for 
 erefting neoeffary buildings for carrying on the faid college, and 
 laying out gardens and grounds for the recreation and refreih- 
 ment of the youth, and other fuitable exercifes; And the re¬ 
 mainder of the grounds belonging to the faid Kent count/ 
 fchool, may and ihall be leafed out by the Vifitors of the faid 
 fchool for the time being, and by the Vifitors and Governors 
 of the faid college, after the fame fhall be eftablifhed, in leafes 
 for lives, oi ninety-nine years, or on any other leafes that may 
 be judged moft beneficial for advancing the caufe of learning, 
 and promoting the faid college agreeable to the original defign 
 for which the faid Kent county fchool was founded, and for 
 which the faid fchool lands were purchafed. 
 
 And be it enabled, That the ordinances which fhall be from 
 time made by the Vifitors and Governors of the faid college, 
 and their fucceffors, with an account of their other proceed¬ 
 ings, and of the management of the eftate and monies com¬ 
 mitted to their truft, ihall, when required, be laid before, the 
 General Afiembly of Maryland, for their infpe&ion and exami¬ 
 nation; but in cafe at any time hereafter, through ov.erfight or 
 othenvife, through mifapprehenfions and miftaken conftructions 
 of the powers, liberties and franchifes in this charter or ad of 
 incorporation granted or intended to be granted, any ordi¬ 
 nances fhould be made by the faid corporation of Vifitors and 
 Governors, or any matters done and tranfa&ed by the corpora¬ 
 tion contrary to the tenor thereof, It is enacted. That although 
 all fuch ordinances, acts and doings, ihall in themfelves be null, 
 and void; yet they ihall not, however, in any courts of law, 
 or by the General Afiembly, be deemed, taken, interpreted or 
 adjudged into an avoidance or forfeiture of this charter and act 
 C of 
 
L 14 ] 
 
 of incorporation, but the fame fhall be, and remain unhurt, 
 inviolate and entire unto the faid corporation of Vifitors and 
 Governors, in perpetual fucceflion; and all their ads conform¬ 
 able to the powers, true intent and meaning hereof, lhall be, 
 and remain in full force and validity, the nullity and avoidance 
 of fuch illegal ads to the contrary in any wife notwithdanding. 
 
 And be it ena&ed and declared, That this charter and ad of 
 incorporation, and every part thereof, fhall be good and avail¬ 
 able in all things in the law, according to the true intent and 
 meaning thereof, and lhall be condrued, reputed and adjudged 
 in all cafes mod favorably on the behalf, and for the bed; be¬ 
 nefit and behoof of the faid Vifitors and Governors, and their 
 fucceffors, fo as mod effedually to anfwer the valuable ends of 
 this ad of incorporation, towards the general advancement 
 and promotion of ufeful knowledge, fcience and virtue. 
 
 And be it ena&ed, That no perfon lhall ad as Vifitor and 
 Governor, or as Principal or Vice-Principal, or as Profedbr in 
 the faid college, before he lhall take the oath of fidelity and 
 fupport to this date required by the conditution, or by the 
 laws of this date. 
 
 The foregoing Charter or Ad of Incorporation having duly 
 palfed the General Alfembly, at their Spring-Sedlons, 1782, a 
 Meeting of the Seven Vifitors and Governors named in it was 
 held, and the Revd. Dr. Smith, their Prefident, at the Requed 
 and by the Appointment of the Board , undertook to vifit the dif¬ 
 ferent Counties on the Eadern Shore, in order to open theSub- 
 fcriptions for founding the Seminary, agreeably to the Tenor of 
 'the Law. The following was the Preamble to the different 
 Subfcription Papers,* which, in lefs than three Months, wer« 
 filled up, as in the Lids hereunto fubjoined, vis. 
 
 To 
 
[ i5 ] 
 
 To the Inhabitants of the Eaftern Shore 
 of Maryland, ire. 
 
 GENTLEMEN, 
 
 B Y the foregoing del for founding a COLLEGE on 
 this Shore, an Opportunity is offered, which good and 
 wife men have long wiihed for, of making a provilion for the 
 future education of your Youth, in the liberal Arts and Sciences, 
 and^all the branches of ufeful and ornamental Knowledge. 
 
 Colleges and Schools of general learning have, long fince, 
 been founded in mod of the Sifter-States, and the advantages 
 which our Youth have derived from them, have been manifefl- 
 ed in all the late and former trials of the wifdom, virtue and 
 magnanimity of America. The Youth of Maryland have been 
 particularly diliinguiihed among the reft; but have been oblig¬ 
 ed, at a very grievous and unequal expence, to prepare them- 
 felves for public life by repairing, for their education, either 
 to Great Britain, or to fome of the neighbouring American 
 States. 
 
 The inhabitants of this Shore and Peninfula, for whofe be¬ 
 nefit this Foundation is more immediately defigned, are defend¬ 
 ed from fome of the moll: ancient families and fettlers in Ame¬ 
 rica, and would undoubtedly wilh, by good education, to fup- 
 port the rank of their pofterity, and to give them their full 
 confequence in this rifing Empire. —Further arguments would 
 be needlels. 
 
 The Vijitors of Kent County School wifh to difeharge the impor¬ 
 tant trull committed to them by the foregoing Act, with zeal 
 and integrity, according to their bell abilities. The fchool and 
 valuable eftate under their care, want only a little public aflift- 
 2nce and countenance, to place them on a footing with the moll 
 refpectable Colleges or Univerfties in America, being little inferi¬ 
 or to any of them in the prefent number of fcholars and flu- 
 dents. 
 
 The diftance of the town of Chefter from alarms in time of 
 war, its healthful lituation, and convenience of accommodation 
 for Youth, have, by general agreement, pointed it out as the 
 bell place for a Seminary of univerfal Learning on this Shore. 
 
 Being perfuaded, therefore, that the prefent opportunity, 
 which hath been fo long defired, will be cheerfully embraced, 
 for founding a College on this Shore, under the auspicious name 
 
 with 
 
[ 16 ] 
 
 with which the Legiflature have dignified it,- We, the Vifitors 
 aforefaid, in execution of the truft and duties committed to us, 
 by the faid aft, propofe the following— 
 
 ARTICLES to be mutually binding on the Vifitors of 
 Kent County School , and the Subfcribers and Contributors 
 towards founding and fupporting “ WASHINGTON- 
 “ COLLEGE, in the State of Maryland.” 
 
 I. Every fubfcription ftiall be made in fpecie of gold and fii- 
 ver, and payable (as the Act direfts) in Spanifh milled Dollars of 
 the ufual weight, or the value thereof, as the fame may be at 
 the times of payment, in good merchantable Wheat or Tobac¬ 
 co. 
 
 II. For the greater eafe of the Subfcribers, the payments 
 Hi all be made in three equal parts; one third part on the firft 
 Monday in January, One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Eighty- 
 three; another third part on the firft Monday in January, One 
 Thoufand Seven Hundred and Eighty-four; and the remaining 
 third on the firft Monday in January, One Thoufand Seven Hun¬ 
 dred and Eighty-five; which feveral payments ftiall be made to 
 the Treafurcr of Kent County School, till the College is efta- 
 bliftied according to law, and afterwards to theTreafurer of the 
 College, as nominated by the Vifitors and Governors thereof; and 
 the hand-writing of every particular fubfcriber ftiall be binding 
 in law on himfelf, his heirs, executors and adminiftrators, for 
 the fum fubfcribed, or the value thereof, with legal intereft, if 
 not paid when due; and the receipt of the Treasurer aforefaid 
 ftiall be a fuificient difcharge for all fubfcriptions and contribu¬ 
 tions. 
 
 Within three months after the fum of Five Hundred Pounds 
 ftiall be fubfcribed by any number of contributors or perfons 
 in any county, or diftrift of a county, in fums not lefs than Nine 
 Pounds, or Three Pounds per annum for three years, by fingle 
 fubfcribers or contributors, and the fame ftiall be notified by 
 any three of the fubfcribers to the Vifitors of Kent County School, 
 accompanied with an authentic lift of the fubfcribers, the faid 
 Vifitors, agreeable to the foregoing Aft, will fix a convenient 
 time and place for fuch fubfyfibers and contributors of Nine 
 Pounds and upwards, to meet within the county, for elefting 
 one perfon as a Vijitor and Governor of the College for fuch county, 
 or diftrift of the county; and will caufe written or printed no¬ 
 tices of the time and place of eleftion, to be fixed up at the 
 Court-Houfe and different Pari fill Churches within fuch county, 
 at leaf! ten days before the day of eleftion, that all perfons con¬ 
 cerned may duly attend. 
 
 A LIST 
 
[ 1 7 ] 
 
 A LIST of the Subscriptions in the 
 different Counties on the Eastern Shore, 
 for founding, endowing and fupporting 
 WASHINGTON-COLLEGE, in 
 the State 0/ Maryland, as delivered to the 
 General AfTembly, November 26th, 1782, 
 agreeably to the Charter or Incorporating 
 Ad. 
 
 His Excellency George 
 Washington, Efq; 
 
 General and Com¬ 
 mander in Chief of 
 the Armies of the 
 United States, as an 
 > Earned: of his Good¬ 
 
 will, Fifty Guineas, £ 87 10 o 
 
 Kent County. 
 
 John Cadwalader 
 
 50 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Slubey 
 
 55 
 
 7 
 
 10 
 
 John Page 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Lambert Wii-mer 3d 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Richard Graves 
 
 3° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Robert Buchanan 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Smyth 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Dunn 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Simon Wickes 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Ciaypoole 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Van Dyke 
 
 11 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 Horatio Belt 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Houfton 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Kemp 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 R.obert Blake 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Wickes 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Harragan 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Jofeph Forman 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 ll'aac Perkins 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Bord.ley 
 
 18 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Pvobert Anderfon 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Lorrain 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Jofeph Williams 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Philip Brooks 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Amount brought up 
 
 £■ s. i. 
 
 448 12 IO 
 
 Richard G. Smyth 30 o 
 
 Jofeph Nicholfon 18 o 
 
 James Anderfon 30 o 
 
 William Smith 18 o 
 
 Benjamin Chambers 18 o 
 
 John Scott 18 o 
 
 James M. Anderfon 9 o 
 
 Barney Corfe 9 o 
 
 Edward Wright 9 o 
 
 Simon Wdlmer 15 o 
 
 Edward Worrel 9 o 
 
 John Sturgis 9 o 
 
 Peregrine Eethrbury 9 o 
 
 Jofias Ringgold 15 o 
 
 John Bolton 9 o 
 
 James Piper 9 o 
 
 Anne Deane 15 o 
 
 Anthony Banning 15 o 
 
 Emory Sudler 18 o 
 
 St. Leger Everett 10 o 
 
 Charles Groom 9 o 
 
 William Embleton 10 o 
 
 John Kennerd 10 o 
 
 James Smith 9 o 
 
 Marmaduke Medford 11 5 
 
 James M^Clean 25 6 
 
 Luke Griffith 9 o 
 
 Rafin Gale 9 o 
 
 Thomas Smith, jun. 18 o 
 
 John Blakeway 9 O 
 
 Edward Scanlan 9 o 
 
 Daniel Matzler 10 o 
 
 John Wilfon, jun. 15 o 
 
 Thomas Medford 10 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 7 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 Amount carried forward £ 448 12 10 Amount carried forward £ 914 4 5 
 
 Robert 
 
18 ] 
 
 [ 
 
 
 £■ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Amount brought over 
 
 914 
 
 4 
 
 S 
 
 Amount brought up 1499 
 
 9 
 
 S 
 
 Robert Conftable 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Robert Roberts 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Robert Cruckfhank 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 NathanielKennard,jun. 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Richard Lloyd 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Marmaduke Tilden 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Lloyd 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 William Wilmer 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Total Amount of Kent 
 
 
 
 
 Arthur Miller 
 
 24 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 County at the Elec - >£ j 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 William Ringgold, jun 
 
 . it> 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 tions, Oftober 17 8 a . 9 
 
 
 
 
 Jofeph Wickes 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 Simon Wickes, jun. 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 Richard Hinfon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 Morgan Brown 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Queen Anne s County. 
 
 
 John Sutton 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 Richard Spencer 
 
 1? 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Charles Tilden 
 
 16 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William 'Paca 
 
 5 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Marmaduke Tllden, jun. 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Edward Tilghman 
 
 5 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James hrilby 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Hemfley 
 
 5 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Moore, jun. 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 J. Beale Bordley 
 
 5 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Williamfon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Edward Courfey 
 
 « 
 
 IO 
 
 0 
 
 Jere Nichols 
 
 *5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Richard B. Carmichael 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Richard Ricaud 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Alexander Lawfon 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Richard Miller 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Robert Dawfon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Gale 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Richard S. Earle 
 
 3 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Arthur Bryan 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 Walter Jackfon 
 
 18 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Dunn 
 
 IS 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Jofeph Nicholfon, jun. 
 
 3 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Hodges 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 C. J. Wederftraudt 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Williamfon 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Earle 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Jofeph Brown 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Bruff 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Morgan Hurt 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 S. Clayton 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Robert Dunn 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Wright 
 
 32 
 
 IO 
 
 0 
 
 John Carvil Hinfon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Arthur Emory, jun. 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 Samuel Gott 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Thos. Emory of Arthur 
 
 IO 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Frifby 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 D 
 
 Edward Downes 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Day 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 William Hacket 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Maxwell, jun. 
 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 James Clayland 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Pearce 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 William Wright 
 
 12 
 
 IO 
 
 0 
 
 Ifaac Freeman 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 Turbutt Wright 
 
 3 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Nathaniel Comegys 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 O I 
 
 Richard Emory 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Ifaac Spencer 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 Robert Wilfon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Wallis (Morgan s 
 
 
 
 James Seth 
 
 IO 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Creek) 
 
 IO 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 Clement Sewell 
 
 18 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Brooks 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 Richard Tilghman 
 
 18 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 William Hanfon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 William Ringgold 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Malachi Ambrofe 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 Thomas Marfh Forman 18 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Samuel Davis 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 J. W. Clayton 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Hinfon, jun. 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 William Thompfon 
 
 IO 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Alexander Baird 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 Charles Troup, a Certi¬ 
 
 
 
 
 John Gleaves 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 ficate for £ 200, valu¬ 
 
 
 
 
 William Geddes 
 
 3 ° 
 
 0, 
 
 O 
 
 ed at 
 
 60 
 
 '0 
 
 0 
 
 William Wilfon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 John Brown 
 
 15. 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 jEbenezer Malfy 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 Samuel Ridgeway 
 
 18 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Boyer 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 James Bordley 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 George Wilfon 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 O 
 
 Jacob Ringgold 
 
 9 
 
 0 0 
 
 Carried forward £ 1499 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 Amount carried forward £ j66 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
Amount brought over 
 
 William Smyth 
 Vachel Downes 
 James O Bryan 
 John Fifher 
 James Hacket 
 Samuel Thompfon 
 John Thompfon 
 M. Hawkins 
 Grifftn Fount Le Roy 
 Robert Walters 
 Joiliua Seney 
 Robert Wright 
 James Kent 
 John Dames 
 James Gould 
 Samuel Seney 
 Elijah Bifliop 
 John Foreman 
 Richard B. Lloyd 
 
 [ *9 ] 
 
 £■ S. cl. £. s. d. 
 
 766 o O Amount brought up 409 15 o 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 *5 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 15 
 
 20 
 
 9 
 
 18 
 
 20 
 
 13 
 
 SO 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 o William Hayward 
 o William Perry 
 o Rev. John Bowie 
 
 o o Robert Lloyd Nichols 15 
 a O Pvev. John Gordon 9 
 o o John Coates 9 
 
 o o John Troup 9 
 
 o o Charles Gardiner 9 
 
 o o Richard Skinner 9 
 
 o o John Needles 10 
 
 o o Il’aac Gilpin 9 
 
 o o Charles Crookihanks 18 
 o o Nicholas Cox 9 
 
 o o The Vifitors of Talbot 
 
 free School - 400 
 
 15 © Q 
 
 Total Amount of 
 
 50 o o 
 
 Tot. Amount of Queen'S 
 Anne's County at the ( r _ 
 
 ElcBionof two Vifit- (£ io 5 g O O 
 ors, Oftober 178a. J 
 
 Talbot County. 
 
 Edward Lloyd 
 Robert Goldfborough. 
 jun. 
 
 Howes Goldfborough, 
 William Frazier 
 William Marlh Catrup 
 John Roberts 
 Richard Grafon 
 Peregrine Tilghman 
 Richard Tilghman, ju 
 Matthew Tilghman 
 William Hindman 
 
 William Tilghman 
 William Bordley 
 Jofeph BrufF 
 William Goldfborou 
 Thomas Gordon 
 James Hindman 
 John Bracco 
 Samuel Lloyd Chamber- 
 laine 
 
 Talbot Count/,} £971 *5 O 
 
 Dotchejler County . 
 
 
 
 
 
 £■ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 
 Robert Goldfborough 
 
 ICO 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 William Ennalls 
 
 60 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Henry Ennalls, jun. 
 
 75 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 James Murray 
 
 5 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 £• 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Keene 
 
 3 ° 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 60 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Henry Hooper 
 
 *5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 John Dickinfon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Jofeph Daffin 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 18 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Henry Ennalls 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 *5 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Stevens 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 » 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Wm. Ennalls Hooper 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Levin Kirkman 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Willis Newton. 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Shaw 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 . 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Smoot 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Sullivan 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 11 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 Archibald Patifon 
 
 40 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Jofeph R.ichardfon 
 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 . 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 John Marfhal 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Bourke 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 17 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 Robinfon Stevens 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Henry Murray 
 
 36 
 
 O' 
 
 0 
 
 i 35 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Henry Maynadier 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Henry Waggaman 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Guftavus Scott 
 
 22 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Bartholomew Ennalls 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 jun. 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 27 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 James Gordon 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Amount carried forward £4.09 15 o Amount carried forward £6ji o o 
 
c 
 
 Amount brought over 671 o 
 
 William Wheland 9 o 
 
 Richard Stanford 9 o 
 
 John Hooper 9 o 
 
 William E. Hicks 9 o 
 
 Alexander Smith 9 o 
 
 Levin Travers 9 -o 
 
 Bartholomew Ennalls 9 o 
 
 Tho. Ennalls ( Black-water) 9 o 
 
 George Bonwill 9 o 
 
 John M. Anderfon 12 o 
 
 Robert Ewing 9 o 
 
 Thomas Jones 9 o 
 
 Anne Mufe 30 o 
 
 Elizabeth Ennalls 30 o 
 
 John Goldfborough 20 o 
 
 John Le Compte 15 o 
 
 ‘Mofes Allen 15 o 
 
 Pritchet Willey 9 o 
 
 John Owens 9 o 
 
 Anne Steel 15 o 
 
 Levin Woolford 9 o 
 
 Thomas Lockerman 9 o 
 
 Robert Griffith 9 o 
 
 John Keene 9 o 
 
 Arthur Whiteley 30 o 
 
 Stanley Byus 15 o 
 
 James Steel ^5 0 
 
 Total Amount of Dor- L 
 chefer County, 
 
 Somerfet County. 
 
 John Henry 
 Francis Jenkins Henry 
 Levin Gale 
 Henry Jackfon 
 Samuel King 
 John Denwood 
 Nehemiah King 
 Lambert Hyland 
 John Dafhiell 
 R. Waters 
 Ez. Gillis 
 John Winder 
 Thomas Slofs 
 George Dafhiell 
 William Davis Allen 
 
 £. 
 
 50 
 
 9 
 
 50 
 
 25 
 
 20 
 
 9 
 
 37 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 
 25 
 
 15 
 
 s. 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 20 ] 
 
 (L 
 
 0 
 
 Amount brought up 
 
 £■ 
 30 6 
 
 0 
 
 John Done 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 Thomas Maddux, jun, 
 
 • 9 
 
 0 
 
 John Stewart 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 Efme Bayly 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 Henry Handy 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 William Horfey 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 William M‘Bryde 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 George Day Scott 
 
 20 
 
 0 
 
 William Winder 
 
 15 
 
 0 
 
 James Houfton 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 George Handy 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 Ebenezer Waller 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 Gillifs Polk 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 William Adams 
 
 2$ 
 
 0 
 
 John Adams 
 
 *5 
 
 0 
 
 Henry Lowes 
 
 40 
 
 0 
 
 John Waters 
 
 1 5 
 
 0 
 
 Hamilton Bell, jun. 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 Wm. Daihiell, fen. 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 A. Cheney 
 
 10 
 
 O John Evans (of Nicholas ) 9 
 o Alexander Roberts 9 
 o Thomas Bruff 9 
 
 o - 
 
 0 Total Amount off r , , 
 0 Somerfet County J 
 
 Worcejler County. 
 
 
 Jofeph Dafhiell 
 
 25 
 
 
 Peter Chaille 
 
 Benjamin Purnell (of 
 
 2 5 
 
 rf. 
 
 Matthew ) 
 
 15 
 
 Charles Bennet 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 Solomon Long 
 
 18 
 
 0 
 
 Philip Quinton 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 William Purnell 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 Robert Done 
 
 J 5 
 
 o William Selby 10 
 
 o James Quinton 9 
 
 o John Martin, jun. 9 
 
 o George Fruitt, jun. 15 
 
 o Dr. Bifhop 15 
 
 o Thomas Martin li 
 
 o Jethro Bowin 9 
 
 o John Parramore 10 
 
 o William Holland 10 
 
 o Levin Davis 10 
 
 o Levin Blake 15 
 
 s. d. 
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 o o 
 o o 
 o o 
 d o 
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 o o 
 
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 o o 
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 Amount carried forward £306 o o Amount carried forward £266 o o 
 
Amount brought over 
 
 £. d. 
 
 266 O O Amount brought up 
 
 Town) 
 William Handy 
 John Selby 
 ’ John Warner 
 John Neill 
 Mofes Chaille 
 James Martin 
 Ifaac Houfton 
 
 William Allen 
 Henry Dennis 
 Robert Dennis 
 Thomas Purnell, fen, 
 William Morris 
 Zgdock Purnell, fen. 
 Samuel Handy 
 John Pope Mitchell 
 
 £■ 
 
 433 
 
 Levin Hill 9 
 
 M. Downes 9 
 
 Henry Ayres 9 
 
 John Ayres 9 
 
 Jofhua Townfend (Indian 
 
 15 0 
 
 I 2 o 
 15 o 
 I2 o 
 9 o 
 9 o 
 9 o 
 9 
 
 Parker Selby [of Parker) 9 o 
 
 o Jofhua George 20 o o 
 
 o Perry Ward 18 o o 
 
 o John Ward Veazey 10 o Q 
 
 o James Louttit 2Q 0 O 
 
 John Ward (Son of 
 o Perry) » 900 
 
 o John Cox 20 o o 
 
 o John Hall 900 
 
 o William Rumfey 0 o 
 
 O John Rumfey 12 Q Q 
 
 O William Ward 10 o o 
 
 o Johp Ward 900 
 
 O Thomas B. Veazey 900 
 o John Dochery Thomfon 12 Q q 
 o William Matthews 15 o Q 
 
 Total Amount ofj £ ^ Q Q 
 
 Cxcil County 
 
 Thomas Purnell (W.N.) 18 o o 
 
 Total Amount of 7 r 
 Woroefier County J L * 
 
 Caroline County. 
 
 Mathew Driver 
 Charles Daffin 
 William Hopper 
 
 £■ >■ d, 
 30 o o 
 30 o o 
 35 O o 
 
 Cwcil County. 
 
 £■ s. d. 
 
 150 o o 
 
 The Vifitors of the free 
 School 
 
 Michael Earle 
 John Miller 3 5 o q 
 
 Rev. John Lewis 900 
 
 Sidney George 20 o o 
 
 John Leach Knight 20 o O 
 John Carnan 900 
 
 Daniel Charles Heath 60 o o 
 Henry Ward Pearce 50 o o 
 
 Amount carried forward .£433 0 0 
 
 £95 
 
 Accomack County . 
 
 (Virginia.) 
 
 George Corbin 
 George Stewart 
 Skinner Wallop 
 
 £■ s, d. 
 
 30 O Q 
 
 Virginia Money £ 6 q 0 o 
 
 N. B. The Subfcriptions in Caroline County, and in Accomack and 
 Northampton Counties, in Virginia, as well as the upper Part of 
 C Cecil County, are yet left to be compleated, together with the ad¬ 
 ditional Subfcriptions propofed to be opened in the other Counties 
 of the E aft era Shore, 
 
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 To the Honorable the GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 of Maryland. 
 
 W E, the fubferibers, agreeable to our appointment by 
 11 the Vifitors and Governors of Wafhington College, 
 in the State of Maryland,” and on their behalf, beg leave to 
 prefent and deliver to the General Affembly, the inftrument <tf 
 writing , or declaration of trujl , required by law, as the condi¬ 
 tion upon which the operation of their charter is to commence. 
 
 The very numerous and liberal fubferiptions which have been 
 obtained towards founding and fupporting this College, in the 
 different counties to which our applications were directed, are 
 a proof of the zeal of the fubferibers for the advancement of 
 knowledge, virtue and public fpirit. By that zeal, the Vifitors 
 of Kent county fchool have been enabled to give exigence to a 
 Corporation for the advancement of literature, in lefs than five 
 months, for which they were allowed five years by the indulgence 
 of law. We truft, and are allured, that fuch exertions of indi¬ 
 viduals, for the public emolument, do not only merit, but will 
 receive the moil public approbation, as well as future protection 
 and encouragement, of the Legiilature. Together with the de¬ 
 claration of trnjl, and lift of fubferiptions, we beg leave to pre¬ 
 fent to the General Affembly, copies of a letter from the Vifitors 
 of Kent county fchool to his Excellency the illuftrious Com¬ 
 mander in Chief of our armies, on the fubjed of this College, 
 and of the anfwer which they had the honor to receive from 
 him. The exalted and patriotic fentiments which it contains 
 can only be truly conveyed to the public by the letter itfelf. 
 
 We would further humbly pray the General Affembly, that 
 the leveral papers and fubfeription lifts herewith prefented may 
 be preferred among their journals and printed with the fame,* 
 that the names of the firfl founders, benefactors and patrons of 
 this feminary may remain on perpetual record. The names of 
 future benefactors will be reported and recorded as occafion 
 may require. 
 
 WILLIAM SMIT H. 
 
 P E R E LETHRBURY. 
 
 November 26, 1782. 
 
 To 
 
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 To the Honorable the GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 of Maryland. 
 
 TI 7 'E, the fubfcribers, “ Vifitors and Governors of Waih- 
 * * ington College, in the State of Maryland,” beg leave to 
 declare, that, agreeable to the aft, whereby we are incorporated, 
 entituled, “ An Aft for founding a College at Chefter Town,” 
 there are ten vifitors and governors duly chofen in different 
 counties of this ihore, upon fubfcriptions of Five Hundred Founds 
 each, in addition to the /even vifitors of Kent County School ; 
 and that u we are willing and defirous to take upon us and dif- 
 “ charge the truft of vifitors and governors of thefaid college/ 
 u and that an eflute or fum and fums not lefs than Five Thoufand 
 “ Pounds current money (including the eftate of Kent county 
 “ fchool ) is fo fecured to be paid to us, that we will anfwer 
 “ for the value thereof, and the application of the fame, to- 
 “ wards founding, endowing and fupporting the faid College, 
 “ according to our beft judgment and the tenor of the faid aft,” 
 which is our Charter. And we further declare that a fum of 
 money, exceeding Five Thoufand Pounds, (exclufive of the 
 eftate of Kent county fchool) and amounting to Five Thoufand 
 Nine Hundred and Ninety-two Pounds, Fourteen Shillings and Five 
 Pence* is fubfcribed towards the faid College, as will appear by 
 the fubfcription lifts herewith delivered; and that we will ufe 
 our beft endeavours, and have no doubt to obtain a due col- 
 leftion of the whole of the faid fubfcriptions, and will faith¬ 
 fully apply the fame, as far as obtained, towards founding, en¬ 
 dowing, 
 
 * This was the Amount at the Time of delivering the Liji of 
 Subfcribers to the General Affembly. But as the Liji ftands 
 above, added to what new produced by the Sale of Leafes of 
 Ninety-nine Tears for Sixty-three Lots of Ground, herein 
 after mentioned the whole Capital raifed for the founding this 
 Seminary of Learning from the Time of paffing the Charter in 
 May , 1782, to the firjl Commencement in May, 1783, was 
 about Ten Thousand three Hundred Pounds. 
 Confderable Benefactions have been fince received, and a much 
 larger Number Joon expefted, which will be laid before the 
 World t in a future Publication. 
 
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 dowlng, and fapporting the faid College; and alfo all future 
 benefadions, fubfcriptions, and contributions that may come 
 into our management and power- 
 
 This we declare this r5th of Oft. 1782, under our hands* 
 haying firft taken the oaths of fidelity and fupport to this 
 State, according to the direction of our faid charter of 
 incorporation. 
 
 ( William Smith, Prefident. 
 3 ; Jos. Nicholfon, 
 
 James Anderfon, 
 
 John Scott, 
 
 William Bordley, 
 
 Pere Lethrbury, 
 
 Benjamin Chambers, 
 
 John Page, 
 
 Robert Goldiborough, 
 Wm. Perry, 
 
 Peter Cbaille, 
 
 James Lloyd, 
 
 ^Jofhua Seney. 
 
 Od. 22. Thomas Smyth, jun. 
 Nov. 8- Samuel Keene, 
 
 Nov. 13. Wm. Paca, 
 
 Nov. iy. Wm. Thomfon. 
 
 Copy of a Letter from the Vifitors of Kent County School, to His 
 Excellency General Wafhington. 
 
 May it pleafe your Excellency , 
 
 B Y order and in behalf of the Vifitors of Kent County 
 fchool, I have the honor to enclofe to your Excellency, 
 an ad of the General 'Ajjembly of Maryland , for ereding a 
 College at Chefter, for the benefit of the Eafiern Shore, or 
 Peninfula between Chefapeak and Delaware Bays, which they 
 have dignified with the aufpicious name of “ Washington 
 “ CoLLfiGE, in the State cf Maryland , in honorable and per- 
 t£ petual memory of his Excellency General Wafhington, the illu- 
 ftrious and virtuous Commander in Chief of the armies of 
 “ the United States.” 
 
 In every poffible way, your country wifhes to ered public 
 monuments to you, even while living, and pofterity, without 
 
 doubt, 
 
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 doubt, will greatly increafe the number,- but none, it is be¬ 
 lieved, can be more acceptable to you, than a femimry of uni - 
 verfnl learning exprefsly dedicated to your name, with a view of 
 inftru&ing and animating the youth of ..many future generations 
 to admire and to imitate thefe public virtues and patriot-labours , 
 which have created a private monument for you in the heart of 
 every good citizen. 
 
 As this College Is to be inftituted upon the foundation of 
 Kent county fchool, the Vifitors of the laid fchool are by law 
 honored with the great truft of carrying the defign into exe¬ 
 cution. They have already been favoured with very liberal 
 fubfcriptions, under the aufpices of your name,- and have no 
 doubt fpeedily of receiving fuch farther fubfcriptions, payable 
 in three equal yearly payments, as will amount to the eftimate 
 in the law, and enable them, the next fpring, to build the ne- 
 ceffary fchool rooms for le&ures in the fciences, and to furniih 
 them with books and philofophical apparatus. 
 
 The Vifitors hope to obtain your Excellency’s permifiion to 
 place your name at the head of the /even additional Vifitors and 
 Governors of the College, which the law allows to be chofen 
 from any of the neighbouring States, to make up the number 
 twenty-four, as you will obferve in the perufal thereof. They 
 further hope, that the time is not very remote, in which this 
 infant feminary may falute you in perfon, and, like a dutiful 
 child, as one of its firft works, prefent the olive wreath and 
 other emblems of peace to its father, guardian and proteftor; 
 
 I have the honor to be, in behalf and by order of the Vifi¬ 
 tors of Kent county fchool, your Excellency’s moft obedient 
 and moft humble fervant, 
 
 CLeJler in Kent county, Maryland. 
 July 8, 1782. 
 
 William Smith. 
 
 €opy of his Excellency General Washington s Anfwer. 
 
 Head Quarters, Newburgh, iBth Augujl, 1782. 
 
 I Have had the honor to receive your favour of the 8th ult. 
 
 by Colonel Tilghman, who arrived here about ten days ago, 
 and to whom I have committed the charge of forwarding this 
 anfwer. 
 
 To 
 
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 To the gentlemen who moved the matter, and to the Aflem- 
 bly for adopting it, 1 am much indebted for the honor con¬ 
 ferred on me, by giving my name to the College at Chefter. 
 At the fame time that I acknowledge the honor, I feel a grate¬ 
 ful fenfibilrty for the manner of beftowing it; which, as it 
 will remain a monument of their efteem, cannot but make a 
 deep impreflion on my mind, only to be exceeded by the flat¬ 
 tering alfurance of the lafting and extenfive ufefulnefs of the 
 Seminary. 
 
 If the trifling fum of Fifty Guineas will be confldered as an 
 Earneji of my withes for the profperity of this Seminary, I ihall 
 be ready to pay that fum to the order of the Vifitors, whenever 
 it is their pleafure to call for it—It is too trifling to ftand in any 
 other point of view—nor would I with it to do fo. 
 
 With much pleafure ihould I confent to have my name en¬ 
 rolled among the worthy Vifitors and Governors of this Col¬ 
 lege; but convinced as I am that it will never be in my power 
 to give the attendance which by law is required, my name could 
 only be inferted to the exclufion of fome other, whofe abilities 
 and proximity might enable him to become a more ufeful mem¬ 
 ber. 
 
 When that period ihall arrive, when we can hail the bleft 
 return of peace, it will add to my pleafure, to fee this infant 
 feat of learning rifing into confiftency and proficiency in the 
 fciences, under the nurturing hands of its founders,. 
 
 I have the honor to be, Reverend Sir, 
 
 Your moft obedient Servant, 
 
 George Washington. 
 
 To the Rev. Dr. Smith , at Chejler, 
 in Kent County, Maryland. 
 
 By the Houfe of Delegates , November I'jth, 1782. 
 
 THE Addrefs in behalf of the Vifitors and Governors of 
 Wafhington College , and their declaration of truji, with the lift of 
 fubferiptions towards founding and fupporting the faid Col¬ 
 lege, and copies of the letter from the Vifitors of Kent County 
 School, to his Excellency General Waihington, and his anfwer, 
 being read. 
 
 Refolved 
 
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 Refolved, That the Victors of Kent County School have ex¬ 
 erted themfelves with a laudable diligence and addrefs in the 
 execution of the truft committed to them, for founding the faid 
 College. 
 
 Refolved , That the numerous fubfcribers towards founding this 
 College have given an exemplary proof of their zeal for the 
 honor and intereft of their country, by contributing fo freely and 
 liberally towards the eftablifhment of a general Seminary, for 
 the advancement of knowledge, virtue and public fpirit. 
 
 Refolved That the declaration of tru'fl: by the Vifitors and 
 Governors of the faid College, is an acceptable pledge and 
 affurance that they will continue to exert their utmoft zeal and 
 abilities in carrying on and compleating the eftablifhment of a 
 Seminary fo fuccefsfully begun, and winch promifes to be of 
 public utility to the prefent and future generations. 
 
 Refolved , That their exertions merit the approbation of the 
 Legiflature, and (when circumftances will permit) ought to re¬ 
 ceive their public encouragement and afliflance. 
 
 Refolved, That the exalted and patriotic fentiments contained 
 in the letter of his Excellency General Washington., , in anfwer to 
 the letter of the Vifitors of Kent County School, and the 
 polite manner in which he hath been pleafed to accept the ho¬ 
 norable intentions of the General AlTembly, in dignifying the 
 College with his name, are proofs of that goodnefs and greatnefs 
 of foul by which he is actuated in all his conduct. 
 
 Refolved, That the feveral papers, upon which thefe refolu- 
 tions are founded, be entered on the journals of the AlTembly, 
 and be publifhed with the fame, in honor to the firft founders, 
 benefactors and patrons of this Seminary. 
 
 True extract from the Minutes, 
 
 W. Harwood, Clk. Ho. Del 
 
 By the Senate, Nov. 27th, 1782, read and afiented to, by order, 
 James Maccubbin, Clerk. 
 
 Thefe refolves were palfed unanimoujly in both houfes. The 
 Bufinefs of the College was carried on during the fucceeding 
 Winter with great Diligence and fuccefs,* the Number of Stu¬ 
 dents and Scholars conftantly increafing. The firft Commence¬ 
 ment was hekTthe enfuing Spring, of which the following is an 
 Account, viz. 
 
 Cbejler 
 

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 Chejler y in the State of Maryland, May 1 6, 1783. 
 
 On Wednejday lajl, the 1 t{th infant, was held the first Commence. 
 
 ment in WASHINGTON COLLEGE, for Degrees in the 
 
 Arts and Sciences ; which prefented a fcene not only new and 
 
 interejiing to the inhabitants of this Shore, but of the State in 
 
 general. 
 
 At ten in the forenoon, a proceffion was formed from the 
 place where the fchools are now kept, to the Church in this 
 town in the following order, viz. 
 
 ill. The body of Scholars and Students, tivo by two. 
 
 2d. The Candidates for Degrees, in the like order. 
 
 3d. The Faculty of ProfefforS, with the Rev. William 
 Smith, D. D. Prefident of the Fifitors and Governors, who acted, 
 by appointment, as Principal pro Tempore, at their head. 
 
 4th. The Corporation of Fifitors and Governors, his Excel¬ 
 lency William Paca, Efq; Governor of the State, and one of 
 the faid Vifitors and Governors, at their head. 
 
 When the proceffion arrived at the Church door, the feho- 
 lars, ftudents and candidates for degrees filed off to the right 
 and left, forming a lane through which the Faculty and Corpo¬ 
 ration of Vifitors and Governors marched into the Church, 
 followed by the candidates, and then the ftudents and fcholars 
 according to their claffes and feniority. 
 
 The company being feated, the Principal pro Tempore (Dr. 
 Smith) opened the bufineis of the day with a folernn Prayer 
 and Address to the SUPREME BEING; and afterwards a fhort 
 Latin oration to the learned and collegiate part of the audi¬ 
 ence, as cuftom feems to require. The candidates then pro- 
 ceded with the public exercifes as follows, viz. 
 
 1. A Latin Salutatory Oration, by Mr. John Scott. 
 
 2. An oration in French, by Mr. James Scott. 
 
 3. A Latin Syllogistic Dispute— “ Num Mt emit as Pcemrum 
 contradicit divinis AttributisV ’ Refpondent Mr. Charles Smith; 
 Opponents Meffrs. William Barrol and William Bordley. 
 
 4. An Englifh Forensic Dispute,— “ Whether the ftate of 
 nature be a ftate of war?” The Speakers were Meffrs. John 
 Scott, William Barrol, William Bordley and James Scott. 
 
 $. The 
 
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 5. The Degrees were conferred by the Principal as follow? 
 
 f~*b nv'l 0 r* C't tot+7* 
 
 / William Barrel , \ 
 
 ^ William Bordley, ^ 
 
 $lr. Samuel Kerr, Honorary Bachelor of Arts, 
 
 Mr. Colin Fergufon , Matter of Arts. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Armor, Matter of Arts of the College of Phila¬ 
 delphia, admitted ad eundem. 
 
 AT. B. The two laft gentlemen are the fenior or chief Pro - 
 felfors in the Arts and Sciences, and Mr. Kerr one of the Mat¬ 
 ters in the Grammar School. 
 
 6 . An EngliJJo Valedictory Oration, which concluded with a 
 linking and prophetic copy of verfes on the progefs of the fcU 
 ences and the growing glory of America—By Mr. Charles Smith , 
 
 7. The Principal then clofed the bufinefs of the Comment 
 merit, with an affectionate and pathetic Charge to the Gra¬ 
 duates, refpeCting their future conduct in life; and what was 
 to be expected from them, as the firft or eldefl fons of this 
 riling feminary!— 
 
 The different fpeakers were honored with the jutted: applaufe 
 of the audience, for the propriety of their delivery and many 
 mafterly ttrokes of eloquence in the different languages which 
 they fpoke, viz. Latin, French and Englijh .—The Valedictory 
 Oration in particular, from the nature of the fubjeCt, as well as 
 beauty of the delivery, had a very ftriking effect upon all who 
 were prefent.--- 
 
 In the evening of the fame day, Dr. Young’s Tragedy of the 
 Brothers, notwithftanding the difficulty of the compofition, 
 was acted with the greateft applaufe before a vaffly crouded 
 and difcerning audience, by the graduates and fome others of 
 the ftudents. Meffrs. Charles Smith and John Scott, who had be¬ 
 fore diftinguifhed tbemfelves in Tamerlane and Bajazet, as well 
 as in fome principal characters in other performances, during 
 the laft years of their education, concluded their fcholaftic 
 labours in this way, by ftiining in the characters of the Two 
 Brothers! 
 
 The day following (viz. on Thurfday, May 15th) the Vifi- 
 tors and Governors, the Matters, Students and Scholars, ac¬ 
 companied by a great number of gentlemen from the neighbour¬ 
 ing counties, went in proceflion to the hill where the new Col¬ 
 lege is to be built; and after Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Smith, the 
 
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 Foundation- 
 
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 Foundation-Stone was laid, with the proper ceremony, by 
 his Excellency Governor Paca, who was faluted on the occa¬ 
 sion by thirteen discharges of cannon. Orations in French were 
 delivered by MeSTrs. Thomas Worral and Ebenezer Perkins; and a 
 Pajloral Dialogue * was fpoken by three of the younger fcholars, 
 in Shepherds dreifes, viz. MeSTrs. Richard Smith, Robert Buchanan 
 and Jofeph Nicholfon. The performance being too long, perhaps, 
 to infert at large, we give a few lines from the beginning and 
 conclusion.— 
 
 tc When Athens flourish’d with the Grecian reign, 
 
 “ And Chiefs and Heroes liv’d—a God-like Train! 
 
 “ When by her Arms each neighbouring State was fway’d, 
 
 “ And Kings an Homage to her Warriors paid— 
 u Ev’n then thofe Chiefs, who all the World fubdu’d, 
 
 “ Lower’d their proud Faces to the Learn d and Good: 
 u Nor with lefs Glory in the Rolls of Fame 
 “ Shines every Sage’s, than each Hero's Name.” 
 
 This happy Day we glory in a Scene, 
 
 Which Athen’s Self enraptur’d would have feen; 
 
 Science triumphant and a Land refin’d, 
 
 Where once rude Ignorance fway’d th’ untutor’d Mind; 
 
 The Wife, the Good , the Fathers of the State, 
 
 Conven’d with Joy to fix the Muse’s Seat; 
 
 To lay a fall Foundation-Stone, which Shall 
 Ee only mov’d when links this Earthly Ball! 
 
 Aufpicious Day ! no more the Mufes mourn, 
 
 But hail their Parent Peace on her Return--- 
 Heav’n gives the Word, and bids Mankind repofe, 
 Contending Nations bluSh that they were Foes; 
 
 Old Warriors now Shall glow with Rage no more, 
 
 But reap the Fields their Valour fav’d before. 
 
 Hail Goddel's Peace ! in thy celestial Mein 
 Sweet Happinefs and ev’ry Grace are feen; 
 
 O’er thy l'mooth Brow no rugged Helmet frowns, 
 
 An Olive Wreath thy Shining Temple crowns.-— 
 
 Let now the Mufes haiten to explore 
 The tawny Chief on Erie’s distant Shore, 
 
 Or trace his Steps among the ForeSls wide, 
 
 That deep imbrown the vaft Ontario’s Side; 
 
 And bid him quick his deadly Bow unbend, 
 
 For now de'Stru&ive War is at an End; 
 
 Let mighty Mississippi, as he runs, 
 
 Proclaim aloud to all his fwarthy Sons, 
 
 That to Earth’s Ends fair Science Shall encreafe. 
 
 And form one Reign of Learning and of Peace ! 
 
 The 
 
 * This Dialogue was partly taken from one fpoken on a fimilar 
 Occafion, at the Conclufion of a former Peace. The following are 
 fome of the other public Exercifes on this Occafion. 
 
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 The VALEDICTORY ORATION, 
 
 delivered at the fir ft Commencement in 
 
 WASHINGTON-COLLEGE, 
 
 in the State of Maryland , May 14, 1783. 
 By CHARLES SMITH, B. A. 
 
 T this triumphant period in the annals of America, while 
 
 il thofe Sovereign and Independent States look back to 
 the pajl and forward to the future ; while, with gratitude and 
 exultation unfpeakable, they contemplate the mighty contest 
 which they have fuftained, and now behold truth and peace, 
 in Cherub form, defcend from heaven to crown their labours, 
 and conduct them from fcenes of blood into the path of happinefs 
 and glory --while the fields laugh and fing with the profpeft of 
 future plenty , and nature, decked in vernal pride, participates in 
 the general joy-—At this triumphant period, my dear fellow- 
 ftudents, the task affigned to me is a fevere one;—-like a dif- 
 cordant firing, amidfl: the univerfal jubilee, to call forth una¬ 
 vailing lamentations and valediBory tears, at the approaching dif- 
 folution of our connexion in thefe Seats of wijdom and fcience , 
 where we have fpent a happy part of our youthful years. 
 
 But, on this great occafion, I will dare to burft the bands of 
 rigid Academic rules and, if tears muff be lhed, they ihall be 
 tears of congratulation and joy— Congratulation to the State 
 of Maryland, which (as the earlieft and bell: fruits of peace and 
 independent empire) beholds a temple of virtue and knowledge,, a 
 Seminary of universal Learning, dedicated to the illuftrious 
 name of WASHINGTON, riling into lafling importance for 
 the benefit of future generations—and joy to us, my fellow- 
 graduates, who have been dignified with the firjl laurels of this 
 Seminary, and are called forth to manifefl the fruits of our edu¬ 
 cation at the happy moment, when our country hath glorioufly 
 eflablifhed her rank among the nations of the earth ; when the 
 mod unbounded fcope for ambition lies before us, and all the. 
 talents of the fcholar, the patriot and the hero can find room for 
 exertion, in building up the mighty fabrick of American glory! 
 
 Aufpiciaus moment! happy occafion!-—Ye Fathers and Law¬ 
 givers of the State , who by your public fanftion have given a 
 permanent foundation to this feminary, and honoured it with 
 the mod ample privileges! Ye noble, benefactors of every rank, 
 by whofe liberal and well-timed bounty it now fubfifts—-Ye 
 learned and honoured body of Visitors and Governors, by 
 whofe conftant care it hath been nurfed to its prefent perfe&i- 
 
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 dn, and you efpedally who fir ft planned, and hath fince animat¬ 
 ed the great defign.but here filial * reverence forbids.to 
 
 all of you, the thanks of your country to the lateft times* 
 and our mod fincere and immediate thanks, who have reaped 
 the earliejl fruits of your wifdom and benevolence , are furely due! 
 -—What greater honour can accrue to you in this world, what 
 greater joy can your own reflections yield, than to confider 
 yourfelves as the inftruments of Heaven for exalting the genius 
 and happinejs of your country, by eftabliihments for the good 
 education of youth, and forming the minds of the riling gene¬ 
 rations to the fublimc fentiments of honour and public Jpirit! 
 Kings and mighty States, in times of profoundeft peace, have 
 fcarce been able, in many years, to bring to perfection fuch a 
 feminary, as, under your guardianfliip, hath rifen to view, in 
 the courfe of a Angle year,—-an year too, replete with the moft 
 interefting events both of war and peace l yours has been the 
 glory, but ours the unfpeakable advantage.-Oh! that a pow¬ 
 
 erful filence, inftead of the feeble efforts of our utmoft eloquence, 
 could be accepted as the expreflion of our gratitude to all of 
 you, gentlemen, whofe countenance and encouragement in the 
 profecution of our paft ftudies, as well as upon the prefent 
 great occafion, are at once our higheft boaft and moft animating 
 incentive!-—To you j in particular, moft excellent Sir, who 
 (yourfelf a fcholar and a patron of literature, and filling the 
 feat of government in this State with dignity and virtue—) think 
 it even an addition to your other honours to take a lhare in the 
 government of this inftitution, and to animate us with your 
 applauding prefence—to you we owe every mark of the deep- 
 eft gratitude and refpeft. 
 
 To you Iikewife, ye worthy ProfefTors and Mafters, who, by 
 your abilities and indefatigable induftry in the education and 
 government of the Youth committed to your care, have con¬ 
 tributed in an eminent degree to raife this feminary to itsjpre- 
 fent rank in the Literary World; to you Gentlemen our obliga¬ 
 tions are unfpeakable—-With all the zeal of faithful inftructors, 
 as well as the folicitude of parents—you have produced us to 
 the world this day, as th efirjl birth , the eldefi fins of this noble 
 feminary. May no part of our fliture conduct difgrace the ho¬ 
 nours we have received, nor the noble lefTons of morality you 
 have taught us; but let us confider, that to fhine forth in every 
 excellence, as an example to the generations of youth who are 
 to fuceeed us, will be the ftrongeft inftance of our gratitude to 
 
 you, 
 
 * It muft haVebeen a peculiar fatisfa&ion to the gentleman to 
 Vvhom this College is fo much indebted for its foundation, that a foil 
 of his own fliould be thought worthy of the firjl degree in the fame. 
 
 f Governor Paca was prefent as one of the Yifitors and Govern¬ 
 ors of the College, and aifo as one of its zealous Friends and Patrons* 
 
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 you, as well as of our zeal for the future honour and profperi- 
 ty of our Alma Mater , this Nurfery ef tVifdom and Virtue*. And 
 let us hope, that although our prefent connexion with you, as 
 guardians and pupils, matters and fcholars, is now to be dif- 
 folved by a painful and parting adieu, yet we ihall meet again 
 on the grand theatre of public life , as Compatriots and Fellow- 
 Labourers in our country’s caufe; and ihall be indulged with 
 the countenance of your protection and advice, in a courfe of 
 virtuous activity ! 
 
 Cuftom now requires that we ihould addrefs a tew words to 
 you, ye hopeful youth of this feminary, who are purfuing us in 
 our walk through the pleating paths of fcience. Affifted by 
 fuch kind and able inftruCtors, countenanced and encouraged by 
 fuch dignified characters, as your guardians and protectors, the 
 eyes of the world upon you, the rifing Glory of your country 
 calling for rifing exertions of Wisdom and Virtue—Oh lofe not, 
 I befeech you, lofe not your prefent golden opportunities of 
 preparing yourfelves to aCt a worthy and dignified part in life. 
 13 e not difcouraged with the apparent difficulty of improvement. 
 Though the paths of knowledge may, at a dittance, appear 
 thorny, rough, and of fteep and difficult accefs, yet upon a 
 nearer view, and the farther you travel, you will find them 
 fmooth and eafy. But, if you draw back, or even turn your 
 eye afide, although with the firmed intention to renew your 
 journey, the path, upon every freffi view, will appear Hill more 
 fteep and craggy; and you will be wholly deterred from alcend- 
 ing to the FIill of Honour, where you may pluck wreaths of 
 undying fame-—But let your conduct be the reverfe—-On the 
 fummit of that Hill ftands the Guardian Genius of your Country. 
 —Mount with a fteady eye'and divine ambition-—Bend at her 
 feet with filial love—-implore her bleffing— -and you ihall be 
 bleft! 
 
 And now, my dear Fellow-Graduates, I am to enter upon the 
 laft and moft fevere part of my duty, to bid adieu to you with 
 whom I have been united in the moft tender bonds of friendihip ; 
 with whom I have ffiared the fame recreations of youthful years ; 
 drank from the fame fountains of knowledge, felt the fame rap¬ 
 tures at the recital of what is good, great and Godlike $ and finally, 
 whofe brows have, this day, been adorned with the fame wreath 
 of Academic glory-— Connexions and ties like thefe, formed, and 
 (as it were) twined round the heart in early years, are hard to 
 be difiolved..With faultering tongue, and tearful eye, there¬ 
 fore, mutt th e lafi adieu be pronounced!.But why ihould it be 
 
 pronounced?-— Although we are to jeparate in refpeCt of.place, 
 and perhaps prtfcjfions in life, yet we are not to part in a ffeh ions, 
 
 nor in the great object of our purfuits . the fervice of our 
 
 country, and the advancement of whatever can enlighten, or be 
 
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 of benefit to mankind. On the contrary, I know, my dear Fel¬ 
 low-Graduates, that your hearts join with me, and all the foul 
 of the patriot exults within you, while I fiep forward and pledge 
 myfelf before this great and refpettable alterably, that we who 
 have this day been fo highly diftinguiihed in their fight, will 
 make our country's good , the fupport of her religion , her laws, 
 her fovereignty and civil rights, the grand object of all our pur- 
 fuits—-we will confider liberty as the firfi of bleflings, the pa¬ 
 rent of Virtue, the guardian of innocence, and the terror of 
 vice. Equal laws, fecurity of property , true religion, wijdom mag¬ 
 nanimity, arts and Jciences , whatever can adorn or exalt human 
 
 nature, are her lovely offspring!.Where she dwells, deferts 
 
 are turned into fruitful fields, and villages into populous cities. - 
 
 But Hill Hie dwells not in fafety, without the Cherub Peace 
 vouchfafes to dwell by her fide. 
 
 [Here bending on one knee.'] 
 
 Oh Peace, the faireft gift of Heaven! long a firanger to this 
 land! welcome be thy return! let thine abode with us be hence¬ 
 forth everlafting! may we be infpired from above to nje thy 
 bleffmgs, as not abufing them, and may that happy period now 
 fpring to light and brighten into perpetual day when the voice 
 of difeord, the clangor of the trumpet, and the din of arms, fiiall be 
 heard no more among men!. 
 
 [Here, rijing up in poetic rapture.] 
 
 * It comes! it comes! the premis'd $ra comes! 
 
 Now Peace and Science fiiall difperfe the glooms 
 Of War and Error— and, with cheerful ray 
 O'er long benighted realms fiied heavenly day— 
 
 Hark! the glad Muses finite the warbling firing, 
 
 And in melodious accents, thus they ling—- 
 “ Woods, Brooks, Gales, Fountains, long unknown to Fame, 
 At length, as confeious of your future claim. 
 
 Prepare to nurfe the philofophic thought. 
 
 To prompt the ferious or the fportive note! 
 
 Prepare, ye woods , to yield the Sage your fliade, 
 
 And wave ambrofial verdures o’er his head ! 
 
 Ye 
 
 * About thirty years ago, the author of the above verfes (Rev. 
 Dr. Smith) publifhed a plan of education, and a fcheme for found¬ 
 ing a College, at Neiv-Tork, entitled “ A general idea of the College 
 of Miraniaf and thefe verfes were prefixed, as fpoken at the opening 
 of fucb College. The author’s fcheme has not proved Utopian. 
 Th« ke Colleges have been founded and carried on nearly upon 
 his plan of education, and the-verfes 1 i V e been fpoken, with a few 
 words of occafional alterations, at the opening of two of the Colleges, 
 but have not been reprinted till now in America . 
 
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 Ye brooks prepare to fwell the Poet’s ftrain, 
 
 Or gently murmur back his am’rous pain! 
 
 Hafte, O ye gales, your fpicy fweets impart. 
 
 In mulic breathe them to the exulting heart! 
 
 Ye fountains, hafte the infpiring wave to roll, 
 
 And bid Cajlalian draughts refrefh the foul!” 
 
 Tis done-woods, brooks, gales, fountains all obey-- 
 And fay, with general voice, or feem to fay— 
 
 “ Hail Heaven-born Peace, and holy Science hail! 
 Thrice welcome to thefe fhores, here ever dwell 
 With ihade and filence, far from dire alarms. 
 
 The trumpet’s horrid clang and din of arms— 
 
 To you we offer every fofter feat, 
 
 Each funny lawn and fylvan fweet retreat, 
 
 Ea^h flower verg’d ftream, each amber-dropping grove, 
 Each vale of pleafure and each bower of love, 
 
 Where youthful nature with ftupendous fcenes. 
 
 Lifts all the powers, and all the frame ferene-— 
 
 Oh! then, here fix .earth, water, air invite. 
 
 Till a new Rome and Athens fpring to light!” 
 
 Smit deep, I antidate the golden days, 
 
 And ftrive to paint them in fublimer lays. 
 
 Behold! on periods, periods brightening rife, 
 
 On Worthies, Worthies croud before mine eyes! 
 
 To every ancient Hero, lo, a fon! 
 
 For Cincinnatus fee a Washington! 
 
 See other Bacons, Newtons, Lockes appear. 
 
 And other Platos, Euclids, Tullies, near! 
 
 Amidft undying greens they lie infpir’d, 
 
 On moffy beds, by heavenly vifions fir’d; 
 
 Aloft they foar on contemplation’s wing 
 
 O’er worlds and worlds—and reach th’ Eternal King! 
 
 Awak’d by other funs, and kindling ftrong 
 
 With pureft ardours for celeftial fong, 
 
 Hark! other Homers, Virgils touch the firing, 
 
 And other Popes and Miltons, joyous, fing; 
 
 Find other Twit-’nams in each bowery wood. 
 
 And other 'Fibers in each fylvan flood! 
 
 Lo! the wild Indian, foften’d by their fong, 
 
 Emerging from his arbours, bounds along 
 The green Savannah patient of the lore 
 Of dove’ey’d Wisdom —and is rude no more. 
 
 Hark! even his babes Messiah’s praife proclaim. 
 
 Or fondly learn to lifp Jehovah’s name! 
 
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 Oh! Science ! onward thus thy reign extend 
 O’er realms yet unexplored till time ihall end; 
 
 Till death like ignorance forfake the ball, 
 
 And life endearing knowledge cover all; 
 
 Till wounded Jlavery feek her native hell, 
 
 With kindred bends eternally to dwell! 
 
 Not tracldefs deferts ihall thy progrefs flay, 
 
 Rocks, mountains, floods before thee lhall give way; 
 Sequefter’d vales at thy approach fhall fing, 
 
 And with the found of happy labour ring; 
 
 Where wolves now howl lhall polifli’d villas rife, 
 
 And towery cities grow into the skies! 
 
 “ Earth’s fartheft ends our glory fliall behold,” 
 
 And the new world teach Freedom to the old. 
 
 The following is a Copy of the Salutatory Oration, fpoken 
 at this Commencement, by Mr. JOHN SCOTT, as men¬ 
 tioned above; and is here recorded as a Specimen of elegant 
 modern Latin, and as an Example for future Students to imi¬ 
 tate. 
 
 Oratio 
 
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 O RATIO SALUTATORIA. 
 
 Q UANQUAM, frequens vefter confpeflus, auditores huma- 
 niffimi, incredibili infolitaque lastitia animum percellit; ta- 
 men, incipientem dicere, confifeor, me non minimo metu 
 incuti, et rubore pene virgineo fuffundi: prasfei'tim 'cum meo faepi-i 
 ns animo fuccurrit, nihil in hoc venerando' Mufamm domicilii* 
 nifi cogitatione eximium, doftrinaqne polituin et elaboratum prge- 
 ferri oportere, nihil quod famae non confulat noftrse affu-rgentis 
 Academiae, expleat fpem et expeftationem hujufce ornatiffimi 
 Cpnventus, refpondeat munincentiae Curatorum, peritise et induf- 
 Xrias Profefforum, et aemulam animet ambitionem fuccedentimn 
 Alumnorum, Proinde, quanquam hoc mihi Cordi efiet quantumvis, 
 multa admodum dehortabantur ab hujufcemodi tentamine, veren- 
 temequidemut fatis digne pro magnitudine rerum fuftineam, utpote 
 tantilli Ingenii, quam rninime Exercitationis djcendi experfum, et 
 bonar.um -artium difciplina folummodo medlocrlter into u turn. 
 
 Sed fixum animo meo et immotum, favente Deo, fedet, ne quid 
 refugiam, quod poffint aut vires mes aut naturae, quantuloecun- 
 que fint dotes. Igitur veftne Clientelae, praefidioque totum me 
 commendo ; et cum omni faufto omine ftudiorum Primitias meorutu 
 aggredior offerre. 
 
 Atqui, hie imprimis mihi lastandum jure eftc video, quod, veftro 
 annitente patrocinio et benevolentia, tale argumentmn mihi obla- 
 turn eft, quod ingenio addat etiam humillimo quandam fuperbam 
 ere^ionetn et elevationem, atque veluti Appollinari furore inftinc- 
 tam. 
 
 -Ecquis enim, fiquidem quantulocunque perculfus fit facrarurrt 
 amore Literarum, cujus intimum pectus gaudia non pertentant, 
 cum videat Mufoeum. fapientias, virtutis & humanitatis, fub virorum 
 atrfplciis ampliffimorum feliciter inceptum, etpene ad finem perdue- 
 turn, et feientiam ipfam, (ii ita loqui licet) hodierno die Laurean* 
 fuib urimis Alumnis coronam in hac regione porrigentem ; praefer- 
 tim cum fubit in mentem, quantas et quales Commoditates a Stir- 
 diis honeftiorum Diicipiinarum derivantur, quam accomoaata 
 carum cultura fit naturali praecellentiae, et Dignitati Generis hurria- 
 ni, quam .apta ad promoveudam pietatem, et concordiam, opes 
 atque commercia, libertatem, fidem, juftitiam, ct omues denique 
 bonas artes quibus Gentes terrarum floruerunt, et ad Gloria?, Im- 
 periique apicem pervenere. 
 
 Revera efferor gaudio, quando animo effingo, et mihimet repros- 
 fento Iuventutem, quae, labentibus annis, ex hac Academia pro¬ 
 dibunt, praeceptis falutaribus inftruftam, quam percitam dulcedine 
 famse, et quam entheo certatim ardore flagrantem ad pulcherrima 
 facin^ra, et omnem diguiffimam laudem ; tam in fovendis & pro- 
 movendis moribus, in defendendis patrum conlbltis, et legunj 
 majeftate & patriae libertate, in inveniendis, excolendis, et patro- 
 cinandis ambus ingenuis ct utilibus, quam in belli rebus arduis 
 gerendis, 
 
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 Qui ergo plaufus, quas praeconia vobis debentur, Curatpribns, 
 Parentibus humanitatis et vindicibus virtutis et literarum. Nulla 
 fane unquam erit tam ingrata setas, nulla tam improba pofteritas, 
 quae de veftris laudib-us conticefcet, quse non admiretur veftram in- 
 dxiftriam, colat Li^eralitatem, Sapientiam adoret. Equidem om¬ 
 nia opera hnmani ingenii et induftriae peribunt et irrita fient; eti- 
 am ille Sol, qui colluftrat, omnia corrufcantibus radiis, et natura 
 ip fa confenefeet; fed niemoria bujufee veftri laboris, et refte fac- 
 torum, extra temporis anguftias pervagabitur, et in juventa pe- 
 renni florefeet. Sed quoniam Regreflus pads, ftudiis artium liber- 
 alium et feientias omnigenae amiciffimus eft, veftram veniam oro, 
 ornatiftimi Curatpres, vobis congratulari de hujus eventu aufpica- 
 fiffimo, ct omnibus civibus Americanis bene de patria merentibus, 
 imo etiam generi liumano, ubicunque diffufo. 
 
 Videbatis nuperrime ipfi, et igitnr folummodo leviter perftrin- 
 gam, veftros agros vaftatos, oppida diruta, vicos incenfos, Britan- 
 nis armatis. Quin etiam Germani mercede condu&i omnia com¬ 
 pare cadaveribuf ,/Iuftu atque mcerore ; et cicbantur etiam Indiani, 
 late furentes, enreni e Syivis latebrofis in communem vaftationem 
 vefti'orum Confinium, qui fanguinem et ftragem fitientes, Liberos 
 a complexu ; arentum divellebant, Virgines caftas rapiebant, Juve- 
 nes et Senes, Mulieres et Pueros promifeua caede, exultantes tru- 
 cidabant! 
 
 Etiam nunc totus tremifeo, cum animo eftingam hos barbaros 
 fubito e caecis receftibus, ceu lupos rapaces, emicantes, fanguine 
 perfufos, inftrumenta lethalia truculenter vibrantes et voces tarta- 
 reas intendentes! 
 
 Videbatis, infuper non fine multo dolore, abdudtis Colonis arva 
 fqualere, oommercium negligi, et artes tam utiles quam ingenuas 
 languere, et praeterea adyta fanftiflimi Dei deferi, et etiam Genium 
 titularem Americae et Libertatis e fylveftri fuo umbraculo lugere! 
 
 Sed nunc redeunt Pax, Religio, et cum principatu ilia, ilia fa- 
 cerrima libertas, quam fsepe exoptaftis; nunc artes et feientiae in- 
 ftruentes ad humanitatem vigefeunt renovataej et mine demum 
 • redeunt commercimn geniale, copia, induftria,.et omnia bona qua; 
 pofiunt genus humanum ad funimam felicitatem deducere. Non 
 minim eft igitur, fi omnes dignifiimi Gives, ufque ad remotiftimos 
 terminus Americas de hoc eventu, ex animo effufc laetari. 
 
 Mehercule mini videtur naturam ipfam vernantem, in propria 
 Tempeftate revirefccre pulcliriorem, et per cfmnia fua regna huic 
 beatlftmae regioni gratulari. Quern admodum cum procella coorta 
 eft, homines, pecudes et volucres pavore languefcunt propter hyem- 
 em ingruentem; fi forte Sol affullit perlucidus caelo, et formofifli- 
 irms, turn vero, ordo et pulchritudo regnat, juveixefeunt pecudes, 
 concinnunt aves, animo pergrato homo lastatui'. 
 
 Vel potius veluti cum piumordio mundi, feminibus verumconflic- 
 tantibus, congcftis eodem, atra nocte incubante, profundo inter- 
 minato, Omuipotens Pater, mole informi fafta praegpante Spiritu 
 -Samfto, in ordincm difeordia pidneipia l'edigebat; lucem astheream 
 emicarc jubebat; et Solem et Sidera radiare; fluvios & maria dif- 
 funni; hominem creari; turn caelum et terra acclaxxxationibus gratu- 
 labimdis hominis & Angelorum et natura: prasgeftientis plenitudi- 
 ne pulchrUudinis confonabant. 
 
 Quibus 
 
Quibus Laudibus igittir efferemus vos, qui vulnera paffi cftis et 
 fanguinem profudiftis, periculis pro patna fubeundis, e£ bene 
 merendo de hifce Republicis et toto orbe Terrarum: et te 
 WASHINGTON, inter ornnes divine et illuftriffime Im- 
 perator, omnium Gentium, omnium Sseculorum principem, qui 
 cum jam Britanniam viribus firmaiji, opibus audam, diutnrna 
 armorum Gloria fuperbam, nec jam uni populo bellum, fed tott 
 terrarum Orbi fervitutem et vincula intentantem, aufpicatiffimU 
 Ludovici Sociorumque armis aggreffus, incredibiii atihibita 
 virtute, et fucceflu etiam fupra Expedationem humanam curau- 
 latlm affluente, urgens perpetuo atque inftans quoufque confregifti ; 
 ut quae Europse petenti dare atque concedere foiita fit pacein, 
 ipfa jam ultro fupplex ac demilfa petivit! Sed quanquam forti- 
 tudo animi tui aft'urgat fupra alios, tibi tamen cum aliis commu¬ 
 nis eft: mite autem ingenium adeo tibi proprium inhseret, ut in 
 te uti in N u m i n e ipfo, Clementia, primaria ilia et divina 
 Imperatoris virtus, reliquas omries ornet et fuperemineat. Erga 
 hoc Dodrinae Seminarium tuam benevoientiarn abunde perfpec- 
 tam habemus, in quantum ad extruendum et fuftmendum benefi- 
 centiae documentum confpicuum praebuifti, fub tuo praelidio iuf- 
 cepifti, et tuo Augufto Nomine permififti confecrari et ornari. 
 
 Quocirca Illuftriffime Imperator, quoniam’fub tuis facris aufpiciis 
 patria noftra fada eft l'edes cujufque prceceilentias human® et 
 pulcherrima rerum, dehinc quocunque vexilla tollentur Americana 
 terra marique, imo qua Sol illummat habitabiles terras, haberis 
 patronus Libertatis, Juris, Legum, Veritatis et Scientist, Pater 
 Patriae l'ervatae, Genius Americae, et benefador generis human! 
 univerfi! 
 
 Veftri, Cives honoratiffimi, et omnium aliorum, qui huic Colle- 
 gio’- extruendo et fublevando nomina fubfcripferunt, dum vita ma- 
 nebit, et hanc auram aetheream haurimus, nunquam memimifte 
 pigebit. Non opis eft noftrae certe grates perfolvere, quae dignae 
 lint et adaequatae huic tantae veftrae Liberalitati. Sed mens confcia 
 redi et Deus benigniffimus cumulatiffime remunerabit. 
 
 Vos, Lumina Sapientiae, et ornamenta fplendidiffima Litterarum, 
 Patres venerandi, qui morxbus ornatis, et prndentiffimis confiliis, 
 Legibufque faluberrimis, noftram rempublicam, gubernatis : vos, 
 inquam, jubemus falvere, quippe qui fumma liberaiitate, diplomate 
 vellro, potentiam dediftis conveniendi, et hunc diem Camasnis et 
 Laetitiae feftivae confecrandi. 
 
 Te, quoque lubentiffime animus gaudet falutare, prceftantiffime 
 P A C A, tutelam praefentem noftrarum rerum, cundis fuffragiis 
 populi et Senatorum ad refpublicas, et honorem ampliffimum de- 
 fignatum, qui adeo £e tradis faluti communi, et id tarn mbnixe 
 contendis, ut totum Corpus reipublicae, fumma prudentia, confilio, 
 et juftitia tutaris. 
 
 Sed te admodum venerande Curatorum Praefede, Domine Smith 
 quern omnes Mufte amant, et tuns Apoilo ex ipfis penetralibus Famae 
 fandiffimi templi, laurea immortaii coronat, et in facros cnoros 
 coeleftes adfcribcre gaudet, quo fiumine orationis, te celebrem, 
 qua Copia dicendi? Certe benigniffimum munen, ingenium divi- 
 num, et os magna, et nova, et inaudita fonaturnm, tibi largitum 
 eft. Tua praeclara et pulcherrima fada tam in Penfylvania, quam 
 in Marylandia nemo quantumvis ingratus et invidus lit, qui non 
 facillime agnofcat. Sed hoc Delubrum Mufarum , monumentum 
 tuas induftriae indefadgabilis, humanitatis, et Patrice amoris, 
 in omne asvum permanebit. 
 
Vos tandem Profefl'ores, a nobis falutari pat eft. Quomodo v*}-* 
 bis pro fummis erga nos meritis, pro tforum, quae a vobis didici- 
 mus, pretio ac praecellentia, pro laboribus inunenfis, quos jam 
 diu caufa noftra toleraviftis, fatis Gratiarum unquam referamus? 
 
 Te profefto, Domine Furgufon t jure jubemus falvcrc, pro tua 
 peritia humaniorum Literarum, pro fingulari Diligentia, et felici 
 perfpicacitate in explicanda obfcuritate multiplici Mathefeos, et 
 in inveftigandis intimis receffibus et fub'limitatibus naturae. 
 
 Quidni te vcro falutem, Domine Armor, amicum manfuetioribus 
 Mulis et generi humano, Sapientiam e Socraticis fontibus derivan- 
 tem, et nobis praecepta rcfti et beate vivendi faluberrima traden- 
 tem ; quid vitam tranquiliet humanam, et quicquid Veri accerre- 
 mas et fublimi Greciae juventuti in Sylvis umbrolis Academise, Pia- 
 tonis eloqimn mellifluuin dlftabat. 
 
 Vos denique primi alumni hujufce Academiae et Condifcipuli ca- 
 riflimi, viridi Juventa. germinantes optamus falvere. Tandem ad 
 metam laborum pervenimus, per oranes ambages literarum vagan- 
 tes. Tandem adeft dies expeftata et optata, et quarn femper hono- 
 ratam habebimus, utpote laurea fronde tempora noftra velantem. 
 
 Nunc oro obteftorque, quoecunque fit futura ratio vitae, in qua- 
 cunque fortuna, ubi terrarum difperfi, hanc veftram almam matrem 
 femper memori mente et reverentia refpiciatis, Documenta obfer- 
 vetis, et fanftitatem fuorum cxemplorum moribus exprimatis. 
 
 To the foregoing Account of the public Exercifes in May, 
 1783, it is only to be added that in May, 1784, the Seminary 
 was honoured with a Vifit from his Excellency GEORGE 
 WASHINGTON, Efq; the illuftrious Patriot, whole Name 
 it bears, and who took his Seat and fubfcribed his Name as one 
 of the Vifitors and Governors. On this Occafion, the Students, 
 entertained the Public with the Tragedy of GUSTAVUS 
 VASi\, the great Deliverer of Sweden from Danifb Oprejpofi ; 
 a Performance breathing, throughout'the whole, the moll: ani¬ 
 mated Sentiments of Liberty, Heroifm and ;public Spirit. It was 
 received with the jufteft Approbation, and especially the fol¬ 
 lowing Lines of the occafional Epilogue; the latter Part of which, 
 calling the more immediate Attention of the Audience to their 
 favorite Hero, in whofe Prefence it was fpoken, drew Tears of 
 Gfatulation from every Eye, and repeated Burfts of Applaufe 
 from every Heart.—-The Speaker was Mr. William Hsmjley.-— 
 
 Then liften to our chafte corrected Page 
 And view the noblefl Subject on the Stage---* 
 
 A Hero ftruggling in his Country’s Caufe, 
 
 What Patriots ihould be—-and great VASA was! 
 
 For Hill the Mufe’s favorite Task ihould be 
 , To roufe the numbering Virtue of the Free l 
 To fire the Bread to Deeds of public Worth, 
 
 And call th’ impatient Soul of Glory forth; 
 
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 To breathe Humanity into the Heart, 
 
 And every nobler Feeling to impart.-— 
 
 For this, to Night, with trembling Hope and Fear 
 We humbly dar ; d to greet your candid Ear, 
 
 To bid heroic Ages roll anew 
 
 And call the great GUSTAVUS back to View. 
 
 In awful Grace, the mighty Chief appears 
 From his deep Slumber of fome Hundred Years! 
 
 IIow dreadful was the Scene, the Theme how great! 
 
 Expiring Freedom, and a fuffering State! 
 
 Here Danilh Fury fpreading o’er the Land, 
 
 There VASA riling with his ardent Band! 
 
 11 A Race of hardj? northern Sons he led, 
 
 “ Guiltlefs of Courts, untainted and unread; 
 u Whofe inborn Spirits fpurn'd the ignoble Fee, 
 u Whofe Hands fcorn’d Bondage— -for their Hearts were free l 
 
 Such were our Themes! Oh, be Difcernment ihown. 
 
 Nor in there Swedifh Woes forget your own! 
 
 Our Aim is not by idle Strokes of Art, 
 
 To pleafe the Ear—-but reach the Life and Heart. 
 
 How late did fell Opprellion, o’er this Land, 
 
 With more than Danifb Fury raife her Hand; 
 
 When lo! a Hero of immortal Name 
 
 From where Potowmack rolls his mighty Stream, 
 
 Arofe the Champion of his Country's Caufe, 
 
 The Friend of Mankind, Liberty and Laws,* 
 
 While, in the Conflict Heaven and Earth engag’d 
 And gave us Peace, where War and Rapine rag’d. 
 
 The public Commencement, for this Year, was held July <5tb, 
 when William Alexander , Peter Chaille & Benjamin Frederick Augujlus 
 Cce - Dajhiell, were admitted to the Degree of Bachelors of Arts; 
 and Mr. Joseph Coudon to the Degree of Mailer of Arts, in 
 Teiumony of the Senfe which the Vifitors and Governors re¬ 
 tain of his literary Abilities and his long and faithful Services, 
 as chief Mailer of Kent County Free School , on which this Col¬ 
 lege is engrafted. 
 
 The following is the Scheme of collegiate Education for three 
 Years, as preparatory for Degrees. It was drawn up and pub- 
 lifhed about thirty Years ago by the Author of this Account, 
 for the Ufe of the College of Philadelphia, and hath been 
 long carried into faithful Execution there under his Direflion. 
 It is now adopted for the Ufe of Washington College, with the 
 Addition of fuch Books, Inilruments, &c, as the many late Dif- 
 coveries and Improvments in the Arts and Sciences render ne- 
 ceiTary. 
 
 VIEW 
 
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 VIEW or THE PHILOS OPHY-SCHO OLS. 
 
 j?IRST YEAR 
 
 FreJhmetiMay 15. 
 
 Firft Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 January. 
 Third Term. 
 Tour Months. 
 
 SECOND YEAR. 
 juniors. May 15. 
 
 Firft Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 January. 
 Third Term. 
 Four Months. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 THIRD YEAR. 
 Seniors. May 15, 
 Firft Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 January. 
 Third Term. 
 Four Months. 
 
 FORENOON. 
 
 INSTRUMENTA- 
 
 LECTURE I. 
 
 L- PHILOSOPHY. 
 lecture II. 
 
 Lat. &Engl. Exercifes continued 
 
 Common Arithmetic reviewed. 
 Decimal Arithmetic. 
 
 Algebra. 
 
 The ftme. 
 
 Fractions and Extract. Roots. 
 Equations, Ample & quadratic. 
 Euclid, firft fix Books. 
 
 Logic with Metaphyfics. 
 
 N. B. At leifure Hours Depu¬ 
 tation begun. 
 
 x«fcx*-x*x**x*x*x*x 
 
 Logic, &c. reviewed. 
 Surveying and Dialling. 
 Navigation. 
 
 Euclid a fecond Time. 
 Logaritlmiical Arithmetic. 
 
 x-*x*x#x**x*x#x*x 
 
 Plain & Spherical Trigonometry, 
 
 Conic Sections. 
 
 Fluxions. 
 
 Euclid, nth Book. 
 
 —- nth Book, 
 
 Architecture, with Fortificat. 
 
 MORAL PHILOS, begun. 
 
 NAT. PHILOSOPHY begun. 
 
 Viz. Compend. of Ethics. 
 
 N. B. Deputation continued. 
 
 x*x*x*x**x*x#x*x 
 
 Ethics continued. 
 
 Natural and civil Law. 
 
 Viz. General Propert. of Body 
 
 -Mechanic Powers. 
 
 • ■ ■ — - Hydroftatics 
 
 -- — Pneumatics 
 
 N. B. Declamation and public 
 Speaking continued. 
 
 x*x*x*x**x*x*x#x 
 
 Light and Colours. 
 
 —— Optics, &c. 
 
 PerfpeCtive. 
 
 Introduction to Civil Hiftory 
 
 -to Laws and Government. 
 
 -to Trade and Commerce 
 
 Aftronomy. 
 
 Nat. Hift. of Vegetables. 
 
 .-.— of Animals. 
 
 Review cf the Whole. 
 
 Examinat. for Degree of B. A. 
 
 Chemiftry. 
 
 Of Foftils. 
 
 Of Agriculture. 
 
 N. B. Thro’ all the Years, 
 the French Language may be ftu- 
 died at leifure Hours. 
 
 FIRST 
 
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 FfRST YEAR. 
 
 Frejbmen.M ay 15 
 Firll Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 January, 
 Third Term. 
 Four Months. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 ********* 
 SECOND YEAR. 
 Juniors. May ij. 
 
 Firft Term. 
 Three Months. 
 Second Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 January. 
 Third Term. 
 Four Months. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 ********* 
 THIRD YEAR. 
 Seniors ■ May 15 . 
 
 Firft Term . 
 Three Months. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Three Months. 
 
 January. 
 Third Term. 
 Four Mouths. 
 
 AFTERNOON. 
 Clafllcal and Rhetorical Studies. 
 
 LECTURE III. 
 
 PRIVATE HOURS. 
 Books recommended for improv¬ 
 ing the Youth in the various 
 Branches. 
 
 Homer’s Iliad. 
 Juvenal. 
 
 Pindar. 
 
 Cicero, fe!e £t Parts. 
 Livy refumed. 
 
 Thucydides, or 
 Euripides. 
 
 "Wells’s Di'onyfius. 
 
 N. B/ Some Afternoons to be 1 
 fpared for Declamation this Year. 
 
 *********-******** 
 Introduction to Rhetoric. 
 Longinus, critically. 
 
 Horace’s Art of Poetry, critically. 
 Ariftot Poet. &c. critically., 
 Quintilian, fe!e£l Parts. 
 
 Composition begun. 
 
 Cicero pro Milone. 
 
 Demofthenes pro Ctefiphon. 
 
 N. B. During the Application 
 of the Rules of thefe famous O- 
 ions, Imitations of them are 
 to be attempted on the Models of 
 perfect Eloquence. 
 
 *********-******** 
 
 Epifteti Enchiridion, 
 
 Cicero de Officiis. 
 
 Tufculan Quaed. 
 
 Memorabilia Xenoph. Greek. 
 
 Patavii Rationar. Temporum. 
 Plato de Legibus. 
 
 Grotius de Jure, B. & P. 
 
 Afternoons of this 3d Term, 
 for Compofition and Dec ama- 
 tion on Moral and Phyfical Sub¬ 
 jects.—Phiiofophy Ails held. 
 
 Spectators, Ramblers, &c. for 
 the Improvement of Style, and 
 Knowledge of Life. 
 
 Barrow’s Lectures. Pardie’s 
 Geometry. Maclauiin’s Alge 
 bra. Ward’s Mathematics. Keii’s 
 Trigonometry. 
 
 Watts’s Logic,and Supplement, 
 Locke on human Underftavding. 
 Hutchefon’s Metaphyfics, Vare- 
 nius’s Geography. 
 
 Watt’s Ontology and Eflays. 
 King de Orig. Mali, with Law’s 
 Notts. Johnfon’s Elem, Philof. 
 
 Voflius. Boflu. Pere Bohours 
 Dryden’s Eflays and Prefaces 
 Spence on Pope’s Odyfley 
 Trapp’s PrasleCt. Poet. Diony 
 fius Halicarn. Demetrius Pha 
 lereus. Stradse Proiufiones, 
 
 Patoun’s Navigation. Grego- 
 y’s Geometry—on Fortification. 
 Stmfon’s Conic Sections. Mac- 
 laurin’s and Emerfon’s Fluxions. 
 Palladio by Ware. 
 
 Hehham’s Lectures. Grave- 
 fande. Cote’s Hydroftatics. Defa- 
 guliers. Mufchenbroek. Keil’s 
 In trod uCtion. Ma'tin’s Pbiio- 
 fophy. Sir Ifaac Newton’s Phi- 
 lofophy, Mac aurin’s View of 
 Ditto. Rohault per Clarke, 
 
 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^£. 
 
 Puffendorf by Barbeyrac 
 Cumberland de Leg. Sidney. 
 Harrington. Seneca. Hutchefon’s 
 Works. Locke on Government, 
 Hooker’s Polity. 
 
 Scaliger de Emendatione Tent- 
 porum. Preceptor. Le Cicrc’s 
 C'ompend. of Hiftory——Gre 1 
 gory’s Aflronomy —Fortefcueor 
 Laws. N. Bacon’s Difcourfes 
 My Lord Bacon’s Works. Lockt 
 on Coin. Davenant. Gee’s Com- 
 pend. Ray. Derham. SpeCtacle 
 de la Nature. Religious Phi- 
 
 lofopher-HOLY BIBLE, tc 
 
 be read daily from the Beginning, 
 and now to fuppiy the Deficien¬ 
 cies of the Whole. 
 
 Befides 
 
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 Befides the Collegiate Part of the Inflitution, as above 
 Sketched forth, there is a public Grammar School for the learn¬ 
 ed Languages , and Schools for Englifh, French, Arithmetic, 
 and all the practical Branches-of Mathematics neceffary for 
 fuch Perfons as are not intended for a Collegiate Education, 
 or any of the learned Profeffions. 
 
 The Inftitution is at prefent under the Direction of the fol¬ 
 lowing Gentlemen as a Faculty, viz . 
 
 William Smith, D. D. Principal pro Tempore. 
 
 Colin Fergufon, A. M. Profeffor of Languages and Mathe¬ 
 matics, &c. He is alfo Treafurer, by annual Election.--'-- 
 
 Samuel Armor, A. M. Profeffor of Logic and Moral Philo- 
 fophy; and Regifler, by Election.— 
 
 They are affifted with two able Tutors in the Grammar School, 
 a Mailer for the Engliih and practical Branches of Mathematics, 
 a French Mailer, and fome more Mailers will be fpeedily em¬ 
 ployed, as the Number of Students and Scholars are daily en- 
 creafing. 
 
 The whole Lift of Vifitors and Governors is as follows, vis. 
 
 His Excellency George Wafhington, Efq; 
 Honorable John Henry, and 
 Samuel Chafe, Efq; 
 
 Thefe are Part of the addi¬ 
 tional Seven Vifitors & Go¬ 
 vernors, -whofc Ref deace is 
 not limited to any County. 
 
 For Kent County. 
 
 William Smith, D. D. 
 Prefident, 
 
 Peregrine Lethrbury, 
 Efq; Secretary. 
 Jofeph Nicholfon, 
 John Scott, 
 
 William Bordley, 
 Ifaac Perkins, 
 Thomas Smyth, Sen. 
 Thomas Smyth, jun. 
 John Page, 
 
 Thomas Van Dyke, 
 
 Queen Anne's County , 
 
 His Excel. William Paca, Efq; 
 Joihua Seney, Efq; 
 
 Talbot County. 
 
 Honble. William Perry, Efq; 
 
 Dorchejler County. 
 
 Honorable Robert Goldfbo- 
 rough, Efq; 
 
 Rev. Samuel Keene, A. M. 
 
 Somerjet County, 
 
 Levin Gale, Efq; 
 
 Worcejler County , 
 
 Peter Chaille, Efq; 
 
 Ceecil County. 
 
 Rev. William Thomfon. A.M. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Quarterly Meetings of the Vifitors and Governors, fo? 
 the public Examination of the Students, and the faithful 
 nagement of the various Matters committed to their Truft by 
 JLaw, are held on the fecond TueJ'day in the Months of February, 
 May, Auguft, and November; whereof the May Meeting , by 
 the prefent Rules is conlidered as the great Anniverfary and 
 Commencement Time , for the conferring the Degrees and Ho¬ 
 nors of the Seminary. But as the Ordinances and Laws of the 
 Corporation are ftill in a probationary State, and the whole of 
 them not yet compleated, they will at fome future Day be laid 
 before the Public, together with the Lift of fuch further Bepe» 
 factions as may, in the mean Time, be generoufly given for 
 furthering the good Defigns for which this Inftitutiou was 
 founded. 
 
 We fhall therefore clofe the prefent Account with a Copy of 
 the Morning and Evening Service which is at prefent appoint* 
 ed to be ufed, in their Turn of Prayer, by fuch of the Mafters 
 as are delirous of being aflifted with a fhort Form; while every 
 Mafter is left at his Pleafure to add to the fame, or to pray 
 without a Form, according to his religious Perjuafion , and the 
 liberal and Catholic Foundation of the Inftitutipn. 
 
 Part of the Morning SERVICE and 
 PRAYERS, ufed in Washington^ 
 College. 
 
 SENTENCES. 
 
 0 Lord , our Lord! how excellent is thy Name in all 
 the Earth ! 
 
 Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings haft thou 
 ordained Strength . Pf. viii. 1,2. 
 
 Hear ye Children the Lift ruction of a Father and at* 
 tend to know Underftanding—W 1 s dgm is the prin* 
 cipal Thing; therefore get Wifdom , and with all thy 
 Getting get Underftanding .—- 
 
 Exalt her and fhe fhall promote; Jhe fhall bring th$§ 
 to Honor , when thou doft embrace her . She Jhall 
 give to thine Head an Ornament of Grace ; a Crown 
 of Glory Jhall fhe deliver to thee . PsOVp \v. 1, 7,8, 9* 
 
 G VuYm 
 
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 PRAYERS. 
 
 O M O S T gracious God! we render Thee our moll un¬ 
 feigned Thanks for preferving us to the Beginning of this 
 Day. Many and great have been thy Mercies to us, for which 
 we praife and magnify thy Holy Name. We moft humbly be- 
 feech Thee to continue thy loving Kindnefs to us this Day, and 
 thro’ the whole Remainder of our Lives. Be gracioufly pleaf- 
 ed, to give thy fpecial Prote&ion to thefe thy Children, who, 
 from their tender Age are expofed to more than ordinary Perils 
 and Temptations. May their Feet be guided into the Ways of 
 Peace and Safety; and may we all fo walk before Thee, that 
 our Lives may be full of Comfort, our Death of Peace and our 
 Eternity of Glory; thro’ Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Prayer for Wisdom and Obedience. 
 
 H OLY and merciful Father! we humbly befeech Thee to 
 poflefs the Hearts of thefe Thy Children with a perfeft 
 Dependence upon Thee, and fuch a Love of what Thou hall 
 commanded, that their whole Behaviour may be conformable 
 to Thy holy Will, and a Comfort to their Mailers, Parents, 
 and all with whom they are conne&ed in this Life. Incline 
 their Hearts to that which is good , and create in them an utter 
 Diflike of all Evil. Give them an affectionate and teachable 
 Difpolition, and an unfeigned Love of Truth and Candor. 
 Preferve them from all Malice, Falfehood Deceit, Fraud and 
 Evil-ipeaking. When they are found in a Fault, may they be¬ 
 come fenlible of the Duty of Amendment, and never attempt 
 to put the Blame on others, or to palliate their Guilt. 
 
 O Thou, who art the Fountain of all Wifdom, be gracioufly 
 pleafed to hifpire us, whofe Duty it is, to inllruct them with fuch 
 a Portion of thy divine Wifdom, as may enable us to difcharge 
 our great Trull with Fidelity and Succefs. May we ever bear 
 in Mind, that the bell Service we can render to Thee our God, 
 or to our Fellow' Creatures, is by our earned and fuccefsful 
 Endeavours to imbue the Minds of Youth with true and juft 
 Sentiments of Religion and Goodnefs. 
 
 Give thy Eleffing to this Seminary of Virtue and ufeful Learn¬ 
 ing. May ail who are admitted into it be infpired with the 
 Love of Wifdom, and preferved from Sloth, Idlenefs, Evil 
 Company and Evil Habits. As they grow in Years, may they 
 grow in Piety and true Knowlege, and in Favor with Thee 
 and with all good Men. 
 
 May 
 
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 May we all be preferved this Day, and the Remainder of 
 our Lives, by thy good Providence; fo that at laft we may ob¬ 
 tain everlafting Life and Glory, thro’ the Merits and Mediation 
 of our bleffed Saviour and Redeemer Jefus Chrift, who has 
 taught us when we pray, to fay, &c. 
 
 Our Father, &c. 
 
 T il E Grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the Love of 
 God, and the Fellowihip of the Holy Ghoft, be with us 
 all evermore. Amen. 
 
 Evening SERVICE. 
 
 L ORD! who fliall dwell in thy Tabernacle, or who fhall 
 reft upon thy Holy Hill?—-Even he that leadeth an un¬ 
 corrupt Life and doth the Thing which is right, and fpeaketh 
 the Truth from his Heart— He that hath ufed no Deceit in his 
 Tongue, nor done Evil to his Neighbour, and hath not ftan- 
 dered his Neighbour—-He that is lowiy in his own Eyes, and 
 maketh much of them that fear the Lord—-He that accuftoms 
 not his Mouth to Swearing; neither ufeth himfeif to the nam¬ 
 ing of the Holy One— 
 
 Whofo doth thefe Things fhall never fail. 
 
 Short Evening PRAYER, which may be faid 
 with the General Prayer, 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 M OST Holy and merciful Lord! who haft prepared for 
 them that love Thee fuch good Things as pafs Man’s 
 Underftanding; pour into our Hearts fuch Love towards Thee, 
 that we preferring thy Service above all Things, may obtain 
 thy Promifes which exceed all that we can defire. Increafe inus 
 true Religion; nourifh us with all Goodnefs; multiply upon us 
 thy Mercy, that Thou being our Ruler and Guide, we may .fo 
 pafs through Things temporal, that we finally lofe not the.. 
 Things eternal. Grant this, O Heavenly Father, for Jefus 
 Chrift’s Sake, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 General 
 
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 General Evening PRAYER. 
 
 '.THOU God of all Grace and Glory! father of Light 
 
 KJ and Love! Father of the Spirits of Men! from whofe 
 free Goodnefs wc receive our Lives, and all the Means and 
 Hopes of Happinefs here and hereafter. We laud and magnify 
 thy holy Name for thy Mercies towards us this Day. Be gra- 
 cioufly pleafed, thro’ the Merits of Chrift our Saviour, to ac¬ 
 cept our imperfeft Endeavours to ferve thee; forgiving what 
 thou haft feen amifs in us; and filling us with fuch a penitent 
 Senfe both of our Tranfgreftions and Omiflions, that we may 
 daily examine our Ways and labour after greater Perfection in 
 true Holinefs. 
 
 Vouchfafe, O merciful Father, thy fpecial Protection and Fa¬ 
 vour to the rifing Generation; and particularly thofe here afiem- 
 bled before Thee. Aflift their Memories, to retain, their Judg. 
 ments to comprehend, and their Hearts to love every good and 
 valuable Character. Sentiment, and Aftion this Day laid before 
 them. May they be taught of Thee their God the Way in which 
 they fliould walk when they are young, and may they never de i 
 part from it. 
 
 In whatever Station thy Wifdom ihall place them, may they 
 be always difpofed to aft upon the Principles of Religion, Cha* 
 frity and Probity; feeking no worldly Advantage feparate from 
 the Love and Praftice of Truth and Virtue. Adorn their Minds 
 with thofe Graces and Acquifitions which may render them a 
 Bleffing to their Country; ufeful in their own Generation, and 
 Alining Examples to the Generations which ihall fucceed them. 
 
 May all Seminaries of found Learning, by thy good Provi¬ 
 dence, be rendered the happy Means of diffufing thy heavenly 
 Wifdom and holy Chriftian Religon to the fartheft Ends of the 
 World. In particular, give thy Blefling to-this Inftitution; the 
 Governors, Mailers, Scholars, its numerousBenefaftors, and all 
 who are connected with it. May they difcharge their feveral 
 Trufts aud Duties, as in thy Sight, and confidering the Account 
 they are to give to thee. 
 
 Blefs all orders of Men amongft us from the higheft to the 
 loweft. Give them Grace in their feveral ftations, to be in- 
 ftrumental to the Spreading abroad Truth, Righteoufnefs, Juf- 
 tice and Virtue. May the Councils of thofe who rule , and the 
 Conduct of thofe who obey be folely directed to the public good* 
 
 Finally, 0 Lord, as thou haft gracioufly preferved us thro’ 
 the paft Day, we befeech Thee to defend us from all the Perils 
 of the entiling Night. With all humble Confidence in tby un¬ 
 
 wearied 
 
 ■ 
 

 C 49 3 
 
 Wearied Goodnefs, we defire to commit our Souls and Bodies 
 to thy conilant Prote&ion andBlelling; which we likewife pray, 
 thou would’li be pleafed to extend to all our Relations and 
 Friends, and to all the Children of Men; for the Sake of Jefus 
 Chrift, in whofe holy Name and Words, as he hath taught us, 
 we further pray, 
 
 Our Father, &c, 
 
 The prefent Price of Boarding, Washing, &c. in the College 
 Lodgings is Twenty-three Pounds ten Shillings per Annum, and 
 fik Pounds Tuition or School Money for the ClaJJical, Mathema¬ 
 tical and Philofophic Branches of Learning- Three Pounds more 
 is required for Room or Chamber-Rent, the whole being Thir¬ 
 ty-two Pounds ten Shillings per Annum. But it is expefted that 
 an Abatement may foon be made in thefe feveral Prices; efpe* 
 dally when, thro’ the Generofity of the Public, the Buildings 
 ihall be finifhed, which will be large and commodious, being 
 One Hundred and Sixty feet in Length, [See the Elevation in 
 the Frontifpiece of this Account] and capable of containing 
 near Two Hundred Students—-As a very confiderable Sum will 
 yet be wanting to prepare the Building for the Reception of the 
 Mailers and Students and for encreafing the Library and the 
 Mathematical and Philofophical Apparatus, a new Stibfcription t 
 together with the affiilance of a Lottery, has been found necef- 
 fary. A Capital is alfo to be raifed in Order to provide fuf- 
 ficient Salaries for able Profeffors and Teachers; in which 
 (agreeably to one of the foregoing Refolves of the General 
 AJJembly, and the Examples which have been fet by other States) 
 it cannot be doubted but fome confiderable Legiflative Afiift- 
 ance will be derived, when the Condition of the public Finances 
 will admit. 
 
 In the mean Time, it is hoped, that, in perufing the forego¬ 
 ing Sheets, every benovolent Mind and Friend of Learning will 
 find fufficient Motives for fome Exertion of his Generofity on 
 this Occalion; for which Purpofe the following Terms of a 
 New Subscription are propofed. 
 
 WE 
 
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 W E the Subfcribers promife to pay the Sums annexed to 
 our refpe&ive Names for the Use of Washington 
 College, on the Terms following, viz. 
 
 i. All Subfcriptions exceeding three Pounds to be in three 
 equal Payments, viz. the firft third Part to be paid on the ift. 
 Day of January 1785, the 2d. on the ift. of January 1786, and 
 the 3d. on the firft of January 1787. 
 
 2. All Subfcriptions under three Pounds to be paid one Half 
 in Hand, and the other Half on the ift. Day of January 1786. 
 The Payments to be made to the Treafurer of the College for 
 the Time being, or any College Vifitor and Governor for the 
 Connty where the Subfcriber refides. 
 


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