PRINCETON COLLEGE
DURING THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
BY
SAMUEL DAVIES ALEXANDER,
AN ALUMNUS.
NEW YORK:
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY,
770 BROADWAY, COR. 9th STREET.




Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.




INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
ON account of the many sources from which I have derived my information, and not wishing to burden my page with foot-notes, I have
omitted all authorities. I have drawn from printed books, from old newspapers and periodicals, and from family records, and when the words of
another have suited me, 1 have used them as my own. As Dr. Allen
says, "Compilers seem to be licensed pillagers.  Like the youth of
Sparta, they may lay their hands upon plunder without a crime, if they
will but seize it with adroitness."
Allen's Biographical Dictionary, Sprague's Annals, and Duyckinck's
Cyclopaedia of American Literature, have been of the greatest service;
but in many instances I have gone to the original sources from which
they derived their information.  I have also used freely the Centennial
Discourses of Professors Giger and Cameron of the College.
The book does not profess to be a perfect exhibition of the graduates.
But it is a beginning that may be carried nearer to perfection in every
succeeding year.  Its very imperfection may lead to the discovery of
new matter, and the correction of errors which must unavoidably be
many.
My object has been to give brief sketches of the Alumni after their
graduation, yet often stating the place of birth and name of parents.
Out of 894 graduates during the 18th Century, I have noticed 646.
The remaining names may be sketched hereafter in a supplement, and
it is hoped that this publication will stimulate those who possess information of any of those whose names are omitted to send the same to the
compiler.
I return my sincere thanks to those persons who have assisted me in
this work.                                            S. D. A.








PRE FACE.
THE history of a College is best read in the lives of
her sons.  The history of the changes which occur in
her government and instruction is too contracted in its
nature.  To take in the grand sweep of her influence,
we must follow her sons as they go forth into the world
to mould and direct the elements that surround them.
The biographical notices which are here given of the
graduates of Princeton, are something more than mere
personal memoranda, or a table of necrology; they are
the facts of a grand generalization, which will demonstrate that Princeton has had much to do in securing the
liberties of our country,  in founding the Presbyterian Church
in this land,'   and in introducing and stimulating the hizher
forms of Academic and Collegiate learning. These Sketches
are not selected from the great body of graduates; but it
is the whole number, just as they stand in the Catalogue,
so far as their history could be traced.
The mutterings of the storm which afterwards broke
upon the country, was faintly heard by the early graduates who left the College; but their lives were passed
amidst the most tremendous struggles of Liberty against
Oppression; and the facts to be presented will leave no
doubt as to the side upon which the sons of Princeton
* Other Churches besides the Presbyterian are well represented by Princeton graduates. James Manning, that bright light in the Baptist Church,
and the founder and First President of Brown University, was an Alumnus
of Princeton; and no less than five Bishops of the Episcopal Church were
graduates of Princeton, viz., Clagget, Hobart, Meade, McIlvaine and Johns;
while some of the most distinguished laym'en among our graduates have
been members of that Church.
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arrayed themselves; they but carried into practice the
immortal principles instilled into them by those noble
men who guided the affairs of the College.
I have been deeply impressed, while gathering these
memorials, that the Alumni of Princeton, with but few
exceptions, as far as I can discover, stood shoulder to
shoulder on the side of their country.  Ministers and
laymen vied with each other who should lead the van.
When we examine the first movements which resulted
in Independence, we shall find that the graduates of
Princeton were among the earliest as their originators or
their most hearty promoters.
Let a few facts tell the story: The first bloodshed of
the Revolution was not at Lexington, but several years
earlier, on the Alamance, in North Carolina, in an engagement between Governor Tryon's troops and the "Regulators," on the I6th of May, I77I. And who were these
Regulators? Not a set of adventurers, but the sturdy
members of three Presbyterian Congregations, who had
as their pastors three graduates of Princeton; one of
whom had been for days endeavouring to procure peace,
and, on the day of battle, was on the ground, still hoping
to avert the blow.
When the party of patriots went aboard the "Tea
Ship" in Boston Harbour, THOMAS MELVILLE, a graduate
of the class of I769, was among the number; and the only
specimen of that historic tea that escaped the destruction
of that night was found the next morning in the shoes of
Melville, and, being placed in a vial, is extant at this
day.
When the heavy hand of arbitrary power became almost unbearable, and before the country was aware that
relief was possible, a little band of brave souls in North
Carolina were at their secluded homes laying the foundations for the Temple of Liberty. And who were these
men who conceived and published the Mecklenburg
Resolutions -who consecrated "life, fortune and sacred
honour" (their own words) to the country's deliverance?




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The man who penned these Resolutions, and who was
the Secretaryiof the Convention which adopted them, was
EPHRAIM BREVARD, a graduate of Princeton of the class of
1768. Next to him, and perhaps the most influential man
who signed the immortal paper, was HEZEKIAH JAMES
BALCH, a graduate of the class of 1766; and, to form
a trinity of Princeton Heroes, we add the name of
WAIGHTSTILL AVERY, of the class of I 766. Here, then, was
the first impetus given to the cause of Liberty by men
who had so lately come forth from the cradle of freedom
and learning. When one of the graduates of Princeton
was rudely aroused from sleep by the owner of the
house in North Carolina, where he had stopped to rest,
entering his room and saying, "I allow no man to sleep
under my roof but a Whig;" he answered, " Let me rest
in peace, then, for I graduated at Princeton under Dr.
Witherspoon, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence;" that is a sufficient pass-word for him. A single
incident in the life of this great man will show the influence which pervaded Princeton. When the Declaration
of Independence was on its passage in the Continental
Congress, and the result was doubtful, the scale was
turned, in a great measure, by a speech of Dr. Witherspoon. In the course of that speech (when he perceived
the House to be wavering) he said: " There is a tide in
the affairs of men-a nick of time. We perceive it now
before us. To hesitate is to consent to slavery. That
noble instrument on your table, which insures immortality to its author, should be subscribed this very morning by every pen in this House. For my own part, of
property I have some —of reputation more. That reputation is staked upon the issue of this contest —that property is pledged; and although these gray hairs must
soon descend into the sepulchre, I had infinitely rather
they should descend thither by the hands of the public
executioner than desert, at this crisis, the sacred cause
of my country." No wonder his name was a pass-word
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When the Continental Congress met, and throughout
its many dark and desponding, yet heroic sessions, Princeton was present during different times, in the person of
twenty-four of her sons; and when that Congress was
called upon on the 4th of July, I776, to sign the Declaration of Independence, Princeton answered by her President and two of her Alumni.
Every department of the army found her well represented. Almost every Presbyterian clergyman who
had come forth from  her walls was, at one time or
another, either a chaplain, an officer, or in the ranks. In
the last letter which one of these wrote to his wife before he was barbarously murdered, after he had surrendered, are these touching words: "We are going over
to attack the enemy. You would think it strange to see
your husband, an old man, riding with a French fusee
slung at his shoulder. This may be the last letter you
shall ever receive from your husband."
Let the sketches that follow prove the assertion, that
the Alumni of Princeton were ever the staunchest, bravest, most self-sacrificing, most persevering friends of
American Liberty.
Not only were the graduates of Princeton unanimous
in their patriotic work, but the Presbyterian Church
owes a stupendous debt of gratitude to these men, which
she should, even at this late day, begin to repay. Of the
six graduates of the first class, five became Presbyterian
ministers, and the sixth was RICHARD STOCKTON, a strong
Presbyterian, as his Will conclusively proves. Of the
second class of seven, six became Presbyterian ministers,
and the seventh was WILLIAM  BURNET, an Elderin the
Presbyterian Church during life. And how remarkable has
the work of these men, and of those who followed them,
been in laying the foundations of the Presbyterian Church
in those forming communities of Western Pennsylvania,
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tucky and Tennessee-the very strongholds of Presbyterianism at this day!
When Samuel Davies left his work in Virginia to assume his place at Princeton, he left as his successor JOHN
TODD, a graduate of Princeton of the class of 1749; and
although at first he stood alone, he was soon reinforced
from the same old Halls by men of like mind and like
holy purpose; and their works do follow them. JOHN
TODD, and WILLIAM GRAHAM, and SAMUEL STANHOPE
SMITH, all of Princeton, will ever be honoured for their
foundation work in behalf of the Presbyterian Church in
Virginia. North Carolina early felt the power of Princeton;
and HUGH MCADEN, HEZEKIAH JAMES BALCH, JOSEPH
ALEXANDER, and DAVID CALDWELL, fresh from College,
gathered the scattered families into permanent Presbyterian Churches. Western Pennsylvania, the home of bloody
savage warfare, but now the very fountain of Presbyterian power, welcomed from Princeton those noble, selfsacrificing pioneers, THADDEUS DOD, JOHN MCMILLAN,
and others of kindred spirit; and Tennessee and Kentucky tell the same story. All these men, with hardly
an exception, were graduates of Princeton.
The testimony of General Joseph Reed, that eminent
patriot, in reference to the influence of the Presbyterian
Church on our great struggle for Liberty, is worth remembering. Of that Church he wrote: "When I am convinced
of its errors, or ashamed of its character, I may perhaps
change it; till then I shall not blush at a connection with
a people who, in this great controversy, are not second
to any in vigorous exertions and generous contributions,
and to whom we are so eminently indebted for our deliverance from the thraldom of Great Britain."
But the influence of the Alumni of Princeton on the
higher forms of education in our country, is more remarkable than all.  By the side of the Church they
planted the Classical School, out of which grew many of
our most important colleges.  What breadth of views
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future of the country, which prompted them to inaugurate these higher schools of learning in the very wilderness, and amidst the very clangor of savage war! But
they were men mighty in faith, mighty in prayer, and
mighty in work, and we this day humbly and gratefully
acknowledge their wisdom and their heroism. But let
me adduce a few facts to establish the claim that Princeton graduates have ever fostered the higher educational
interests of our country.
The man chosen to visit Great Britain and collect
funds for an Indian Mission School in Connecticut, which
afterwards grew into Dartmouth College, was NATHANIEL
WHITAKER, a graduate of the class of 1752. The College
of Rhode Island (afterwards Brown University) had its
origin in the conception and personal exertions of JAMES
MANNING, a graduate of the class of I762; and he became
its first President. Union College, New York, owes its
existence in a great measure to the persevering exertions
of THEODORE DIRCK ROMEYN, a graduate of the class of
I765, and its first President was JOHN BLAIR SMITH, a
graduate of the class of I 773, and its second President was
JONATHAN EDWARDS of the class of I765. Hamilton College, New York, owes its existence to SAMUEL KIRKLAND,
a graduate of the class of 1765, through whose influence
Hamilton Oneida Academy was incorporated, and to
which he conveyed a large landed estate, and which became, under a new charter, Hamilton College. The first
Medical College in America, at Philadelphia, was founded
by WILLIAM SHIPPEN, a graduate of the class of I754. He
also delivered the first course of lectures that had ever been
given in this country on Anatomy; and the first medical
degree ever conferred in this country was by this college
and to John Archer, a graduate of Princeton, of the class
of I760. The second Medical College established in this
country was at New York, and the men who had the chief
hand in it, and who became its professors, were JAMES
SMITH, a graduate of the class of I757, and JOHN V. B.
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University of Pennsylvania after its reorganization, was
JOHN EWING, a graduate of the class of I754. When
Queens College (Rutgers) was revived in I8o8, Dr. Livingston became the nominal President, but the Vice-President and the acting President, the man who had done
more than any other in its revival, was IRA CONDICT, a
graduate of the class of I784. In 1776 JOHN BROWN, a
graduate of the class of 1749, started a Grammar School
at Timber Ridge, Virginia, at which Dr. Archibald Alexander attended among the first scholars. This school
grew into Liberty Hall, and that into Washington College, over which we find as first President WILLIAM GRAHAM, a graduate of the class of I773. About 1776 SAMUEL
STANHOPE SMITH, a graduate of the class of i769, through
his eloquence and energy, was the means of founding
Hampden Sidney College in Virginia, and he was elected
the first President. The second President was JOHN B.
SMITH, a graduate of the class of I773. The first meeting
of the Trustees to take measures for founding Dickinson
College in Pennsylvania, was held in I783, and the leading man in the Board was BENJAMIN RUSH of the class of
1760.
In 1789, THADDEUS DOD, a graduate of the class of I773,
established in Western Pennsylvania an Academy which
was called Washington Academy, of which he was the
first Principal; this under a new charter became Washington College. A school in the same neighbourhood,
called the Log Cabin, was started about 1790 by JOHN
MCMILLAN, a graduate of the class of 1772. Under a new
charter it became Jefferson College, and JOHN WATSON, a
graduate of the class of I797, became the first President,
and James Dunlap, of the class of I773, the second President. The first Classical School in North Carolina was
founded by JOSEPH ALEXANDER, a graduate of the class
of 1760, and a charter was obtained from the Colonial Legislature in I770, under the name of Queen's Museum.
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pealed by Proclamation, as being too liberal. But still
the College flourished without a charter. It was in the
halls of this College that the Mecklenburg Convention
held its sessions. After the Revolution, this College became Liberty Hall under a new charter, and thirteen of
its fifteen Trustees were graduates of Princeton. In the
course of a few years, this College was transferred to
Winnsboro, South Carolina, and merged in Mount Zion
College, over which THOMAS H. MCCAULE, a graduate of
Princeton of the class of I774, presided. Soon after the
Revolution, there were six admirable Classical Schools in
North Carolina, five of them being under the direction
of graduates of Princeton. In I796, JOSEPH CALDWELL, a
graduate of the class of I79I, became Professor of Mathematics in the University of North Carolina. He found
the College in a state of disorganization, but by his faithful labour and energy, it was saved from ruin, and
the foundation of its future usefulness laid.  Mr. Caldwell became its first President in I804. In I8II he resigned, and ROBERT HETT CHAPMAN, a graduate of the
class of I789, succeeded him, but he remained only a few
years, when Mr. Caldwell was recalled. In Georgia, the
second Presidents of Franklin. College and Oglethorpe
University were both graduates of Princeton. In I8Io,
HENRY KOLLOCK, a graduate of the class of I794, was elected President of the University of Georgia, but he declined
the honour. In 1785, Martin Academy, the first literary
institution ever established in the great valley of the
Mississippi, was founded by SAMUEL DOAK, a graduate of
the class of 1775; afterwards it received a charter under
the name of Washington College, and Mr. Doak became
the first President. In i793, the Territorial Legislature
of Tennessee granted a charter to Greenville College,
and HEZEKIAH BALCH, a graduate of the class of I776, who
had conceived and matured the whole plan, was elected
the first President. In I785, the Legislature of North
Carolina granted a charter to Davidson Academy, located
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CRAIGHEAD, a graduate of the class of I775, being the main
agent in securing it. In course of time this Academy
became the University of Nashville, and Mr. Craighead
was elected the first President. In I783, Transylvania
Seminary (afterwards University) was established in Kentucky, through the influence of CALEB WALLACE, a graduate of Princeton; and DAVID RICE, a graduate of the
class of 176I, became the President of the Board of Trustees, and its virtual manager. And the last class of the
century furnished two Presidents; Jacob Lindly, the first
President of Ohio University, and James Carnahan of our
own venerable college.
Have we not, then, in these facts, which I have drawn
from my biographical notices, overwhelming evidence of
the influence of Princeton, in originating and fostering
the higher forms of education in the formative state of
our country?
Read the sketches that follow, and the conviction will
be irresistible, that the Country, the Presbyterian Church,
and the cause of high Christian Culture, owe their present
exalted position in the land to the noble men who went
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.








PRINCETON COLLEGE
DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
I748.
Enos Ayres, the first on this illustrious catalogue,
was probably a native of Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
If not, he was certainly residing there before he entered
college, as his correspondence with Dr. Bellamy shows.
Mr. Ayres was ordained by the Presbytery of New York
about 1750, and settled as the pastor of the Churches at
Bethlehem  and Blooming Grove, Orange County, New
York.  In a few years he relinquished the charge at
Bethlehem, and continued the pastor of Blooming Grove,
until his death, which occurred in I765.
Benjamin Chestnut came to this country from
England. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New
York in 1749, and was immediately transferred to the
Presbytery of New Brunswick, by whom he was ordained, October 30, I75I, and settled at Woodbury and
Timber Creek, New Jersey. In May, I753, he resigned
his charge, but for a time continued to supply the congregations. After preaching at a number of places, he
was finally, in I756, settled as the pastor of Charleston
and Providence Churches, Pennsylvania. In I765, Mr.
Chestnut visited the South on a missionary tour. At
one time he taught a school about twenty miles from
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Philadelphia. Mr. Chestnut was a laborious and faithful
minister: besides his regular duties, he was untiring in
fulfilling the appointments of the Presbytery, in missionary work, extending as far as Egg Harbour, New Jersey,
and the adjacent country on the Atlantic Coast. He died
in 1775.
Hugh Henry, having studied theology, was ordained by the Presbytery of New Castle in I75 I, and settled
as pastor of the Churches of Rehoboth, Wicomico and
Monokin, in Maryland. President Davies spoke of him
as promising great usefulness. He was a laborious and
highly esteemed minister. Mr. Henry died in I763.
Israel Reid, a licentiate of the Presbytery of New
York, was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, March 7, I750, and settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was
the first graduate of Princeton who became a member
of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Reid, besides his charge at Bound Brook, took
charge at an early day of the Church at New Brunswick.
He died after a life of great usefulness, November 28,
1793.
Richard Stockton. No name stands higher among
the Lawyers and Statesmen of America, than that of
Richard Stockton. He was the son of John Stockton,
and was born in Princeton, New Jersey, October I,'I730.
After graduating, he studied law with David Ogden,
of Newark, and soon became prominent in his profession.
In I766 he visited Europe, where he was received with
flattering marks of friendship and respect by many eminent noblemen, gentlemen, and men of letters. During
this visit, his life was in imminent peril on two occasions:
once he was attacked at night in the city of Edinburgh
by a desperate robber, and after a severe contest. in
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which he successfully defended himself with a small
sword, now in possession of the family, he repelled the
attack without receiving any material injury.
The second escape was of a different character. He
had engaged his passage in a packet for the purpose of
crossing the Irish Channel, but his baggage being accidentally detained, did not arrive before the vessel had
sailed. Although greatly disappointed, it proved the
cause of his preservation, for the vessel in which he intended to embark was wrecked in a violent storm, and
every soul on board perished.
In I774 Mr. Stockton was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and in 1776 was offered the
Chief Justiceship, which he declined. The same year he
was elected to the Continental Congress, and was one
of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. While
a member of Congress, during a visit to the house of a
friend in Monmouth County, New Jersey, he was captured by a party of royalists and thrown into prison in
New York city. His confinement and the barbarity of
his treatment seriously and permanently affected his
health. He obtained his release through the interference
of Congress.
Mr. Stockton had an unrivalled reputation at the bar;
and it is said that he always refused to engage in any
cause which he knew to be unjust. From I757 till his
death he was a Trustee of the College; and for many
years a member and Trustee of the Presbyterian Church
in Princeton. An estimate of the high tone of his Christian character can,be formed by reading the following
extract from his last Will: " As my children will have frequent occasion of perusing this instrument, and may
probably be peculiarly impressed with the last words
of their father, I think proper here, not only to subscribe to the entire belief of the great leading doctrines of the Christian religion, such as the being of a
God, the universal defection and depravity of human nature, the divinity of the Person, and completeness of the
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redemption purchased by the blessed Saviour, the necessity of the divine Spirit, of divine faith accompanied with
an habitual virtuous life, and the universality of divine
Providence; but also in the bowels of a father's affection
to charge and exhort them  to remember that'the fear
of God is the beginning of wisdom.'"
Mr. Stockton was a man of great coolness and courage.
His bodily powers, both in relation to strength and agility, were of a very superior grade, and he was highly accomplished in all the manly exercises peculiar to the
period in which he lived; his skill as a horseman and
swordsman was peculiarly great. In person he was tall
and commanding, approaching nearly to six feet in
height.
What a noble example to lead the van and stimulate
the energies of all future graduates! Mr. Stockton died
in Princeton, February 28, I78I.
Daniel Thlane came to this country from Scotland.
He was ordained by the Presbytery of New York, and
settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Connecticut Farms, New Jersey, August 29, I75o. In I754, he was
sent by the Synod on a three months' tour to Virginia
and the Carolinas, where he did good service preaching
under the forest trees. In I757, he was dismissed from his
charge in New Jersey, and removed to Delaware, where
he became pastor of the Presbyterian Churches at New
Castle and Christina Bridge. In 1763, he left his charge
in an irregular manner. His name disappears from the
roll of Synod after I763. He is said to have died in I764.
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John Brown was born in Ireland, in I728. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, and sent as a
missionary to the Valley of Virginia. In I753, he was
called to the united Churches of Timber Ridge and
New Providence, Virginia. This call he accepted. In
addition to his pastoral work,.he established a grammar
school near his residence, which afterwards was merged
in Liberty Hall, and finally grew into Washington College. It was in this congregation that the Alexander
family resided. In I796, Mr. Brown, weighed down under the infirmities of age, resigned his charge, and soon
after followed his children to Kentucky. The following
is the inscription on his tomb at Frankfort: " The tomb
of the Rev. John Brown, who, after graduating at Nassau Hall, devoted himself to the ministry, and settled at
New Providence, Rockbridge County, Virginia. At that
place he was stated pastor forty-four years. In the decline of life he removed to this county, to spend the feeble
remainder of his days with his children. He died in the
75th year of his age, A. D. I803." The sons of Mr. Brown
all became distinguished men. One was a United States
Senator from Kentucky; another was a Senator from
Louisiana and Minister to France, and the third became
an eminent physician and Professor in Transylvania University.
William  Burnet was the son of Ichabod Burnet,
a distinguished physician of Elizabethtown,. New Jersey.
After graduating, he studied medicine with Dr. Staats,
of New York; but the trouble with the mother-country
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tered actively into the political movements of the day.
Dr. Burnet was Chairman of the " Committee of Public
Safety" at Newark, which met daily. In I775, he was
superintendent of a military hospital, established on his
own responsibility, in Newark. In the winter of I776,
he was elected a member of the Continental Congress;
but early in the session Congress divided the thirteen
States into three military districts, and Dr. Burnet was
appointed Physician and Surgeon-General of the Eastern
District; he accordingly resigned his seat in Congress,
and entered upon his office, the arduous duties of which
he continued to discharge till the close of the war, in
I783. At one time Dr. Burnet was stationed at West
Point, and on a certain occasion, he was dining with a
party of gentlemen at the house of Gen. Arnold,* when
the officer of the day entered, and reported that a spy
had been taken below, who called himself John Anderson. It was remarked by the persons who were at the
table, that this intelligence, interesting to the general as
it must have been, produced no visible.change in his
countenance or behavior-that he continued in his seat
for some minutes, conversing as before-after which he
arose, saying to his guests, that business required him to
be absent for a short time, and desiring them to remain
and enjoy themselves till his return. The next intelligence they had of him was, that he was in his barge,
moving rapidly to a British ship of war, the Vulture,
which was lying at anchor a short distance below the
Point.
At the close of the war Dr. Burnet returned to his
family, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. Soon
after he was appointed presiding Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas by the Legislature of New Jersey, and
was also elected President of the State Medical Society.
Being a fine classical scholar, on taking the chair, he read
an elaborate essay in Latin, on the proper use of the lancet in pleuritic cases. Dr. Burnet died October 7, I79I.
* This is on authority of his son, the Hon. Judge Jacob Burnet, of Ohio.
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John HEogg (or Hoge) was the son of William Hoge,
"an exile for Christ's sake" from Scotland. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, October
10, I753. In 1755, he was ordained by the Presbytery of
New Castle, and became the first pastor of the Churches
of Opecquon and Cedar Creek, Virginia. In I76o, we
find him the pastor of Tuscarora, Opecquon and Back
Creek Churches. About I762, Mr. Hoge, on account of
the remissness of his people in giving him a support, resigned his charge, and removed to Pennsylvania.
Thomas Kennedy.  I can learn nothing of Mr.
Kennedy. As accurate a historian as Richard Webster
has confounded him with Samuel Kennedy, who was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and installed
at Baskingridge, N. J., in I75I. But this Samuel Kennedy
was educated at Edinburgh, according to an extended
memoir of him by Rev. Isaac V. Brown, appended to his
Life of Robert Finley, and published in 18I9. This must
be a different man from our graduate, who was probably
not a clergyman.
John Moffat, a Scotchman by birth, was ordained
by the Presbytery of New York in I75I, and installed as
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Wallkill, Orange
Co., New York. In I795, he joined the Associate Church.
In I773, he was residing in Delaware, but returned and
engaged in teaching in Litttle Britain, Orange County,
New York. De Witt Clinton was one of his pupils. He
died April 22, I788.
John Todd is said to have been a weaver before he
joined college. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, November 13, 1750. Immediately after his licensure he went to Virginia, and became an assistant to the Rev. Samuel Davies in Providence Church. After the removal of Mr. Davies to
Princeton, Mr. Todd became the leading Presbyterian
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preacher in that region. During the Revolution, he was
a staunch Whig. While pastor in Virginia he taught a
classical school, and the Rev. James Waddel, who was at
that time reading divinity with Mr. Davies, assisted him
in teaching. Col. Gordon, of Lancaster County, on hearing him preach, said: " I never heard a sermon, but one
I heard from Mr. Davies, that I heard with more attention
and delight. Oh, if the Lord would be pleased to send
us a minister of as much piety as Mr. Todd!" He died
suddenly, July 27, I793.
Eleazer Whittlesey, when he came to college,
brought a letter of introduction from Dr. Bellamy to
President Burr, from which we judge that he was a native of Connecticut. He was licensed by the Presbytery
of New Castle in I750, and labored faithfully in Hartford
County, Maryland, and was the means of establishing a
number of congregations. He was a man tenderly loved
for his zeal and integrity. His health was infirm, and he
was subject to seasons of melancholy. Mr. Whittlesey
died December 2I, I75I. There is no record of his ordination.
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Hugh Bay became a physician and practiced at
Herberts Cross Roads, Hartford County, Maryland. He
was a brother of Rev. Andrew Bay, one of the early
Presbyterian ministers in this country, at one time settled in Albany. I know nothing further of Dr. Bay's
history.
Alexander Clinton, the eldest son of Charles Clinton, the ancestor of the family of Clintons in New York,
became a physician, and practiced in the city of New
York.
Daniel Farrand, a native of Connecticut, after
spending two years at Yale, transferred his relation to
Nassau Hall. In I752 he was ordained and settled over
a Congregational Church at South Canaan, Connecticut,
where he continued in the faithful discharge of his duties
till near the close of life. He died on the 28th of May,
I803, in the eighty-first year of his age, and the fifty-first
of his ministry.
Mr. Farrand was of a medium stature, with a large
head, and a heavy clumsily-formed body; his features were
uncommonly large, and his countenance altogether indicative, not of refinement, but of much mental strength
and solidity.  His scholarship, especially in classical
learning, was very great. In religious matters he was
always grave and dignified, and yet was not wanting in
wit. On one occasion, at a meeting of ministers, a certain Dr. W. had set up a vigorous defense of the ideal
system of Bishop Berkeley. The next morning when they
were about separating for their respective homes, the
horse of Dr. W. was missing, under such circumstances
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as to induce the apprehension that he had been stolen;
and it was proposed by some one that he should advertise him; upon which Mr. Farrand, with much apparent
gravity, asked the Doctor whether' he had a perfect idea
of his horse,-such as would enable him to give a perfect
idea of him. He replied that he had. " Well, then," said
Parson Farrand, "why don't you fit your saddle and bridle on it and ride home. You surely can want no better
mode of travelling."
It was a perilous matter to attempt to extort a compliment from Mr. Farrand. He was travelling on horseback in a part of the country where he was an entire
stranger. Noticing a considerable gathering at a private
house, he concluded that it was some religious meeting,
and being willing to rest himself and his horse, he dismounted and went in, and remained till the close of the
service. The man who officiated turned out to be a very
illiterate, self-conceited preacher. He took for his text
the account given by the Evangelist of the evil spirits
entering into the herd of swine. Immediately on the
close of the service, Mr. Farrand left the house and proceeded on his journey; but he had not gone far before
the preacher, who had eyed him during the lecture, and
happened to be going the same road, overtook him. He
remarked to him directly that he had seen him at the
lecture and presumed from his appearance that he was a
clergyman. Mr. Farrand having replied that he was, the
preacher very unceremoniously requested his opinion of
the sermon. Mr. Farrand declined expressing his opinion, remarking at the same time that he was not in the
habit of dealing in compliments. This increased the
preacher's anxiety to hear his opinion, and he repeated his
request with still greater energy. "Well," said Mr. Farrand, "if you insist on hearing my opinion, I must say I
think you made worse work with the Scriptures than the
devil did with the swine."
Mr. Farrand was admitted to an ad eundem Master's
degree at Yale in I777.
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Jacobus Frelinghuysen was the son of the Rev.
Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen. He died at sea, on
his return from Holland, in 1754, whither he had gone for
ordination. At the time of his death he was pastor elect
of the Reformed Dutch Church at Kinderhook, New
York.
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Samuel Clark studied theology, and was ordained
and installed pastor of the Second Congregational Church
at Farmington (now Kensington), Connecticut, in July,
I756. Mr. Clark appeared well in the pulpit; and the
epitaph on his tombstone mentions among other estimable qualities of the man, that he was, "in the gift of
preaching, excellent, laborious and pathetic." Mr. Clark
continued in his charge until his death, November, I775.
He received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale, in
I757.
Alexander Gordon was a tutor in the college from
the time of his graduation until I 754, in which year he died.
Robert Henry was born in Scotland. After leaving
college he studied theology, and was licensed by the Presbytery of New York. In I752, he was sent by the Synod
to Virginia, at the request of the Rev. Samuel Davies.
In I753, he was ordained by the Presbytery of New Castle, and on the 4th of June, I755, was installed as pastor
of Cub Creek, in Charlotte County, Virginia, and Briary, in Prince Edward County, both then in Lunenburg
County. After his installation, Mr. Davies and Mr. Todd
preached five days in his congregation, and many were
awakened. The success of Mr. Henry was most remarkable. He was a man of eccentric manners, but most devotedly pious. He was not in the habit of reading his
sermons or even of writing. Short notes of preparation
were all he used, and not always those. It is said of
him, that on a certain occasion, he thought he ought
to prepare himself with greater care than usual, and
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having written a sermon, he commenced reading from
a small manuscript. A gust of wind suddenly swept
the paper fromm the Bible. He watched its progress as
it sailed along to an old elder's seat. The old gentleman
had been listening seriously, and as the paper fell at his
side, he deliberately put his foot upon it. Mr. Henry
waited for him to bring it back to him. The old gentleman looked up as if nothing had happened; and Mr.
Henry finished his sermon in the best way he could. It
was the end of his written preparation to preach. There
is nothing left as the production of his pen. Dr. Archibald Alexander was the second successor of Mr. Henry
in his charge. Mr. Henry was called to the Steel Creek
Church in North Carolina, in I766, but never entered
upon the charge, dying May 8, I767.
Samuiel IleClintock, after graduating, studied theology, and was ordained, and settled as pastor over the
Congregational Church at Greenland, New Hampshire,
in I757. President Burr had offered him a tutorship in
the college, which he declined. During the Revolution
he was a strong Whig, and repeatedly acted as chaplain
in the army, and his patriotic exhortations animated the
soldiers in the conflict. Five of his sons were in the
American army.
In I79I, the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was
conferred upon him by Yale. His ministry lasted fortyeight years, during which period the last Sunday of his
life was the only one in which he was disabled for the
performance of his usual public duties. He died in
I804.
Dr. McClintock was regarded among the churches in
his neighborhood as pre-eminent for practical wisdom,
and many cases of casuistry were referred to him as an
umpire.
The following is a list of his publications:
A Sermon on the Justice of God in the Mortality of Man. 1759.
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A Sermon entitled, " The Artifice of Deceivers detected, and Christians
warned against them." 1770.
Herodias, or Cruelty and Revenge. The Effects of Unlawful Pleasure.
A Sermon. 1772.
A Sermon at the Commencement of the New Constitution of New Hampshire. I784.
An Epistolary Correspondence with Rev. John C. Ogden. I79I.
A Sermon entitled, " The Choice," occasioned by the drought, the fever,
and the prospect of war. I798.
An Oration Commemorative of Washington. i8oo.
Henry MIartin received his license to preach from
the Presbytery of New York. In I752, he supplied the
pulpits of Maidenhead and Hopewell, in New Jersey, and
on the 9th of April, I753, he was ordained, and installed
as pastor of the Presbyterian Churches in Newtown and
Salisbury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He died about
1763.
Benjamin Youngs Prime was the son of the Rev.
Ebenezer Prime, of Long Island.  After graduating, he
studied medicine and pursued the practice for several
years.  In I756 he was appointed tutor in the College,
which position he held for about a year. In I762 he visited Europe for the purpose of pursuing his medical studies to more advantage; he remained there for two or
three years, and took his degree of Doctor of Medicine
at the University of Leyden. Dr. Prime became a highly
accomplished scholar, eminent for his mathematical, philosophical and classical attainments. He was in the habit
of writing with great facility both prose and poetry in
the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French and  Spanish languages; and in the opening of the Revolutionary struggle, his patriotic and popular songs spread like wild-fire
over the land, and helped to kindle the sparks of liberty
into a flame.
After'his return from Europe in I764, he became a
practitioner of medicine and surgery in the city of New
York; but after a few years, his father becoming infirm,
he returned to Huntington, Long Island, and resumed
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his residence with his father, and occupied his time in
the pursuit of elegant letters. Dr. Prime was the grandfather of the Drs. Prime of the New York Observer.  He
died October 3I, 179I.
In 1764 an 8vo pamphlet of 94 pages was published in London, under
the following title: " The Patriot Muse, or Poems pon some of the Principal
Events of the Late War; together with a Poem on the Peace. Vincit amor
patriae. By an American gentleman." The author was Dr. Prime. In
I79I he published "Columbia's Glory, or British Pride Humbled; a Poem
on the American Revolution; some part of it being a Parody on an Ode
entitled, Britain's Glory, or Gallic Pride Humbled, composed on the capture of Quebec, I759."
Robert Ross became a Congregational minister, and
in November, 1753, was ordained and installed pastor of
the First Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mr. Ross
is said to have been a man of great dignity, and had a
commanding influence over his people. He wore the
ancient dress of cock-hat, wig and small clothes. He
remained in this charge until his death, in August,
I799.
Nathaniel Seiidder belonged to an old family in
Monmouth County, New Jersey. After leaving college,
he studied medicine and practiced in his native county
until the opening of the Revolution, when he entered
actively into public life. He was Colonel of the Battalion of the Monmouth Militia; and from I777 to I779 represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress. He
was also a member of the Committee of Safety. Colonel
Scudder was an earnest Christian, and was an Elder in
Mr. Tennent's Church at Freehold.  For many years he
was a Trustee of the College.
Colonel Scudder was the grandfather of the distinguished missionary, Rev. John Scudder, M. D. He was
killed in a skirmish against the "Refugees" at Black
Point, Monmouth County, New Jersey, in I78I. At the
time of his death Dr. Scudder was a Trustee of the Co1lege.
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David Thurston became' the pastor of the Second
Congregational Church in Medway, Massachusetts, on the
23d of June, I752. In consequence of ill health and difficulties in the congregation, on the 22d of February, I769,
he resigned; and in the spring of 1772, he removed to
Oxford, Massachusetts, where he purchased and cultivated a farm.
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George Duffield, a native of Pennsylvania, acted as
tutor in the College from I754 to I756. He was licensed
to preach by the Presbytery of New Castle, March I I, I756,
and in 1759 he was settled over a Presbyterian Church in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1 I766, by order of the Synod,
in company with Rev. Charles Beatty, he made a missionary tour through Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Soon after his return he was called to the Third
Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.
Dr. Duffield was a strong Whig, and was at one time,
in connection with Bishop White, Chaplain of the Continental Congress. During the dark and almost hopeless
period of the Revolution, he acted as chaplain in the retreat of the army through New Jersey, and was at the
battle of Princeton.
He remained pastor of the Third Church in Philadelphia until the day of his death, February 2, I790. The
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred
upon him by Yale in I785.
Dr. Duffield was an eminently devoted Christian and
a most faithful minister. He took an active part in the
organization of the Presbyterian Church after the Revolution, and was the first Stated Clerk of the General
Assembly. He was for thirty years a Trustee of the
College.
Dr. Duffield published an account of his tour with Dr. Beatty, and a
Thanksgiving Sermon on the Restoration of Peace, I783.
Jeremiah Halsey held the office of tutor in the college from I757 to I767, longer than any other individual.
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In I766, the Trustees voted a sum of money to him, "in
consideration of his extraordinary and faithful services."
On the retirement of Mr. Halsey from. the tutorship, the
Trustees gave him a certificate with the corporation
seal attached, certifying his faithful services, and recommending him as "a gentleman of genius, learning and
real merit."  Dr. Green testifies that Mr. Halsey was one
of the best scholars that was ever educated in the institution.  In I767, he was ordained by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick, and sent on a missionary tour to the
South; afterwards was settled as a pastor, but the place
of his location I have not been able to discover.  He was
for eleven years a Trustee of the College. Mr. Halsey
died in I78o.
Samuel Liver-miore, descended from one of the ancient New England families, was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, near Boston, in May, 1732. There is a diary
of Mr. Livermore, published in Putnam's Magaxzine, for
June, I857, written on the eve of his journey to college.
It is interesting to know what was the outfit of a New
England boy going to a distant college, and here we have
it.  He sailed from Boston in the sloop Lydia, September
Io, I75I. For this voyage he laid in, according to his
diary,
5 quarts of West Ind. rum....    I I7s. 6d.
i lb. of tea a 48s..                         12 0
Canister...    6 o
I doz. fowls......   2  10   0
2 pounds loaf sugar a 8s.                    I6 o
I doz. and 8 lemons.....       9 0
3 pounds butter....           12 0
Box.......    5   o
His stock of clothes might well suit a collegian of the
present day; it consisted of two close coats, one great
coat, two jackets, thirteen shirts, seven pairs of stockings,
six caps, four cravats, three handkerchiefs, one pair of
breeches.
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His library was not as complete as his wardrobe; his
books were, Bible, Latin and Greek Testaments, and
Grammar, Latin Dictionary and Lexicon, Ward's Introduction to Mathematics, Gordon's Geography, Virgil and
Tully. Mr. Livermore carried letters of introduction to
Governor Belcher and President Burr, giving him the
highest character for sobriety and studiousness.
All such facts are valuable when we consider the eminence to which this young man afterwards attained.
On returning to New England, after due preparation,
he entered upon the practice of the law. Before the
Revolution, he was Judge Advocate of the Admiralty
Court. He was a member of the Continental Congress
from I780 to I783, and from 1786 to 1787; and from I782
to I790 he was Judge of the Superior Court; and from
I793 to  80oi he was a member of the United States
Senate from New Hampshire, after which he was Chief
Justice of New Hampshire. Judge Livermore was one
of the first trustees of Dartmouth College. He died in
May, I803.
Cornelius Low  was probably a son of Cornelius
Low, of Newark, New Jersey. The Low family did not
sympathize with the country in the Revolutionary War,
and now are almost forgotten, though prominent formerly.
What became of Mr. Low I have no means of discovering.
N'athaniel Whitaker prepared for the ministry
and was ordained and settled over a Presbyterian Church
in the State of New York about 1753. In I759 he became pastor of a Church near Norwich, Connecticut. In
I766 he was sent to Great Britain with the Rev. Samson
Occom, a Mohegan Indian, to solicit funds for a school
for the Indians at Lebanon, Connecticut. Lady Huntingdon, Romaine and Venn warmly advocated his cause.
While abroad he received the honorary degree of Doctor
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fectly successful in his mission. And thus he preparea
the way for the founding of Dartmouth College, which
grew out of this school.
While in England he published several sermons on
"Reconciliation to God."
In July, I769, he was installed pastor of the Second
Congregational Church of Salem, Massachusetts, but in
1773 he withdrew and formed a Presbyterian Church.
At the opening of the war Mr. Whitaker espoused warmly the cause of Independence, and engaged largely in
the manufacture of saltpetre for'the army. On the occasion of the Boston Massacre in I77I, he preached a sermon on the "' Fatal Tragedy in King Street;" and on the
proclamation of Independence, another entitled " An Antidote to Toryism." After the peace he reprinted the
latter with another, " On the Reward of Toryism."
Being too strong a Presbyterian for his neighbors, he
was compelled to leave Massachusetts, and removed to
Virginia, where he died in poverty near Hampton, January 26, I795, aged 65.
John Wright.  Jonathan Edwards writes to Rev.
John Erskine, of Scotland, under date of July 7, I752,
"Mr. John Wright, a member of New Jersey College,
who is to take his degree of Bachelor of Arts the next
September, is now at my house. He was born in Scotland; has lived in Virginia, and is a friend and acquaintance of Mr. Davies; and has a great interest in the esteem of the religious people of Virginia, and is peculiarly
esteemed by President Burr; has been admitted to special intimacy with him; and is a person of very good
character for his understanding, prudence and piety."
Mr. Wright was licensed the year after his graduation,
and ordained by the Presbytery of New Castle. In I755
he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in
Cumberland, Virginia. His work was specially among
the negroes, many of whom were converted under his
ministry.
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It is melancholy to record that a man of such promise
should fall. In the weakness of body, and the melancholy
of which he complains in one of his letters, he sought
relief in stimulants. His morning of expectation went
down in clouds.
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Daniel Isaac Brown was probably the son of Rev.
Isaac Brown, the loyalist, who left Trinity Church in
Newark, New Jersey, during or at the commencement
of the Revolution, because he "could not pray for the
king in peace and quietness and undisturbed."
The son became a physician, and in I758 was admitted
to a Master's degree at King's College, New York. Both
father and son left New York for Nova Scotia, with many
others, about I783.
Israel, Canfield was probably the son of Israel Canfield of Morris County, New Jersey, who was a friend
and companion of good men, as in his will he gives ~Io
to the Presbyterian ministry or fund. The son died the
year after his graduation, August 2, I754, aged 26
Jolhn Harris came from Wales, while a child, with
his father's family, who settled in Maryland. In I754 he
was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle; and in
I756 he was ordained and installed as pastor of Indian
River Church, in Delaware. This charge he resigned in
I759, and removed to the South; and in I772 we find him
pastor of Long Cane and two other Churches in South
Carolina, where he remained until I779, when forced by
declining health, he resigned his charge.
Mr. Harris was acknowledged by all to have been a
pious, judicious and exemplary minister of the Gospel.
Bold, enthusiastic and independent, he was peculiarly
fitted for the stirring times in which he lived. It was his
boast that every man in his congregation was a Whig.
Such a man was especially obnoxious to the Tories, and
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he had many narrow escapes. It is asserted that he often
preached with his gun in the pulpit and his ammunition suspended from his neck, after the fashion of the
times.
An anecdote is told of him evincing his determination
and his insight into character. Colonel A-, a worthy
man, but of a pliant temper, lived far down on the Savannah river, in a region much subject to Tory aggressions.
He was a personal friend of Mr. Harris, and a member
of one of his congregations, but having held a commission under the royal government, it was feared he would
compromise his principles for British protection. The
suspicion no sooner entered the mind of his friend Harris,
than he mounted his horse, and taking his saddle-bags
for a long visit, determined not to leave him till he took
a decided stand on' the right side. He stayed with him
several days, and on his return, reported that "all is
right."  Mr. Harris was at one time a member of the
Provincial Congress of South Carolina. He died about
I790.
Robert Harris, after graduating, became a physician in Philadelphia. He was elected a Trustee of the
College in I76I, at the same meeting at which Dr. Finley
was chosen President, and continued in that office until
his death in I815; having been a trustee for fifty-four
years. For a large part of the time, Dr. Harris was the
oldest trustee in the "Board."  He was present at the
meeting in August, 1768, when Dr. Witherspoon took
the oath of office as President of the College; and at the
meeting in May, 1795, at which Dr. Smith was chosen
President, Dr. Harris was present, and presided at the
opening of the session of the Board.
John Houston became a Congregational minister,
and settled at Bedford, New Hampshire, September 28,
1757, and was dismissed from his charge in I778. He
died February 4, I798.
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Hugh MeAden: was born of an humble but pious
parentage, in Pennsylvania. After graduating, he studied theology with the Rev. John Blair, and was licensed
by New Castle Presbytery in 1755. He was immediately
sent on a missionary tour through the South. On his
journey through Pennsylvania and Virginia, he witnessed
the greatest distress caused by a severe drought, and the
alarm created by Braddock's defeat: On reaching Carolina he entered upon his missionary work with zeal and
ardour. Returning to the North, he was ordained by the
New Castle Presbytery, in I757, and became pastor, soon
after, of the congregations in Duplin and New Hanover,
North Carolina. Here he remained about ten years, when,
believing that the influence of the climate upon his health
was too unfavorable to justify his remaining longer in
the lower part of the State, he removed to Caswell County, and there finished his days. He died January 20,
I78I. Mr. McAden left a manuscript journal extending
through a number of years. This journal shows with
what untiring zeal these early missionaries prosecuted
their work. The journal has been preserved in " Foote's
Sketches of North Carolina." Mr. McAden was systematic in study, in visiting and in labour, and faithfully fulfilled his ministry. He was truly one of the chief founders of the Presbyterian Church in the Southern States.
John MCKesson sprang from an old Scotch family,
who moved to Antrim, in Ireland, in I665. John was
the son of Alexander McKesson, and was born at Fagg's
Manor, Pennsylvania, March 20, I734. After graduating, he took up his residence in the city of New York.
Throughout the Revolution Mr. McKesson was Clerk of
the Provincial Congress of New York. He died of yellow fever, in a house which stood on the spot where the
Herald office now stands, September 7, I798. Mr. McKesson was a bachelor, and left a large fortune for the
times. He was admitted to a Master's degree at King
College, New York, in I758.
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and died in I768. Harvard admitted him to the degree
of Master of Arts in I758.
Mr. Potter published a Discourse in 1758, entitled, " New Year's Gift."
Nathaniel Sherman, a brother of the celebrated
Roger Sherman, of Connecticut, was ordained and settled as pastor of the Congregational Church at Bedford, Massachusetts, February I8, I756. This charge he
resigned December 17, I767. In May, 1769, he was installed as pastor of the Church at Mount Carmel, Connecticut; where, having preached until August, 1772, he
retired to East Windsor, Connecticut, and there died
July I8, I797.
Joseph Shippen.  There is an interesting letter of
Mr. Shippen extant, written while he was a junior in college, in which he informs his father of President Burr's
marriage. He writes: "In the latter end of May, he
[Mr. Burr] took a journey into New England, and during his absence, he made a visit of but three days to the
Rev. Mr. Edwards' daughter, at Stockbridge; in which
short time, though he had no acquaintance with, nor indeed ever seen the lady these six years, I suppose he accomplished his whole design; for it was not above a
fortnight after his return here, before he sent a young
fellow, who came out of college last fall, into New England, to conduct her and her mother down here..... I
think her a person of great beauty, though, I must say,
that in my opinion, she is rather too young (being only
twenty-one years of age) for the President. This account
you'll doubtless communicate to mammy, as I know she
has Mr. Burr's happiness much at heart."
Mr. Shippen was the son of William  Shippen, M.D.,
of Philadelphia. Immediately after graduating, he entered the Provincial Army, in which he soon rose to the
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rank of Colonel, and served in General Joseph Forbes'
expedition in I758, which resulted in the capture of Fort
Du Quesne. After the troops were disbanded, he went to
Europe, partly on a mercantile adventure, but especially
for the advantage of foreign travel. He returned to
Philadelphia in December, I76I, and was shortly after
appointed Secretary to the Province. About I773, he
removed to the country, in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. In 1789, he was appointed Judge of Lancaster
County. Colonel Shippen was esteemed by all who knew
him, as an eminently just and upright man. To his service as a soldier, he added the accomplishments of a
scholar and a man of taste, and was not destitute of some
talent in versification. The only reason xwhy he did not
enter the revolutionary army was feeble health. He died
February Io, I 8  II.
Benjamin Woodruff was the son of Samuel Woodruff, an eminent merchant of Elizabethtown, New Jersey,
and for nearly twenty years a Trustee of the College.
After graduating, he pursued the study of theology,
probably with his pastor, Elihu Spencer. In due time
he was licensed to preach, and on March I4, 1759, was
ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Westfield,
New Jersey. During the forty-four years of his ministry
at Westfield, he greatly endeared himself to his people,
by his preaching and pastoral intercourse.
Mr. Woodruff is described as small in person, dignified
and precise in his manners, social in his habits, scrupulously exact and fastidious in his dress, with small-clothes,
silk hose, buckles, cock-hat and ruffles, everywhere the
same and always commanding profound respect.
He died quite suddenly April 3, I803.
Joseph Woodruff, a brother of the preceding, after
graduating, returned to Elizabethtown and entered into
business with his father, who was largely engaged in the
West India trade.
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Moses Barrett. From the time of his graduation
until I757, Mr. Barrett was the first preceptor of Moor's
Indian Charity School, at Lebanon, Connecticut. This
school was afterwards removed to New Hampshire, and
became the nucleus of Dartmouth College, although the
school-itself was never merged in the college. What became of Mr. Barrett after leaving this school, I have not
been able to discover.
Benjamin Chapman  was ordained on the I7th of
March, 1756, and settled over the Congregational Church
at Southington, Connecticut. He was dismissed from his
charge, September 28, I774, but continued to reside in
Southington until his death, which occurred June 22,
I786. Mr. Chapman was admitted to a Master's degree
at Yale in I76I.
John Ewing. The parents of Mr. Ewing were early
emigrants from Ireland, and settled in Maryland. After
graduating, he remained three years as tutor in the college. At the age of twenty-six he was employed as instructor of the Philosophical classes in the University of
Pennsylvania, during the absence of Dr. Smith, the Provost, in Europe. In I758 Mr. Ewing became pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. In I773
he visited Europe, but at the opening of the Revolution,
in I775, he returned to this country, notwithstanding the
most tempting offers which were made to induce him to
remain in England. During this visit he received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Edinburgh.
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fending the cause of his country, which was violently
assailed. After liberally applying the terms " rebels" and
" scoundrels" to the people of America, Johnson turned
rudely to Dr. Ewing, demanding, " What do you know
in America? You never read; you have no books there."
" Pardon me, sir," said Dr. Ewing, "we have read the
Rambler." The graceful blending of retort and compliment pacified the savage essayist, and till midnight he
sat with Dr. Ewing in amiable and genial conversation.
In I779 Dr. Ewing was appointed Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. He was one of the most remarkable scholars of his day. In classical learning and
natural science, he stood without a rival. His Hebrew
Bible was constantly at his side, and was used from
choice for devotional purposes. At an hour's notice, he
was ready and fully competent to supply the place of any
professor who might chance to be absent. In the pulpit,
he was eminently popular among the more cultivated.
HIe died September 8, i802.
Dr. Ewing published, Part of a Sermon on the Death of Dr. Alison. A
Sermon on the Death of George Bryan, 1791. The Design of Christ Coming into the World, in the "American Preacher," Vol. II. And several
communications in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. His Lectures on Natural Philosophy were published in i809.
Benjamin Hoit, (or Hait,) while a student, paid a
visit, in company of President Davies, to New York. Mr.
Davies writes of him: "A promising young man; I had
an agreeable conversation with him  on original sin, and
the influence of the flesh upon the spirit to incline it to
sin." Mr. Hait (which is his true name) was licensed by
the Presbytery of New Brunswick, October 25, I754, and
sent to the Forks of Delaware.  He was ordained December 4, I755, and installed pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Amwell, New Jersey. While settled here, by
order of Synod, he visited and supplied the southern vacancies. He gave up his charge in Amwell in I765. In
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and died there June 27, I779.
Ezra Horton became a Congregational minister, and
settled at Union, Connecticut, in June, 1759, where he remained until June, I783. Mr. Horton was admitted to
an ad eundemz Master's degree, at Yale, in 1772.  He
died in I789.
Hugh Klnox came to this country from Ireland, in
175 I. Dr. Rodgers, of New York, then of Delaware, becoming interested in him, established a school, of which
Mr. Knox became the head. While thus engaged, an
event happened which moulded the whole of his life.
He had become associated with a number of young men
who were accustomed to meet on Saturday afternoons
for a frolic. On one of these occasions, some one of the
company cried out to Knox: "Come parson" (a title
which they gave him on account of his being the gravest
of their number, and withal a great admirer of Dr. Rodgers' preaching), " come parson, give us a sermon!" At
first he declined, but being pressed, gave an exact imita-tion of Dr. Rodgers, and almost verbatim, the sermon
that he had preached on the previous Sabbath. As he
proceeded, his auditors, who began to listen in merriment, became deeply serious, and the speaker himself
was overwhelmed with a sense of his sin. The next
morning, overcome with remorse, he fled from the place.
Soon after, he went to Newark, and applied to President
Burr for admission to college. He related his whole previous course, and his repentance, and was admitted. His
course in college was all that could be desired. After
his graduation, he studied theology with President Burr,
and was ordained by the Presbytery of New York, in
1755, and was sent to the Reformed Dutch Church in
the Island of Saba, of which he became pastor. At his
ordination, he preached a sermon on "' The Dignity and
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ed by the unanimous request of the Presbytery. In I772,
he resigned his church at Saba, and settled at St. Croix,
where he spent the remainder of his days.
The celebrated Alexander Hamilton was placed in
early boyhood under the instruction of Mr. Knox, and
formed a strong attachment for him; while Mr. Knox in
return, watched and assisted with the utmost fidelity, the
development of the wonderful powers of his pupil. They
kept up an active correspondence in after life; and two
of Mr. Knox's letters are preserved in the first volume
of Hamilton's works.  Both were written during the
Revolution, and breathe a spirit of earnest devotion to
the American cause. Mr. Knox was admitted to a Master's degree at Yale, I768, and the degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred upon him by the University of
Glasgow.
Dr. Knox published (according to Dr. Miller) five or six volumes, chiefly
sermons. Two volumes of his sermons, printed in Glasgow, in 1772, are
in the Library of the College, at Princeton.
David Matthews, one of the few disloyal graduates
of Princeton, was a native of Orange County, New
York. After leaving college, he studied law, and entered
upon the practice in New York City, where, for twenty
years, he acted as Crown Officer. In I775, he succeeded
Mr. Hicks as Mayor of the city, but being a decided
royalist, his name was entered on the list of the suspected
as early as May, I776. In I779, he was arrested by order
of the Committee of Safety, and lodged in jail, whence
he was soon removed to Connecticut. The charge against
him was that he was cognizant of, or concerned in, Governor Tryon's plot to assassinate General Washington
and blow up the fort, but the evidence against him was
far from being conclusive. By the Act of I779, he was
attainted, and his property confiscated. After the war,
Mr. Matthews removed to the Island of Cape Breton,
where he was appointed Commander-in-Chief and President of the Council, and Attorney-General. He died in
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July, I800; it is said of a broken heart, on account of the
treatment received in this country. Mr. Matthews is
represented to have been a cheerful and instructive companion, a sincere, and faithful friend. He was charitable
and hospitable to a fault. His judgment was clear and
accurate tin the administration of the laws and constitution of the British Colonies.
Jonathan Odell, a grandson of President Dickinson, was from Connecticut Farms, New Jersey. After
graduating, he entered the ministry, but I can discover
no facts as to his place of settlement, or of his after life.
Sylvanus Osborne studied theology, and was ordained, and settled as the first pastor of the Congregational Church at East Greenwich, Connecticut, June 29,
1757. Mr. Osborne continued in this charge until his
death, in I77I. He was admitted to an ad eunide Master's
degree at Yale, in I757.
Mr. Osborne was a successful pastor, and during his
ministry there was continued harmony, and a constant
attention to the things of another world, which resulted
in members being added to the church every year.
David Purviance was probably the son of Samuel
Purviance, who was at this very time a. leading merchant
in Philadelphia, an elder in the Presbyterian Church,
and a warm and active friend of the college. Of the son
I can learn nothing.
William  Ramsay was a brother of the Historian,
David Ramsay, of South Carolina, a graduate of the class
of I765. He was licensed by the Association of Fairfield
East, Connecticut, November 25, 1755, and was received
into the Abingdon Presbytery and ordained, and settled,
as pastor of the Fairfield Church, May II, I756. He died
November 5, I77I. His character may be learned from
the inscription on his tomb:
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"Beneath this stone lie interred the remains of the
Rev. William Ramsay, M. A., for sixteen years a faithful
pastor in this place, whose superior genius and native
eloquence shone so conspicuously in the pulpit as to
command the attention and gain the esteem of all his
hearers. In every situation of life he discharged his duty
faithfullly. He lived greatly respected and died universally lamented."
Benajah lRoot (the name is commonly spelled Roots)
was ordained and installed pastor of a Congregational
Church at Simsbury, Connecticut, August Io, I757. In
1773 he became pastor of a Church at Rutland, Vermont.
Here he remrained'until his death in 1787. Mr. Root was
a faithful preacher of the Gospel, ardently attached to the
doctrines of religion as they are expressed in the Westminster Catechism, and much interested in revivals. He
was admitted to a Master's degree at Dartmouth in I784.
Mr. Roots published a Sermon preached at the Organization of his
Church in 1773.
Josiah Sherman was a brother of Nathaniel Sherman of the class of I753. In I755 he was licensed by the
Litchfield South Association of Connecticut, and in I756
was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at
Woburn, Massachusetts.  Mr. Sherman remained here
until April II, I775, when he removed to Connecticut,
and in August of the same year was installed pastor of
the Plymouth Church, Milford, Connecticut. In June,
178I, he resigned this charge, and in June, I783, was settled at Goshen, Connecticut. In February, I789 he resigned, having been called to a Church in Woodbridge,
Connecticut, but died a few months after his arrival
there, November 24, 1789.
Mr. Sherman wore a large white wig, and was very
imposing and winning in his appearance. He had popular talents, and on his settlement at Goshen was at first
very acceptable.  But alienation arose in consequence
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of his avowing, in his preaching, Arminian sentiments,
and he was compelled to resign.
Mr. Sherman received a Master's degree from Harvard in I758, and from Yale and Dartmouth in I765.
He published A Discourse Addressed to Infidels. A Discourse, Redemption by Christ. The History of Melchisedec.
William  Shippen, a brother of Joseph Shippen, of
the class of 1753, after his graduation, entered upon the
study of medicine with his father in Philadelphia, and
completed his course in Edinburgh.  In 1764 he corimenced a course on Anatomy in his native city, which,was the first ever pronounced in the world on that subject. He was one of the founders of the Medical College
connected with the University of Pennsylvania, and was
elected the first professor in I765.
In the Revolutionary war he proved himself to be an
ardent patriot, and represented his State in the Continental Congress. Dr. Shippen was for more than thirty
years a Trustee of the College. He died in I8o8.
Tltomtas Smith. I have not been able to discover
with absolute certainty, but I think there is little doubt
that Mr. Smith was a brother of William  Smith the
Chief Justice of the Province of New  York, and of
Charles Smith of the Class of I757. After graduating he
was admitted to the New York Bar, and became eminent in his profession. During the Revolution he removed to Haverstraw, New York, and in I78I, while
residing there, Aaron Burr became a student of law in
his office. Mr. Smith died in Haverstraw after I8oo.
Noah Wadhalns, a native of Goshen, Connecticut,
received ordination and was settled over the Congregational Church at New Preston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in I757, where he remained until I768. He was
admitted to a Master's degree at Yale in I764. He died
in  8c6.
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Jonathan Baldwin, after graduating, removed
from New Jersey, his native State, to New York city,
and became Steward of King's College, just organized.
Afterwards he occupied the same position at Princeton.
How long he held this post, I have not discovered. Mr.
Baldwin, after leaving Princeton, retired to Newark,
New Jersey, where he died in I8i6.
Benoni Bradner was a son of the Rev. John Bradner, of Goshen, New York. After his licensure, he preached at Jamaica, Long Island, from I760 to I762. Afterwards he was settled at Nine Partners, in Dutchess County, New York, and in June, I786, became the minister of
the I1ndependent Church in Blooming Grove, Orange
County. Consumptive, and troubled with shortness of
breath, he lived to the age of seventy-one, and died January 29, I804. He was a Trustee of the Morris County
Society for Promoting Religion and Learning from its
formation. Yale admitted him to the degree of Master
of Arts in 1758.
Thaddeus Burr was a son of Henry Burr, who died
in New Jersey, in I742. It is uncertain whether this
Henry Burr was a cousin or a brother of President Burr.
Henry Burr is said to have been the brother of President
Burr, in the Massachusetts Historical Collection, vol. vii.,
p. I87. If this is true, then Thaddeus was a nephew of
President Burr. But others, with apparent good reason,
think that Henry was a cousin of President Burr, and
that would make Thaddeus his second cousin.
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ticut, and rose to eminence and wealth. John Hancock,
President of the Continental Congress, was married in
his house, to Miss Dorothy Quincy, of Boston, in I775.
During the Revolution Mr. Burr was the High-Sheriff
of the county. In 1779, his splendid mansion was burned
by the forces under General Tryon. Mrs. Burr made a
personal application to Governor Tryon, but he refused
to protect her or the house. The house of Mr. Burr was
the mansion of his ancestors: it was a house where elegant hospitality reigned, and where refined enjoyments
were daily felt and distributed to the friend and the stranger. Mr. Burr was admitted to a Master's degree at Yale,
in I758.
Wheeler Case was licensed to preach by Suffolk
Presbytery, and settled as first pastor of Pleasant Valley
Church, Dutchess County, New York, in November, I765.
Poughkeepsie for some years formed a part of his charge,
but during the war it became so enfeebled as to be virtually extinct. Mr. Case continued in the pastorate of
Pleasant Valley for more than twenty years. In I778, an
anonymous pamphlet was published at New Haven, entitled, "Poems occasioned by several circumstances and
reminiscences in the present grand contest of America for
Liberty." The author was Wheeler Case. He states in
the preface, that some of the pieces were written merely
for amusement, and with the design to promote the cause
of Liberty, into whose treasury he casts his mite in publishing them. These Poems were re-published by M. W.
Dodd, of New York, in I852.
Mr. Case probably died April 8, I793.
Benjamin Conklin became a Congregational minister, and was settled November 23, I763, over a church in
Leicester, Massachusetts. He resigned his charge June
30, I794, and died January 30, I798. Mr. Conklin was a
laborious minister. He was pleasing and interesting,
without being brilliant; useful and instructive, without
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being great. He performed the duties of his station
honorably and acceptably, and among the patriots of
the Revolution, he deserved a very high place. In one
of the towns bordering upon his parish, it was thought
by some of.the people that their clergyman did not preach
strongly enough in favor of the cause of liberty; "then,"
said he, "I will exchange with Mr. Conklin, and he will
satisfy you, I am sure."
John Hanna received his license to preach from the
Presbytery of New Brunswick, about I760. In April,
i76I, he was ordained by the same Presbytery, and settled as pastor of Alexandria, Kingwood and Bethlehem
Churches, New Jersey, where he remained until his death,
in I80o. Mr. Hanna was also a physician, and practised
quite extensively, but it never interfered with his duties
as a pastor or as a member of the various church courts.
Dr. Hanna was a warm-hearted patriot, and ever true to
the American cause.
Garret Leydecker, spelled also Lydekker, was licensed by Conferentie in I765. In I767, he preached as
a supply; and from 1770 to 1776, he was pastor of the
Reformed Dutch Church at English Neighborhood, New
Jersey. At the opening of the Revolution he took the
side of the British, and fled to New York, and finally to
England, where he died in I794.
Joseph Montgomery received his license from the
Presbytery of Philadelphia about I759, and was ordained
by the Presbytery of Lewes about I76I, and settled as
pastor of the Presbyterian Churches of New Castle and
Christiana Bridge, Delaware. The Presbytery of New
Castle reported to the Synod, in 1785, "that in consequence of Mr. Joseph Montgomery's having informed
them that, through bodily indisposition, he was incapable
of officiating in the ministry, and having also accepted
an office under the civil authority, they have left his
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name out of their Records."  From I784 to I788, Mr.
Montgomery represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress. He was admitted to a Master's degree at
the Philadelphia College, and Yale in I760.
Isaac Smiith served as a tutor for one year after his
graduation. He afterwards studied medicine and began
to practice; but the troubles with Great Britain commencing, he soon became distinguished for his patriotic
services, and in 1776 was in command of a regiment.
At the close of the war he was appointed a Judge of the
Supreme Court of New Jersey, which position he held
for eighteen years. He was also a member of the House
of Representatives after the present Constitution was
formed, from 1795 to 1797, and was highly esteemed by
Washington and Adams. Mr. Smith united the characters of a Christian, scholar, soldier and gentleman. He
died in I807, in hope of mercy through the Redeemer.
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Stephen Caimp was a son of John Camp, of Newark,
New Jersey. He was a brother-in-law of the Hon. Isaac
Tichenor, of the Class of I775, and encouraged by him,
went with him or followed him into Vermont. He was
a lawyer, but not very successful in his profession, and
died young, according to tradition. Mr. Camp was a
nephew of Dr. William Burnet, of the Class of I749.
Alexander Martin. The family of Mr. Martin
moved from New Jersey to Virginia, and from thence
to North Carolina, from which State the son came to
college. In I772, he represented his State in the Colonial Assembly. In I774, he was a member of the first
Assembly of the people in North Carolina, met to vindicate their rights. He was a member of the Legislature
in I775 and I776. At the breaking out of the war he became a Colonel in the Continental line, and participated
in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. In the
last he was near Gen. Lafayette when he was wounded.
After the war, Mr. Martin was Speaker of the Senate
of North Carolina. In 1782, he was elected Governor of
the State, and again in I789. He left several manuscripts
in prose and verse. An ode on the death of Gen. Francis
Nash, and one on Gov. Caswell were published in the
North Carolina University Magazine. From I793 to 1799,
Mr. Martin represented his State in the Senate of the
United States. In I793, Gov. Martin received the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Princeton. He
died in I807.
From the omission in the Triennial Catalogue of any
honorary designations, I have felt some doubt whether
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our graduate was the Gov. Martin sketched above. But
as we know that Gov. Martin's brother graduated in
1762, and, as Wheeler in his history of North Carolina
says that he was, "at Princeton for a time," I conclude
that I am right in my conjecture.
William  Mills, a native of Long Island, was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in I762, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Jamaica,
Long Island. He died in New York, March I8, I774,
where he had gone to get medical advice for a chronic
disease under which he was suffering.
Mr. Mills was admitted to a Master's degree at Yale
in 177I. A New York paper of that day says that" His
amiable disposition, his peaceful and prudent conduct,
his unaffected piety and rational devotion, remarkably
endeared him to those acquainted with him." Mr. Mills
appears to have been a man of wealth, as "three improved farms," constituting a part of his estate, were advertised for sale shortly after his death.
Josiah Ogden. The father of Mr. Ogden resided in
Newark, New Jersey, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church; but some trouble arising from his gathering in his hay on the Sabbath, he went over to the Episcopalians, and was one of the founders of old Trinity
Church in that town. Our graduate died young. He
had two brothers who were prominent men in their day,
Dr. Jacob Ogden, of Long Island, and Judge David Ogden, a graduate of Yale, and a noted loyalist. There is
a notice of him in " Sabin's Loyalists."
Joseph lPeck was licensed by Fairfield East Association, in Connecticut, on May 29, I758. In I762 I find
him settled over a Presbyterian Church at Phillippi, in
what was called Phillips' Precinct, lying between Fishkill and South Salem, New York. On October 27, of
the same year, he, in connection with Solomon Mead
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and Elisha Kent, met and organized what was long
known as Dutchess Presbytery. Mr. Peck remained in
this charge until I769, when in June of that year he was
installed pastor of a Congregational Church in New Fairfield, Connecticut, where he remained until I775. I can
trace him no further.
Azel Roe came to College from Long Island.  He
was licensed by the Presbytery of New York in 1760, and
two years after was ordained. In 1763 he became pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Woodbridge, New Jersey,
afterwards connected with Metuchin. During the Revolutionary war Mr. Roe proved his patriotism in many
ways. The part of New Jersey in which he resided, was
much annoyed by marauding parties sent out from the
British troops stationed on Staten Island. On one occasion, a brave Continental Captain, who had done great
execution in driving off or annoying these predatory
bands, was very anxious to attack a party which had
encamped near the Blazing Star Ferry, but could not
induce his men to follow him. As many of them belonged to Mr. Roe's congregation, he thought he would put
in requisition his influence over them. Accordingly he
called and stated his difficulty, and found Mr. Roe more
than willing to second his efforts. The good minister
accompanied the Captain to the place where his men
were, and addressed a few words to them, exhorting
them to their duty, and enforcing his exhortation by telling them that it was his purpose to go into the action
himself. And into the action he went-every man following readily. But when the bullets began to fly among
them, they promised that if he would keep out of harm's
way, they would do the business for the enemy. And
seeing that their spirits were sufficiently excited, he did
retire, and, as he afterwards acknowledged, very much
to his own comfort.
One night the Tories united with the British and seized
Mr. Roe while he was with his family, and carried him
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off as a prisoner to New York, where they shut him up
in the "Sugar House." As they were on their way to
New York, they were obliged to ford a small stream.
The officer in command, who seemed to have taken a
fancy to Mr. Roe, and treated him politely, insisted that
the captured minister should allow him to carry him
over on his back. When they were about the middle of
the stream, Mr. Roe, who relished a joke, and was not
wanting in ready wit, said to the officer, " Well, sir, if
never before, you can say after this, that you was once
priest-ridden." The officer was so convulsed with laughter, that he had well nigh fallen under his burden into
the water. When they arrived in New York, an excellent breakfast was sent to Mr. Roe by the father of Washington Irving, who had been informed of his imprisonment.
Mr. Roe was a Trustee of the College twenty-nine
years-from 1778 to 1807. In I8oo the honorary degree
of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Yale.
Dr. Roe was about the medium height and well propoitioned. His manners were more than ordinarily graceful
and dignified. His preaching was distinguished for substantial excellence, rather than those qualities which attract the multitude. He was universally and highly esteemed as a pastor, and was in charge of the same flock
for fifty-four years. He died in November, I815.
Jesse Root came to College from  Massachusetts.
After preaching for three years, on account of family circumstances he studied law, and was admitted to the Bar
in I763. In I777 he raised a company in Hartford and
joined General Washington; he was made LieutenantColonel soon after. From  May, I779, till the close of
the war, he was a member of the Continental Congress.
In I789 he was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court
of Connecticut, and was Chief Justice from I796 until his
resignation in I807.
He was, as a judge, learned and dignified-a man of
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warm  and undoubted piety.  At the age of eighty-five
he was always seen in his place in the prayer-meeting
and conference. On the evening of his death, he said,
" I set out on a pleasant journey in the morning, and I
shall get through to-night.  He died March 29, I822. Ill
I8oo Yale conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws upon Judge Root.
His publications are: Report of Cases adjudged in the Superior Court
and in the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut from 1789 to I798,
Hartford, 1798-i803. 2 vols. 8vo. Illustrated by notes on adjudged points
and rules of practice.
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Moses Baldwin. The Commencement of I757 was
the first, after the removal of the College to Princeton;
made sadly memorable by the death of President Burr,
two days before. At the head of the roll and of the Class
of this year stood Moses Baldwin, a native of Newark,
New Jersey. After graduating, he studied theology, and
was licensed probably by Suffolk Presbytery. On the
U7th of June, I76I, he was ordained, and settled over a
Congregational Church in Palmer, Massachusetts. He
remained as pastor of this church until June I9, I8II,
when he resigned. He died in I8I3. As a minister, Mr.
Baldwin was faithful and diligent in discharging the
duties of his office. His great ambition was to live to
the glory of God. His preaching was impressive, for
Christ and his Cross was all his theme. He was admitted to a Master's degree at Dartmouth, in I79I.
Caleb Barnuln, a native of Danbury, Connecticut,
was licensed by the. Fairfield East Association, May 30,
1759, and was ordained, and settled pastor of the Congregational Church at Franklin, Massachusetts. He remained here about eight years, when on account of difficulties in the congregation he resigned. Soon after the
opening of the Revolutionary War, Mr. Barnum was appointed Chaplain in the Western Army, but died in camp
in I776. Mr. Barnum's successor at Franklin was the
celebrated Dr. Nathaniel Emmons. Mr. Barnum was
admitted to an ad eundem Master's degree at Harvard,
in 1768.
Nicholas Bayard was probably the son of William
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Bayard, a leading merchant in New York before and
during the Revolution. The family was distantly connected with Col. John Bayard, of Philadelphia, whose
sons afterwards graduated at Princeton. After graduating, Mr. Bayard returned to New York. There is in
Holt's Gazette of November Io, 1763, a long account of
disorderly people doing mischief and pilfering on Sundays, in the Bowery, particularly that a great number
surrounded the orchard of Mr. Nicholas Bayard, where
a large quantity of apples "lay on heaps for making
cider," and Mr. Bayard being from home, the overseer
was abused, who then ordering a gun to be brought
kept them off till dark; when the orchard was attacked,
and he fired at the legs of one, and wounded him. The
family sent another gun, and a reinforcement of another
white man. The loafers came on again, supposing the
garrison out of ammunition, but received another shot in
the legs of one of the party, who then retreated. Mr.
Bayard, on returning, kept watch with his neighbors all
night. All this occurred near the present Grand Street
and Bowery. Mr. Bayard was at one time an Alderman
of the city.
Noah Benedict was born in Danbury, Connecticut.
He was ordained, and installed pastor of the Congregational Church at Woodbury, Connecticut, October 22,
1760, where he preached for fifty-three years. He died
in September, I813. In I760, he was admitted to a Master's degree in Yale, and from I8o0 to I812, was a Fellow
of Yale College.
Mr. Benedict published a Sermon on the Death of Dr. Bellamy, I790o.
Memoirs of Dr. Bellamy, i8 i.
Abner Brush after graduating, studied theology,
and in I758 was ordained by the Presbytery of New
York, and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Goshen, New York.  Mr. Brush remained in this
charge until I766, in which year he probably died.
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Caleb Curtiss studied theology, and was ordained,
and settled as pastor of the Congregational Church at
Charlton, Massachusetts, in I76I. He was dismissed fromn
this charge in I776, after which he represented the town
in the Provincial Congress, and served in other public
capacities. He died March 2I, I802.
Timothy Edwards, the eldest son of Jonathan Edwards, after his graduation, became a merchant in Elizabethtown, New Jersey; but in I770, he removed to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and was a leading citizen for fortythree years. He was a member of the State Council
from I775 to I780; was Judge of Probate from I778 to
I787; declined the nomination of member of Congress in
I779. He died October 27, 1813, aged 75.
Peter Faneuil.  If I am right in my conjecture,
Mr. Faneuil was the youngest child of Benjamin Faneuil,
and a nephew of the well-known Peter Faneuil of Boston. He entered the celebrated Latin school of John
Lovell of Boston, in I746, and, after graduating  at
Princeton, entered into mercantile life in Montreal.
Failing in business, he resorted to the West Indies, and,
after the death of his father in I785, he returned to Boston, where he probably died.
Elnathan Gregory studied theology and was licensed to preach by the Fairfield East Association, Connecticut, May 29, I758. He died in I8i6. I have not
been able to find the place of Mr. Gregory's settlement.
William  Kirkpatrick received license from the
Presbytery of New Brunswick, August I5, I758, and
passed several months in missionary work in New Jersey. He was ordained and appointed a supply to the
Presbyterian Church in Trenton, New Jersey, July 4,
I759, where he preached until 1766, but was never settled as their pastor. During this time he had many calls,
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but declined them all. In I766 he accepted a call to the
church in Amwell, New Jersey. In 1767 he was elected
a Trustee of the College.
Mr. Kirkpatrick was above the ordinary size, but not
corpulent; grave, dignified and commanding in his aspect, and of most engaging address. He died in Amwell, September 8, I769.
Alexander MIIcWhorter was born in New Castle
Co., Delaware, July I5, I734.  After graduating, he
studied theology with- Rev. William Tennent of Freehold, and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, August 3, I758. On July 4th of the same year, he
was ordained with a view to a mission in the South, but,
receiving a call from the Presbyterian Church in Newark,
he accepted, and was installed the same summer. In
1764 he visited North Carolina by order' of the Synod,
and was very efficient in establishing churches in that
region, but came near losing his life by a violent attack
of fever.
In 1775, he was appointed by Congress to visit North
Carolina, and use every effort to bring over the enemies
of independence to the American cause.
In I776, Yale conferred upon him the honorary degree
of Doctor of Divinity.
In I777, he was at the battle of Trenton, having gone
to headquarters to confer with General Washington
about the defence of the State.
In I778, at the solicitation of General Knox, he acted
as chaplain while the army lay at White Plains. In I779
he left Newark, that he might accept a situation in
North Carolina, but was soon obliged to fly before the
army of Cornwallis, losing almost all that he possessed.
Returning to Newark, he resumed his old charge, which
he retained until the day of his death.
In I783, Dr. McWhorter was elected President of
Washington Academy in Maryland (afterwards St. John's
College), which offer he declined.
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In 1802, at the advanced age of sixty-eight, he, was appointed by the College of New Jersey to solicit funds in
New England, for the rebuilding of the College which
had just been destroyed by fire. He succeeded in collecting more than seven thousand dollars.  He was a
Trustee of the College for thirty-five years. Dr. McWhorter was one of the leading spirits in the organization of the Presbyterian Church. In I789 his name
stands second on a Committee, of which Dr. Witherspoon was Chairman, to whom  was committed "the
Book of Discipline and Government," with powers to
digest such a system as they shall think to be accommodated to the state of the Presbyterian Church in America.
Dr. McWhorter was remarkably a man of order and
method. He was also an accomplished teacher; and in
the dearth of text-books, he wrote with his own hand
for his pupils treatises on several of the sciences. As
a preacher he was plain, instructive and practical; his
language was correct, expressive, and often pathetic.
He was among the most successful and popular preachers of his day. Of his influence in Church Courts, Dr.
Griffin wrote: " His voice was listened to with profound
respect, and the counsels suggested by his superior wisdom enlightened and swayed our public bodies."  Dr.
McWhorter died in the triumph of a rapturous faith,
July 20, I807.
He published, A sermon on The Blessedness of the Liberal, I796. Two
volumes of Sermons, 8vo, I803.
Samuel Parkhurst was licensed by the Presbytery
of New Brunswick in I761, and ordained the next year.
He was never permanently settled, but died March   I,
I768.
Joseph Reed. was born in Trenton, New  Jersey,
August 27, I74I. He studied law with Richard Stock[-47. 




ton, and was admitted to the Bar in 1763. He then went
to London and studied in the Middle Temple until I765,
when he returned and commenced practice in Trenton.
In I770 Mr. Reed re-visited London, and on his return
took up his residence in Philadelphia. In I774 he was
President of the State Convention. In I775 he accompanied Washington to Cambridge as his Aid and Secretary,
and remained with him during the campaign. In I776
he was an adjutant-general, and was highly esteemed as
an officer. By direction of Washington, he co-operated in
the affair at Princeton by attacking the neighboring British posts. In I777 he was elected a member of the Continental Congress, and at one time acted as President
pro-tem. About this time he was approached by British
officials, offering himgreat honour and emolument to use
his influence for the restoration of harmony. The same
year he received the offer of ten thousand pounds sterling and the best office in the gift of the crown in America, if he could effect the re-union of, the two countries.
To this offer he replied that " he was not worth purchasing; but such as he was, the king of Great Britain was
nrot rich enough to do it."
In I778 he was chosen President of Pennsylvania, and
held the office till 178I.
Mr. William  Rawl said of him, " His mind was perspicuous, his perceptions quick, his penetration great,
his industry unremitted. Before the Revolution he had
a considerable share of the current practice..... When
he had the conclusion of a cause, he was formidable. I
have heard an old practitioner say that there was no one
at the Bar he so little liked to have behind him as Joseph
Reed."
Mr. Reed was a Trustee of the Presbyterian Church,.both in; Trenton and Philadelphia, and in one of his publications he said of that Church, " When I am convinced
of its errors, or ashamed of its character, I may perhaps
change it; till then I shall not blush at a connection with
a people who, in this great controversy, are not second
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to any in vigorous exertions and generous contributions,
and to whom  we are so eminently indebted for our deliverance from the thraldom of Great Britain."
Colonel Reed was a Trustee of the College from I78 I
until his death, which occurred in Philadelphia, March 5,
1785.
He published, Remarks on Governor Johnstone's Speech in Parliament,
etc., 1779, 4to. Remarks on a Late Publication in the Independent Gazetteer, with an Address to the People of Pennsylvania. Phila. 1783, 8vo.
Stephen Sayre, a native of Long Island, became an
eminent merchant in the city of London, and was at one
time High Sheriff of the city. But the odour of patriotism which he carried with him from Princeton still clung
to him, as we may learn from the following incident: On
October 23, I775, Mr. Sayre was arrested on a charge
of high treason made against him by a sergeant of the
guard (also a native American) named Richardson. He
charged Sayre with having asserted that he and others
intended to seize the king on his way to Parliament, to
take possession of the town, and to overthrow the present
government. Sayre was known to be a friend to the patriots, and on this charge Lord Rochford, one of the Secretaries of State, caused his papers to be seized and himself to be arrested. Sayre was committed to the Tower,
from which he was released by Lord Mansfield, who
granted a writ of habeas corpus. He was subsequently
tried and acquitted. He prosecuted Lord Rochford for
seizing his papers, and the court awarded him a conditional verdict of five thousand dollars damages. The
conditions annexed proved a bar to the recovery of the
money, and Sayre was obliged to suffer a heavy pecuniary loss in costs, besides the personal indignity. The
whole case is reported in " State Trials." Mr. Sayre returned again to his native land, and died in Virginia in
I818.
James Smith was a brother of William Smith, the
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distinguished Historian, of New York. He received his
medical education chiefly in Europe, and was graduated
Doctor of Medicine at Leyden. He became prominent
in his profession in New York city. He is admitted to
have been eminently learned, but too theoretical and fanciful, both as a practitioner and in his course of public
instruction. He, in connection with John V. B. Tennent,
of the class of 1758, and a few others, founded the New
York Medical College, the second medical school in the
United States. Dr. Smith became Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica.
He was a writer of plays and verses, and was the author of the drama entitled, " The Male Coquette." Dr.
Francis, of New York, describes him at the age of seventy,
as attired in a velvet coat, with his gold snuff-box in one
hand, pressing forward with his vast projecting shirt-frills
discolored with the drippings of his box, and his little
brochure of poetry in the other hand, tottering through
the streets engaged in distributing to the chosen fair his
rhyming products.
Dr. Smith died in 18I2.
David Smith settled in Charleston, South Carolina,
where he became a distinguished instructor of youth.
He superintended the education of Edward Rutledge,
one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
John Strain was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Castle, May 29, I759, and ordained in I76I. He settled
in York County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Archibald Alexander says of him, that he was a preacher of uncommon
power and success, and his manner awfully solemn. He
was called to succeed Gilbert Tennent in Philadelphia,
but declined the call. He died May 21, I774.
Joseph Treat acted as tutor for two years after his
graduation. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick in I760. In October, I762, he was installed
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I757as colleague of Rev. Dr. Bostwick in the First Presbyterian Church, New York City. When the Revolutionary War began, the congregation was scattered, and all
the ministers left the city. Mr. Treat never returned,
but supplied the Churches of Lower Bethlehem  and
Greenwich, in Sussex County, New Jersey, until his
death, in I797.
Henry Wells, a native of New York City, after graduating, studied medicine, and commenced practice in
New York. After a short residence there, he removed
to Brattleborough, Vermont, where he lived for eighteen
years. In I782, he removed to Montague, with a view
of obtaining a more central situation as to business, and
perhaps to diminish somewhat his labors in advancing
life. Dr. Wells attained the most distinguished rank in
his profession. His natural powers were good, and his
medical reading was extensive and judicious. IHe professed a firm belief in the gospel, and was much attached
to the moral and religious institutions of the country.
Dr. Wells dressed somewhat like the Quakers, and wore
to the last, velvet or buck-skin small-clothes, a long vest
with flaps and pockets, and a broad-brimmed hat. He
was a man full of cheerfulness and facetiousness. He
died August 22, I814.
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Jacob Ker was a grandson of the well-known Walter Ker, of Freehold, New Jersey, who was banished from
Scotland in I685, "for his faithful adherence to God and
his truth as professed by the Church of Scotland."
The subject of this sketch, after graduating, acted as
tutor from I76o to 1762. In I763, he was licensed by the
Presbytery of New Brunswick, and was ordained by the
same Presbytery in I764. On the 29th of August in the
same year, he was installed as pastor of the Churches of
Monokin and Wicomics, Maryland, where he remained
until his death, which occurred July 29, I795. Mr. Ker
was a man of fervent piety, and a good preacher. He
used manuscripts in the earlier part of his ministry, but
in the latter part of his life he preached without notes.
The following testimony to his worth is from the Records
of the Presbytery of Lewis: "The loss of this great and
good man was sensibly felt by the Church in general,
and by this Presbytery in particular. He was a bright
luminary in the Church, who lived exemplarily, preached
warmly, and prayed fervently-a pattern truly worthy
the imitation of his brethren."
Philip Peter Livingston. The Livingston family
have no knowledge of any one of this name among their
ancestors. I therefore suppose him to be the same as
Peter Robert Livingston, who was a student in the college at this time, as proved by the following certificate,
which I find in the Documentary History of New York:'New York, May 8, I759.-This is to certify that Mr.
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John Ewing was Tutor of the New Jersey College at
Princeton last year, I, the subscriber, being his pupil.
"PETER RT. LIVINGSTON."
If I am right in this conjecture, then he was a son of
Robert, third proprietor of the Manor of Livingston.
He was elected to represent the Manor in the Provincial
Assembly in I76I and 1768, and again in I774. At the
breaking out of the Revolution, he adhered, with other
members of the family, to the side of American liberty,
and in 1776, was chosen President of the Provincial Convention, as well as Chairman of the Committee of Safety,
and was employed in other departments of the public
service. He died November I5, I794.
Philip Phils Livingston was the eldest son of
Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a nephew of Gov. Livingston, of New Jersey. What became of him after his graduation, I cannot
discover.
John Milner became an Episcopal clergyman, and in
1764, was chosen Rector of the Episcopal Church at East
Chester, New York, in which position he remained until
his death.
Ralph Pomeroy was probably the son of Rev.
Dr. Benjamin Pomeroy of Connecticut. After graduating, he became the third preceptor of Moor's Indian
Charity School, of which Moses Barrett, of the Class
of I754, was the first. In I786 Mr. Pomeroy was admitted to a Master's degree ad eundem at Dartmouth College.
Thomas Smith studied theology after graduating,
and was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick,
and installed pastor of the Church at Cranberry, New
Jersey, October I9, 1762, and died at his post December
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23, I789. Mr. Smith is represented to have been a good
man, but very inefficient.
John Van Brugh Tennent studied medicine and
settled in New York City. Here he soon became eminent as a physician and a man of science. In connection
with James Smith, M. D., of the Class of I757, and others,
he founded the Medical College of New York, in connection with King's College, and became one of its Professors. This was the second Medical School established
in the United States; the Philadelphia College, established by Dr. William Shipping of the Class of I749,
preceding it but a short time. Dr. Tennent died in
I770.
William Tennent, a son of Rev. William Tennent
of Freehold, New Jersey, was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in I76I, and ordained the next
year. Soon -after he went to Virginia on a Missionary
tour by order of the Synod, where he remained six
months.  In I765, he became pastor of a Congregational Church at Norwalk, Connecticut, but retaining
his connection with the Presbytery. In I772 he accepted
a pressing call to an Independent Church in Charleston,
South Carolina, having been previously invited to be
colleague with Dr. Pemberton in Boston. He was received in Charleston with great favor, and soon wielded
a commanding influence both in the pulpit and out of it.
Mr. Tennent could not look with unconcern at the
great political movements of the day. It early took firm
hold of all his powers, and to it he devoted no small
share of his energies, putting forth in its behalf some of
his most eloquent efforts. He was early elected a member of the provincial Congress, and was also a member
of the Committee of Intelligence.
In July, I775, with Hon. W. H. Drayton, he was appointed by the Committee of Safety to go through the
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culties with Great Britain. The effect of this commission was to rouse the whole people in behalf of independence.
We find Mr. Tennent after this, employing his pen
from time to time, in the public prints, in the cause of
civil freedom, and on the I Ith of January, I777, he delivered an eloquent speech in the House of Assembly,
Charleston, advocating a petition, penned by himself, to
which had been attached the signature of many thousands, against the Church establishment of the Church of
England.
Dr. Ramsay, the historian, states, that in the different
hours of the same day, Mr. Tennent was occasionally
heard both in his church and the State House, addressing
different audiences, with equal animation, on their spiritual and temporal interests.
Mr. Tennent was not only an active and flaming patriot, but a noble preacher. A lively imagination added
to a careful study of the Scriptures, enabled him to bring
forth out of his treasury things new and old; yet he
never entertained his audience with scholastic niceties or
subtle questions. Elegance of style, majesty of thought
and clearness of judgment, appeared in his discourses
and concurred to render them both pleasing and instructive.
In the summer of I777, Mr. Tennent went to Freehold
to bring to his own home his widowed and aged mother.
He had reached within ninety miles of Charleston on his
way home, when he was attacked with a nervous fever
which terminated his life August II, I777.
Two' Sermons of Mr. Tennent were published. One entitled " God's
Sovereignty no Objection to the Sinner's Striving." New York, 1765.
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer became distinguished
as a patriot of the Revolution. He was at one time
Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York, and a
Member of Congress from I789 to I79I. He died in Albany, February, 8 Io.
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WTilliam  Whitwell became pastor of the first Congregational Church in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in
1762. In his preaching he was concise and pertinent, instructive and pathetic.  He was admitted to a Master's
degree at Harvard in I762. He died in I78I.
Mr. Whitwell published A Sermon to Mariners, I769; A Sermon on the
death of Mr. Barnard.
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James Caldwell was of French origin, his ancestors
being driven over into Scotland by the fierce persecution
against the Huguenots.  In the reign of James I. a
branch of the family removed to Antrim in the North of
Ireland. It was from this family that Mr. Caldwell descended. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, April, I734. After graduating, he studied theology, and was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, in 176I, and installed pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Soon after his
settlement the Revolutionary war broke out, and Mr.
Caldwell entered with all his heart into the controversy.
He joined the regiment of his friend and parishioner
Colonel Dayton in I776, and marched to the Northern
frontier. His influence upon the troops caused the
enemy to offer high rewards for his capture. In I780
his wife was shot by a refugee, through the window of a
room where she had retired with her children for safety.
Mr. Caldwell was at one time Assistant CommissaryGeneral, where his services were of immense value. His.end was sudden and violent-he was shot by an Irishman named James Morgan, who was acting as sentinel,
and who is supposed to have been drunk at the time.
Mr. Caldwell was a man of unwearied activity, and of
wonderful powers of both bodily and mental endurance.
Feelings of the most glowing piety, and the most fervent
patriotism occupied his bosom at the same time without
interfering with each other.
A beautiful monument was erected over his grave in
Elizabethtown in 1845; an address being made by Rev.
Dr. Miller of Princeton.
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Mr. Caldwell was a Trustee of the College at the time
of his murder, November 24, I78I.
Jabez. Campfield, a son of Benjamin Campfield, of
Newark, New Jersey, after graduating, studied medicine
and settled in Morristown, New Jersey. When the Revolutionary war commenced, Dr. Campfield entered the
American army as a surgeon. His journal, written while
acting as a surgeon under General Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians in I779, is in possession of Edward D. Halsey, Esq., of Morristown, New Jersey.
John Carmichael, emigrated to this country from
Scotland. He studied theology with President Davies,
and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick,
May 8, I76o. On the 2Ist of April, I76I, he was ordained
and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at the
Forks of the Brandywine, Delaware. He remained the
pastor of this Church until his death in I785.
Like the vast majority of the graduates of Princeton,
Mr. Carmichael took the side of his country; and in I775
preached a sermon to the Militia of Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, in which he endeavoured to establish the
lawfulness of self-defence. This sermon was published,
and soon a second edition was called for. So effectually
did he succeed in instilling into the minds of his people
his own patriotic spirit, that whenever they were called
into service, it is said that not a man of them hesitated
or faltered.
Mr. Carmichael was a man of an eminently devout and
Christian spirit.
John Clark received his license from the Presbytery
of New Brunswick, May 9, I760, and was ordained and
settled at the Forks of the Delaware, October I3, I762.
In I767, on account of bodily infirmity, he resigned his
charge and removed to Maryland, where he became pastor of two churches in Baltimore County. In I775 his
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pastoral relation was again dissolved, but he continued
to preach to one of his churches until 1781. In this year
he removed to Western Pennsylvania, and became pastor
of the united churches: of Bethel and Lebanon in that region. At this time he was past the meridian of life, and
in very feeble health; but in appearance, grave, sedate
and venerable; and as a preacher, solemn and impressive. Mr. Clark was accustomed to wear a big white
wig, which sometimes excited prejudice against him. He
died July I3, I797.
James Hlunt was the son of James Hunt, conspicuous in the scenes of a religious nature in Hanover County, Virginia, during the times of the Rev. Samuel Davies.
He was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick
in I760. In I76I he made a missionary tour through
North Carolina, being at this time a member of Hanover
Presbytery. On his return he preached for some time in
Lancaster County, Virginia; but the people preferring
James Waddel, he sought another location. Mr. Hunt
passed the greater part of his ministerial life in Montgomery County, Maryland, where for many years he was
at the head of a flourishing classical school. William
Wirt was for some years one of his pupils, and for two
years a member of his family. Mr. Hunt took special
pains to encourage his pupil in composition and for improvement inii elocution.
A son of Mr. Hunt graduated in the class of I786.
Mr. Hunt died at Bladensburg in I793.
John Huntington was a native of Norwich, Connecticut. After graduating he became preceptor in
Moore's Indian Charity School at Lebanon, Connecticut,
where he remained during the years I76I and I762. He
was ordained and installed over the Third Congregational Church in Salem, Massachusetts, September 28,
1763. His early ministry gave much promise of future
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friends were soon disappointed. He died of a quick consumption, May 30, I766. Though he had scarcely made
proof of his fine talents, yet he had won a generous confidence in his great abilities, and still more in his fervent
piety.
James Leslie became a merchant in New York.
In his will he left a fund for the education, in the College,
of poor and pious youth for the Gospel ministry.
James Lyon was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in 1762, and ordained by the same
body, December 5, I764, to go to Nova Scotia, where he
laboured in the ministry for several years. In I77I he
removed to the State of Maine and began preaching at
Machias, and in 1782 a Congregational Church was organized, and Mr. Lyon became its pastor. During the
stormy period of the Revolution, Mr. Lyon endured
great suffering and hardship. The lumnbering trade, on
which his people chiefly depended for subsistence, was
for a season almost suspended, and they were reduced to
extremity for want of provisions. The pastor might then
be often seen forsaking his study, and his half-written
sermon, and going to fish and dig clams to furnish food
for his children. About 1782 or I783 he removed to
Newtown, Long Island, where he supplied the Presbyterian Church until the spring of I785. He died October 12, 1794.
Mr. Lyon published a small Manual of Devotion, a few copies of which
are still preserved, and serve to give a favorable impression of his piety
and talents.
Ebenezer Noyes, a native of Newbury, Massachusetts, after graduating, studied medicine and practiced in
Dover, Massachusetts, where he died August II, I767,
aged 28.
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setts. He wavs either a cousin or a twin brother of the
above. IHe became a Congregational minister, and in
I759 was pastor elect of the Church in Kingston, New
Hampshire. He died July 8, I773, aged 36.
Nathaniel Noyes was born in Newbury, Massachusetts. In I76o he was ordained as a Congregational
minister, and spent his life chiefly in labouring among the
destitute in New England. He died in December, i8Io.
Thomas Pierce, a native of Newbury, Massachusetts, after graduating, studied theology, and in 1762, was
ordained as a Congregational minister, and settled as
pastor of a church at Scarborough, Maine. He died in
I775.
Henry Sherburne was a son of Henry Sherburne,
of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The father was a friend
of Gov. Belcher, and intimate with the Rev. Samuel McClintock, of the Class of 175I, and it is probable that
through their influence the son was sent to Princeton.
He never accomplished anything after graduating, but
became a spendthrift, and ended his days in the Portsmouth Almshouse, retaining a ridiculous aristocratic family feeling to the last moments of existence.
Samuel Spencer. On returning to North Carolina,
his native State, soon entered upon the practice of the
law. In I775, he was appointed with Waightstill Avery,
of the Class of I766, on the Provincial Council of Safety.
Under the Colonial Government, he was a member of
the Legislature, and Clerk of Anson County, In 1777,
he was one of the three Judges of the Superior Courts
first elected under the Constitution. In I788, he was in
the State Convention assembled to deliberate upon the
Federal Constitution. His talents were fully appreciated
by the country. Judge Spencer died in I794. His death
was caused by a most singular circumstance. He had
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been in ill-health, and was sitting in his yar'd in the sun,
when a large turkey-cock, attracted by some part of his
clothing, which was red, attacked him most furiously,
and before he could be rescued, was so severely wounded
that he died in a short time from the injuries.
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Joseph Alexander, one of the Alexander family of
North Carolina, was licensed by the New Castle Presbytery in I767. The same year he was ordained and installed as pastor of the Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church
in his native State. At this place he established a classical school, which soon attained a high reputation. In a
few years he removed to South Carolina.
The school established by Mr. Alexander in North
Carolina, became a college under the title of Queen's
Museum; but it was refused a charter by George III.
After the Revolution it received a charter from  the
North Carolina Legislature; and is known as Liberty
Hall. In the course of a few years, this college was removed to South Carolina, and became incorporated with
Mount Zion College at Winnsboro, the Rev. Thomas H.
McCaul, a graduate of Princeton, being the President.
Mr. Alexander on his removal to South Carolina became pastor of Union Church, where he remained until
1773, when he was installed pastor of Bullock's Creek
Church. In this charge he remained until I8oi, when,
at his own request, the connexion was dissolved; and he
remained without a pastoral charge until the close of
life.
Mr. Alexander was as active in the cause of education
in South Carolina, as he had been in North Carolina;
and in 1797 the Legislature bestowed a charter upon
Alexandria College, named after him.
In I807, the College of South Carolina conferred the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity upon Mr. Alexander.
Dr. Alexander was a man of small stature, and quite
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lame. He was endowed with fine talents and accomplishments, and was an uncommonly animated and popular
preacher. He was an ardent patriot throughout the
Revolution. He died July 30, I809.
A small volume of Dr. Alexander's sermons was published in Charleston, in I807.
John Archer. After leaving college Mr. Archer
studied divinity, but an affection of the throat led him to
turn his attention to the medical profession, and he received from the College in Philadelphia, the first medical
diploma ever issued in America, which is still in possession of the family. At the beginning of the Revolution,
he had command of a military company, and was also a
member of the Legislature of Maryland, his native State.
At the conclusion of the war, he returned to his profession. As a medical man, he commanded great influence,
and several discoveries were made by him, which were
adopted by the profession. Dr. Archer was a member
of the House of Representatives of the United States
from I8o0 to I807. He died in I8Io.
Samluel Blair was a son of Rev. Samuel Blair, of
Faggs' Manor, Pennsylvania. After graduating, he acted
as tutor in the college from I76I to I764. In I764, he.was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle. In I766,
he was ordained, and installed pastor of the Old South
Church in Boston. He remained in this position only a
year, his health giving way. After leaving Boston, he
retired to Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he passed
the remainder of his life.
The estimation in which Mr. Blair was held may be
judged by the fact, that when Dr. Witherspoon declined
the first invitation to Princeton, the Trustees elected Mr.
Blair President of the College, although not over twentysix years of age. Hearing that a change had taken place
in Dr. Witherspoon's feelings, Mr. Blair, with remarkable
self-sacrifice, declined the appointment.
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Mr. Blair was of medium size, of fair and ruddy complexion, and decidedly a fine-looking man. The University of Pennsylvania honored him with the degree of
Doctor of Divinity in I790. He died in ISI8.
He published two sermons; one of which was on the death of the Rev.
John Blair Smith, D.D. Philadelphia, I799.
Enoc Green was ordained by the Presbytery of Newr
Brunswick, in I762, and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Deerfield, New Jersey, June 9, I769.
While pastor of this church, he was abundant in missionary labor on the Coast of New Jersey. During the Revolution, he acted as chaplain, and died November 20, I776,
from camp fever, contracted while in the discharge of his
duty.
Alexander Houston received his license from the
Presbytery of Lewes, about I763, and was ordained
in I764, and installed as pastor of Murderkill and
Three Runs Churches in Delaware, where he remained
until his death, January 3, I785. Mr. Houston was a
man greatly beloved, and a most earnest and laborious minister. Many tears were shed at his early decease.
Enos Kelsey, a native of New Jersey, after his graduation settled as a merchant in Princeton, where he lived
until the close of his -life. During the Revolution, he
held a responsible office in the Clothier-General's office,
under the State government. There is a letter of his
preserved in the Revolutionary Correspondence of New
Jersey, addressed to the Speaker of the Assembly, dated
October 4, I779, in which he makes an estimate of the
cost of clothing the Jersey troops. He proposes to go
himself to Boston and make the purchases, and thinks
that by the proposed scheme, he can save the State ten
thousand pounds in the purchase.
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lege.  He was a quiet, highly respected citizen. He died
in Princeton, in 1809 or 8 Io.
Benjanmin RLtush, after graduating, studied medicine
with Dr. Shippen, of Philadelphia. From I766 to I768 he
was pursuing his studies in Edinburg, where he received
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. On his return to
Philadelphia in  I769, he received the appointment of
Professor of Chemistry in the  Philadelphia  College.
In  I776 Dr. Rush  was a member of the  Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence.
In 1777, he was appointed  Physician  and  SurgeonGeneral in the Middle Military District. Dr. Burnet,
also a graduate of Princeton, holding the same position
in the Eastern District. In 1787, Dr. Rush was a member of the Convention for framing the Constitution of the
United States.  He was connected with many scientific,
literary and charitable societies, and was an eloquent advocate for the universal establishment of Free Schools.
In I8I i, the Emperor of Russia sent him a gold ring, as
a testimony of respect for his high medical character.
Dr. Rush was one of the most eminent physicians and
learned medical writers that our country has produced..
In I789, Dr. Rush was'transferred to the Chair of Theory
and Practice of Medicine; and in I79I, the College having been elevated to the University of Pennsylvania, he
was elected Professor of the Institutes and Practice of
Medicine and of Clinical Practice-to which, in I796, he
added the Professorship of Physic.
Dr. Rush collected his occasional writings into seven octavo volumes.
Volumes I., II., III., IV., contain Medical Observations.
Volume V., Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of
the Mind.
Volume VI.,. Sixteen Introductory Lectures to Courses on Medicine,
with two Lectures upon the pleasures of the Senses and of the Mind. I8iI.
8vo.
Volume VII., Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical.
Besides these, Dr. Rush edited many medical works.
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John Slemmlons was licensed by the Presbytery of
Donegal in I763, and ordained by the Presbytery of Carlisle in I766, and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian
Churches of State Ridge and Chanceford, Maryland.
He resigned his charge previous to I798, and died in
I814.
Jonathan Bayard Smith, a Philadelphian by birth,
after graduating, returned to Philadelphia, and pursued
the study of law. At the opening of the Revolution he
became a prominent friend of Independence. In 1776,
Mr. Smith was one of the Secretaries of a Conference
called to consider the subject of a new Constitution for
Pennsylvania, and was one of the Committee (Dr. Benjamin Rush being another) to draft an Address to the
People, which resulted in a convention and a new Constitution. He was a Member of the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania in I777 and I778.
Mr. Smith made a large donation of books to the library of the College, which fact should be kept on record, since so few of the Alumni thus remember their
Almna 1ater. He died in I8I2.
Josiah Thatcher was installed pastor of a Congregational Church at Gorham, Maine, October 28, I767,
where he remained until April, I78I, when he resigned
his charge. Without changing his residence, Mr. Thatcher immediately entered into public life, doing a large
business as a Justice of the Peace-representing the town
of Gorham for eleven years, and as Senator, the County
of Cumberland, in the General Court of Maine, and holding the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
from I 784 to I799.
Mr. Thatcher experienced fierce opposition during
much of his ministry, but was subsequently greatly respected and honored.
He was admitted to a Master's degree at Yale in I765.
He died December 25, I799.
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Amos Thompson was a native of Connecticut, and
was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in
I764. Soon after being ordained, having heard that the
Rev. Samuel Hopkins had adopted some novel opinions
in theology, he took horse and travelled to Newport to
converse.with this celebrated man, and, if possible, to
convince him of his errors. The result was, that after
discussing the disputed points for several days, he came
away a thorough convert to Dr. Hopkins' system, to
which he tenaciously adhered until his dying day, and
which he preached on all occasions.
Soon after this, he removed to Virginia, and settled in
Loudon County. The following story is told of him by
Dr. A. Alexander. Mr. Thompson was a man of gigantic
frame, but not in the least inclined to corpulency. His
bodily strength was also prodigious.. Upon one occasion
an old Baptist clergyman named Thomas, residing in the
same part of Virginia, had been threatened with personal
violence by a set of rough men, if he should ever show
his face in a certain pulpit. The old man took a journey
of thirty miles to get the help of Amos Thompson.
Thompson being fearless and fond of adventure, at once
agreed to go and preach for him. When they arrived,
great multitudes had gathered, some to hear and some to
see the sport. While Mr. Thompson was at prayer, a
company of men armed with bludgeons entered the
house and took'their position just before the pulpit; but
when they saw the brawny arm and undaunted appearance of the preacher, they became very quiet. At the
close of the discourse, Thompson addressed himself directly to these men-expostulated with them, and declaring that he would spend all the little property he possessed in seeing that justice was done. He concluded
by saying that, although he was a preacher, and a man
of peace, he held it to be right, when attacked, to defend
himself, which he was ready and able to do..When the meeting was ended, he went out of the
house and enquired for the captain of the band. Being
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led to the spot where they were collected, he approached
this man, and asked him to go aside with him. A stout;
bold-looking man walked off with him towards the wood,
on entering which he appeared to be panic-struck, stopped and raised his club. Thompson said, "Fie, man!
what can you do with that?" and in a moment wrested
it out of his hand, adding that he intended no violence,
but that if so disposed, he could hurl him to the earth in
a moment.
The old Baptist minister was never troubled afterwards
by these men. It is said that Mr. Thompson was never
seen without a pipe in his mouth. He died suddenly in
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David Caldwell, the son of a respectable farmer in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was a carpenter by
trade; but on being converted, he earnestly desired an
education, that he might preach the Gospel. His thirst
for information became a passion, and he resolved to sacrifice time, labour, and all the money that he possessed,
in order to attain his end.
He graduated the year that President Davies died,
being about thirty-six years old. He was licensed to
preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, June 8,
1763, and the same summer visited North Carolina as a
missionary. But it was not until 1768 that he became the
pastor of the united Churches of Buffalo and Alamance,
in North Carolina.  Here he commenced a classical
school in connection with his charge, it being the second
school of permanence in North Carolina; the first being
the school of Rev. Joseph Alexander, already noticed.
Many of his pupils became eminent in after life. Five
were governors of States; a number were promoted to
the Bench; about fifty became ministers of the Gospel;
a large number were physicians and lawyers. Amidst
his many duties he found time also to practice medicine.
Dr. Rush, who was in the class before him, was his lifelong correspondent.
Mr. Caldwell was a warm and firm friend of Independence, and he had his full share of the sufferings of the
times. His house was plundered, his library and valuable
papers destroyed, his property stolen, and he himself,
watched for as a felon, passed whole nights in the forest.
The first blood-shed of the Revolution was not at
Lexington, but on the Alamance in North Carolina, May
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I6, I77I, in an engagement between Governor Tryon's
troops and the Regulators, as they were called. These
Regulators were not adventurers, but the sturdy patriotic members of three Presbyterian congregations, all of
them having as their pastors graduates of Princeton. Mr.
Caldwell was one of them, and on the morning of the
battle was on the ground going from one side to the
other endeavouring to prevent the catastrophy.
When the University of North Carolina was established, Mr. Caldwell was fixed upon as the first President,
but he declined the honour. He received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of
North Carolina in I8Io. Dr. Caldwell was a member of
the Convention of I776, which formed the State Convention, and also a member of the Convention to consider
the Constitution of the United States in I778. These
were the only representative offices he ever held.' After
a long life of usefulness and honour, he died, August 25,
I824.
Isaae Handy was born December 19, I743. He was
the son of Colonel Isaac Handy, of Princess Anne, Maryland, a man of extensive landed possessions and great
prominence in the community in which he lived. After
his graduation, Mr. Handy studied law, and was admitted to practice, and continued to practice his profession
in Princess Anne until his death in I773. He married
Esther Winder, the daughter of Captain William Winder, a man of fortune, and an Elder in the Wimico Presbyterian Church. Her brother was Governor of Maryland from I8I2 to I815.
Thomas Henderson, a native of Monmouth County, New Jersey, studied medicine and practiced in his
native State. He was early appointed a Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas. From I779 to 178o he was a
Delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey;
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Jersey being graduates of Princeton. Mr. Henderson
was in the House of Representatives, under the Constitution, from I795 to I797. He was a man of sterling
worth, and of unblemished reputation. For many years
he was an Elder in Mr. Tennent's Church at Freehold.
William  Jauncey was a son of James Jauncey, of
New York city, a leading importer before the Revolution, and a noted royalist. The son, after graduating,
became a merchant, and from I797 to I802 he was governor of the New York Hospital.
Nathan Ker came to Princeton from the congregation of William Tennent, of Freehold, New Jersey. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, in
1762, and ordained August I7, I763, and in I766 was settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Goshen,
New York, where he remained until his death, which
took place December I4, I804. Mr. Ker was a zealous
Whig in the Revolution, and served for some time as a
volunteer Chaplain in the army. He was a man of wellbalanced and cultivated mind, enlarged and liberal views,
earnest piety, and extensive influence.
Mr. Ker published a Sermon in the American Preacher (vol. iv.) entitled
"God's Sovereignty in conferring Means and Grace." I793.
Thomas MecCracken was ordained by the Presbytery of Lewes, in 1,768, and died in I770.
David Rice. The fund which supported Mr. Rice
failed while he was in College, and his wardrobe became
so shabby that he meditated leaving; but this coming to
the ears of Richard Stockton, Esq., he sent for the young
man and said to him, " I have in a literal sense ventured
my bread on the waters, having a ship at sea. If it founders, you must repay me the sum I advance you; if it returns safe, I will venture in the figurative sense."  Two
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years after Mr. Rice offered to repay him, but he refused,
affirming that he had been repaid long ago.
Mr. Rice studied theology with John Todd, a graduate of the College, and was ordained by Hanover Presbytery, December, I763. He laboured for some years in
Virginia, his native State, and during the Revolution
took a warm  and decided stand in favour of his country.
He took also an active part in the establishment of Hampden Sidney Academy, which afterwards became a college.
In I783 he removed to Kentucky, and there organized
and took charge of the congregation of Concord at Danville, Cane Run, and the Forks of Dick's River. MIr. Rice
may be considered the father of the Presbyterian Church
in Kentucky. In I785 a general meeting for Conference
was held, for the purpose of introducing and completing
a regular Presbyterian organization in the State. Nothing so tended to the firm  establishment of that Church
in the far West as this Conference; and Mr. Rice was
the mover and master spirit of the whole, and was Chairman of the meeting-Mr. Caleb Wallace, another graduate of Princeton, being the clerk. He was also the founder, or one of the founders, of Transylvania Academy,
which afterwards became Transylvania University. In
I792 he was a member of the Convention to frame a State
Constitution. A complete biography of this man would
necessarily embrace the most interesting events in the
literary, political, and religious movements of Kentucky
in its early days.  He died honoured and lamented in
I8i6.
The publications of Mr. Rice are, A Circular Letter to his Ministerial
Brethren on the Example of Paul. An Essay on Baptism; 1789. A Lecture on the Divine Decrees; I79I. Slavery Inconsistent with Justice;
1792. A Sermon on the Opening of the Synod of Kentucky. An Epistle
to the Citizens of Kentucky professing Christianity, especially those that
are, or have been, denominated. Presbyterians; I8o5. A Second Epistle
of the same nature; i808. Letters on the Evidences, Nature, and Effects
of Christianity, published in the Weekly Recorder, at the age of 8I; I8I4.
John tRosbrougli came from Ireland in 1735, and
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having learned a trade, he married; but losing his wife,
his thoughts were turned to serious things, and after his
conversion he entered the college, although advanced in
life. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, August I8, I762. On the iith of December, I764,
he was ordained, and installed as pastor of Greenwich,
Oxford and Mansfield Churches, New Jersey. In April,
1769, he removed to the Forks of Delaware, and October
28, 1772, was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church
in that locality; where he remained until his death, in
I777.
He was a warm friend to the country's liberties. In
the dark days of the retreat through New Jersey, he
joined a company of his neighbours as a private soldier,
but received a commission as Chaplain soon after. One
day in the neighbourhood of Trenton, he was out looking
for his horse, when he was taken prisoner by a body of
Hessians under British command. He begged for the
sake of his dear wife and children, that they would spare
his life. He quickly found, however, that his request
was to be denied, and that the bloody deed was to be
performed without delay. He instantly knelt down, and
in imitation of his blessed Master, prayed for the forgiveness of his murderers. And scarcely had this prayer
passed from his lips before a deadly weapon pierced his
body, and he lay struggling in death.
The last letter his wife received from him is as follows:
"My dear, I am still yours. I have but a minute to tell
you that the company are all well. We are going over
to attack the enemy. You would think it strange to see
your husband, an old man, riding with a French Fusee
slung at his back. This may be the last you shall ever
receive from your husband. I have committed myself,
you, and the dear pledges of our mutual love, to God.
As I am out of doors I can write no more. I send my
compliments to you, my dear, and to the children.
Friends pray for us. I am your loving husband."
Mr. Rosbrough was above the medium size, a portly,
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noble, fine-looking man. He was a good preacher, able
and eloquent, though a defect in his speech caused him
sometimes to stammer.
Jamles Thomnpson served as tutor from 1762 to I770.
By whom he was licensed, I have no means of discovering. In I767, he occasionally supplied the Presbyterian
Church at Trenton, New Jersey.
Lawrence Van Derveer belonged to one of the
old Dutch families of the county of Somerset, New Jersey. After graduating, he studied medicine, and settled
-in the vicinity of Baskingridge, New Jersey, and acquired
a high reputation for skill in his profession. He was the
father of Henry Van Derveer, who graduated in i8ii.
Dr. Van Derveer died in I 8 I 5.
Jahleel Woodbridge, a son of Timothy Woodbridge, was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. After
graduating, he returned to his native town, and entered
upon the practice of the law. He soon became a prominent man, and was the incumbent of many town offices.
He served in both branches of the State Legislature from
I780 to I784. From I781 to 1787, he was Assistant Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas; and Presiding Judge
from 1787 to I795; he was also Judge of Probate from
1787 to I795. Mr. Woodbridge married Lucy, daughter
of President Edwards. He died April I3, 1796, having
been esteemed for his good sense, integrity and piety.
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Hugh Alison, a native of Pennsylvania, after his
graduation, was for some time engaged as a teacher in
Charleston, South Carolina. He married, and removed
to James Island, taking with him a number of young
men, with a view to superintend their education. He
also became pastor of the Presbyterian Church on that island. Just before the Revolution he returned to Charleston, where he died of consumption, in I78I.
Absalom Bainbridge was a native of Hunterdon
County, New Jersey. After graduating, he studied medicine, and practiced for a number of years in Princeton,
New Jersey. He then removed to the city of New York,
where he practiced for more than twenty years. Dr. Bainbridge was the father of Commodore Bainbridge, of the
United States Navy, and the maternal grandfather of the
Rev. John Maclean, D.D., LL.D., Ex-president of the College. He died in I807.
Ebenezer Davenport became a Congregational
minister, and settled over the First Church at Greenwich, Connecticut, in I767, where he remained until his
death, in I773.
Edward Gantt, a native of Prince George County,
Maryland, after graduating, studied medicine, and practiced in Somerset County, Maryland. In I770, while in
full practice, he went to England, and received Holy
Orders. He officiated for a while in his native parish,
and in I776 went to All Hallows Parish, Worcester County. At the end of four years, he returned to his native
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parish again, became its Rector, and sustained himself
on his estate by the practice of medicine. In I795, he
removed to Georgetown, after it had become a part of
the District of Columbia, and there exercised his ministry. He was repeatedly chosen Chaplain to the United
States Senate after i8oo. About I807, he removed to
Kentucky. In I836, he was living with his daughter near
Louisville, a hale, healthy old man of ninety.
Ebenezer Hazard returned to Philadelphia, his native city, after graduating.  He was Postmaster-General
of the United States from 1782 until the adoption of the
Constitution, in I789.
He died June 13, I817.
Mr. Hazard published a valuable historical work, which is often quoted,
entitled, Historical Collection: consisting of State papers and other authentic documents, intended as materials for a history of the United States.
The first volume was published in Philadelphia, in 4to, in 179I, and the
second volume in I794. He also published, Remarks on a Report concerning the Western Indians, in the Massachusetts Historical Collection.
John McCrea, if I am not mistaken, was a son of the
Rev. James McCrea, the pastor and founder of the Presbyterian Church at Lamington, New Jersey.  After his
father's death, he removed in I773 to the neighbourhood
of Fort Edward, New York.  He was a brother of Miss
Jane McCrea, whose tragical murder by the Indians, in
I777, made such a noise at the time. After her death,
Col. McCrea, removed with his family to the city of Albany.  His nephew, Col. James McCrea, was living at
Saratoga in I823.
Janmes Manning shortly after leaving college was
ordained as a Baptist minister, and settled in Morristown,
New Jersey, near to the place where he was born. Towards the close of the year I763, he became pastor of the
Baptist Church at Warren, Rhode Island. Soon after
settling here, he established a Latin school. Feeling the
need of an institution of a higher character, he proposed
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to several influential gentlemen of the Baptist denomination, assembled at Newport, the establishment of "a
seminary of polite literature, subject to the government
of the Baptists." A charter was granted by the Legislature of the Colony in I764, to " Rhode Island College,"
and in 1765, Mr. Manning was elected President and Professor of Languages. In 1770 the college was removed
from Warren to Providence.
From the first, President Manning took a deep interest
in the affairs of the country, and was actively engaged
throughout the Revolution. In I786, he was chosen to
represent Rhode Island in the Continental Congress. In
I785, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Manning was a laborious and faithful minister of
Christ, and it is wonderful that he could have performed
such an amount of labour; and it is only to be accounted
for from the fact, that he was gifted with a versatility
and readiness of mind, which enabled him to preach admirably with but little preparation, and to accommodate
himself with great facility to every variety of circumstances. He died suddenly, July 24, I79I.
Thomas Martin was a brother of Gov. Alexander
Martin, of North Carolina, of the Class of I756. After
leaving Princeton, he taught school in Virginia, and
President Madison was one of his pupils. At one time
he was an inmate of the family of Madison's father. Mr.
Martin about this time took orders in the Episcopal
Church, and in I767, became Rector of a church in Orange County, Virginia, but his labours were of short duration, as he died soon after entering upon the duties of
his parish, towards the close of I769 or the beginning of
I770.
Francis Peppard received ordination about I764,
from the Presbytery of New York, and was installed
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Mendham, New
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Jersey. In I766, he removed to Orange County, New
York, and succeeded Enos Ayres as pastor of the Church
at Bethlehem, having also charge of a church at New
Windsor. A few years later, Mr. Peppard became pastor of the churches at Allen's Township, Pennsylvania,
and Hardwick, New Jersey.  He died while in this
charge in I797.
Joseph Perlian, after graduating, became tutor in
the College. While in this position he embraced Bishop Berkeley's theory, denying the existence of the Material Universe. Samuel Stanhope Smith, who was intimate with him, was in great danger of making shipwreck
of his religious principles. After leaving the College,
Mr. Periam taught school for several years, and then
studied theology, and was licensed by the Presbytery of
New York in I 74. In I775, his license was withdrawn
by the Presbytery. Soon after, he was appointed Quarter-master in the First Battalion of the New Jersey Brigade. In I778, he taught an academy in Elizabethtown,
New Jersey. He died October 8, I780.
It is thought that the withdrawal of Mr. Periam's license by the Presbytery, was not on account of his peculiar views, as we find Dr. Bellamy writing of him in
I773: " Mr. Periam has become a very serious man since
you saw him."  And Dr. Jedediah Chapman wrote in
I772: " HIe is a very ingenious young gentleman-I trust
a truly humble and pious Christian."
Thomas Riston studied medicine in Philadelphia,
Benjamin Rush being his fellow student. He afterwards
went to Edinburg, where he received the degree of
Doctor of Medicine, and in I767 published, in Edinburg,
a work on Innoculation, which was probably his thesis
on receiving his degree.
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant a grandson of
President Dickinson, studied law and was admitted to
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the bar in New Jersey, his native State. But the Revolution coming on, his patriotic zeal and eminent talents
soon recommended him to the confidence of the people
for public employment. He was elected to the Continental Congress, and took his seat a few days after the
Declaration of Independence was signed. He was after-wards repeatedly elected to the same position. Before
the close of the war, he transferred his residence to the
City of Philadelphia, and soon became a conspicuous
member of the Bar of that city. Mr. Sergeant was the
first Attorney-General of Pennsylvania, after the Declaration of Independence. He resided in Philadelphia until
1793, when he fell a victim to the yellow fever.
Mr. Sergeant was endowed with a powerful and active
mind, and his moral qualities were not less distinguished
and estimable than his intellectual.
Hezekialh Smith. Soon after his graduation, Mr.
Smith visited the Southern States for the benefit of his
health. While at Charleston, he was ordained as a Baptist Minister. On November I2, I766, Mr. Smith was
recognized as the pastor of the Baptist Church of Haverhill, Massachusetts, of which he remained the honoured
pastor for a period of forty years. He was a life-long
friend of his class-mate Dr. Manning, and did much for
the endowment of Brown University. Mr. Smith was a
native of Long Island. In I776, he was appointed Chaplain in the Continental Army, which post he held for
four years. While in this position, he became the intimate friend of Washington, and possessed the:confidence
and esteem of the officers and men of the whole army.
He repeatedly exposed his life in battle, and was ever
among the foremost in encouraging the soldiers, and in
soothing the sorrows of the wounded and dying.
Dr. Smith was a man of commanding presence, large
and well proportioned inspiring respect by his dignity,
and winning affection by his affability and grace. He
was admitted to a Master's degree at Yale in I772,
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and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Rhode Island College in I797. He died suddenly,
January 22, I805.
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Jaimes Boyd was ordained by the First Presbytery
of Philadelphia in I770, and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Churches of Newtown and Bensalem, Pennsylvania where he remained for forty-three years. His
influence was widely felt, In I78I, he was elected a
Trustee of the College at Princeton, which position he
resigned in I8oo. He died in I 8 I 3.
John Close was licensed by Suffolk Presbytery soon
after his graduation and immediately visited the South,
where he did good service in North and South Carolina
as a Missionary. Returning to the North he was called
and ordained as colleague to Rev. Ebenezer Prime at Huntington, Long Island, October 30, I766. He was dismissed from this charge, April 4, I773, and took charge
of a church at New Windsor, New York, where he remained until I796. He was admitted to a Master's degree at Yale in I77I. The few last years of his life were
spent at Waterford, New York, where he died in I813.
Robert Cooper came from  Ireland.  There is a
tradition among his descendants that he learned the business of plough-making to assist him in getting an education. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Carlisle,
February 22, 1765. The same year he was ordained and
installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Middle
Spring, Pennsylvania. Here he laboured faithfully for
thirty years. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Dickinson College in I792. His pastoral relation was dissolved April 12, 1797, on account
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During the American Revolution, Dr. Cooper was a
zealous Whig, and often visited the army to exhort them
to activity and fidelity. Indeed he is said to have been
the captain of a company at one time. He preached
"before Colonel Montgomery's battalion under arms,"
near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, August 31, I775, a
sermon entitled " Courage in a Good Cause." This discourse was published. Dr. Cooper was a short, spare
man, with a trace of melancholy in his face. He died
April 5, I805.
Beside the sermon noticed above, Dr. Cooper published " A Tract," en.
titled " Signs of the Times."
David Cowell was born in Trenton, New Jersey,
and was a nephew of the Rev. David Cowell, that long
and active friend and Trustee of the College. After
graduating, he studied medicine in Philadelphia, took
his degree, and returned to Trenton, where he practiced
until his d'eath. For two years he was senior physician
and surgeon in military hospitals. Dr. Cowell undertook to draft an outline of his will while suffering under
an attack of quinsey, and within a few hours of its fatal
termination. Unable to articulate, he hastened to make
a rough outline of his intentions, which he doubtless
hoped to have had put into form by another hand; but
he was compelled by the force of the disease to have the
paper copied in the incomplete terms in which he had
drawn it. It began: " I, Doctor David Cowell, being of
sound judgment, but not able to talk much." In his will
he left one hundred pounds to the College of New Jersey; and " to the Congress of the United States of America, one hundred pounds, if they settled themselves at
Lamberton," a suburb of Trenton. His death occurred
December I8, I783.
John Craighead received ordination from Donegal
Presbytery, about I767, and was settled as pastor of
Rocky Spring Church, Pennsylvania. It is said that he
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fought and preached alternately. At the commencement
of the war he raised a company from the members of his
charge, and joined Washington's army in New Jersey.
Mr. Craighead was a humourist, and a good many good
jokes are told of him. One day going into battle with
his friend and class-mate, Robert Cooper, a cannon ball
struck a tree near him, a splinter of which nearly knocked
him down. "God bless me!" exclaimed Mr. Cooper;
"you were nearly knocked to staves."  " Oh, yes," was
his reply; " and, though you are a cooper, you could not
have set me up."
Mr. Craighead remained at Rocky Spring until I798,
when he resigned his charge, and died April 20, I799.
The Rev. Francis Herron, D. D., was his successor.
Samuel Eakin was ordained by the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia, in I770. From I773 to 1777, he
was settled at Penn's Neck Presbyterian Church in West
Jersey. But rendering himself obnoxious to the Tories
by his zeal in the cause of American liberty, he was
obliged to withdraw. He was the idol of the soldiers.
Wherever there was a military training, or an order issued for the soldiers to march, he was, if in his power,
always there to address them, and by his eloquence,
would excite their emotions of patriotism to the highest
pitch. It is related of him, that he was so warm a Whig
that he never entered the pulpit without imploring the
Lord`" to teach our people to fight and give them cour-.
age and perseverance to overcome their enemies."  Mr.
Eakin was an extraordinary man, and next to Mr. Whitefield, esteemed the most eloquent preacher who had ever
been in the country. He died in I784.
Ezekiel Emerson, a native of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was ordained pastor of a Congregational Church in
Georgetown, Maine, July 3, I1763. He retired from the
ministry in I8Io, on account of infirmity, and died November 9, I815, aged 80.
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James Jauncey, a brother of William Jauncey, of
the Class of I76I, became a prominent merchant in New
York City. At first he took the side of the Colonies,
and was an associate of Jay on the Committee of Fifty.
In I775, he was a member of the Colonial Assembly of
New York. At the beginning of the Revolution he took
the side of the king. Mr. Jauncey was a leading member of the Presbyterian Church in New York, and a
warm friend of the Rev. Dr. Rodgers, who was greatly
grieved at his taking sides against the country. Mr.
Jauncey retired to England, and died in I790.
Johin Lathrop, a native of Norwich, Connecticut,
was for some months after his graduation engaged as an
assistant teacher with the Rev. Dr. Wheelock, in Moore's
Indian Charity School at Lebanon, Connecticut; and for
several months he was a missionary among the Indians.
On the I8th of May, I768, he was ordained, and installed
pastor of the Old North Church in Boston. At the
opening of the Revolution, in I775, he was compelled to
leave his charge, but returned to it in I776. In the meantime their house of worship had been destroyed, he therefore accepted an invitation to preach in the New Brick
Church as an assistant to the Rev. Dr. Pemberton. After
Dr. Pemberton's death, the two societies were united,
and Mr. Lathrop became their pastor-this was in June,
I779. Here he continued till the close of his life. Dr.
Lathrop adopted Unitarian views, but at what period is
not certain. His preaching was practical rather than
doctrinal. He was an ardent patriot. In I778, he became a Fellow of the Corporation of Harvard, which he
held during life. He was an officer in many public and
charitable institutions. In I785, he was honoured with
the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the University of
Edinburg. He died January 4, I816.
Dr. Lathrop's publications are: A Sermon occasioned by the Boston
Massacre, I770. A Sermon to a Religious Society of young men at Medford, I77I. An Artillery Election Sermon, I774. A Thanksgiving Ser[8j 1




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mon, I774. A Sermon on the 5th of March, 1778. A Sermon on the death
of his wife, I778. A Sermon at the Ordination of William Bentley, 1783,
A Discourse occasioned by the return of Peace, 1783. A Discourse before
the Humane Society of Massachusetts, 1787. A Catechism for the use of
children (two editions), 1791 and 1813. The Dudleian Lecture at Harvard
College, I793. A Discourse addressed to the Charitable Fire Society, 1796.
A Sermon on Fires in Boston, I797. A Fast Sermon occasioned by the
yellow-fever, 1798. A Sermon on the National Fast, I799. A Sermon on
the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century (in two parts), I8oi. A
Sermon before the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
1804. A Sermon before the Boston Female Asylum, 1804. A Sermon at
the dismission of the Rev. Joseph McKean, at Milton, 1804. A Sermon at
the interment of the Rev. Samuel West, D. D., i8o8. A Thanksgiving Sermon, i8o8. A Sermon on the death of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Lathrop,
I809. A Sermon at the interment of the Rev. Dr. Eckley, ix8i. A Thanksgiving Sermon, I8ii. A Discourse delivered on the Author's Birthday,
8 I z. Two Fast Sermons occasioned by the war of 18 I 2-1815;  3 iz. A
Sermon on the death of the Rev. John Eliot, D. D., I813. Biographical
Memoir of Rev. John Lathrop, I803. A Sermon at the Dedication of a
church at Dorchester, I8I3. A Sermon on the Lawof Retaliation, I814. A
Sermon preached at Weymouth, at the interment of Miss Mary P. Bicknell, 1814. A Thanksgiving Sermon on the return of Peace, I8I5. A
Compendious History of the late War, I8IS. Besides the above, may be
mentioned, several Charges, etc., at Ordinations, delivered at different periods of his ministry; and some valuable Communications to the American
Academy, which are embodied in their Collections.
Joseph  Lyon.  I can  discover no reference to Mr.
Lyon, except the record upon his tombstone: that he
died at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in I82I, in his 8Ist
year.  He was of the numerous race inhabiting Newark,
Elizabeth, and Lyons Farms lying between the two.
Obadiah  Noble  entered  the ministry and settled as
pastor of a  Congregational Church  at  Orford, New
Hamisphire, November 9, I77I. He was released from
this charge, February I6, I829, and removed to Vermont,
where  he died  the  same year.  He was admitted to a
Master's degree at Dartmouth in I773.
William Paterson read law with Richard Stockton, and  commenced  practice  in  Hunterdon  County,
New  Jersey.  But the troubles with  Great Britain aris.
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ing, he entered into public life, and soon obtained a commanding position. In 1775 he was a member of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, and the same year was
elected Treasurer of the Province. On the organization
of a State Government, under the new State Constitution,
Mr. Paterson was appointed Attorney-General, which
position he held till the close of the war. After the war
he devoted himself to his profession in the county of
Somerset. In I783 he removed to Trenton. Mr. Paterson was a delegate to the Convention which framed the
Federal Constitution; six of the delegates being graduates of Princeton. Mr. Paterson took a prominent part
in the deliberations of that body, and on the adoption of
the Constitution was elected a member of the United
States Senate-three of that body being graduates of
Princeton: Paterson, of New Jersey; Elsworth, of Connecticut; and Henry, of Maryland. On the death of
Governor Livingston, Mr. Paterson was chosen Governor
of New Jersey, and continued in this office until March
4, I793, when he was elevated to the Bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. He held this high
office until the end of life. Judge Paterson received
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth,
in I805, and from Harvard, in I8o6. He was a Trustee
of the College for fifteen years. He died at Albany, September 9,  806.
He was a profound lawyer, and in every position which
he held, stood conspicuous for integrity and high Christian character.
Tapping Reeve was the son of the Rev. Abner
Reeve, of Long Island, and afterwards of Vermont. He
entered upon the practice of the law in I772, at Litchfield,
Connecticut. Mr. Reeve was a firm and warm friend of
his country during the Revolution. In I792 he opened
a law school, and continued to give lectures to students
at law for nearly thirty years. In 1798 he was appointed
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wards was Chief Justice. His first wife was the only
daughter of President Burr. Judge Reeve was a profound lawyer, and Chancellor Kent said of him: "He
everywhere displays the vigour, freedom, and acuteness
of a sound and liberal mind."  He was also an eminent
Christian, and employed much of his time in private devotion. He was accustomed to pray for the conversion
of individuals among his acquaintances. He died December I3, I 823.
The Publications of Mr. Reeve are, The Law of Baron and Femme; of
Parent and Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant. New
Haven. I8i6. A Treatise on the Law of Descents in the several United
States of America. New York. I825.
John Simpson, a native of New Jersey, was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, in I770, and for
the two following years he preached at Easton, Pennsylvania. In I772 he was appointed by the Synod of New'
York and Philadelphia to visit Virginia and North Carolina. He spent seven months in this missionary work,
and in I774 was ordained and settled as pastor of Fishing
Creek Church, South Carolina. Until the stormy times
of the Revolution, his life was peaceful and uneventful,
except a little stir occasioned by his introducing Watts's
Psalms and Hymns into his congregation; but these
troubles gradually subsided. Mr. Simpson was a bold
and ardent advocate of independence, and was in many
conflicts and skirmishes, in some of which he was regarded as the leader and adviser. He had many narrow
escapes, and in the course of the war his house, his library, his sermons, and indeed all that he possessed, were
destroyed by the enemy. After the war, he gathered his
scattered flock, and for ten years preached to them the
Word; but from the removal of families to new settlements, he was at last obliged to seek another home.
In I790 Mr. Simpson became pastor of Roberts and
Good Hope Congregations in Pendleton County, South
Carolina. In I802 his churches were visited with a
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most remarkable revival. Mr. Simpson continued his labours here until his death, which occurred February I5,
I 808.
William  Mackay Tennent was a son of Rev.
Charles Tennent, of Delaware, and a nephew of William
and Gilbert Tennent. He was ordained June I7, 1772,
as pastor of the Congregational Church in Greenfield,
Connecticut. In December, I781, he resigned his charge
and accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Abington, Pennsylvania, where he continued till his death, December, I8Io. He was a Trustee of the College at Princeton from 1785 till I808. He received the Degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale College, in I794.
Dr. Tennent married a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Rodgers, of New York. In I797 he was Moderator of the
General Assembly. of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. A.
Alexander, who knew him personally, represents him as
a man of great sweetness of temper and politeness of
manner, and as distinguished for his hospitality. In his
last hours he was blessed with an uninterrupted assurance of the favour of God.
James Watt studied theology, and in I770 was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Cape May, New Jersey, by the First Presbytery of
Philadelphia. Mr. WVatt died November I9, I789. Upon
his tombstone we read, "If disinterested kindness, integrity, justice and truth deserve the tributary tear, here it
is claimed."
Simon Williams came to America from  Ireland.
Three years after his graduation, he was ordained pastor
of the Congregational Church in Windham, New Hampshire. He died, September IO, I793.
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Thomas John Clagget was descended from an old
English family who early settled in Calvert County,
Maryland.  He was born in Prince George County,
Maryland, October 2, I743. After graduating, he entered immediately upon the study of theology. Having
completed his preparatory studies, he went to England
for ordination, and in I767 was admitted to the Order of
Deacons; and the Priesthood by the Rev. Richard Terrick, Bishop of London. On his return to America, he
became rector of All Saints' Parish, in Calvert County,
Maryland. Here he continued until the opening of the
Revolution, when he ceased to preach for two years.
In I780, he was elected Rector of St. Paul's, Prince
George County, Maryland. On May 3I, I792, he was unanimously elected Bishop of Maryland, and on September
I3, was consecrated in Trinity Church, New York, by
Bishop Prevost; Bishops Seabury, White and Madison
assisting in the service-being the fifth Bishop then in
the United States, and the first that was consecrated this
side of the Atlantic.
In I8oo, he acted as Chaplain to the Senate of the
United States, the first Session held in Washington.
After presiding over the Episcopal Church in Maryland for twenty-five years, he died August 2, I816, aged
73.
Bishop Clagget's publications consist of his Pastoral
Letters, Addresses to the Convention, and a few occasional Sermons. He was a well-informed divine, and
continued to the last devoted to the studies and the duties of his profession.
Bishop Clagget was a man of commanding person, voice
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and manners, and of great dignity of character, yet exceedingly mild, affable, and easy of access. He was in
the habit of wearing the mitre on special occasions, and
Bishop Meade relates an amusing incident connected
with the consecration of a church in Alexandria, at
which Bishop Clagget officiated. Putting on his robes
and his mitre at some distance from the church, he had
to go along the street to reach it. This attracted the attention of a number of boys and others, who ran after
and along side of him, admiring his peculiar dress and
gigantic stature. His voice was as extraordinary for
strength and ungovernableness as was his stature for
size, and as he entered the door of the church where the
people were in silence awaiting, and the first words of
the service burst forth from his lips in his most peculiar
manner, a young lady, turning around suddenly and seeing his huge form and uncommon appearance, was so
convulsed that she was obliged to be taken out of the
house.
William  Foster, a native of Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery
of New Castle, April 23, I757, and ordained and installed
pastor of Upper Octorora and Doe Run Presbyterian
Churches, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1768.
In the Revolution, Mr. Foster engaged heartily in the
cause of civil liberty, and encouraged all who heard him
to do their utmost in defense of their rights, and on this
account he became very obnoxious to the enemy, and
more than once attempts were made to seize him.
On one occasion Mr. Foster was called to Lancaster to preach to the troops collected there previous to
their joining the main army. The discourse was so acceptable, that it was printed and circulated, and did
much to arouse the spirit of patriotism among the people.
Mr. Foster was a nian of very superior mind, and was
much esteemed and respected by all who knew him for
his solid sense and unaffected piety. He held a high
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place also among his brethren, as his name constantly
occurs in connection with positions of trust and responsibility. He occasionally received theological students
under his care. He died September 30, I780. His deathbed was a scene of triumph.
Nathaniel Hazard, from  the best information I
can obtain, was a son of Nathaniel Hazard of New York,
and a cousin of Ebenezer Hazard of the Class of 1762.
He was admitted to a Master's degree at Yale in I770.
Mr. Hazard died in I798.
Samuel Leake, a native of Virginia, was licensed by
the Presbytery of Hanover, at Tinkling Spring, Virginia,
April I8, I766, and was ordained May 3, I770, and settled
as pastor of Rich Cove and North Garden Presbyterian
Churches, Albemarle County, Virginia. Mr. Leake's
pastorate was short, being brought to an end by his
death, December 2, I775. A large proportion of his very
numerous descendants have been pious. The blessing
of God has rested upon his house.
John McCrery studied theology and was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Castle about I767. He was
*ordained and installed as pastor of White Clay Creek
Church, Delaware, in 1769. Mr. McCrery held this
charge for thirty years. He died in I8oo.
Alexander Miller received his license to preach
fromr the Presbytery of New York in I767, and was ordained in I770. In I77I, he took charge of a Church
gathered in Schenectady, New York, where he remained
for eleven years, but during the distraction of the Revolutionary war, his congregation dispersed, and he was
compelled to leave the field. Where Mr. Miller resided
after leaving Schenectady, I have no means of determining. In I785 he was elected a Trustee of the College;
and resigned the post in I795.
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Joseph Smith, of Nottingham, Pennsylvania, was
licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle, August 5,
1767, and was ordained and installed pastor of Lower
Brandywine Church, Delaware, April I9, I769. This
charge he resigned in I772, but in I774, accepted a call
from the second church in Wilmington, that Church having united with his' old Brandywine Church. He laboured here until April, I778, when he resigned on account of the distracted state of the country.
But now he was about to enter upon the great work
of his life in Western Pennsylvania. Here he became'
prominent for piety and energy, and was one of the
fathers of the Presbyterian Church in that'region. The
Revs. James Power and John McMillan, both graduates
of Princeton, had already preceded him. His first charge
was Buffalo and Cross Creek, where he was settled in
1780. A revival soon began in his church which never
ceased till the day of his death, more than twelve years!
Mr. Smith was not a man of robust health. In person
he was tall and slender, of fair complexion, and was some-'what disfigured by a cast in one of his eyes. His voice
was remarkable alike for the terrific and the pathetic.
Some one said of him, " I never knew a man who could
so completely unbar the gates of hell, and make me look
so far down into the dark, bottomless abyss, or like him,
could so throw open the gates of heaven, and let me
glance at the insufferable brightness of the great white
Throne."
Mr. Smith died April I9, I792.
Thomas Treadwell. For seven years, from I776 to
I783, Mr. Treadwell wvas a member of the Assembly of
New York from Suffolk County. From I79I to I795, he
represented the State of New York in the House of Representatives of the United States. He died in I826.
James Tuttle was ordained by the Presbytery of
New York in I765. He was the first settled pastor at
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Rockaway and Parcipany, New Jersey. He died in
April, I77I.
William Woodhull, probably a native of Long Island, was licensed by the Presbytery of Suffolk in 1768,
and ordained by the Presbytery of New York in I770.
In I783, on account of continued bodily infirmity, he
ceased frorn preaching and devoted himself to secular
pursuits. At his request the Presbytery dropped his
name from their roll, but by order of the Synod it was
restored.
It is an interesting fact that the commencement of this
year was held in the " New Church," and Mr. Whitefield
preached in the morning.
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John Bacon was born in Canterbury, Connecticut.
After leaving College, he studied theology, and was ordained a Congregational Minister, and preached for a
time in Somerset County, Maryland. In I77I, he was
settled with the Rev. John Hunt as a colleague pastor of
the old South Church in Boston, as successor to the Rev.
John Blair.  His style of preaching was argumentative,
and his manner approaching the severe. He left his
church in I775 on account of doctrinal difficulties which
arose. He then removed to Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
and became in turn, a magistrate, a representative in the
Legislature, Associate Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, a member and President of the State Senate, and
a Member of Congress. In his political views he accorded with the party of Mr. Jefferson.
Mr. Bacon was one of the original Trustees of Williams College. He died October 25, I820.
He published, A Sermon, 1772; An Answer to Huntington on a Case of
Discipline, 1781; A Speech on the Courts of tire United States, I8oz; Conjectures on the Prophecies, I805.
Joel Benedict.  The ancestors of Mr. Benedict
were among the early settlers of New  England.  He
was born in Salem, New York, January 8, I745. After
leaving Princeton, he taught school in the South, but the
climate affecting his health, he returned to his father's
house in Salem. He now determined to devote himself
to the ministry, and pursued his studies under Dr. Bellamy. After his licensure he supplied destitute churches
in Maine and Massachusetts until I77I, when he became
pastor of a Congregational Church at Newent (now
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Lisbon), Connecticut, where he laboured until I781, when
he resigned on account of his health, which had long
been feeble. Recovering his health in I784, he became
pastor of the Church at Plainfield, Connecticut, where
he preached with great acceptance until his death, February 13, I8i6.
In I8o8 the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity
was conferred upon him by Union College, and in I8I4
by Dartmouth.
Dr. Benedict was a distinguished classical scholar, and
Virgil was his favourite author through life. It is said
that his reading of Latin poetry, even when he was in
college, was so remarkable that the professors sometimes
set him to reading Virgil merely for their own gratification. He was also profoundly versed in mathematics;
and as a biblical scholar he had few superiors.  The
Hebrew language, which he was accustomed to call " the
language of the angels," was his delight.
Dr. Benedict lived through the stirring scenes of the
Revolution, and mingled in them with the spirit of a true
patriot.
The only acknowledged publication of Dr. Benedict is a sermon preached
at the funeral of Rev. Dr. Hart in ISII.
William  Davies, the eldest son of President Davies,
studied law, and settled at Norfolk, Virginia. In the
Revolutionary War he attained the rank of Colonel in
the American Army; was an officer of distinguished
merit, and possessed, in an eminent degree, the esteem
and confidence of the Commander-in-Chief. He was a
man of powerful mind, highly cultivated and enriched
by various knowledge. He died in Virginia before I820.
Jonathan Edwards, a son of President Edwards,
after leaving college, studied divinity with Dr. Bellamy,
and was licensed by a Congregational Association at
Litchfield, Connecticut, in I766.  In I767 he was appointed tutor at Princeton, where he remained two years.
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On the 5th of January, 1769, he was ordained and became
pastor of a church at Colebrook, Connecticut, where he
hoped to spend his life in retirement; but in June I799,
he was elected and inaugurated the President of Union
College.
Dr. Edwards was a man of uncommon powers of
mind.  He has seldom  been  surpassed in acuteness and
penetration.   His manner in preaching  was bold  and
animated, but he addressed the understanding and conscience rather than  the passions of his audience.   He
died August I, I80o.
The writings of Dr. Edwards are a book entitled, "The Salvation of all
Men Strictly Examined," etc., in answer to Dr. Chauncy. A Dissertation
on Liberty and Necessity. Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew or Stockbridge Indians, communicated to the Connecticut Society
of Arts and Sciences, and republished in the Massachusetts Historical
Collections, with Notes by J. Pickering. Brief Observations on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation. Three Sermons on the Atonement. Sermon
at the Ordination of Timothy Dwight, Greenfield, 1785. Sermon at the
Ordination of Daniel Bradley, Hamden, I792. Sermon at the Ordination
of William Brown, Glastenburg, I792. Sermon at the Ordination of Edward
Dorr Griffin, New Hartford, 1795. A Sermon on the Injustice and Impolicy
of the Slave Trade, 1791. Human Depravity the Source of Infidelity: a
Sermon published in the "American Preacher," vol. ii., Marriage of a Wife's
Sister Considered, in the Anniversary Concio ad Clerum, in the Chapel of
Yale College, 1792. A Sermon on the Death of Roger Sherman, I793. An
Election Sermon, 1794. A Sermon on a Future State of Existence and the
Immortality of the Soul, printed in a volume entitled, " Sermons Collected,
etc." A Farewell Sermon to the People of Colebrook. A number of
pieces in the New York " Theological Magazine" under the signature of
I. and 0.
He also edited from the manuscripts of his father, The History of the
Work of Redemption, two volumes of Sermons, and two volumes of Observations on Important Theological Subjects.
His whole works were edited and published by his grandson, Rev. Tryon
Edwards, D. D.
Robert  Halsted   belonged  to  the  Elizabethtown
family of Halsteds. After graduating he studied medicine, and became quite eminent in his profession.
1tichard  Hutson  was a son of the  Rev. William
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Hutson, one of the early Presbyterian ministers in South
Carolina.  He entered the profession of the law after
leaving Princeton, and became one of the first Chancellors of South Carolina. Ie was an earnest patriot, and
was a delegate to the Continental Congress from I777 to
I779. In I780 he was taken prisoner by the British, and
confined for some time in St. Augustine, Florida.
Samuel Kirkland held a high rank as a scholar
during his college course, and was esteemed a young
man of marked ability. He left college eight months
before his class graduated, but nevertheless received his
degree. He immediately went on a missionary expedition to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the most warlike and
distant tribe of the Six Nations. Sir William Johnson
gave him every assistance in his mission. His adventures
it is impossible here to relate. It was a scene of constant
hardship, of unremitting labour, and often of imminent
danger. After being a year absent, he returned to his
home in Norwich, Connecticut, bringing one of the
Seneca chiefs with him. He was now ordained, and
returned to his mission, where he spent more than forty
years. The influence which this mission had upon the
interest of the country during the Revolution may be
learned from an extract of a letter of Washington to
Congress in!775:" The Rev. Mr. Kirkland, the bearer
of this, having been introduced to the Honourable Congress, can need no particular recommendation from me.
But as he now wishes to have the affairs of his mission
and public employ put upon some suitable footing, I
cannot but intimate my sense of the importance of his
station, and the great advantages which have and may
result to the United Colonies from his situation being
made respectable. All accounts agree that much of the
favourable disposition shown by the Indians may be
ascribed to his labour and influence."
The founding of Hamilton College is due to the farseeing generosity of Mr. Kirkland. It was through his
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influence that Hamilton Oneida Academy was founded
and incorporated in I793. In the same year he conveyed
to its Trustees several hundred acres of land. In I812
this academy became Hamilton College under a new
charter.
Mr. Kirkland was admitted to a Master's degree at
Yale in I768, and at Dartmouth in I773. He died February 28, I8o8.
Alexander 1Mitchel received his license from the
First-Presbytery of Philadelphia, in April, I767, and was
ordained and settled as pastor of the Deep Run Presbyterian Church, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in November, 1768. In I785, he received a call from the Upper
Octorara and Doe Run Congregations, Pennsylvania,
and was installed December 14, I785. In I795, a difficulty arose in the congregation of Octorara, on account
of Mr. Mitchel's preaching against church members engaging in worldly amusements, and on this account, he
resigned the charge in 1796. He still continued the pastor of Doe Run, where he remained until I809, when, by
reason of advancing years, he was unable to minister to
them. He died December 6, I812.
]Robert Ogden, a son of Robert Ogden, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, became a distinguished patriot and
Christian. He, in connection with William  Paterson,
Luther Martin, Oliver Ellsworth and Tapping Reeve,
-were the founders of the Cliosophic Society. After graduating, he studied law with Richard Stockton, and was
admitted to practice June 21, I770. He opened his office
in Elizabethtown, and soon acquired an extensive and
lucrative practice.
Mr. Ogden was a warm and earnest patriot. He was
also a fine scholar, and kept up his classical reading after
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which place he returned after graduation. He never entered a profession.
Ebenezer Pemberton was probably born in Boston. He pronounced the Valedictory on Commencement
day, on " Patriotism."  He was appointed a tutor in the
college in I769. On one of the public occasions, while
he was a tutor, he was addressed by Madison, then a
student, in a Latin address, valedictory and coniplimentary, on the part of the class, to the teacher. His life
was devoted to teaching, at one time in Phillips' Academy, and no teacher had a higher character for scholarship, manners, eloquence and piety. His last twenty
years were years of infirmity.  He was elegant and dignified in his appearance, and refined in his manners and
utterance.
Mr. Pemberton was admitted to an ad czundemn Master's
degree at Harvard in I787, at Yale in 178i, and at Dartmouth in 1782. In 1817, he received the' honorary degree
of Doctor of Laws from Allegheny College. He died
June 25, I835.
David Ramsay was a Pennsylvanian by birth. After
leaving Princeton, he studied medicine, and settled in
Charleston, South Carolina, where he rose to eminence.
During the Revolution he was a determined Whig, and
a leading member of the Legislature. He also acted as
a Surgeon in the army.  From  1782 to I786, he was a.
Delegate to the Continental Congress, and was for a time
President pro tern.  His first wife was the daughter of
President Witherspoon.  He met his death by a pistolshot, at the hands of an insane man, in I815. Dr. Ramsay is chiefly celebrated for his historical works.
He published: A History of the Revolution in South Carolina, 2 vols.,
8vo, I785. History of the American Revolution, 2 vols., 8vo, I789. Review of the Improvement, etc., of Medicine, S8oo. The Life of Washington,
I807. Medical Register, 1802. Oration on the Acquisition of Louisiana,
I804. History of South Carolin z Is., Svo, I809. A Biographical Chart.
Memoirs of Martha L. Ramsay, I8II. Eulogium on Dr. Rush, I8s3. His1oo 1




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tory of the United States, 3 vols., 1816-i817. Universal History Americanized, 8 vols.  I819.
Theodore Direk Romeyn studied theology, and
became a minister in the Reformed Dutch Church. He
was first settled in Ulster County, New York, and afterwards at Hackensack, New Jersey. In November, I784,
he removed to Schenectady, New York, and in I797 was
appointed Professor of Theology of the Dutch Church.
The establishment of Union College is principally ascribed to his efforts. He is represented to have been a
"' son of thunder" in the pulpit. Mr. Romeyn was born
in New Barbadoes, New Jersey.  He died April I6, I804.
Jacob Rush was a brother of Dr. Benjamin Rush.
On Commencement day he pronounced an oration on
Liberty, and his class-mate, Pemberton, one on Patriotism, showing the tendency of the young American mind
even at that early day. Mr. Rush entered the profession
of the law, and rose to a distinguished position.  He
was for many years presiding Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas for Philadelphia. He was afterwards
Chief Justice of the State. He died in I820.
Judge Rush published: Resolve in Committee Chamber, Philadelphia,
1774. Charges on Moral and Religious Subjects, 1803. Character of
Christ, I8o6. Christian Baptism, I8I9.
John Staples was a native of Taunton, Massachusetts, and was a lineal descendant of Miles Standish. He
entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, and
was ordained April I7, I772, and installed as pastor of
the Church at Westminster, Connecticut. He remained
in, this charge until his death, which took place February
15, 80o4. He was much beloved by his people, and was
a faithful and successful preacher of the Gospel. A son
of Mr. Staples was a lawyer of some note in New York
City, and for many years an Elder in the University
Place Presbyterian Church.
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Alexander Thayer became pastor of the Congregational Church at Paxton, Massachusetts, November 28,
I770. During the Revolution he was suspected of favouring the British cause, and although these suspicions
were groundless, yet for the sake of peace in his congregation, he resigned- his charge August I4, 1782, and removed to Holliston, Massachusetts, where he ended his
days.
Jacob Vanartsdalen, a native of Somerset County,
New Jersey, was ordained by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, June 19, I771; in which connection he remained until the latter part of I774, when he was received
by the Presbytery of New York and put in charge of the
Church of Springfield, New Jersey.  H-e continued in
the orderly and faithful performance of the duties of the
office, as far as his health permitted, for more than a
quarter of a century. In the spring of 1797, and again
three years later, he was by reason of long continued
illness, disqualified for preaching.  He was at length
compelled to relinquish the pastoral office, and was dismissed from his charge, May 6, 80oi. From  1793 to
I802 Mr. Vanarstdalen was a Trustee of the College. He
died at Springfield, October 24, I803.
Stephen Voorhees (or Van Voorhis) was licensed
by the General Meeting and Elders of the Reformed
Dutch Church in 1772, and was ordained and settled at
Poughkeepsie, New York in 1773, where he remained
until I776. From I776 to I784 he was pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Rhinebeck Flats; and from I785
to 1788 at Philipsburg (Tarrytown) and Cortlandtown,
New York.  In I792 he joined the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, and preached as a supply at Kingston and
Assunpink, New Jersey. He died November 23, 1796.
Simeon Williams was a native of Easton, Massachusetts.  After graduating, he studied theology, and
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was installed pastor of the Second Congregational Church
at Weymouth, Massachusetts, October 27, 1768, where
he remained until his death, which occurred May 22,
I8I9. Mr. Williams wvas admitted to a Master's degree
at Harvard in I769.
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Waightstill Avery was a native of Norwich, Connecticut. After graduating, he removed to Maryland,
and studied law with Littleton Dennis, Esq. Removing
to North Carolina, he was admitted to the Bar of that
State in I769. Taking up his residence in Charlotte, he
soon acquired friends and rapid promotion, and was from
the beginning active in encouraging education and literature. The Minutes of the Council of Safety show his
zeal in the cause of liberty; and the confidence of his
countrymen in his talents is proved by the important
duties he was engaged to perform. With Ephraim Brevard and Hezekiah James Balch, he was one of the leading spirits that sent forth the Mecklenberg Resolutions.
He served many times in the Legislature of his State,
and from 1775 to 1777 he was in the Provincial Congress
of North Carolina. In I777 he was appointed the first
Attorney-General of the State.  In I78I, by order of
Cornwallis, his office, with all his books and papers, was
destroyed by fire. He was an exemplary Christian, a
pure patriot and an honest man, and at the time of his
death the oldest member of the North Carolina Bar. He
died in 182 1.
Hezekiah Balch was born in Maryland, but removed, while a child, with his father's family to North
Carolina. For some time after his graduation, he taught
a school in Fauquier County, Virginia. Mr. Balch was
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Castle, in
I768, and ordained in I770. At first he performed missionary work in Virginia, and for one year, he preached
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see, then a vast wilderness, and, by reason of age and experience, took the lead in organizing churches. In his
work in Tennessee he was closely associated with the
Rev. Samuel Doak, another graduate of Princeton. About
the year I793 Mr. Balch conceived, matured, and communicated to some of his friends the plan of Greenville
College, and obtained a charter for the same in I794.
The next year he visited New England to collect funds
for the institution, which visit occasioned a theological
controversy which gave a somewhat polemical character
to his whole life. Mr. Balch's exertions in behalf of education gave an impulse to the cause through the whole
south-western region. However imprudent he may have
been in many things, he deserves the gratitude of the
county for his labour in behalf of a higher education. The
degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by
Williams College in I8o6.
Dr. Balch died full of labour, in April, I8Io.
Hezekiah James Ballch, a native of Deer Creek,
Hartford County, Maryland, was licensed by the Presbytery of Donegal in I768, soon after which he removed to
Northl Carolina. He was one of the leaders in the Mecklenburg Convention, and one of the committee that preparel the Resolutions adopted by that Convention. Mr.
Balch was the pastor of two churches, Rocky River and
Poplar Tent. He saw the commencement of that war
which ended with all the honour and independence to his
country he ever desired; but before the strife of blood and
plunder that followed the Declaration of Independence
reached Carolina, he slept with those whose sleep shall
not be awakened till the resurrection. He died in I776.
Ebenezer Cowell was probably a brother of David
Cowell, M.D., of the class of I763. He was a lawyer in
Trenton, New Jersey.
Samuel Edmiston, after leaving College, studied
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Medicine and practiced at Fagg's Manor, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Edmiston married a daughter of Rev. Samuel Blair,
of Fagg's Manor. Four other graduates of Princeton
married daughters of Dr. Blair: George Duffield, of the
class of 1752; David Rice, of the class of I76I; John
Carmichael, of the class of I759, and William Foster, of
the class of I764; all of them distinguished clergymen.
Oliver Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut,
April 29, I745. Soon after his graduation he began teaching and the study of theology, but soon relinquished both
for the law, and was admitted to the Bar in I77I. About
I775, he removed to Hartford, and soon after was appointed Attorney-General of the State. He was in the
Legislature which assembled a few days after the battle
of Lexington. In I777 he was chosen a delegate to the
Continental Congress, but did not take his seat until
October, I778. In I78o, he was a member of the Council of Connecticut, and continued a member of that body
till 1784, when he was appointed a Judge of the Superior
Court. In I787 he was a member of the Convention
which framed the Constitution of the United States. In
an Assembly, illustrious for talent, erudition and patriotism, he held a distinguished place. In 1789 he was
chosen a United States Senator, which place he filled till
I796, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the United
States. Here he presided with great dignity and wisdom. In I799, he was appointed by President Adams
Envoy Extraordinary to France, one of his two colleagues, General Davie, being also a graduate of Princeton. With much reluctance he accepted this appointment. While abroad, his failing health induced him to
resign his high office of Chief Justice.
Mr. Ellsworth was a model of a-legislator and judge.
His perceptions were unusually rapid, his reasoning
clear and conclusive, and his eloquence powerful. He
moved for more than thirty years in a most conspicuous
sphere unassailed by the shafts of slander.
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In private life he was the personification of social and
personal virtue. He was always unassuming and humble. His dress, his equipage and mode of living were
regulated by a principle of republican economy.
He was, above all, an exemplary Christian, having confessed Christ in his youth; and in every station he was
not ashamed of his Gospel. His religion was practical
and vital-always at the prayer meetings, and a life-long
friend of Missions.
His speech in the Convention of Connecticut in favour
of the Constitution, is preserved in the American Museu m.
Mr. Ellsworth died November 26, I807.
Joseph Ilasbrouck, of Huguenot descent, was born
in the village of Kingston, New York. He never studied
a profession, but settled on the old homestead as a farmer. He was an ardent patriot and entered the Revolutionary army, in which he became a Colonel of Militia,
and saw some service. He afterwards became a General
in the State service.
He was a man of fine personal appearance, dignified
and courteous in his manners, of acknowledged ability
and great influence in the community in which he resided. He accumulated and left a large inheritance to
his family, who enjoy a high social position. One of his
nephews, the Hon. A. Bruyn Hasbrouck, LL. D., was for
some time President of Rutgers College.
General Hasbrouck died February 26, I8o8.
David Howell, a native of New Jersey, removed to
Providence, Rhode Island, and was for three years a tutor in the College of Rhode Island, (Brown University,)
being the first ever appointed in that institution; for nine
years he was Professor of Natural Philosophy; for thirtyfour years Professor of Law; for fifty-two years a member of the Board of Fellows; and for many years Secretary of the Corporation. Though abundantly compe[ 107]




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tent to the task, he never delivered any lectures while
he filled the chair of Professor of Law. Judge Howell
practiced law in Providence for many years, and was
among the most eminent members of the Rhode Island
Bar. He represented Rhode Island in the Continental
Congress from I782 to I785. In I812, he was appointed
United States Judge for the District of Rhode Island,
and this office he sustained till his death. Judge Howell
was endowed with extraordinary talents, and superadded
to his endowments, extensive and accurate learning. As
an able jurist he established for himself a solid reputation. He was, however, yet more distinguished as a
keen and brilliant wit, and as a scholar, extensively acquainted not only with the ancient, but with several of the
modern languages. As an effective and pungent political writer, he was almost unrivalled; and in conversation, whatever chanced to be the theme, whether politics
or law-literature or theology-grammar or criticism
-a Greek tragedy, or a difficult problem in mathematics, he was never found wanting. He died July 9,
I824.
Daniel Jones. All that I can learn of Mr. Jones is
that he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New
Castle in I769, and ordained in I78I. His name soon
disappears from the Records of the Synod.
Josiah Lewis was licensed by the Presbytery of
New Castle in I769, and ordained in I77I. In the autumn of I77I, he was preaching as a missionary in North
and South Carolina, after which I can find no trace of
him.
Peter Van Brugh Livingston was probably the
fifth child of Philip Livingston, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. After graduating, he removed to
Jamaica in the West Indies, and the family have no record of his death.
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Daniel McCalla was born in Neshaminy, Pennsylvania.  On leaving college he took charge of an academy
in Philadelphia, and during his labours there, made himself familiar with the science of medicine, mastered several of the modern languages, and pursued a course of
theological study. In I774, he was ordained by the First
Presbytery of Philadelphia, and installed as pastor of the
churches at New Providence and Charleston, Pennsylvania.  At the commencement of the war, he was appointed by Congress a Chaplain (the only one they ever
appointed) of General Thompson's Corps, under orders
for Canada. Soon after his arrival, he was taken prisoner, and confined for some months in a loathsome prisonship, and subjected to brutal treatment. At length he was
released on parole, and returned to his congregation in
I776. Soon after, he was charged with breaking his parole in praying for his country, and the danger becoming
imminent, he escaped to Virginia, where he established
an academy in Hanover County, and became pastor of
the congregation made vacant by the removal of the
Rev. Samuel Davies to Princeton. Mr. McCalla was
eminently a social man, and perhaps not always discreet.
Finding himself subject to censure, he left his position in
Virginia in I788, and removed to South Carolina, where
he became pastor of an Independent Church at Wappetaw. He remained pastor of this church until the close
of his life, a diligent student, and faithful pastor, a period
of twenty-one years.  The College of South Carolina
conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity.  He died in May, I809.
Dr. McCalla published, A Sermon at the Ordination of James Adams,
I799. In I8IO two volumes of his works were published, with notices of
his life by Dr. Hollingshed; these volumes contain nine sermons on different subjects. He published also Twenty Numbers of Remarks on the
"Age. of Reason " over the signature of " Artemas." Remarks on Griesbach's Greek Testament. An Essay on the Excellency and Advantages of
the Gospel. Remarks on the Theatre and Public Amusements, in thirteen
numbers. Hints on Education, in fourteen numbers. The Sovereignty of
the People, in twelve numbers. A Fair Statement and Appendix to the
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same, in eighteen numbers, containing an address to President Adams.
Servility of Prejudice Displayed, in nine numbers. Federal Sedition and
Anti-Democracy, in six numbers. A Vindication of Mr. Jefferson, in two
numbers. The Retreat, a Poem.
John MacPherson was a native of Philadelphia, his
father, John MacPherson, being a resident of that city,
and greatly distinguished in privateering in the war of
1756. John MacPherson, the subject of this sketch, was
an uncle of John MacPherson Berrien, of the class of
1796. After leaving Princeton he read law in Philadelphia with John Dickinson, author of the celebrated
farmer's letter. When the war for independence began,
he joined the army, and was an aid-de-camp of General
Montgomery at the siege of Quebec, and fell at the same
discharge of grape-shot by which his commander was
killed, December 3I, I775. There isan interestingincident
connected with his fall which deserves to be recorded.
Major MacPherson had a brother William, who was an
officer in the British service at this time, and who was as
violent in favor of the English government, as his brother
was enthusiastic in the cause of America. A few days
before the attack, Major MacPherson accompanied General Montgomery to view  the spot where Wolfe had
fallen; on his return he found a letter from his brother,
the English officer, full of the bitterest reproaches against
him for having entered into the American service, and
containing a pretty direct wish, if he would not abandon
it, he might meet with the deserved fate of a rebel.
Major MacPherson immediately returned him an answer,
full of strong reasoning, in defence of his conduct, but
by no means attempting to shake the opposite principles
of his brother, and not only free from acrimony, but full
of expressions of tenderness and affection; this letter he
dated, " from the spot where Wolfe lost his life in fighting
the cause of England, in friendship with America."
The letter had scarcely reached the officer at New
York, before it was followed by the news of his brother's
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haps reason prevailed. He instantly applied for permission
to resign, unwilling to bear arms longer against his
countrymen. This permission was granted on condition
that he should not leave the British lines, within which
he remained under the surveillance of a soldier; being
indulged, however, with the liberty of going in pursuit
of ducks on the East river, attended by his guard. Having one day advanced some distance from the city, he
put his gun to the head of the attendant, and ordered
him to pull over to the Long Island shore, where he was
received by a party of Americans. The fact becoming
known to Congress, he received from that body a Major's
commission, and sought every occasion of distinguishing
himself in the service of his country until the close of
the war.
Luther Martin joined college from  New Jersey.
After his graduation he removed to Maryland, where he
taught school until I77I, when he was admitted to the
Bar. Removing to Virginia he practiced his profession
in Accomac and Northampton Counties. He was soon
regarded as one of the ablest lawyers at the Bar. He
threw his whole strength on the side of American Independence, and by his bold speech and writings, animated
the friends of the country. On the IIth of April, I778,
he was appointed Attorney- General of the State of
Maryland. In this office he displayed remarkable firmness,
professional knowledge, and uncompromising energy, and
increased his reputation as an advocate and jurist. In
I804, he was employed in the defence of Judge Chase of
the Supreme Court of the United States. In I8o7 he
was one of the counsel to defend Aaron Burr, who was
his personal friend. In 1814 he was appointed Chief
Judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer for the City
and County of Baltimore. In I818 he was again appointed Attorney- General of Maryland.  He died in
New York, July IO, I826.
As a lawyer, Judge Martin was learned, solid, and
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second to no man among his contemporaries. He was
not brilliant but solid.  He was a man of warm heart
and generous feelings, but in the discharge of his official
duties he was vigorous and unyielding. In personal appearance he was about the medium size, but stout and
muscular. He usually wore a brown or blue dress-coat,
with ruffles around the wrists after the ancient fashion,
and his hair tied behind, hanging below the collar of his
coat. He often appeared walking in the street with his
legal documents close to his eyes for perusal, wholly abstracted from the world, and absorbed in his profession.
Luther Martin was undoubtedly one of the ablest lawyers which our country has produced, and his name will
descend to posterity among the brightest of those who
have gained their reputation strictly at the bar.
Nathaniel iNiles, a son of Samuel Niles, of Braintree, Massachusetts, was born in South Kingston, Rhode
Island, April 3, I74I. In college he held a high rank in
general scholarship, but excelled more particularly in the
exact sciences, and in metaphysics.  He was an able
debater, and especially skilled in the Socratic method of
arguing. It was doubtless this trait which acquired for
him and his brother Samuel, while at college, the appellation said to have been given them-Botheration Primus,
and Botheration Secundus.
After his graduation, he devoted some time to the
study of medicine. He was also for a while a student
of law; and was at one time a teacher in the city of New
York. Among his pupils, to whom he taught the rudiments of English grammar, was Lindley Murray, afterwards the celebrated grammarian.
Resolving to enter the ministry, he commenced the
study of theology, under Dr. Bellamy, and in due time
was licensed to preach the gospel. He had many invitations to settle, but through want of health declined them
all, and was never ordained.
He took up his residence in Norwich, Connecticut, and
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while there displayed his mechanical talent in the invention of a method of making wire from bar iron by water
power. This was the first invention of the kind in the
United States. During his residence in Norwich he was
several times a member of the Legislature of Connecticut.
After the close of the Revolutionary war he removed
to Vermont, and in I784 he was speaker of the House of
Representatives; and for many years Judge of the
Supreme Court.  From  I791 to I795 he represented
Vermont in Congress. As a metaphysician and intellectual philosopher he had probably few superiors. When
not absent on public business, he preached in his own
house for twelve years. He was admitted to a Master's
degree at Harvard in 1772, and at Dartmouth in I79I.
Mr. Niles was one of the most able and vigorous
writers of his day. He wrote the " American Hero," a
celebrated sapphic ode, which was set to music, and was
the war song of the Revolution. He published four discourses on Secret Prayer in 1773; two on Confession
and Forgiveness; two on the Perfection of God the Fountain of Good, I777; a Sermon on Vain Amusements;
and a letter on the power of sinners to make new hearts,
I809. He also wrote largely for newspapers and magazines. He maintained his studious habits through life,
and in his latter days spent much time in reading the
Septuagint Version of the Bible. He died in the utmost
tranquillity, October 3I, I828.
James Power was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in I746. He was one of the students who visited
President Finley on his death-bed in Philadelphia; and
the affecting scene left a powerful and enduring impression on his mind.
Mr. Power was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Castle, June 24, I772. The next year he travelled, and
preached in Virginia. In I774 he crossed the mountains
and spent three months as a missionary in Western
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Pennsylvania, after which he returned to the East ahd
supplied a church in Maryland. In 1776 he was ordained,
and removed permanently to Western Pennsylvania, and
after supplying various churches, was installed pastor of
Mount Pleasant and Sewickly churches in I779. In I787
his connection with the Sewickly church was dissolved;
and from that time until April, I817, he devoted himself
to the Mount Pleasant Church, when, on account of age
and infirmity, he gave up his charge. He received the
degree of Doctor of Divinity from Jefferson College in
i 8o8.
In person, Dr. Power was slender, erect, and of medium size. His manners were easy and graceful, and
free from affectation. In his dress, he was always plain,
and, at the same time, extremely neat; so that it was a
matter of surprise that he could ride on horseback ten or
fifteen miles in a rough country, over muddy roads, and
yet appear in the pulpit, or rather on a preaching-stand
in the woods, as neat and clean as if he had the minute
before come from his toilet. He always rode a good
horse, and it was believed he was a good judge of that
animal, and that he selected one with such a movement
as would not throw mud or dust on the rider. In his
conversation and manners he was dignified and precise,
seldom if ever indulging in anything like wit or levity.
And yet he was sociable, and far from being morose or
censorious.  His voice was not loud, but remarkably
clear and distinct. His enunciation was so perfect, that
the whole volume of his voice was used in conveying to
his hearers the words he uttered. He always preached
without notes, but his discourses were clear, methodical
and evangelical. During the Revolution, Dr. Power
lived in the midst of Indian wars and alarms. The
church in which he preached was of logs, upon which
no plane, hammer, saw nor nail were used. The windows were small openings cut in adjacent logs, and
glaxed with paper or white linen oiled with hog's lard or
bear's grease.
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Such was one of our pioneer preachers in the West.
To Dr. Power, with Thaddeus Dod and John McMillan,
all graduates of Princeton, belongs the honour of firmly
establishing the Presbyterian Church in the Western
Wilderness. Dr. Power died at an advanced age in
1830.
Isaac Skillman, a native of New Jersey, after graduating, became a Baptist Minister, and in 1773 was
chosen pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Boston.
Here he remained until I787, when he returned to New
Jersey.  In November 179o, he became pastor of the
Baptist Church in Salem, New Jersey, where he remained until the close of his life, June 8, I799. He
received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Rhode
Island College in I774.
Dr. Skillman was a man of learning and ability, but
never very popular as a preacher.
Samuel Smith and William Smith were probably
sons of Samuel Smith, of Burlington, New Jersey, who,
in 1765, published his valuable History of New Jersey.
I know nothing of them after their graduation.
Alpheus Spring was born in Massachusetts. He
became a Congregational Minister, and settled at Eliot,
Massachusetts, June 29, I768.  Mr. Spring died suddenly, June 14, I79I. He was much beloved by his
people, and highly respected by his brethren in the
ministry. Mr. Spring was admitted to a Master's degree
at Dartmouth in I785.
Benjamin Stelle was a son of the Rev. Isaac Stelle,
pastor of a Baptist Church at Piscataway, New Jersey.
Through the influence of President Manning, of Brown
University, he went to Providence, Rhode Island, after
leaving college, and established a Latin School. Here
he met with encouraging success, giving great satisfaction
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to his patrons, and being highly esteemed throughout
the community. In I774 Mr. Stelle was admitted to a
Master's degree at Rhode Island College.
Micah Townsend came to college from Vermont,
to which State he returned after his graduation, and soon
became active in public affairs. In 178I he was appointed
Secretary of State, and in I785 was elected one of the
Council of Censors. In I786, he was again Secretary of
State.
John1  Woodhiull was born in Suffolk County, Long
Island. H-e studied theology with the Rev. John Blair,
and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle in
1768, and commenced his career with much more than
ordinary popularity. On one occasion, while preaching
as a licentiate, sixty persons were hopefully converted by
hearing him preach in a private house. He had many
calls, but chose to settle at Leacock, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, where he was installed August I, I770.
Mr. Woodhull was a strenuous Whig, and while in this
charge advocatedthe cause so eloquently from the pulpit, that he succeeded in enlisting as soldiers every male
member of his congregation capable of bearing arms, he
going with them as chaplain. In I779 he succeeded the
Rev. William Tennent at Freehold, New Jersey. During many years of his ministry he conducted a grammar
school, and superintended the studies of young men preparing for the ministry. He was a Trustee of the College for forty-four years.  Mr. Woodhull received the
degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale in I798.
Joseph Woodmanll became a Congregational Minister, and settled at Sanborn Town, New Hampshire, in
I77I. He was released from his charge November 13,
I8o6, and died in Sanborn Town, April 28, i807.
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Francis Barber, a native of Princeton, New Jersey,
after graduating, took charge of an Academy at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. The school soon became distinguished. Alexander Hamilton was prepared for college
under Mr. Barber. At the commencement of the Revolution he offered his services to the country, and on the
9th of February, I776, he was appointed, by the Legislature, Major of the Third Battalion, New Jersey troops,
and on November 8th was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Third Regiment, and on January I,
1777, he received his commission from Congress. Soon
after this he was appointed Assistant Inspector-General
under Baron Steuben.
Colonel Barber was in constant service during the
whole war. Although a strict and rigid disciplinarian,
always scrupulously performing his own duty, and requiring it from all under his command, yet so bland were
his manners, and his whole conduct so tempered with
justice and strict propriety, that he was the favourite of
all the officers and men, and highly valued by Washington.
Colonel Barber was in many battles. He served in
the Northern army under General Schuyler; was at the
battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown
and Monmouth, and in the latter was severely wounded.
In I779 he served as-Adjutant-General with General Sullivan in his memorable expedition against the Indians,
where he distinguished himself and was again wounded.
In I78o he was conspicuously engaged with the army in
New Jersey, and was at the battle of Springfield. In
178I he accompanied the Jersey line to Virginia, and
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was at the investment and capture of the British at Yorktown.
The day on which the Commander-in-Chief intended
to communicate the joyful intelligence of Peace to the
army, a number of the officers, with their families, were
invited to dine with him, and among others, Colonel Barber and his wife. He was acting at the time as officer of
the day in place of a friend. While on duty, andpassing
by the edge of a wood where som'e soldiers were cutting
down a tree, it fell on him, and both rider and horse were
instantly crushed to death.
Richard Devens. The parents of Mr. Devens resided in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he was born
October 23, I749. His friends seeing signs of a!remarkable intellect in the boy, prevailed upon his parents to
give him an education, and he was sent to Princeton. At
his graduation he stood at the head of his class. For
three years he was engaged in teaching in various
schools in New York and New Jersey. In I770 he was
appointed tutor in the College, where he remained until
I774, when in consequence of too close and intense application to his studies, he became insane. I do not discover that he ever recovered his reason. Previous to
this he had written "A Paraphrase on some parts of the
Book of Job," which gave evidence of a high poetical
talent. From the appearance of the manuscript it seems
to have been an unfinished work, and written probably
for the author's private amusement. It was published by
his friends in Boston in I795, at which time Mr. Devens
was still living.
Nathaniel Ramsay, a brother of David Ramsay,
the Historian, after graduating, studied law and became
eminent in his profession.. When the war of the Revolution began, Mr. Ramsay, full of patriotic ardour, joined
the Maryland line as a Major, and soon rose to the rank
of Colonel. At the battle of Monmouth, when our army
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was pressed by the enemy advancing rapidly, General
Washington asked for an officer; Colonel Ramsay presented himself; the General took him by the hand and
said, " If you can stop the British ten minutes, till I can
form, you will save my army." Colonel Ramsay answered, "I will stop them or fall." He advanced with his
party, engaged and kept them in check for half an hour;
nor did he retreat until the enemy and his troops were
mingled, and at last, in the rear of his troops, fighting
his way, sword in hand, fell pierced with many wounds
in the sight of both armies.
From I785 to I787 Colonel Ramsay represented Maryland in the Continental Congress. He resumed and continued the practice of law in Baltimore until his death,
which occurred, October 24, I8I7.
William  Schenck was a native of Allentown, New
Jersey.  He was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick in I77I and ordained in I772. After preaching at various places in New York and New Jersey, he
was finally settled, in I780, at Pittsgrove and Cape May,
where he remained until I787, when he removed to Ballston, New York. Towards the close of I793 he removed
to Huntingdon, Long Island, and was installed pastor of
the Presbyterian Church, December 27th of that year.
In 1817 he left Huntingdon and removed to Franklin,
Ohio, where he was pastor for several years, and died
September I, 1822. Mr. Schenck was the grandfather of
the Hon. Robert C. Schenck, Minister to Great Britain.
He was a dignified, excellent man, though not distinguished as a great or popular preacher.  His labours
were acceptable, and his church received large accessions
under his ministry.
Samuel Whitham  Stockton was a brother of the
elder Richard Stockton. In I774 he went to Europe as
Secretary of the American Commission to the courts of
Austria and Prussia. While abroad he negotiated a
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treaty with Holland. He returned to New Jcrsey in
I779, where he held various public offices. In I794 he
was Secretary of State of New Jersey. Mr. Stockton
lost his life in being thrown from a carriage in the streets
of Trenton, June 27, I795.
Hugh Vance received his license to preach from
Donegal Presbytery about 177I, and in I772 was ordained and settled as pastor of Tuscarora and Back
Creek Churches in Virginia. The only notice that I find
of him after this, is in the journal of Rev. William Hill,
kept while on a missionary tour soon after his licensure.
He records under the date of September 17, I79I, " Visited Mr. Vance, who was upon the borders of the grave
in the last stage of consumption." The next day he
preached for Mr. Vance to a small audience, and records:
"Mr. Vance rode out, and lay in one of the pews while I
preached." He died December 3I, I79I.
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Robert Blackwell was the son of Jacob Francis
Blackwell of Long Island, New York, and descended
of an ancient family originally of England. The subject
of this notice was born May 6, I748. After his graduation he entered upon theological studies with a view of
entering the ministry of the Church of England, and June
II, 1772, he was ordained a Deacon in the chapel of Fulham Palace, near London, by Bishop Richard Terrick;
and subsequently to the order of the priesthood. Returning to the Provinces, he' was stationed in the southern part of New Jersey as a missionary of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; in this
capacity officiating at Gloucester and Waterford, and
Greenwich. The war of the Revolution of course broke
up the operations of the Propagation Society in the
Provinces, and most of its missionaries returned to Great
Britain. The family of Mr. Blackwell, who were considerable proprietors of land on Long Island, having espoused the cause of the colonies, he naturally did the
same. A certificate of General Anthony Wayne, now
before us, testifies that he was " Chaplain to the First
Pennsylvania Brigade and surgeon to one of the regiments in the year I778, and that he took and subscribed
the oath as directed by Congress, at the Valley Forge, in
common with other officers of the line."
In I78I, the Rev. Mr. Coombe, one of the Assistant
Ministers of the United Churches of Christ Church and
St. Peter's, Philadelphia, having retired to England in
I778, owing to the continuance of the Revolution, Mr.
Blackwell was called to his place. He was accordingly,
from I78I till I 8 I I, Senior Assistant Minister, and during
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the closing years of the War of Independence, one of the
only two clergymen of the Church of England, whom the
desolations of those times left in the extensive State of
Pennsylvania.  His friend and ministerial associate of
thirty years, the Rev. William White, afterwards Bishop
of the Diocese, being the other.
A cenotaph inscription designed for a tablet on the
east exterior end of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia,
over the vault of William Bingham, in which Dr. Blackwell with his daughter and several of his descendants is
buried, thus speaks of him: "In the Councils of the
Church which he assisted to found in these United
States, and in the earliest and most important of whose
conventions, both General and Diocesan, he was a constant participator, he acquired general respect by his
adherence to principle, his temperateness of conduct,
and the practical wisdom of-all his suggestions.
"' In the sphere of Parochial Charge he was distinguished by propriety of life, and by the sincerity of feeling, the
clearness of argument and soundness of scholarship, with
which in the spirit of charity he inculcated the duties
and doctrines of religion. Blessed in his private station
with fortune above what is common to his profession, he
gave a convincing proof of the effect on his own heart of
those precepts which he urged upon others, in an unostentatious but constant and liberal charity towards the
poor; from whom his face was never turned away, nor
any petitions for relief addressed in vain. He was not
more respectable in his public and sacred office, than
amiable and engaging in social and domestic life. A
fine person and benignant countenance, with a natural
sweetness of temper and delicacy of feeling, united
to manners refined by early associations, and made
liberal by foreign travel, and intercourse with military
life and character rendered him eminently agreeable
to all."
Dr. Blackwell died February I2, I831, in his eightythird year.
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lEphraim  Brevard was of Huguenot extraction.
After graduating, he returned to his home in North
Carolina and studied medicine, and entered upon practice. He is especially distinguished for the part he took
in the Mecklenburg Convention, where, beyond question,
he was the leading spirit. The evidence is pretty clear
that he drafted the Resolutions which have become so
noted, as a copy was found in his handwriting among his
papers. The papers which he drew up entitled " Instructions for the delegates of Mecklenburg County, proposed to the Consideration of the County," containing
seventeen articles, will not suffer in comparison with any
political paper of the age. Democratic republican principles are announced in their full extent-complete protection and extensive suffrage. The most remarkable
articles are those which assert religious liberty. The
merit of Ephraim Brevard is, not that he originated these
principles, or was singular in adhering to them, but that
he embodied them in so condensed a form, and expressed
them so well.
When the British forces invaded the Southern States,
Dr. Brevard entered the army as surgeon, and was
taken prisoner at the surrender of Charleston, May
12, I780.  His sufferings and the sufferings of those
taken prisoners at the same time, were extreme, and
had it not been for the tender care of some patriotic women, among whom was the mother of Andrew  Jackson, would have been unbearable.  As it
was multitudes perished, and Ephraim Brevard contracted a wasting fever which soon brought him to
his end. He gave "life, fortune, and most sacred honour" in his country's service. The first was sacrificed;
the last is imperishable. He died towards the close
of I780.
A British officer was once asked why he plundered the
farm and burnt the house of widow Brevard, the mother
of Ephraim; the answer was " She has seven sons in the
rebel army."
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Pierpont Edwards, a son of President Edwards,
studied law, and was for many years distinguished at the
Connecticut Bar. At one time he was Judge of the
United States Court for the District of Connecticut.
From I787 to I788 he was a member- of the Continental
Congress.
Judge Edwards died April I4, I826.
William  Chlrclhill Houston was born in South
Carolina. Before his graduation, he had charge of the
grammar school of the college. In I769 he was appointed
tutor, and in I771 he was elected Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the college. In 1783 he
resigned his Chair, having been previously admitted to
the Bar.
Removing to Trenton, he soon acquired a large practice, notwithstanding his rigid adherence to the determination that he would never undertake a cause which he
did not believe to be just. Mr. Houston was five times
elected to the Continental Congress-the first time in
I779. He was one of the three delegates of New Jersey
to the body of Commissioners which met at Annapolis in
I786, which resulted in suggesting the Convention which
framed the Constitution of the United States. He was
appointed to that Convention, but declining health prevented his attendance. He died at Frankfort, Pennsylyania, in I788.
Adlai Osborne was a son of Alexander Osborne,
a colonel in the Colonial Army.  After graduating,
Mr. Osborne returned to his home in North Carolina,
and was soon appointed Clerk of Rowan County, under
Royal rule, and held the same office after the war until
I809. He was a man of fine literary attainments, and an
earnest advocate for education. During the Revolution,
he served as a colonel in the American Army.  Mr.
Osborne was one of the original Trustees of the University of North Carolina. He died in I8I5.
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Thomas lReese was born in Pennsylvania in 1742.
Removing to North Carolina with his parents, when
quite young, he was prepared for college by Rev. Joseph
Alexander. Returning to South Carolina after his graduation, he studied theology, and was licensed by Orange
Presbytery in 1773, and was ordained and installed over
Salem Church in the same year. During the years I780
and I78I, all public worship was suspended, and most of
the town and country churches were burned, or made
depots for the stores of the enemy.   Mr. Reese was
thereupon compelled to abandon the field, while many
of his congregation were cruelly murdered.' After the
peace, Mr. Reese pursued his duties with an ardour and
diligence rarely exceeded. In I792 he accepted a call
to two churches in Pendleton District, hoping to benefit
his health by the change. Mr. Reese received the degree
of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton in I794. Dr. Reese
held a conspicuous place among learned and good men.
He was an accomplished scholar. His appearance in
the pulpit was graceful and dignified, his style flowing
and elegant. He was in the habit of writing out his
sermons with great care, and seldom, if ever, took the
manuscript in the pulpit. His flowing tears and often
suppressed voice told the feelings of the heart anxious
only for the salvation of souls and the glory of God. As
a teacher, he had a peculiar faculty of communicating
knowledge, and the happy talent of commanding respect
without severity. For a period of five or six years of
his life, and that, too, past the meridian, exclusive of his
performing the regular duties of a pastor, preaching on
the Sabbaths, and lecturing to the coloured part of his
congregation, he superintended a small farm, and attended to a large classical school. He died in I796.
The publications of Dr. Reese are: An Essay on the Influence of Religion in Civil Society, which is preserved in the American Museum. A
Sermon on The Death of Christians is Gain, in the "American Preacher,"
vol. i. A Sermon on the Character of Haman, in the "American Preacher,"
vol ii. A Farewell Sermon.
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Thomas Smith was licensed by the Presbytery of
New Castle about 1772, and ordained and settled as pastor of Middleton and Pecander Churches in D.elaware in
I774. He died January 25, I792.
Isaac Story became a Congregational Minister, and
settled at Marblehead, Massachusetts, in I77I.  After
preaching thirty years, he left the ministry and engaged
in secular pursuits. He died in I8i6.
Dr. Allen, in his Biographical Dictionary, confounds
Mr. Story with his son, Isaac Story, Esq., a young lawyer
of Marblehead and a graduate of Harvard, and credits
to the father "An Epistle from Yarico to Inkle," which
was written by the son. Dr. Sprague perpetuates the
error in a note in his invaluable annals.
The publications of Mr. Story are, according to Dr. Allibone: A Discourse, Salem, 1795, 8vo. A Thanksgiving Sermon, 1796, 8vo.
Elias Van Bunschooten received his license to
preach in I773, and settled over the Reformed Dutch
Church at Schaghticoke, on the Hudson, where he laboured until 1785, when he resigned.  On the 29th of
August of the same year he was installed over three
churches in Orange County, New York. His parochial
charge extended fifty miles, through which the settler's
axe had forced a few rough horse tracks. In I792 he
gathered an additional church at the Clove, now Port
Jervis, where he resided until I812, when, on account of
the infirmities of age, he withdrew from active duties.
He died January io, i8i5. Mr. Van Bunschooten left a
large legacy to Rutgers College.
He was in person about six feet in height, erect and
stately in his carriage, and was a man of great sternness
of character. His manner in the pulpit was earnest and
impressive, and his sermons highly evangelical.  He
preached both in Dutch and English.
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John Beatty, a son of the Rev. Charles Beatty, after
studying medicine with Dr. Rush, entered the army as a
private soldier, reaching, by degrees, the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In I776 he fell into the hands of the enemy
at the capture of Fort Washington, and suffered a long
and rigorous imprisonment. In I779 he succeeded Elias
Boudinot as Commissioner-General of prisoners. After
the war he settled at Princeton, where he practiced medicine. He was at one time a member of the Legislature
of New Jersey, and the Speaker of the Assembly. From
I795 to I805 he was Secretary of State of New Jersey.
In I783 and I784 he was a member of the Continental
Congress. From May, I8I5, until his death, he was President of the Trenton Banking Company. He was also
an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Beatty was
President of the Company which built the noble bridge
that unites Trenton to his native county in Pennsylvania,
and on May 24, I804, he laid the foundation stone of its
first pier. He died April 30, I826, full of honour.
William  Lawrence Blair was a son of the Rev.
John Blair, who was at one time the Vice-President of
the College, and acting President. He studied law after
his graduation, and removed to Kentucky, where we lose
sight of him.
Mathias Burnet studied theology with Dr. Witherspoon, and was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Jamaica, Long Island, by the Presbytery of New York, April, I775. Here he exercised his
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Unlike nearly all the Presbyterian clergy of the country,
he never declared in favour of our Independence. It was
generally understood that his sympathies were with the
enemy. Hence, no doubt, it was that while Jamaica was
occupied by the British army, he was permitted to exercise his ministerial functions without molestation. He
left Jamaica in I785, and was settled over a Congregational Church in Norwalk, Connecticut; in which year
he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale.
He continued in Norwalk until his death, which occurred June 30, I8o6. Dr. Burnet was a native of Bottle
Hill, New Jersey.
He published an Election Sermon. 1803. And two Sermons, one in the
second and the other in the third volume of the " American Preacher." 1791.
William  Channing became a distinguished lawyer
at Newport, Rhode Island, and was at one time United
States District-Attorney for Rhode Island. He was the
father of William Ellery Channing the elder. He died
in I793.
John Davenport was the son of the Rev. James
Davenport, of Southold, Long Island. He was ordained
by the Presbytery of Suffolk, June 4, I1775, and served the
Congregation in Southold, Long Island, for two years.
On the I2th of August, I795, he was settled at Deerfield,
New Jersey, but resigned in I8o5 on account of failing
health. He died July I3, I82I.
John Rodgers Davies, a son of President Davies,
studied law and practiced in Sussex County, Virginia,
but never rose to any eminence. He died in I836.
Peter Dewitt studied theology under Dr. Livingston, and was licensed by the General Meeting of Ministers and Elders of the Reformed Dutch Church in I778.
From I787 to 1798, he was pastor of the Reformed Dutch
Churches of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck Flats, and upper Red
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Hook, New York, and from 1799 to I809, he was pastor
of the churches of Ponds and Wyckoff, Bergen County,
New Jersey. He died in I809.
John Henry represented Maryland in the Continental Congress from 1778 to 178 I, and again from 1784 to 1 787.
In 1789 he was elected to the first Senate of the United
States under the Constitution. He had as fellow members two other graduates of Princeton-Oliver Ellsworth,
of Connecticut, and William Paterson, of New Jersey. In
I797 Mr. Henry resigned his seat in the Senate, having
been elected Governor of Maryland. He died in December, 1798.
James Linn represented the State of New Jersey.in
Congress from  I799 to I8oi, when he was appointed, by
Mr. Jefferson, Supervisor of the Revenue. Mr. Linn was
also for many years, Secretary of State of New Jersey.
He died December 28, I820.
Thomas Melville was the son of Allan Melville, a
merchant of Boston. Immediately after his graduation,
he visited his relatives in Scotland, and during that visit
he was presented with the freedom of the city of St. Andrews and of Renfrew. He returned to America in I773,
when he entered into mercantile life in Boston. In December of that year he was one of the famous " Tea Party." Mr. Melville took an active part in the Revolutionary war, and as Major in Craft's regiment of Massachusetts Artillery, was in the action in Rhode Island in I776.
Commissioned by Washington in I789 as Naval Officer of
the Port of Boston, he was continued by all the Presidents
down to Jackson's time in I829. To the time of his death
he continued to wear the antiquated three-cornered hat,
and from this habit was familiarly known in Boston, as
the last of the Cocked Hats.
There is still preserved a small parcel of the veritable
tea, in the attack upon which he took an active part.
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This historic tea was found in his shoes the morning after
he returned from his expedition, and was sealed up in a
vial, and was at one time in possession of Chief Justice
Shaw, of Massachusetts.  Mr. Melville died in 1832.
Samuel Niles, a brother of Nathaniel Niles, of the
class of I766, was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, December I4, I743. Mr. Niles studied theology with Dr.
Bellamy, and was licensed to preach November 7, I770.
He first supplied a church at Abington, Massachusetts,
then preached in Boston for a short time, and then returned to Abington, and was installed September 25, I77I.
Mr. Niles continued to preach here until I8I, when he
suffered a paralytic shock and was laid aside from work.
He died January I6, I814.
Mr. Niles was endowed with superior intellectual and
reasoning powers. He had a clear and profound knowledge of the truth, connection, harmony, and consistency
of the first principles and essential doctrines of Christianity, and on, this account became a most powerful and
instructive preacher. His grave and dignified appearance in the pulpit, in connection with his truly genuine
eloquence, could hardly fail to strike his audience with
awe and reverence, and to render him one of the most
popular preachers of his day.  He was intimately acquainted with human nature, and could render himself
agreeable in common intercourse with all classes of people; but he was more especially entertaining in private
circles, by the flashes of his wit, and his curious, amusing, striking and pertinent anecdotes.
The publications of Mr. Niles are, Remarks on a Sermon by John Reid.
aIS3. A Sermon on the Death of Washington. i8oo. A Sermon before
the Massachusetts Missionary Society. I8oI.
Samuel Stanhope Smith, a son of Rev. Robert
Smith, a distinguished clergyman of the Presbyterian
Church, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
March I6, I750. After leaving college, he returned to
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his father's house, assisting him in a school, and giving
special attention to Belles-Lettres, and Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. In I770, he was appointed tutor at
Princeton, where he remained three years. In I773, he
was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle. Feeling
the need of a change of climate, he went as a missionary
to Virginia, where he soon became a universal favourite;
persons without distinction of sect or of rank flocked to
hear him. Some of his most influential and wealthy
friends resolved to retain him in Virginia and place him
at the head of a literary institution. Accordingly funds
were soon collected, and the buildings were erected in
Prince Edward County, and a Charter obtained under
the name of Hampden Sidney College. While all this
was going on, Mr. Smith was laboriously engaged in
his missionary work. After a little time, having married
the daughter of Dr. Witherspoon, he took his place at
the head of the college. In I779, he was invited to the
Chair of Moral Philosophy at Princeton, which he accepted. On arriving at Princeton, he found the affairs
of the college in a deplorable condition, occasioned by
the war, and the occupation of Dr. Witherspoon in the
higher affairs of the nation. Mainly by the energy, wisdom and self-devotion of Mr. Smith, the college was
speedily re-organized, and its usual exercises resumed.
In 1782, his life was seriously threatened by hemorrhage
from the lungs; but he gradually recovered his usual
health. In 1783, he received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity from Yale, and in I8Io, the degree of
Doctor of Laws from Harvard.
In I794, Dr. Witherspoon died, and Dr. Smith succeeded him in the Presidential Chair. Dr. A.. Alexander
who saw him about this time, said, " I have never seen
his equal in elegance of person and manners. Dignity
and winning grace were remarkably united in his expressive countenance. His large blue eyes had a penetration which commanded the respect of all beholders.
Notwithstanding the want of health, his cheek had a
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bright rosy tint, and his smile lighted up the whole face.
The tones of his elocution had a thrilling peculiarity, and
this was more remarkable in his preaching, where it is
well known that he imitated the elaborate polish and
oratorical glow of the French school. Little of this impression can be derived from his published discourses,
which disappoint those who do not know the charm of
his delivery."
His reputation as a pulpit orator at this time was very
great. Visitors from Philadelphia and New York were
accustomed to go to Princeton to hear his Baccalaureate
Discourses, which were always of the highest order. In
1802, when the institution was at the full-tide of its prosperity, the college edifice was destroyed by fire, with the
libraries, furniture, etc. Dr. Smith assumed the labour
of collecting money to rebuild; and he was successful in
raising during the year, about $Ioo,ooo from  the Southern States, and much from other parts of the Union.
This was his crowning achievement.  In  I812, through
repeated strokes of palsy, he became too much enfeebled
to  discharge the duties of his office, and at the Com-mencement he sent in to the Trustees his resignation.
He died August 21, I819, in the utmost tranquillity, in
the seventieth year of his age.
The publications of Dr. Smith are: An Essay on the Causes of the Variety
of Complexion and Figure of the Human Species; to which are added Strictures on Lord Kaime's Discourse on the Original Diversity of Mankind, I vol.
8vo, 1787. A Volume of Sermons, 8vo, 1799. Lectures on the Evidences
of the Christian Religion, I2mo, i809  Lectures on Moral and Political
Philosophy, I2mo, 1812. A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most
Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion, 8vo, I8I6. Sermons, to which is prefixed a Memoir of his Life and Writings, 2 vols. Svo,
I82I. A Funeral Sermon on the death of Richard Stockton, I78I. A Sermon on Slander, preached in Brattle Street Church, Boston, I790. A Discourse on the Nature and Danger of Small Faults, delivered in the Old
South Church, Boston, 1790. Oratio Inauguralis, 1794. A Discourse on
the Nature and Reasonableness of Fasting, and on Existing Causes that
call us to that duty, 1795. The Divine Goodness to the United States of
America; a discourse delivered on a day of general Thanksgiving and
Prayer, I795. A Discourse delivered on the death of Gilbert Tennent
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ton, I8oo. A Discourse upon the Nature, the Proper Subjects, and the
Benefits of Baptism, with a brief Appendix on the Mode of Administering
the Ordinance, i8o8. The Resurrection of the Body; A Discourse delivered in the Presbyterian Church in Georgetown, D. C., I8o09. On the Love
of Praise; A Sermon delivered the Sunday preceding the Commencement,
i8io.
Elihui Thayer was born in Massachusetts.  After
leaving collegc, he engaged for some time in teaching.
Turning his isttention to the ministry he was licensed,
and supplied a church in,Newburyport, Massachusetts,
for some time. On the IS8th of December, I776, he was
ordained as pastor over the Congregational Church in
Kingston, New Hampshire.
In i8oi, he was elected President of the New. Haimpshire Missionary Society.  Mr. Thayer suffered all his
life from ill-health. He was not only an excellent scholar in college, but he retained his relish for classical learning to the close of life. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth in I807.  He died April
3, i8I2.
A volume of Dr. Thayer's Sermons was published in I8I3.
David Z ibley. It is probable that Mr. Zubley was
a son of Rev. J. J. Zubley who was so conspicuous in
Georgia at the opening of the Revolution, as I can find
no traces of any other family of that name in the Colonies at that period.
In I775, David Zubley was a lawyer in Georgia, and
was a Representative in the Provincial Congress of that
State. He was also a member of the Committee of Intelligence appointed by that body. On the 14th of July,
1775, he, as one of that Committee, signed a stirring petition to the King in favour of the rights of the people.
As Mr. Zubley's name does not appear after I776, it is
probable that he sympathised with his father, and gave
in his adherence to the king. He probably left the
colonies.
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Samuel Baldwin was a native of New Jersey. After graduating he emigrated to South Carolina, and
opened a school in Charleston. But the Revolution
coming on, he took up arms during the attack of the
British upon that city. After its capture he was a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. Refusing to take the
oath of allegiance, he was obliged to retire into the country. After the war, Mr. Baldwin returned to Newark,
New Jersey, his native city, where he died at an advanced age in I850,.
Fredrick Frelinglhuysen  was a son of the Rev.
John F. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. He was sent as
a delegate to the Continental Congress in I775, from New
Jersey when but twenty-two years of age. He resigned in I777. He was a warm and active patriot. He entered the Revolutionary army as captain of a corps of
artillery, and was at the battles of Trenton and Monmouth. He was afterwards engaged actively as a colonel
of the militia of his native state.  He also served in
the Western Expedition as Major-General of the New
Jersey and Pennsylvania troops. In I793 he was elected
to the Senate of the United States, and continued in that
station until domestic bereavements, and the claims of
his family, constrained him to resign in I796. General
Frelinghuysen stood also among the first at the Bar of
New Jersey. He was the father of the Hon. Theodore
Frelinghuysen. He died April I3, I804, beloved and lamented by his country and friends, leaving for his children the rich legacy of a life unsullied by a stain, and
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ral Frelinghuysen was a Trustee of the college from I802
until his death.
Joshua Hart received ordination from the Presbytery of Suffolk, April 2, I772; and was installed pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Smithtown, Long Island,
April I3, I774. In the time of the war, being an ardent
patriot, he suffered much from imprisonment by the
British in the City of New York. He was dismissed
from his charge September 6, I787. Mr. Hart was never
again settled, but continued to labour as he had opportunity until his death, which occurred October 3, I829,
at the advanced age of 9I.
Azariah Horton was the son of Rev. Azariah Horton, of South  Hanover (Madison,) New  Jersey.  In
his will his father gave to him his "whole library of
books and pamphlets, except Flavel's works, Henry'sand
Dickinson's, and several hereinafter named. My two
walking canes, and a silver spoon marked I. T. M;" "and
my further wish is that my negro wench Phillis, and her
two sons Pompey and Pizarro, be sold, the money arising
from the sale to be equally divided between my wife and
son Foster, and daughter Hannah." Azariah received
no share of the sale of the negroes.
After graduating, Mr. Horton entered the American
army, and is said to have been killed in battle.
Nathaniel Irwin a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle
in I773, and preached awhile at Neshaminy, Pennsylvania.
On November 3, I774, he was ordained and installed as
the pastor. Here he continued until his death.  As a
preacher he attained a high rank. He was clear, forcible, fluent, and often deeply pathetic. Mr. Irwin was
accustomed to ride to church on his " mare Dobbin," and
was in the habit of " letting her have her head," as he
called it-that is, letting the rein lie loose upon her neck;
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and she went slowly along while he prepared his sermon.
Mr. Irwin was probably the most thoroughly scientific
man of his day, in the county in which he lived; and he
took pleasure in making his knowledge practical and
useful. He was the first man who took John Fitch (of
steamboat memory), by the hand, and encouraged him in
his scientific investigations. Mr. Irwin was very tall, and
had a voice, the sound of which, produced alarm on a
first hearing. He seemed to utter everything with the
greatest sound he could command. Mr. Irwin left in his
will one share of the stock of the Bank of Pennsylvania,
to the Trustees of the College, the interest to be devoted
to the best orator belonging to the Whig Society. He
died March 3, I 812.
Thomas McePherrin received license to preach from
the Presbytery of Donegal in I773, and was ordained
and settled as pastor of two churches in Pennsylvania
in I775. He remained in this charge until his death,
February 4, I8o2.
John Cosins Ogden. For fifteen years after his
graduation Mr. Ogden resided in New Haven. Having
been ordained by Bishop Seabury, in 1786, he became
Rector of an Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, where he remained until I793, when his
mind becoming deranged he gave up his charge. He
died in Chestertown, Maryland, in i8oo. Mr. Ogden was
a native of New Jersey.
Mr. Ogden published an Election Sermon, I79o. A Masonic Sermon.
Letters. An Address. An Excursion'into Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania, in the year I799, with a succinct History of the Society of United
Brethren, commonly called Moravians, Philadelphia, 18oo.
Nathan Perkins was born in Norwich, Connecticut,
and was licensed to preach by the London Association,
Connecticut. After preaching in various places, he was
installed as pastor at West Hartford, October. I4, I772.
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Here he laboured with great diligence and fidelity for
sixty-six years. During his ministry he preached ten
thousand sermons, and assisted more than one hundred
and fifty students in their preparation for college. He
had under his care, at different times, more than thirty
theological students. In I80o Princeton conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
Dr. Perkins was a man of highly respectable talents,
good common sense, and uncommon prudence. He was
kind, affectionate, and cheerful in his social and domestic
relations, and a solemn, persuasive and affectionate
preacher. He died January I8, I838.
In I795, he published Twenty-four Discourses on some of the important
and interesting truths, duties, and institutions of the Gospel, and the general
excellency of the Christian Religion; calculated for the people of God of
every communion, particularly for the benefit of pious families, and the instruction of all in the things which concern their salvation, I vol., 8vo.
Three Sermons in the American Preacher, vol. iii., iv., 1793, 1794. Four
Letters, showing the History and Origin of the Anabaptists, 1793. A Discourse at the ordination of Calvin Chapin, I794. Two Discourses on the
Grounds of the Christian Hope, i8oo. A Sermon at the ordination of
Elihu Mason, I8io. A Sermon at the interment of Rev. Timothy Pitkin,
i8iz. A Sermon on the State Fast, 1812. A Sermon at the interment of
the Rev. Nathan Strong, D.D., i8i6. A Half Century Sermon, 1822.
Caleb Russell after graduating studied law, and was
admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New
Jersey, at the September Term, I784.  He died in I8o5.
Isaac Smith studied theology, and settled as pastor
of a Congregational Church at Gilmantown, New Hampshire, November 30, I774.  He died in I8I7.
John Smith was a native of Plainfield, Connecticut.
He became a Congregational minister, and on the 22d of
April, 1772, was settled at Dighton, Massachusetts.  In
I802, he became a Missionary in the neighbourhood of
Canandaigua, New York. He gave a deed of six thousand acres of land to form a seminary of learning in Canandaigua.  Afterwards, Mr. Smith removed to Lycoming
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he removed to Nelson County, Kentucky, acting as a Missionary in both places. He died in Kentucky in I820. Mr.
Smith was the grandfather of Professor Henry B. Smith
of the Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Stephen Tracy was a native of Norwich, Connecticut. He was ordained in April, I773, and settled as pastor of the Congregational Church in Peru, Massachusetts,
where he remained until October 8, I8I5, when he was
released from his charge. Mr. Tracy died May I4, I825.
Caleb Wallace on leaving college studied theology,
and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick,
April 3, I774, and was ordained by the Presbytery of
Hanover, and installed pastor of Cub Creek and Falling
River Churches, Virginia.  In I779, he resigned his
charge, and in 1783 emigrated to Kentucky.
Abandoning the ministry, he entered the profession of
the law, in which he was successful, and became Judge
of the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Mr. Wallace was a
native of Virginia.
_Mathias Williamson was a native of Elizabethtown,
New Jersey. After graduating, he studied law, and was
admitted to the Bar in November, I774; but the war
commencing, he became an officer in the Commissary
department. He died in Elizabethtown in I836, aged 84.
James Wilson received his license to preach from
the Presbytery of New Castle in I77I, and was ordained
in I773. Mr. Wilson probably died soon after, as his
name disappears from the roll of Synod.
James Witherspoon, a son of President Witherspoon, was a young man of great promise. He joined
the American army as aid to General Nash, and was
killed at the battle of Germantown, October 4, I777.
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Gunning Bedford became a lawyer, and soon rose
to eminence in Delaware, his native State. In 1785 and
I786 he was a member of the Continental Congress; and
in I787 was a member of the Convention which formed
the Constitution of the United States.
While a student in college, Mr. Bedford married Miss
Jane B. Parker, one of the most elegant and accomplished
women of her times, who brought her first-born child to
Princeton, leaving it in the care of Mrs.. President Witherspoon, while she went to the church to hear her young.
husband's valedictory address at Commencement. Mr.
Bedford was a personal friend of Washington, Franklin
and other master spirits of the Revolution. In I796, he
was elected Governor of Delaware, and soon after was
the first appointee of Washington to the United States
District Court of Delaware, which position he held with
distinguished honour until his death in March, I8 I2.
The house of Mr. Bedford was the resort of the wit,'fashion and talent of the state and country. Distinguished jurists, statesmen, clergymen and civilians were
guests at his fireside. Mr. Bedford was a consistent
Christian, and for many years an Elder in the Presbyterian Church.
John Black, a South Carolinian by birth, was licensed by Donegal Presbytery, October 1-4, I773, and
was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of Upper Marsh Creek, York County, Pennsylvania, August 15, I775. On the Ioth of April, I794, he
was released from his charge, but continued to preach in
various places without any regular settlement.  Mr.
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Black possessed a high order of talent, and was especially fond of philosophical disquisitions. He died August
6, I802, in the exercise of a triumphant faith.
He published, A Discourse on Psaimody, in reply to Rev. Dr. John Anderson of the Associate Church.
Hugh Henry Brackenridge came to this country
from Scotland when quite young. He supported himself while in the higher classes in college, by teaching the
lower classes. In conjunction with his class-mate Philip
Freneau, he wrote a poem in dialogue, between Acasto
and Eugenio, on the Rising Glory of America, which he
delivered at Commencement, and which was published
the next year in Philadelphia. After graduation, he remained two years as a tutor, pursuing at the same time
the study of theology. Mr. Brackenridge was licensed
to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1777, but
resigned his license a few months afterwards. For several years after leaving the college, he taught school in
Maryland, but in I776 he went to Philadelphia, and supported himself by editing the United States Magazine.
An anecdote of this time is related by his son. On several occasions the Magazine contained strictures on the
celebrated General Lee, in regard to his conduct to
Washington. On a certain day, Lee called at the office
of Mr. Brackenridge with two of his aids, with the intention of assaulting the editor. Knocking at the door,
Mr. Brackenridge from an upper window inquired what
was wanting. " Come down," said Lee, "and I will give
you as good a horse-whipping as any rascal ever received."  "Excuse me, General," said the other, "I would
not go down for two such favours."
Mr. Brackenridge was in the habit of making political
harangues to the army, six of which were published at
the time in a pamphlet, which had a large circulation.
In I78I, Mr. Brackenridge established himself at Pittsburg, from which city he was sent to the Legislature.
He was closely associated with Albert Gallatin during
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the Whisky Insurrection, and when that affair was over,
he published, " Incidents of the Insurrection in the Western parts of Pennsylvania, I 794."
In I786, Mr. Brackenridge published "Modern Chivalry; or, The Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Reagan, his servant."  After an interval of ten
years he published the second part.  The whole, with
his last corrections, was published in Pittsburg in I8I9.
This political satire gave him great renown among the
frontier men.
In I789, Mr. Brackenridge was appointed Judge of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A few years before his
death, he removed to Carlisle, where he died June 25,
i816.
Few men have combined a greater variety of brilliant
qualities. He was a man of decided talents, with a commanding person, an eagle eye, highly popular manners,
and a mind richly stored with various learning. He had
a profound knowledge of men, possessed great address,
could reason clearly, and make the blood run cold by
touches of genuine eloquence. His wit was rather delicate irony than broad humour, and always employed as
the means of conveying some important truth, or correcting something wrong.
Besides the publications already noted, Judge Brackenridge wrote "A
Eulogium on the Brave Men who fell in the Contest with Great Britain,
1779." " Gazette Publications Collected, I8o6." "Laws of Miscellanies,
containing instructions for the study of the law, 1814."
Donald Campbell joined the American army from
New York, and rose to the rank of colonel in the regular
Continental line. He served during the whole war.
Philip Freneau was born in the City of New York,
on the second of January, I752, being descended from a
French Protestant family.  He began to write verses
very early, but it was while residing in New York in
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the royalists and their cause, which have transmitted his
name to posterity.
In 1776, he visited the Danish West Indies, where he
wrote several of his best poems. Two years later he was
at Bermuda; and in I779 was in Philadelphia, superintending the publication of the United States Magazine.
In I780, he sailed in the "Aurora " for St. Eustatia, but
was captured in sight of Cape Henlopen by the British
frigate Iris, and carried to New York and confined in a
prison-ship, from which he eventually escaped. He subsequently became a sea captain, and made many voyages
between I784 and I789, and 1798 and I809.  In I790, he
was editor of the Daily Advertiser in New York; and in
I791 was appointed by Mr. Jefferson " interpreter of the
French Language for the Department of State."
In I795, he set up his own press at Mount Pleasant,
Monmouth County, New Jersey, and commenced the
publication of his "New  Jersey Chronicle," which he
continued about a year.  In  I797, he started in New
York "The Time-Piece and Literary Companion."  It
was published three times a week, in a neat folio form.
In I798, Freneau's name disappears from the paper.
Mr. Freneau's end was sad; he was found dead about
two miles from his house in New Jersey, having perished
in a snow-storm. His death occurred December I8,
I832, in the eightieth year of his age.
The first collection of Mr. Freneau's Poems was published in Philadelphia, in 1786. In I795, a second edition appeared, and a third in I809. A
collection of poems connected with the war of 1812 and other subjects, in
2 vols., was published in New York.
Dr. Francis, of New York, in relating his reminiscences of Freneau, remarks, " His story of many of his occasional poems was quite romantic. I
told him what I heard Jeffrey, the Scotch Reviewer, say of his writingsthat the time-would arrive when his poetry, like that of Hudibras, would
command a commentator like Grey."
Charles McKnight, a son  of the  Rev. Charles
McKnight, was born in Cranberry, New Jersey, October
tI, 1750. After graduating, he studied medicine with
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Dr. William Shippen, of Philadelphia, of the class of I754,
and entered the army as a surgeon, where his abilities
soon attracted the attention of the Commander-in-Chief,
and procured his appointment to the office of Senior Surgeon of the Flying Hospital of the Middle Department,
in April, I777. He was with the main army in all its
movements, and the duties of his office he performed with
signal ability. For some months in I780 he acted as Surgeon-General; and from October I, I780 to January I,
1782, as Surgeon-General of the Middle Department.
His talent, his zeal, his devotion to duty and his ardent
patriotism rendered him conspicuous among the heroes
of the Revolution. At the close of the war he settled in
New York city, and became Professor of Anatomy and
Surgery in Columbia College, where he delivered lectures on these two branches of medical science, and
where he enjoyed the reputation of being the most eminent surgeon of his day. Dr. McKnight died November
i6, I79I.
James Madison, the son of James Madison, of Orange County, Virginia, was born March 5, I75I. Dr.
Witherspoon remarked to Jefferson, in reference to Madison, that in his whole course in college, he had never
known him do or say an indiscreet thing. While in college he was a laborious student, during a part of the
course allowing himself but three hours out of the twentyfour for sleep. The state of opinion in the college in regard to the oppression of the colonies by Great Britain,
may be learned from an extract of a letter from Madison
to Thomas Martin, his former tutor, and himself a graduate of the class of 1762: "We have no public news
but the base conduct of the merchants of New York
in breaking through their spirited resolution not to import. Their letter to the merchants in Philadelphia, requesting their concurrence, was lately burned by the students of this place in the college yard, all of them appearing in their black gowns, and the bell tolling..... There
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are about an hundred and fifteen in the college and in
the grammar school, all of them in American cloth."
After graduating, Mr. Madison spent about a year at
Princeton, studying Hebrew with Dr. Witherspoon. On
his return to his home, he applied himself to the study
of theology and kindred sciences, and few have gone
through more laborious and extensive inquiries to arrive
at the truth.
Mr. Madison entered upon public life in May, I776, as
a member of the Convention of Virginia which formed
the first Constitution, and which instructed its delegates
in Congress to prepare the Declaration of Independence.
In October, I776, he was elected to the Virginia House
of Delegates. On December I4, I779 he was appointed
a member of the Continental Congress, in which, although the youngest member, he immediately took a
prominent position. In 1784 he was a member of the
House of Delegates of Virginia, and stood the peer of
such men as Patrick Henry and Henry Lee, and was the
author of the resolutions inviting the other States to meet
in Convention to form the Constitution of the United
States. Mr. Madison took a conspicuous and distinguished part in the deliberations of that body, and was
the chief framer of what was called the Virginia Plan,
which in its substantial features forms our present Constitution. After the adjournment of the Convention, he
contributed by his pen to the adoption of the Constitution, and his articles in the Federalist place him among
the foremost statesmen of the world. Mr. Madison was
a member of the Federal Congress through the whole of
Washington's administration. In I799 he was again a
member of the Virginia House of Delegates; and in I8oi
was appointed by Mr. Jefferson Secretary of State, which
position he held until I809.
So successful had Mr. Madison been in the conduct of
foreign affairs, that the eyes of the nation were turned to
him as the next President, to which elevated position he
was elected by an overwhelming vote. In I8I7, having
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served two terms as President, he retired into private
life. In I826 he succeeded Mr. Jefferson as Rector of
the University of Virginia, and in I829 became a member
of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, his last public appearance.
Mr. Madison held a high and honourable and unstained
character, and his memory is venerated. Shortly before
his death he penned these sentences of advice to his
countrymen: "The advice nearest to my heart and dearest to my convictions is, that the Union of the States be
cherished and perpetuated. Let the avowed enemy to it
be regarded as a Pandora with'her box opened, and the
disguised one as a serpent, creeping with deadly wiles
into Paradise."
Mr. Madison died June 28, I836, aged 85.
The publications of Mr. Madison consist of twenty-nine numbers of the
Federalist, and other political papers. Notes on the Debates in the Convention to frame the Federal Constitution, published in I840. A quarto
volume of Correspondence, printed for private circulation.
There are enough of his unpublished manuscripts extant to fill twelve
octavo volumes.
Samuel Spring was born in Massachusetts.  One
interesting fact is related of him while in college. He
was called upon on a certain occasion to explain and deiend the Copernican System in the presence of the class;
when after proceeding awhile, he became overwhelmed
with a sense of the Divine Majesty, and burst into tears;
he was unable to proceed. In I774 Mr. Spring was licensed to preach, and immediately joined the Continental army as a chaplain, and was in the severe campaign
to Canada under Arnold. At the close of the year I776,
he left the army and began preaching at Newburyport,
Massachusetts, where he was ordained and installed August 6, I777. He remained at Newburyport until his
death, March 4, I8I9. The honorary degree of Doctor
of Divinity was conferred upon him in I8o6 by Princeton.
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vency, and simplicity of his prayers excelled most ministers. As a preacher he was remarkable for a clear and
forcible illustration of divine truth. His written sermons
were prepared with care and labour, and were always
weighty and instructive. But his extemporaneous preaching was far more striking and powerful. It was here
that he showed his superior strength to the best advantage. Few ministers enjoy as fully as he did the confidence, the attachment, and the veneration of his people;
and few exert so salutary and lasting an influence. Dr.
Spring was the father of the Rev. Gardiner Spring, D.D.,
of New York.
The publications of Dr. Spring are, A Thanksgiving Sermon. I777. A
Sermon on the Importance of Sinners coming immediately to Christ. I780.
A Sermon on the Ordination of Benjamin Bell. I784. *A Thanksgiving
Discourse. I798. A Sermon on the Death of Washington. 1799. A Sermon before the Massachusetts Missionary Society. I802. A Discourse in
consequence of the late Duel. I804. A Sermon at the Ordination of Charles
Colfin,Jr. I804. Two Discourses on Christ's Self-existence. 1805. A Sermon at the Ordination of Samuel Walker. I8o5. An Address before the
Merrimac Humane Society. 1807. A Sermon on the Death of Deacon
Thomas Thompson. I8o08. Two Sermons delivered on Fast Day. I809. A
Letter addressed to the Rev. Solomon Aikin, on the Subject of the Preceding Sermons. 1809. A Sermon at the Inauguration of the Rev. Dr. Grffin,
as Professor at the Andover Theological Seminary. I809. A Sermon at
the Interment of the Rev. Samuel Noyes. i8Io. A Sermon on the United
Agency of God and Man in Salvation. I817. A Sermon before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. I8i8. A Sermon before the Howard Benevolent Society. I8I8.
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Isaac Alexander, one of the Mechlenburg family
of Alexanders, after graduating, returned to North Carolina and entered upon the study of medicine. In I777
an Isaac Alexander was the President of Liberty Hall
Academy in North Carolina. I am not certain that this
is our graduate, although it is likely from the fact, that
twelve out of the sixteen Trustees, were graduates of
Princeton.
For many years he was an Elder in the Sugar Creek
Presbyterian Church.
Moses Allen was born in Northampton, Massachusetts.  He was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, February I, I774. On March Io, I775, he
was ordained near Charleston, South Carolina, and installed as pastor of an Independent Church at Wappetaw. In I777 he resigned his charge and removed to
Liberty County, Georgia, where he took charge of the
Midway Presbyterian Church; but the next year his
congregation was dispersed and his church burned. He
therefore entered the army as chaplain, and at the capture of Savannah was taken prisoner, and being obnoxious to the enemy, on account of his patriotic exhortations from the pulpit and his animated exertions in the
field, he was confined closely in a prison-ship. Wearied
with his confinement for weeks in that loathsome place,
he determined to escape by swimming, but was drowned
in the attempt on the night of February 8, I779. Mr.
Allen, notwithstanding his clerical function, appeared
among the foremost in the day of battle, and on all occasions sought the post of danger as the post of honour.
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The friends of independence admired him for his popular
talents, his courage and his many virtues. He was an
eminently pious man.
Robert Archibald. Of the early life of Mr. Archibald, little is known. After leaving Princeton, he studied
medicine and afterwards theology, and was licensed by
the Presbytery of Orange in the autumn of I775. He
was ordained and installed pastor of Rocky River Presbyterian Church, North Carolina, October 7, I778, and
continued to hold this office till he was brought into
difficulties for preaching erroneous doctrines, about the
year 1792, for which, in I794, he was suspended from the
work of the ministry, and, in 1797, was solemnly deposed.
Mr. Archibald was a man of talent, of an amiable disposition, and considered a good classical scholar; but
was careless in his manners and extremely negligent in
his dress and general appearance. Some domestic afflictions, fancied or real, preyed upon his spirits, and were
the occasion of indulgence, to an unwarrantable degree,
in intoxicating drinks.
Mr. Archibald never returned to the communion of
his church, nor retracted the errors for which he was deposed.
William  Bradford, a grandson of William Bradford, the celebrated printer of Philadelphia, and son of
Colonel William Bradford of the Revolutionary Army,
was born in Philadelphia, September 14, I755. He remained a year in Princeton after graduating, studying
theology with Dr. Witherspoon.  On returning to his
home, he read law in the office of Edward Shippen; but
the Revolution commencing, he joined the army, and
rose to the rank of Colonel, but declining health induced
him to resign his commission in April, I779.
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sylvania. His marked ability soon attracted attention,
and in I780, when but twenty-three years of age, he was
appointed Attorney-General of the State.  He held this
position for eleven years, and on the 22d of August, I791,
was elevated to the Supreme Bench of Pennsylvania.
This office he held until 1794, when he was appointed by
Washington Attorney - General of the United States, in
which office he remained until his death, which occurred
August 23, I795, at Rose Hill, near Philadelphia.  Judge
Bradford married a daughter of Elias Boudinot in I782.
His death was occasioned by a bilious fever contracted
by exposure in the discharge of his duties.
He advanced with a rapid progress to an eminence of
reputation which never was defaced by petty artifices of
practice or ignoble associations of thought. His course
was lofty, as his mind was pure; his eloquence was of
the best kind; his language was uniformly classical.
His style was modelled upon that of the best English
writers. His splendid abilities, his great integrity, his
clear judgment, his persuasive eloquence, his ardent
patriotism, were crowned with the graces of the Christian character.
The publications of Mr. Bradford are: An Enquiry how far the Punishment of Death is necessary in Pennsylvania, with an Account of the Penitentiary tHouse of Philadelphia, I795. In the earlier periods of his life he
was not unacquainted with the walks of poetry, and some of his poetical
productions, in imitation of Shenstone, were published in the Philadelphia
magazines.
Aaron Burr was the son of President Burr, and the
grandson of President Edwards. In 1775 he joined the
army at Cambridge, and accompanied Arnold in his expedition against Quebec. In 1779, with the rank of
Lieutenant- Colonel, he retired from  military life.  In
1782 he commenced the practice of law at Albany, but
soon removed to New York City. From 1791 to I797
he was a member of the Senate of the United States.
He and Jefferson had each seventy-three votes for President of the United States in I8oo. On the thirty-sixth
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ballot in tlie House of Representatives, Jefferson was
elected, and Burr became Vice-President. On the I2th
of July, I804, he mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton
in a duel. In I807 -Mr. Burr was arrested for High
Treason, and was tried in Richmond and acquitted.
Luther Martin, of the class of I766, a personal friend,
was one of his counsel.
The remainder of Mr. Burr's life was passed in New
York in obscurity and neglect.  He died September I4,
I836, and was buried at Princeton, near the grave of his
father.
John Debow received his license from  the Presbytery of New Brunswick in I773, and soon after removed
to North Carolina, where he was ordained and installed
pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Hawfields in I776.
Here he remained until his death, which occurred September I7, 1782.  Mr. Debow was successful in his ministry, and a goodly number were added to the church.
Joseph Eckley was born in the city of London.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York May 7,
I776. In I779 he was ordained pastor of the Old South
Church, Boston, where he remained until his death in
April, i8II. His Alma Mater conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Divinity about I787. Dr. Eckley
had a high standing in the community as a preacher, although he was inclined to abstraction. In person, he
was about the medium stature and size. His countenance
was a pleasing one, though his features were not remarkably delicate. His hair was turned back on his forehead, over the head to the neck, and arranged in " cannon curls" (the hair twisted around wire), according to
the custom of the day.
Dr. Eckley published, Divine Glory brought to View in the Condemnation of the Ungodly; by a friend of the truth, 1782. A Sermon at the installation of the Rev. Israel Evans, at Concord, 1789. Artillery Election
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mon before the Boston Female Asylum, 8o02. A Discourse before the Society for Propagating the Gospel, I805. Dudleian Lecture at Harvard
University, I8o6. A Sermon at the installation of Rev. Horace Holley,
Boston, I809.
Israel Evans.  The father and grandfather of Mr.
Evans were settled ministers in this country, and his
great-grandfather was a minister in Wales. Mr. Evans
was ordained by the First Presbytery of Philadelphia in
I776, and immediately entered upon his duties as Chaplain in the American Army.  From  I777 till the close of
the war, he was Chaplain to the New Hampshire Brigade, and by means of this connection, he was introduced
to the Church in Concord, New Hampshire, of which he
became pastor July 1, I789, his classmate, Joseph Eckley,
preaching  his installation  sermon.   He resigned  this
charge in July, i797, but continued to reside in Concord,
where he died March 9, I807.
The publications of Mr. Evans are: Oration delivered at Hackensack,
New Jersey, at the interment of Brigadier-General Enoc Poor, I780. A
Sermon delivered near York, Virginia, on the memorable occasion of the
Surrender of the British Army, etc., 1781. A Sermon delivered in New
York on the day set apart by Congress as a day of Public Thanksgiving
for the blessings of Independence, Liberty and Peace, I783. A Sermon to
the Officers and Soldiers of the Western Army after their return from an
expedition against the Five Nations. New Hampshire Election Sermon,
179I.
Ebenezer Finley, the eldest son of President Finley,
studied medicine, and became a highly respectable physician in Charleston, South Carolina, and was distinguished
for his piety and moral worth.
Philip Vicars Fithian was born in Cumberland
County, New Jersey. In connection with his classmate,
Andrew Hunter, and about forty other young patriots,
he assisted in the destruction of a cargo of tea at Greenwich, New Jersey.  This cargo had been brought over
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house which is still standing. In imitation of the proceedings of the Whigs of Boston in I773, and animated
by the same patriotic spirit, this company of young men,
disguised as Indians, assembled on the evening of November 22, I774, removed the chests of tea from the storehouse, conveyed them to an adjoining field and then
burned them. Mr. Fithian was licensed to preach by
the Presbytery of Philadelphia in I775. For some time
he labouired as a missionary under direction of the Presbytery, and then entered the army as a chaplain. At the
Battle of White Plains he fought in the ranks. He died
in I776 from disease contracted in camp. Mr. Fithian
was never ordained.
James Grier, a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, graduated with the highest honours of his class,
and acted as tutor for about one year. He was licensed
by the First Presbytery of Philadelphia in I775, and ordained and installed as pastor of Deep Run Presbyterian
Church, Pennsylvania, in I776, where he remained until
his death, November I9, I79I.
Mr. Grier was amiable and conciliatory in his disposition and manners. Ordinarily using but little gesture,
and that of the mildest kind, his manner was always earnest, and at times it became deeply impassioned.  He
had power over an audience to which few attain. To
illustrate this-On a Communion Sabbath, he followed
up the Sacramental Service with a sermon on the text,
"And the door was shut." After reading the passage, he
closed the Bible with an action somewhat energetic, and
lifting up his hands, apparently in the deepest agony,
exclaimed, " My God, and is the door shut."  The impression on the whole congregation was perfectly overwhelming.
Andrew Hodge was the son of Andrew Hodge, a
wealthy merchant of Philadelphia. After graduating,
he commenced the study of law in the office of Governor
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Reed. HIe was thus engaged at the opening of the Revolution, when his patriotism led him to join the First
City Troop of Philadelphia, which was Washington's
Body Guard, and was a participator in the battle of
Trenton. Shortly before the close of the war he engaged in commercial business with his younger brother
Hugh until I783, when the firm was dissolved. He continued in business until about I806, when the embargo and
his impaired health caused him to retire from active life.
He resided partly in Philadelphia and partly in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, until his death, which occurred in May, I835.
Andrew  Hunter, the son of a British officer, was
born in Virginia.  He was licensed to preach by the
First Presbytery of Philadelphia about 1773, immediately
after which he made a missionary tour through Pennsylvania and Virginia. In I778 he was ordained, and was
appointed a Brigade Chaplain in the American Army. In
I794 he was teaching a school at Woodbury, New Jersey,
and in I803, on account of ill health, was cultivating a
farm on the Delaware River near Trenton. In I788 he
was elected a Trustee of the College of New Jersey,
which position he held until I804, when he was appointed
Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. In I8o8 he
resigned his professorship, and took charge of an academy at Bordentown, New Jersey, but was soon after
appointed a Chaplain in the Navy, and was stationed
at the Navy Yard at Washington until his death,
which occurred at Burlington, New Jersey, February
24, 1823.
Mr. Hunter's second wife was a daughter of Richard
Stockton, of the class of I748.
Robert Keith, a native of Pennsylvania, studied
theology after his graduation, and was licensed by the
First Presbytery of Philadelphia about I775, and for
some time acted as a missionary in Pennsylvania and
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Virginia. In I779 he was ordained, and received the appointment of Chaplain in the Army, serving during the
whole war. Mr. Keith was never permanently settled
over a congregation. He died in I784.
William Linn was born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in I752. Soon after being licensed, he entered the
American army as a chaplain. In 1784, he was Rector
of an academy in Somerset County, Maryland, where he
acquired a high reputation as a teacher and scholar. In
1786, he removed to Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that place.
He remained here but a few months, as in the November
after his settlement, he received and accepted a call to
the Reformed Dutch Church of the City of New York.
In consequence of declining health, which it was supposed a change of air might benefit, he removed to
Albany, where he died in January, I8o8.
Mr. Linn received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity from King's College in I789. He enjoyed a
high reputation as a pulpit orator. HIis delivery was
very emphatic, and his gesticulations often violent. He
was in great demand on charitable and public occasions.
In a series of sermons on the Signs of the Times, which
were afterwards published, he excited interest and much
opposition among a certain class, owing to the strong
ground taken in them in favour of the French Revolution, a movement of which he was a warm partisan, until
it became identified with infidelity and anarchy. In a
sermon preached before the Tammany Society on the
4th of July, I79I, after claiming with Mr. Jefferson, that
"making due allowance for our age and numbers, we
have produced as many eminent men as fall to our
share;" and invoking the patriotism of the country, he
plunged into an attack on the foes of liberty, Edmund
Burke in particular, and a glorification of the French
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ny everywhere shall be destroyed; when mankind shall
be the slaves of monsters and idiots no more, but recover
the true dignity of their nature! The cause of liberty is
continually gathering strength. The advocates of despotic rule must fail. The British orator, though he sublimely rave, he raves in vain. No force of genius, no
brilliancy of fancy, and no ornament of language can support his wretched cause.  He and his abettors only hasten its downfall.  The Revolution in France is great, is
astonishing, is glorious. It is, perhaps, not just to say,
that the flame was kindled by us, but certainly we continue to blow and increase it, as France will in other nations, until blaze joining blaze, shall illumine the darkest
and remotest corners of the earth."
The publications of Dr. Linn are: A Militarv Discourse, delivered in
Carlisle, Pa., 1776. The Spiritual Death and Life of the Believer, and the
Character and Misery of the Wicked; two Sermons in the American Preacher, Volume I. A Sermon on American Independence, 179I. A volume of
Discourses entitled Sermons Historical and Characteristical, I79I. A Series of Sermons on the Signs of the Times, I794. A Sermon at a Fast, 1798.
A Funeral Eulogy on Washington, I8oo.
William  Smith Livingston, a son of Robert James
Livingston, studied law and was admitted an attorney of
the Supreme Court of New Jersey at the April Term,
I78o. During the war he was an officer in the Revolutionary army. Afterwards he practised law in the City
of New York.
George Luckey was a native of Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Castle in 1776, and was ordained and settled as pastor of
Bethel and Centre Churches, Hartford County, Maryland, where he preached until I799, when he resigned.
Mr. Luckey was a fine classical scholar, an intelligent
preacher, in his manners plain, in labours unwearied.
Very few had an equal acquaintance with the Scriptures.
He died at Bethel, probably in I8I9, as his name disappears from the roll of Synod in that year.,
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Samuel Eusebius Maccorkle was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, August 23, I746. His parents
removed to North Carolina when he was quite young,
and he was prepared for college by Rev. David Caldwell of the Class of 176I. After graduating, he studied
theology with his maternal uncle, the Rev. Joseph Montgomery, of the class of 1755, and was licensed by the
Presbytery of New York in I754. For two years he laboured as a missionary in Virginia, and in I776 returned
to North Carolina, and on the 2d of August, I777, was
installed pastor of the church at Thyatira, where he remained until his death.
He was an active friend of his country in its struggles
for liberty, and was an earnest champion for the truth
against the rising tide of French infidelity which threatened to sweep the land.
In I785, Mr. Mccorkle commenced a classical school
in his own house, to which he gave the name of Zion Parnasus. The first class that graduated at the State University, consisted of seven students, six of whom  were
from his school.  Forty-five of his scholars afterwards
became ministers. At the establishment of the University of North Carolina, the state of the funds did not permit them to appoint a President, but Mr. Maccorkle was
elected the first Professor, having the Chair of Moral and
Political Philosophy. He was a thorough scholar, and
kept up his acquaintance, not only with the Latin and
Greek classics, but with mathematics, philosophy, and
every important branch of learning.
In person, Mr. Maccorkle was tall, about six feet one
inch; finely formed; light hair and pale blue eyes; mild,
grave and dignified in his appearance; cheerful in disposition; and of fine conversational powers. Firm in his
opinions, and devotedly attached to the doctrines of the
Presbyterian Church, he never unnecessarily attacked the
opinions or forms of others. In appearance and gait, he
is said to have very much resembled Mr. Jefferson. He
died January 2I, i8ii. The honorary degree of Doctor
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of Divinity was conferred on him by Dartmouth in
1792.
His publications are: A Sermon on Sacrifices, 1792. A Charity Sermon
delivered on several occasions, 1793. A National Thanksgiving Sermon,
entitled, The Comparative Happiness and Duty of the United States of
America contrasted with other Nations, particularly the Israelites, I795.
A Sermon preached at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the University of
North Carolina. Four Discourses on the great first principles of Deism
and Revelation contrasted, I797. Three Discourses on Christian Communion. A National Fast Sermon, entitled, The Work of God for the French
Republic; and then her Reformation or Ruin; or, The Novel and Useful Experiment of National Deism to us and all mankind. A Sermon
entitled, The Angel's Seal set upon God's Faithful Servants, when Hurtful
Winds are Blowing in the Church Militant.
John MeMillan,    a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, became one of the most eminent founders of the
Presbyterian Church in our Western country. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of the New Castle, October
26, I774. In I775, he made a missionary tour through
the Valley of Virginia, enduring much privation and
meeting many difficulties. He made a second tour to
the same region in I776.
Crossing into Western Pennsylvania, he was ordained
and settled as pastor of the Congregations of Chartiers
and Pigeon Creek. Here he had to build his own house;
had neither bedsteads nor tables, nor stools, chairs or buckets.  Boxes served him  for tables, and kegs for seats.
Sometimes he had no bread for weeks; but his health
was good, and he once remarked that he had not from
his earliest recollection been confined half a day by sickness during his whole life. The revivals which occurred
in his congregations are some of the most remarkable in
the history of the Church.
Mr. McMillan very early turned his attention to the
education of young men for the ministry.  He started a
school within a year after he removed his family to the
West. In I79I, his school became merged with an academy at Cannonsburg, which in time became Jefferson
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In personal appearance Mr. McMillan was far from attractive; he was about six feet high, and walked with
his head and neck inclined forward. He was of a stout
and clumsy form, his features coarse, his nose very prominent, and his general aspect somewhat forbidding. He
wrote out his sermons in full, and learned them by heart.
His voice was strong and coarse, and he poured out his
words in such a torrent that it often offended delicate
ears.
He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Jefferson College in I805. Dr. McMillan's influence in preaching the Gospel himself, and training
others for the same work, it is not easy to estimate. He
died November 5, I833.
Oliver Reese was licensed by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick in I774, and in I775 was ordained and
settled as pastor of Wilton Presbyterian Church in South
Carolina. Among the accounts of the Church still extant, is a bill of one Christian Mote against the Trustees,
for a dinner furnished for " fifty persons and fifteen boys
at the ordination of' the Rev. Oliver Reese." The bill
amounted to ~77. There is also a bill against "the estate of Rev. Oliver Reese," of a tailor named Long, for' two suits of cloaths," at a cost of f~20. It is probable
that he was a young man of promise. The congregation
seem to have rejoiced in securing him as their pastor in
these troublous times. But his connexion with them,
and his work on earth were alike brief. He died either
in the same year or the succeeding one.
James Templeton received his license from  the
Presbytery of Hanover, October 26, I775, soon after
which he removed to North Carolina. In I794, he became stated supply of Nazareth Church in South Carolina, and continued so for nearly eight years. He is
spoken of as being far from an animated preacher, but as
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church. In I797, Mr. Templeton was at the head of the
" Philanthropic Society," organized with the view of advancing and perpetuating an academy of high order.
This Society was incorporated by the Legislature of
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James Francis Armstrong was a native of Maryland. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle
in January, I777, and ordained in January, I778. He
was appointed Chaplain in Sullivan's Brigade, and accompanied the troops on the Southern campaign. He
remained in the army until the surrender of Yorktown.
In 1782, Mr. Armstrong returned to New Jersey, and
supplied the church in Elizabethtown lately made vacant
by the murder of Rev. James Caldwell. In I783, he suspended his labours on account of ill health; but in I786
he resumed them again, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, New Jersey. In I815, Mr.
Armstrong performed his last public service. He was
in personal appearance noble and striking. He had a
princely, generous spirit, which always answered to the
claims of human wretchedness. The interest of letters
and religion were more than anything else impressive
and absorbing with him. He was an acceptable preacher, and had his health remained firm, would have been
an eloquent and attractive one, beyond most of his contemporaries. From I790 to I8I6 he was a Trustee of the
college. He died January I9, I816.
David Bard received his license to preach from the
Presbytery of Donegal, about I777. In I778 he was ordained and installed by the same Presbytery, pastor of
the Church in Bedford, Pennsylvania. He was afterwards settled at Frankstown in the same State. Mr.
Bard was a representative in Congress from Pennsylvania from I795 to I799; and again from 1803 to I813. He
died in I813.
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Ebenezer Bradford was born in Canterbury, Connecticut. After leaving college he studied theology, and
from April, I777, to November, 779, was stated supply
of the First Congregational Church in Danbury, Connecticut. On August 4, I782, he was installed pastor of
the Church at Rowley, Massachusetts, where he continued to labour until his death in I8OI.
Mr. Bradford was admitted to a Master's degree at
Dartmouth in I785, and at Brown University in I8oo.
Mr. Bradford published, A Sermon at the Ordination of Nathaniel Howe,
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, I791. Strictures on Dr. Langdon's Remarks
on Hopkins's System. I794. A Fast Sermon. I795. A Sermon at the Installation of Rev. John H. Stevens. I795.
Archibald Craig. From the best information I can
obtain, Mr. Craig was a native of Monmouth County,
New Jersey. He studied medicine and removed to Albany, New York, where he practiced his profession for
many years; dying at an advanced age.
Thaddeus Dod was born near Newark, New Jersey.
He became one of the founders of the Presbyterian
Church in the West. He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York in I775. In I777, getting up from a
bed of sickness, he made a missionary tour through
Maryland and Virginia. In the autumn of that year the
Indians had made a formidable attack upon Fort Henry
at the mouth of Wheeling Creek. This was one of the
most memorable events in the Border warfare. For
weeks after the whole county was anticipating another
attack. While in this state of apprehension and anxiety,
there arrived a young man of slender form, black hair,
and keen penetrating dark eyes, not unknown to some of
the inhabitants; and his arrival gave them no ordinary
joy. It was the Rev. Thaddeus Dod. He had been ordained by the Presbytery of New York to go out to the
frontier, and he entered at once on his work. His colabourers in those bloody times were, Smith, McMillan
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and Power, all graduates of Princeton. Mr. Dod was a
remarkable scholar,- especially in mathematics. An interesting anecdote is related of him by a relative: Before the death of Chief-Justice Kirkpatrick, who was a
Trustee of the college, Albert B. Dod was nominated for
the Mathematical chair, and the Chief-Justice remarked,
that he was not acquainted with the candidate, and did
not know his reputation as a mathematician; nevertheless he would vote for him most cheerfully; he liked the
name; that he never knew a Dod that was not born a
mathematician; that there was one Thaddeus Dod in
college when he was a student who seemed to understand
mathematics by instinct; that all the students applied to
him for aid when anything difficult occurred in their
mathematical studies. He presumed the candidate was
of the same stock, and he would vote for him. Professor
Dod was the grand nephew of Thaddeus Dod. Mr. Dod
was not only a fine mathematician, but was as eminent
as a classical scholar, and had an exquisite taste for music. He laboured faithfully in building up the Church
and the cause of higher education till his death.
When we consider a man of such mathematical talent,
classical taste, and poetic imagination, we cannot but admire the orderings of Providence, that assigned to such
a man such a perilous and self-denying charge. Often
were he and his family driven to the neighbouring fort
*by the savages, and they were in constant danger and
alarm.
Mr. Dod had not been long at his post before he started
a classical school under the very walls of the fort, his
neighbours turning out and erecting a building for him.
On the 20th of January, I789, he was appointed the first
Principal of Washington Academy, at Washington, Pennsylvania, which had been incorporated in I787. This
academy, under a new charter, became Washington College. Mr. Dod died in I793.
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Dod. He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania,
and after graduating, acted as tutor for two years. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of Donegal, sometime
between 1776 and I78I, and ordained by the Presbytery
of New Castle, August 2I, I78I. Shortly after his ordination he removed to Western Pennsylvania and settled
first at Little Redstone and Dunlap Creek; afterwards
he became pastor of Laurel Hill Church, where he remained until I803, when he was elected President of Jefferson College. This post he held until i8i. He is
represented to have been a very pious man and a remarkable scholar. He was especially distinguished for
his accurate attainments in classical literature. He seemed to have the classics completely in his memory; for he
could hear long recitations in Virgil, Homer, etc., without a book in his hand, and then thoroughly drill the
reciting class; asking all the words and sentences while
walking to and fro with his hands behind his back-his
usual position on such occasions. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Jefferson College in I8o6.
Dr. Dunlap died in 1818.
William  Graham stood pre-eminent in college, and
during the course anticipated a whole year. He was
licensed by the Presbytery of Hanover on the 26th of
October, I775. He immediately took charge of a classical school which had been started at Mount Pleasant,
in the Valley of Virginia. After a short time the school
was removed to Timber Ridge, and Mr. Graham became
pastor of the church as well as rector of the school. On
account of the troubles occasioned by the war, the buildings at Timber Ridge were abandoned; Mr. Graham
removing to a farm, but still attempting to keep up the
school at Timber Ridge. This becoming inconvenient,
he opened a school at his own house. In course of time
a building for the school was erected, when in 1782 it
received an act of incorporation, and the name of Liberty
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General Washington, when his name was substituted for
that which it had before borne. Before this donation
was received, Mr. Graham had resigned his office of
President.
Mr. Graham possessed a mind formed for accurate and
profound investigation. He had studied the Latin and
Greek classics with great care, and relished the beauties
of these exquisite compositions. He was a lover of natural science. But the science which engaged his attention more than all others, except Theology, was the Philosophy of the Mind. From the time of his ordination,
in 1775, he became a teacher of Theology. He was not
much given to writing nor the reading of many books;
but he was a nervous and independent thinker. Kaimes
and Butler were his favourite authors. He was distinguished for the depth and boldness of his investigations, and loved to *examine every subject for himself.
He confessed that the chief advantage he derived from
books, was from the table of contents, which suggested
to his mind matter for thought. As a preacher he was
at once argumentative and impressive; but it was as a
teacher that his excellence was most apparent.  HIis
lectures were fascinating, from their originality and ingenuity; while his penetrating eye and the power of sarcasm kept the most unruly in awe.
It may truly be said that the patriotic fire burned in
no bosom with a warmer flame than in that of Mr. Graham. On a certain occasion it was resolved, by order of
the Governor, to raise a volunteer company of riflemen to
go into active service; but there appeared to be a backwardness in the men to come forward. Mr. Graham,
who was present, stepped out and had his own name enrolled, which produced such an effect that the company
was immediately filled, of which he was unanimously
elected Captain; but they were not called into service.
Mr. Graham died June 8, I799.
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of the previous class, after graduating, studied medicine
with Dr. John Cadwalader, of Philadelphia; and when
the Revolution broke out he offered his services to his
country. He was appointed Surgeon of the First Battalion, Cadwalader Brigade. He served a short time, and
was captured by the British at Fort Washington, New
York. He was released on parole through the exertions
of Robert Morris. While upon parole, he engaged in
mercantile pursuits with his brother Andrew; but owing
to -captures at sea and other causes, they were not very
successful. He resumed the practice of his profession
about 1788 or I789, and rose to eminence in connection
with Drs. Rush and Wistar. He was the father of Dr.
Charles Hodge, of Princeton. He died in Philadelphia.
Andrew  King was born in North Carolina.  He
was probably licensed by the Presbytery of New York
in I775.  On the IIth of June, I777, he was ordained
and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Wallkill, New York. He continued in this relation until his
death, November I6, I815. Mr. King was neither learned
nor eloquent, but was greatly prospered during his ministry. He was known as a " peace-maker," and in various
instances was called on by the Presbytery to settle differences in congregations.
Henry Lee was a son of Henry Lee, of Prince William County, Virginia. He is commonly known as
"Light Horse Harry."  In 1774 he was appointed a
Captain of Cavalry under Colonel Bland. His skill in
discipline, and his gallant bearing, soon attracted the notice of Washington, and he was promoted to the rank of
Major, and then advanced to that of Lieutenant-Colonel.
From I780 to the close of the war, he served under General Green. The services of Lee's Legion in various
actions were very important; he especially distinguished
himself at the Battle of Guilford; afterwards he succeeded in capturing Fort Cornwallis and other forts; he
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was also conspicuous at Ninety Six and at the Eutaw
Springs. In 1786 he was appointed to Congress from
Virginia, in which position he remained until the Constitution was adopted. In I791 he became Governor of
Virginia, and remained in office for three years. By
appointment of Washington he commanded the forces
sent to suppress the Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania. In 1799 he was again in Congress, and was selected to pronounce a funeral oration on Washington,
in which occurred the memorable words, " First in war,
first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
After the accession of Mr. Jefferson in I8oI, he retired
to private life. He was an uncle of the late General
Robert E. Lee. He died March 25, I8i8.
General Lee published, An Oration on the Death of Washington, 800oo.
Memoirs of the War in the South, 2 vols. 8vo, i8I2.
7Morgan Lewis, a son of one of the Signers of the
Declaration of Independence, was born in the city of
New York. After graduating, he entered the army, and
at the surrender of General Burgoyne, was a Colonel of
one of the Continental regiments. In I791 he was appointed Attorney-General of New  York, succeeding
Aaron Burr; and in I8oi he was appointed to the Bencll
of the Supreme Court of the State, the next year being
made Chief-Justice. Brockholst Livingston and Smith
Thompson, two graduates of Princeton, were appointed
Judges of the Supreme Court at the same time. In I804
he was elected Governor of the State his opponent being Aaron Burr.
Mr. Lewis was a kind parent, a benevolent man, a good
citizen and an able lawyer. He died in New York, April
7, i844, at the advanced age of go.
John Linn, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in'the year 1749. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Donegal in December, I776. Shortly after, he
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Churches in Pennsylvania. He remained here till the
close of his life.
Mr. Linn was of medium height, portly and symmetrical
in his form, and muscular and active in his bodily movements. He was accustomed to write out his sermons in
full and deliver them from memory. He had a remarkably clear voice, and spoke with great solemnity and impressiveness. He was distinguished for sobriety of mind
rather than versatility-reflection rather than imagination. In his family, and indeed in all his relations, he
was a fine example of Christian dignity, tenderness and
fidelity.
He died in I820.
James Ml3acconnell received license and was ordained by Hanover Presbytery, and was installed as pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at High Bridge, Virginia, June
I8, I778. By indiscretion and want of family economy,
he became involved in difficulties, and ceased to serve
the congregation. In I787 he removed beyond the Alleghanies.
John McKnight was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October I, I754. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Donegal about I774, and ordained in I775. The
same year he removed to Virginia, and became pastor of
a congregation at Elk Branch. He remained in this
charge till I783, when he removed to Adams County,
Pennsylvania, and became pastor of Lower Marsh Creek
Presbyterian Church.
An amusing incident is, related in connection with his
pastorate at this place. He had just ordained three ruling elders; and one of them was appointed to attend the
meeting of Presbytery to be held the next week. He
came to the pastor on the evening of the day of his ordination, under a good deal of agitation, to inquire what
were the duties that would be expected of him. Perceiving the state of his mind, Mr. McKnight assumed a seri-.
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ous air, and replied-," You are to see that my horse is
fed and saddled in time to start; to go before and have
breakfast and dinner prepared for us; to pay the bills,
and in Presbytery to vote as I do." This playfulness
relieved the anxious elder, whose countenance changed
from  its solemn gravity to a smile,-when opportunity
was given to inform  him what his real duties would be
as a member of the body.
In I789 Mr. McKnight became colleague pastor with
Dr. Rodgers in New York City. In I791 Yale conferred
upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.
Dr. McKnight remained in New York in the faithful discharge of his duties for twenty years. In I8o9 he resigned his charge, and removed to the neighbourhood of
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.  In I8i5 he was elected
President of Dickinson College, but resigned the Chair
in little more than a year, returning to his farm near
Chambersburg, where he died October 2I, I823.
Dr. McKnight was a man of slender person, and rather
above the medium height. His manner was graceful and
dignified. As a preacher he was calm and dispassionate.
Dr. McKnight published, Six Sermons on Faith, 179o. A Sermon before
the New York Missionary Society, I799. A Sermon on the present state
of the political and religious world, i802. A Sermon on the death of the
Rev. Dr. John King, i8Is.
Aaron Ogden belonged to a distinguished family of
Elizabethtown, New Jersey.  After leaving college he
became an assistant teacher in the school of Francis Barber of the class of 1767. In the winter of I775-I776, he
was one of a party of young men who boarded and captured a vessel lying off Sandy Hook, and carried her
safely into Elizabethport. In the spring of I777, the
school of Mr. Barber was broken up; and principal and
assistant both entered the army, the one as a major, the
other as a captain. Mr. Ogden remained in the service
till the close of the war. He was at the Battle of Brandywine in I777; and was in the advanced corps of General
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Lee at the Battle of Monmouth, and served as aid-decamp to Lord Stirling on that memorable day. In I779,
he attended Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians, and was at the Battle of Springfield in I780, where
he had a horse shot under him, and highly distinguished
himself. The same year he was chosen from the whole
army by General Washington to go upon a most delicate and interesting mission to the British lines, the purpose of which was to effect, if possible, an exchange of
Arnold for Andre, which duty he performed with the utmost skill and address.
At the siege of Yorktown, the company which he commanded, stormed the left redoubt of the enemy, for which
he was honoured with the peculiar approbation of Washington.
At the close of the war Mr. Ogden devoted himself to
the study and practice of the law, and for many years
occupied a conspicuous place in the foremost rank at the
New Jersey Bar. From I8oi to I803, he served as a
Senator in the Congress of the United States, and in
1812, was elected Governor of his native state.
To learning and industry, Mr. Ogden united great ingenuity and fertility of resources, quickness and accuracy of discrimination, and an eloquence which at times,
when he was deeply moved or strongly excited, was of a
very high order. His manner was gracious and imposing; his voice, though not musical, was strong and varied; his countenance had great power and diversity of
expression; but, more than all this, he understood well
the springs of human action.
He died April I9, I839.
Richard Platt was a gallant soldier of the Revolu-'tion, a major in the New York line. He was at Quebec
with Montgomery, and at the surrender of Cornwallis at
Yorktown. He died in New York, March 4th, I830o.
Belcher Peartree Smith was a son of the eminent
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William  Peartree Smith of Elizabethtown, one of the
original Trustees of the college. He studied law after
graduation, and practiced in Elizabethtown. He died in
I787.
John Blair Smith was a son of the Rev. Robert
Smith of Pequea, Pennsylvania, and was born June I2,
1756. He received license from Hanover Presbytery,
June I8, I777. He was ordained by the same body October 26, I779. At the same meeting of Presbytery his
brother, Samuel Stanhope Smith, asked leave to resign
the Presidency of Hampden Sidney College; his request
was granted, and John Blair Smith was immediately appointed to succeed him.
During the revival which swept through Virginia in
1786 and I787, Mr. Smith entered into the work with
such glowing zeal, and his preaching was so eloquent
and powerful, that his services were in constant demand
at places remote from his residence. In I789, he resigned
his office in order to give himself up wholly to preaching. In I79I, he became pastor of the Pine Street Church
in Philadelphia, and in 1795 he was elected the first President of Union College, New York; but after presiding
over that infant institution for three years, he returned
to his former charge in Philadelphia, and was installed
in I799. He died of yellow fever in Philadelphia, August, 22, I799. In I793, the degree of Doctor of Divinity
was conferred upon him by Hampden-Sidney and Union
Colleges.
The natural disposition of-Dr. Smith was full of vivacity, his temper quiet, and his actions rapid. At first his
preaching was less impressive than his brother's; but at
the commencement of the great revival, he underwent a
great change in his own feelings and in the fervency of
-his preaching, so that he became one of the most powerful preachers of the day.
In person he was about the middle size. His hair was
uncommonly black, and was divided on the top and -fell
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down on each side of his face. A large blue eye of open
expression, was so piercing, that it was common to say
Dr. Smith looked you through.
Dr. Smith's only acknowledged publication was A Sermon entitled, " The
Enlargement of Christ's Kingdom, the Object of a Christian's Prayers and
Exertions," delivered in the Dutch Church, Albany, before the Northern
Missionary Society of N. Y., I797.
William  R. Smith, a brother of President Samuel
Stanhope Smith, was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Castle in I776; was settled as pastor of the Second
Church in Wilmington, Delaware, about I786; resigned
his charge in I796, and became pastor of the Reformed
Dutch Church of Harlingen and Shannock, New Jersey, in which relation he died about the year I820. Mr.
Smith was plain in his manners, a judicious and instructive preacher, without much power of elocution, a faithful pastor, and amiable and exemplary in his spirit and
deportment.
Samuel Waugh was a native of Pennsylvania. He
was licensed by Donegal Presbytery in I777, and was
settled as the pastor of the United Churches of Pennsborough and Monaghan, Pennsylvania, in I782; in which
relation he continued till his death, which took place in
January, I807. He was a sound divine, a very acceptable preacher, and highly esteemed by his people.
Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson came from the Island
of St. Christopher. A circumstance occurred in connexion with his graduation that was illustrative equally
of his fine scholarship, and his noble spirit. When the
honours were distributed in his class by the Trustees of
the college, five were appointed to deliver orations, and
the second oration fell to him. When the announcement
was made by the President, he rose and made a most
respectful, and grateful acknowledgment of the honour
that had been conferred upon him, but begged to decline
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it, and expressed a wish that it might be given to another.
lHe was accordingly excused, and a person to whom he
knew the appointment would be acceptable, was substituted in his place.
After graduation, he visited London, intending to take
orders in the Church of England; but, changing his
mind, he returned to Princeton, and commenced the
study of Divinity with Dr. Witherspoon. Being interrupted in his studies by the war, he studied medicine and
acted as surgeon in the Continental army for several
years. After the war, he again visited England, and on
his return, settled as a physician in Princeton.
In I786, through the influence of one of his college
friends, he removed to North Carolina, but his old desire
to preach the Gospel returned, and he abandoned medicine, and was licensed to preach in 179I; and in I793, he
was ordained and installed as pastor of Fourth Creek and
Concord Churches in North Carolina. Mr. Wilson was
intimately connected with the great revivals in the West
and South near the end of the last century. In I803, he
resigned his charge, and died in perfect peace December I I, I804.
John Witherspoon, a son of President Witherspoon, studied medicine, and was settled for several
years as a practitioner at St. Stephens Parish, South
Carolina, and is believed to have died at sea between
New York and Charleston in the summer of I795.
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Stephen Bloomer Balch was born in Maryland,
but removed while a boy to North Carolina.. After leaving college, he took charge of a school in Calvert County, Maryland, to which he had been recommended by
Dr. Witherspoon. Here he remained four years. He
was licensed by the Presbytery of Donegal, June I7,
I779, and returned to North Carolina. Here engaging
in missionary work he endured many privations. On
one occasion night overtook him, and he entered a
strange dwelling and asked for a night's lodging. The
master of the house was absent, but his wife received
him hospitably. Being much fatigued he soon fell asleep,
but was aroused by the arrival of the owner of the house,
who proved to be General Williams of North Carolina;
entering the room where Mr. Balch was sleeping, he
said, "I will allow no one who is not a Whig to sleep
under my roof;" Mr. Balch replied, "Let me rest in
peace, then, for I was educated under Dr. Witherspoon,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence."
In I780, Mr. Balch removed to Georgetown, (D. C.,)
and established a Presbyterian Church. Here he remained until his death, which took place September 7,
I833.
In person Mr. Balch was tall and rather commanding.
His eyes were small and keen. His gait was slow and
cautious, indicating that he was absent-minded. He had
an exuberance of good humour, which continued with
him till the last. His preaching was generally doctrinal
and characterized by great fearlessness and energy.
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necticut, and after graduating was licensed by the Litchfield South Association in I775. The last years of Mr.
Bradford's life were spent as pastor of the North Congregational Church in Canterbury. He died in I8o8.
Daniel Breck, a native of Boston, became a Congregational minister, and entered the army as a chaplain,
and accompanied Porter's regiment to Canada and shared
in the hardships and perils of that campaign. He was
present in the attack upon Quebec. After the war he
visited the Northwest Territory, and delivered the first
sermon ever preached on the spot where Marietta, Ohio,
now stands. He was a man of high Christian character.
Mr. Breck was the father of Judge Breck, of Kentucky.
He died in Vermont in I845, aged ninety-seven years.
John Ewing Calhoun entered college from North
Carolina. After graduating he studied law, in which
profession he became distinguished. For many years he
was a member of the South Carolina Legislature, and in
i80o represented that State in the United States Senate.
He was a man of independent thought and resolution.
He dared while in the Senate to secede alone from his
party, and to oppose singly a popular measure, because
it appeared to him to be unconstitutional and perilous in
its consequences. Mr. Calhoun was on a select committee to whom was referred a modification of the Judiciary
System of the United States. He died in I802.
John Noble Cumming early espoused the cause
of his country, and rose to the rank of a General. He
participated in a number of the battles of the Revolution.
Mr. Cumming was a man of integrity and honour, a patron of civil order and a supporter of religious institutions. He died in Newark, July 6, I82I.
Peter Fish was descended from an old family of Long
Island. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of
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New York in 17 79.  On the 20oth of October, I785, he
was appointed by the Presbytery stated supply of the
Presbyterian Church at Newtown, Long Island. He remained here until November, 1788, when he removed to
Connecticut Farms, New Jersey, where he was ordained
and installed, March 25, I789. He remained in this charge
for ten years, when he removed to Holland Patent, New
York, where he laboured for a time; but being in poor
health, he purchased a place in Newtown, and removed
there in the'spring of I807, with the intention of seeking
repose from the arduous duties of the ministry; but the
church becoming vacant, he consented to supply them
for a time, but his labours were suddenly terminated by
his death, on November I2, i8IO. He possessed through
life a delicacy of constitution that greatly restricted his
usefulness. In person he was tall and spare.
James Hall was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
August 22, I744, but removed to North Carolina while a
boy. He had a high reputation while in college, especially in the exact sciences; insomuch that, soon after his
graduation, Dr. Witherspoon expressed a desire that he
should be retained in the college as a teacher of mathematics. The proposal he declined, saying that he had
devoted his life to the sacred ministry. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of Orange about I776. He was installed pastor of the United Congregations of Fourth
Creek, Concord, and Bethany, North Carolina, April 8,
I778. When the Revolutionary war opened, he entered
with all his heart into the conflict; gathering the people
together and setting forth to them their obligations as
patriots, he made most effective appeals in favour of the
cause of liberty. When the forces of Cornwallis were
desolating South Carolina, Mr. Hall assembled his flock
and addressed them with great fervour and pathos. A
select company of cavalry was immediately organized,
and by general consent he was demanded for their leader, which post he accepted. One of his contemporaries
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writes: "When a boy at school at Charlotte, I saw James
HIall pass through the town with a three-cornered hat
and long sword, the Captain at the head of a company,
and Chaplain of the regiment." Mr. Hall accompanied
an expedition into Georgia against the Indians, preaching as he had opportunity. After the skirmish at Cowan's Ford, on the Catawba, between the forces of Cornwallis and the North Carolina Militia, he was selected by
General Green as a suitable person to succeed General
Davidson, who had fallen, and a commission was actually
tendered to him. This he declined, on the ground that
others could fill the post, at least with as much advantage as himself, while he had solemnly pledged his life to
the defence of the Gospel.
A full account of the actions of Mr. Hall during the
Revolutionary war, would fill a volume. His active, enterprising spirit would not let him be neuter; his principles, drawn from the word of God and the doctrines of
his Church, and cultivated by Dr. Witherspoon, carried
him with all his heart to the defence of his country.
To that he gave his powers of mind, body and estate.
After the war Mr. Hall set himself to repair the waste
places of Zion; and -he was the instrument in bringing
about an extensive revival of religion. From I793 to
I8oI he made missionary excursions through the southwestern States, an account of which was published in the
newspapers of the day.
He was a warm friend of education. Soon after entering upon his work, he became connected with a literary
institution in the neighbourhood of his churches; and
afterwards he opened an "Academy of Sciences" at his
own house, of which he was himself the sole Professor.
He died on the 25th of July, I826.
Dr. Hall published, A Sermon on Proverbs xiv. 34, preached at the opening of a Court House in South Carolina. A Sermon preached at the Ordination of Mr. Samuel C. Caldwell, as pastor of Sugar Creek Church. 1792.
A Narrative of a most extraordinary work of Religion in North Carolina.
I802. A Report of a Missionary Tour through Mississippi and the Southwestern Country.
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Hugh Hlodge, a native of Philadelphia, and a cousin
of Hugh Hodge of the class of I773, became a merchant
in Philadelphia, and was lost at sea going or returning
from Europe.
Samuel Leake was born in New Jersey. After gradating, he received from Dr. Witherspoon a written certificate of his qualifications to teach Latin, Greek and
Mathematics, to which was appended the following: " I
must also add that he gave particular attention to the
English language while here, and is probably better acquainted with its structure, propriety and force, than
most.of his years and standing in this country." Mr.
Leake, however, did not engage in teaching, but entered
upon the study of the law, and was admitted to practice
in 1I776. He began the practice in Salem, New Jersey,
but in October, I785, removed to Trenton, where he pursued his profession so successfully as to be able to retire
before he was enfeebled by age. He paid unusual attention to the students in his office, regularly devoting one
hour every day to their examination.
Mr. Leake died March 8, I820. The epitaph on his
tomb describes his character; "Educated to the Bar, he
attained the highest degree of eminence. Distinguished
for candour, integrity, zeal for his clients, and profound
knowledge of jurisprudence, he fulfilled the duties of his
station with singular usefulness,' without fear and without reproach.' Deeply versed in human literature, and
devoutly studious of the words of sacred truth, he lived
the life of a Christian and died the death of the righteous.:
Henry Brockholst Livingston was the son of
Governor. William Livingston, of New Jersey. In I776
he entered the military family of General Schuyler, commander of the Northern army, and was afterwards attached to the suit of Arnold at the time of the capture of
Burgoyne. In I779,'when Mr. Jay, who had married his
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sister, repaired to the Court of Spain, Mr. Livingston accompanied him as his private secretary. After three
years' absence he returned and studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in I783. On the 8th of June, 1802, he
was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of New
York. In November, I8o6, he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States. He died in Washington during a session of the
court, March I8, I823. His mind was acute and powerful, and he was distinguished as a scholar and a
jurist.
Thomas Harris Maccaule. Nothing is known of
the parentage of Mr. Maccaule. He was ordained and
settled as pastor of Centre Presbyterian Church in North
Carolina in I776. He entered warmly into the Revolutionary struggle, and in the time of the invasion went
with his flock to the field, and was beside General Davidson when he fell. Such was his reputation in civil life,
that he was nominated for Governor, but lost his election
by a few votes.
In 1784 he was appointed President of Mount Zion
College, South Carolina. The accommodations of the
college at first were of the most primitive kind. Mr.
Maccaule commenced his instructions in an old logcabin about twenty-five feet by twenty, a story and a
half high, with a single chimney. Upon taking charge
he proposed enlarging the institution, on the plan of his
Alma Al'ater at Princeton.  His plan was adopted, and
the institution was incorporated March I9, I785. In I786
there were from sixty to eighty students in the college.
Besides his duties in the college, Mr. Maccaule had
charge of Jackson Creek and Mount Olivet Presbyterian
Churches, to whom he preached until September, I792,
when he resigned.
In person, Mr. Maccaule was scarcely of a medium
height, but of a stout frame and full body; of dark,
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ners. He had a fine voice, and was popular both as a
preacher and a man. He died about I796.
Jonathan Mason was a Senator of the United States
from Massachusetts from i8oo to I803, and in the House
of Representatives from 1817 to I820.
Lewis Morris entered the Continental Army from
New York as a Major, and served during the whole war.
William  Stevens Smith, after graduating, commenced the study of the law in New York City, and was
about finishing his studies when the American Army assembled there after the unfortunate affair of Long Island.
He immediately resolved to take arms in defence of his
country, but his parents disapproving of this step, he
enlisted as a common soldier, without making himself
known, or pretending to any superior rank. Being one
day on duty at the door of a general officer, he was discovered by a friend of the family, who spoke of him, to
that general officer. He was immediately invited to dinner; but he answered that he could not quit his duty;
his corporal was sent for to relieve him, and he returned
to his post after dinner. A few days only elapsed before
that general officer, charmed with his zeal, made him his
aid-de-camp. In I780 he commanded a battalion of light
infantry under Lafayette, and the year following was
made aid-de-camp to General Washington, with whom
he remained until the peace. In I783 Lieutenant-Colonel
Smith was appointed, with two others, to superintend
the embarkation of the British troops at the evacuation
of New York. His correspondence with General Washington while engaged in this duty is preserved in "'' New
York in the Revolution," printed privately in I86I. In
this correspondence, there is a list of books ordered by
General Washington through Colonel Smith, which gives
us an insight into the character of the reading which the
Commander-in-Chief followed at this time.
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At the close of the war, when John Adams was appointed Minister-Plenipotentiary to the Court of Great
Britain, Lieutenant-Colonel Smith became his Secretary
of Legation.  It was during his residence in that
capacity at London that Mr. Smith became the sonin-law of Mr. Adams by marriage with his only daughter.
That Mr. Smith enjoyed the esteem of General Washington, is apparent from the fact that, when, in the year
I798, Washington was created by Congress LieutenantGeneral and Comimander-in-Chief of the United States
Armies, the name of William S. Smith was immediately
proposed by him to the Secretary of War as a brigadiergeneral, or, failing that, as an adjutant-general. He did
not obtain either of these appointments, but was made colonel, and afterwards, surveyor and inspector of the port
of New York. He was engaged in the expedition under
General Miranda, upon the failure of which he retired
to the interior of New York State, from whence he was
sent as representative to Congress in I8I3. He died in
i8i6.
Nicholas Bayard Van Cortlandt was a son of
John and Hester Bayard Van Cortlandt, of New York,
and a grandson of Stephen Van Cortlandt, of Second
River, New Jersey. He was born March 19, I756, and
died at Parsipany, New Jersey, May I, I782.
John Warford received his license to preach from
the Presbytery of New Brunswick in I776, and was ordained in I777. In July, I789, he was installed pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at Salem, New York, where he
preached for fourteen years. His heart was enlisted in
the cause of Christian philanthropy and missionary enterprise.
Samuel Whitwell studied medicine and entered
the Continental Army as a surgeon. He died in I79I.
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David Witherspoon was a son of President Witherspoon. After graduating, he studied law, and emigrated
to North Carolina, where, for several years, he was a
successful practitioner at Newbern.
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Charles Clinton Beatty soon ended his course.
He was the second son of the Rev. Charles Beatty, that
bright light in the early Presbyterian Church of this
country. Instead of entering the ministry as he intended, he entered the army, and was accidentally shot by a
brother officer in October, I776.
John Durburrow Blair was the son of the Rev.
John Blair, at one time Vice-President of the college.
On the recommendation of Dr. Witherspoon, he was appointed in I780, Principal of Washington Henry Academy in Virginia, where he remained for a number of
years.
On the 28th of October, I784, he was licensed to preach
by the Presbytery of Hanover, and installed as pastor of
a church in Hanover County, Virginia, where Samuel
Davies formerly preached with success. About I792,
Mr. Blair was induced to remove to Richmond and open
a classical school. At the same time he began to gather
a church, holding his services in the capitol. In due
course of time a building was erected for his congregation. But increasing infirmities soon brought his career
to a close. He died January io, I823.
Mr. Blair was highly esteemed in the community, and
became intimate with the most enlightened men of Richmond, among whom were Judge Marshall and Judge
Washington. Mr. Blair was a man of polished manners
and fitted to adorn any company. He was of a medium
height and of a slender figure, but had a great delicacy
of person, and an uncommonly intellectual expression of
countenance. As a preacher he was solid and orthodox.
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His style was graceful and polished, and his manner of
delivery was in perfect keeping with his style. His voice
was soft and pleasant and fell like music on the ear of his
audience.
Mr. Blair published a few occasional sermons during his life, and after
his death a volume of his sermons was published under the direction of his
successor the Rev. J. B. Hoge.
Ichabod Burnet, the second son of Dr. William
Burnet of the class of 1749, joined the American army
from New Jersey. In 1780, he was an aid to General
Greene, with the rank of Major, and was stationed at
West Point. He was one of the two officers designated
by General Greene to communicate to Andre the sentence
of the court, and to attend him to the place of execution.
He died in I783.
Thomas B. Craighead was a son of the Rev. Alexander Craighead of Sugar Creek, North Carolina. He
was ordained by the Presbytery of Orange in I780. For
a few months he preached at Sugar Creek, his native
place, and then removed to Tennessee. Here he was
brought to trial before the Presbytery for holding certain Pelagian views; and the controversy which arose,
lasted for many years.
Mr. Craighead was one of the founders of Davidson
Academy, which afterwards became Nashville University. It originated in his little congregation, six miles
east of Nashville, and Mr. Craighead became the first
President, which position he held for two years and three
months.
Mr. Craighead was of a tall but spare figure, not less
than six feet in height; homely and hard features, with
sandy hair and a large clear blue eye. His health was
delicate and his voice was' weak; his manner grave and
his actions natural, but not vehement. He excelled as
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ries away the hearer even in spite of himself. He died
in I825.
Mr. Craighead published: A Sermon on Regeneration, with an Address
and an Appendix. Letters to Rev. J. P. Campbell, occasioned by his Letters to the Author, containing some original Disquisitions, Philosophical,
Moral and Religious, Nashville, i8II. These were connected with his
controversy and trial.
The Philosophy of the Human Mind, in respect to Religion, I833. Essays and Dialogues on the Powers and Susceptibilities of the Human Mind
for Religion, 12mo, 1834. A Defence of the Elkhorn Association in sixteen letters to Elder Toler, i82z.
Edward Crawford received his license to preach from
the Presbytery of Hanover in I777.  On the 27th of October in the same year, he was settled as pastor of the Sinking Spring and Spreading Spring Congregations, Virginia. Some time after I786, he removed to Tennessee,
and took charge of Glade Spring and Rocky Spring
Churches, where he remained until I803.  Mr. Crawford
was one of the original Trustees of Washington College,
Tennessee.
Samuel Doak, a son of Samuel Doak and Jane
Mitchell, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in August, I749. After graduating, he assisted the Rev. Dr.
Smith in his school at Pequea, Pennsylvania. Shortly
after this, he became tutor in Hampden Sidney College,
and pursued his theological studies under Dr. J. B. Smith,
the President, and afterwards with Rev. William  Graham at Timber Ridge.  He was licensed to preach by
the Presbytery of Hanover, October 3I, I777, soon after
Nvhich he removed to Holston, in what is now a part of
East Tennessee.  Here he was in the midst of danger
from the savages. On one occasion his wife was apprised
by the barking of the dogs that the Indians were near.
Taking her infant in her arms, she stealthily fled to the
woods, and from her hiding place she saw the house and
all that it contained burned by the Indians. After residing in Holston a year or two, Mr. Doak removed to
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Washington County, and purchased a farm, and put up a
small church edifice and a building of logs for a school.
The literary institution which he here started, was the
first ever established in the Valley of the Mississippi. In
I785, it was incorporated, with the name of Martin
Academy, and in I795 it became Washington College.
From its incorporation as an Academy until I8i8, Mr.
Doak continued to preside over it, and the elders of his
congregation formed a part of its Board of Trustees.
While Mr. Doak was attending a meeting of the General Assemby in Philadelphia, he received a donation of
books for his college, which he carried in a sack upon a
pack horse five hundred miles through forests and over
mountains, and this constituted the nucleus of the library
of Washington College.
In I8i8, he resigned the Presidency, and removed to
Bethel in the same State, and opened a private school
which he called Tusculum, which has since under his
son, grown into Tusculum College.
Mr. Doak was also successful in his ministry. Several
powerful revivals occurred in connection with it; and
many churches were founded by him. He was distinguished for his talents and his usefulness, and may be
considered the Apostle of Presbyterianism in Tennessee.
His style of preaching was original, bold, pungent, and
sometimes pathetic. He died October 6, I820.
John Joline was ordained by the Presbytery of New
York and installed as pastor of the Church at Mendham,
New Jersey, in May, I778.  About I796 he resigned his
charge, and on the I3th of June, 1797, was installed as
pastor of the Churches at Florida and Warwick, Orange
County, New York. Mr. Joline was regularly dismissed
from this charge, but he probably died soon after, as his
grave is at Florida, but without a monumental stone to
record the date of his death.
Isaac Stockton Keith, a native of Pennslyvania, was
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engaged for a short time after graduating in teaching at
Elizabethtown, New Jersey.  In I778, he was licensed
by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and in I78o, became
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Alexandria, Virginia. In I788, he removed to Charleston, South Carolina, and was installed as pastor of an Independent
Church in that city. For twenty-five years he laboured
here, revered and beloved by all.
Dr. Keith was large in stature, dignified in manner,
grave in aspect and in speech, and you felt that you were
in the presence of no ordinary man. He held a high
rank as a preacher; his discourses were well elaborated
and his applications direct-and pungent.  Mr. Keith received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Philadelphia College in I79I.  He died December I3,
I 83.
Dr. Keith published about half-a-dozen sermons during his life. These,
with two or three others, together also with the sermon occasioned by his
death, a brief biographical notice of him, and a somewhat extended selection from his correspondence, were published in a volume in the year, I8I6.
Andrew Kirkpatrick was descended from  Scotch
ancestors.  His grandfather came to this country in
I736.  The subject of our sketch was born at Mine
Brook, New Jersey, February I7, I756. There being no
railroads nor steamboats in those days, to carry young
men to college, young Kirkpatrick was accustomed to
walk to and fro between his home and Princeton, carrying his little knapsack with him. Soon after graduating
he commenced the study of theology, but at the end of a
few months he relinquished it for the law, as being more
agreeable to his tastes. This step he took, knowing that
by it he would forfeit his father's favour, and all pecuniary aid from  him.  His resolution was deliberately
taken, and he entered upon his favorite pursuit relying
for subsistence upon his own extraordinary'and unaided
exertions.  Completing his legal studies in the office of
Judge Paterson, he was admitted to the Bar in I785,
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and commenced practice in Morristown, New Jersey.
While living here, by a fire in I787, he lost all of his
law books, a very serious loss to one of his limited
means.  Returning to New  Brunswick, he was successful in obtaining a considerable practice, and was
soon enabled to replace the volumes which had been'
destroyed.
Mr. Kirkpatrick's remarkable success in his profession
was the result, after a high order of intellect, of the
energy of his character and the most persevering industry. In 1797, he was elected a member of the House of
Assembly. He sat with this body during the first session, but- on the I7th of January he resigned his seat,
having accepted the position of a judge of the Supreme
Court; six years later he was advanced to the office of
Chief-Justice. He was twice re-elected, holding the high
position for twenty-one years.
No one could enter the court in which he sat without
being struck by his extraordinary personal presence.
His snow-white hair, his clear, florid complexion, his
dark lustrous eye, his strong but delicately chiselled
features, the expression of gravity and firmness, blended
with a placid sweetness in his countenance, his imposing
form, and the graceful dignity with which he discharged
his judicial duties, arrested the attention of all.
Chief-Justice Kirkpatrick was a learned, and in regard
to real estate, a profoundly learned lawyer.  He stood
without a superior among American jurists. His mind
was not rapid, but it was uncommonly exact; and the
want of quickness was carefully supplied by unwearying
application to the object of investigation. He passed
the last few years of his life retired from public employment.
Judge Kirkpatrick was one of the original trustees of
the Theological Seminary at Princeton, and was the first
President of the Board, holding that office until his death.
He was a trustee of the college from I807 to the time of
his decease, and was. one of the vice-presidents of the
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Alumni Association founded in I826, James Madison being president.
In I8I3 Daniel Webster, at that time on a visit to Richard Stockton, at the table of Samuel Bayard, Esq., who
had invited him to meet his kinsman Kirkpatrick, and
Ashbel Green, pronounced the Chief-Justice and the college President to be two of the most remarkable men he
had ever met.
It would be a delightful task, if space permitted, to relate the charming traits of this great man in his social
relations and his grand and comprehensive views of the
Christian system, as uttered in his declining years.
He died in the parlour of his own house, in New Brunswick, on the 7th of January, I83I, and was buried in the
grave-yard of the first Presbyterian Church, of which he
was for many years a Trustee, and where, for half a century, he had listened to the Word of God.
Charles Lee was a brother of Henry Lee of the class
of I773. He became an eminent lawyer, and in I795 was
appointed Attorney-General of the United States, to succeed William Bradford. Mr. Lee died June 24, I8I5.
Spruce Macay came to college from North Carolina.
After graduating, he returned to his home in Rowan
County, and entered upon the practice of law. In I790
he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Law
and Equity. He was for some years in the State Legislature.
Mr. Macay died in I8o8.
James MeRee was born in North Carolina, May Io,
I752. He spent the first year after graduating as tutor
in a private family in Virginia. He then studied theology, and was licensed by Concord Presbytery in April,
I778, and was immediately settled as pastor of Steel
Creek Congregation in North Carolina, where he remained about twenty years. In I798 he left Steel Creek
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and settled as pastor of Centre Church, and continued its
pastor about thirty years. On account of the infirmities
of age, he was at last compelled to cease preaching. Mr.
McRee received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
the University of North Carolina in i8io.
In person Dr. McRee was of middling stature, handsomely proportioned. He was agreeable in his manners,
winning in conversation, neat in dress, dignified in the
pulpit, fluent in his delivery, and was a most popular
preacher. He retained his influence long after he ceased
active work. He was always a friend of education, and
in the latter part of his life became increasingly anxious
for the prosperity of academies, colleges and theological
seminaries, being deeply convinced that the welfare of
the' country depended upon intelligence, morality and
religion.
Dr. McRee died March 28, 1840.
John Montgomery was born in Augusta County,
Virginia. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Hanover, October 28, I778, and was for a time tutor in Liberty Hall, Virginia.  Hie was ordained April 26, I78o,
and settled as pastor of Cedar Creek and Opecquon
Churches in Virginia. After spending a few years with
these congregations, in I789 he removed to Augusta
County. Here he passed the remainder of his life. Mr.
Montgomery was a very popular preacher, a good scholar
and an amiable man. In the latter part of his life his
ministry was interrupted by bodily infirmities.
John Richardson Bayard Rodgers was a son of
the distinguished clergyman, Rev. John Rodgers, of New
York. He received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in
Edinburgh, and became a practitioner of medicine in
New York city, and was for many years the leading physician in the city and a professor in Columbia College.
He was distinguished for his benevolence and high Christian character. He was an Elder in the First Presbyte[ 1-89 ]




-i775rian Church for a long time. Dr. Rodgers was the father
of the late eminent surgeon, J. Kearny Rodgers, of New
York, and of the Rev. Ravaud K. Rodgers, D.D., of
New Jersey. He died in I833.
Archibald Scott was a lonely emigrant from Scotland to Pennsylvania, and in early life followed the
plough for a livelihood. He received his early education
at the school of Mr., afterwards President, Finley. After
leaving college he- studied theology with William Graham, supporting himself in the meantime by teaching.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Hanover, October
3I, I777. For about a year he supplied various churches
in the Valley of Virginia, and in December, 1778, was ordained and installed pastor of North Mountain and
Brown's meeting-house, afterwards called Bethel. He
remained here for more than twenty years.
During the Revolution Mr. Scott and his congregation were warm  patriots.  Captain Tate and his
company were from  this congregation.  On the eve
of -their departure to the field, which proved to be
the battle of the Cowpens, Dr. Waddel addressed them,
and exhorted them to patriotism and courage and
prompt obedience to the military rules, under which
they now  came.  The day after the battle of Guilford, news was brought that Tarlton with his force was
approaching. Mr. Scott was at the time hearing a class
in the catechism. This he hastily dismissed, and went
home to spread the alarm. Mr. Scott was sound in doctrine and very tender in his preaching.  His usefulness was increasing and his hold on his people growing
stronger and stronger till the day of his-death. He died
March 4, I799.
John Anderson Scudder, after graduating, studied
medicine. He served for a number of years in the Legislature of New Jersey, and in I8IO was appointed to.Congress to fill an unexpired term.
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John Springer.  In a letter which Mr. Springer
wrote, while a sophomore in college, to a merchant in
London who had taken an interest in him, he gives an
account of his religious experience, and a brief account
of the college, and concludes, " May the same hand that
has reared and supported this institution, continue to
bless it to the latest ages, and to make it a continual fountain from whence streams may issue to make glad the
city of God."
Mr. Springer was a native of Delaware. After graduating, he acted as tutor in the college; and in the early
part of the Revolution was a tutor in Hampden Sidney
College, Virginia. When Virginia became the seat of
war, he removed to North Carolina and opened an acad-'
emy, and from thence to South Carolina, where he taught
with distinguished success at WThite Hall and Cambridge. On the I8th of October, I788, he was licensed
by Orange Presbytery, and supplied various churches
until July 2I, I7)0, when he was ordained by the Presbytery of South Carolina, and installed pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Washington, Georgia; the services
taking place under the shade of a tall tree, there being
no church edifice. Mr. Springer was the first Presbyterian minister ordained south of the Savannah river,
and the first minister in the upper part of Georgia. Besides the charge of his church, he taught an academy, at
which John Forsyth, of the class of I799, was fitted for
college. Mr. Springer was an attractive preacher, and
delivered his discourses, which were unwritten, with uncommon ease and elegance. The Lecture and Sermon
which were parts of trial before Presbytery, were published in Augusta, Georgia, in I805, with a short Life
prefixed. He died September 30, I798.
Isaac Tichenor became a lawyer, and soon rose to
eminence in Vermont. In 1791 he was appointed a Judge
of the Supreme Court of the State, which position he held
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tober of that year, he was elected Governor of the State,
which office he held with fidelity for eleven years. Mr.
Tichenor was elected to the Senate of the United States
in I796, and held the same position from I8I5 to I82I.
He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
from Dartmouth in I789. He died in December, I838.
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Nathaniel Alexander was born in North Carolina.
On his return to his native State, he studied medicine,
but the war coming on, he relinquished his studies and
entered the army. At the close of the war he returned
to his profession. In I805 he represented the State in
the United States House of Representatives; and in
I8o6 was elected Governor of North Carolina. In all
his public stations he discharged his duty with ability
and firmness. He died March 8, I8o8.
William  Richardson Davie came from England
when quite young. Hie joined the American Army while
a student in college, but returned and graduated with
his class. On rejoining the army, he became an officer
in Pulaski's Legion of Cavalry, where, by his talents and
zeal, he soon rose to the rank of Colonel. At the battle
of Stono he was severely wounded. After the defeat of
General Gates, he asked the Legislature of North Carolina to raise a troop of cavalry, but they professing themselves to be too poor, he, with a patriotism worthy of
lasting record, disposed of every cent of an estate bequeathed to him by an uncle, and equipped the troop
with the proceeds. Taking command of the regiment,
he was in all the battles that followed in the Southern
campaign. He stood high in the esteem of General
Greene, who appointed him a Commissary General.
After the war General Davie devoted himself to the
practice of the law; and if his career in arms had been
brilliant, his success at the Bar more than eclipsed his
military fame.  He was a member of the Convention
that framed the Constitution of the United States.
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though his absence prevented his name being affixed to
it. In 1791 he was a member of the Legislature of North
Carolina. In 1799 he was elected Governor of North
Carolina, but was soon after appointed Envoy to France
with Ellsworth and Murray. His efforts in the Legislature in behalf of education deserve to be preserved. " I
was present," says Judge Murphy, "in the House of
-Commons when Davie addressed that body, asking for
a loan of money to erect the buildings of the University
of North Carolina; and although more than thirty years
-have elapsed, I have the most vivid recollection of the
-greatness of his manner and the power of his eloquence
upon that occasion. His eloquence was irresistible."
In 1798 he was appointed Brigadier- General in the
North Carolina Militia, and prepared a System of Cavalry Tactics, which was printed by order of the State.
The University of North Carolina conferred upon him
the degree of Doctor of Laws in I8II. General Davie
died in South Carolina, November 8, I820.
Jonathan Dayton was a son of General Elias Dayton,- of New Jersey.  In 1778 he entered the American
Army as Paymaster; in I779 accompanied General Sullivan on his Western Expedition, and in 1780 was a Captain in his father's regiment. After the Peace, he was
chosen to the Legislature of New Jersey, of which he
was Speaker in I790. He represented his native State
in the Convention, I787, for the formation of the Federal
Constitution, and in I791 was elected to Congress. Thrice
he was re-elected, serving four terms in the House, of
which he was Speaker from I795 to I799. In I799 he
was chosen Senator of the United States, and served
until I805. He was appointed by President Adams a
Brigadier-General, with the privilege of retaining his
seat in the Senate.
General Dayton became largely interested with Symmes
and others in the purchase and settlement of Western
military lands, the town of Dayton, in Ohio, being named
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in compliment to him. His early intimacy in boyhood
with Aaron Burr, and his later association with him in
the Senate of the United States, led him to look with
more favour than prudence would have dictated upon
the schemes of that aspiring and crafty politician; so
that, by advancing money to aid Burr in his adventures,
he became compromised with him in the charge of treason. The indictment, however, was not tried, and Mr.
Dayton's bail was released. This unhappy affair, and the
breaking up of the Federal party, of which he was a
leader, put an end to Mr. Dayton's political aspirations.
He was subsequently elected repeatedly to the Upper
House of the New Jersey Legislature, and held several
important offices in his native town. He received in
1798, from his Alma Mater, the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws. His later days were passed at home in the
enjoyment of a comfortable competence, respected and
venerated by all who knew him. He died October 9,
1824.
Benjamin Erwin was ordained by the Presbytery
of Hanover, June 20, 1780, and settled as pastor of Mossy
Creek and Cooks Creek Presbyterian Churches, Virginia.
He. remained in this charge until an advanced age, when
he resigned.
George Faitoute acted as a tutor in the college for
a short time after graduating. He received his license
from the Presbytery of New Brunswick about I778, and
was ordained and settled at Greenwich, New Jersey, in
I782. In I789 he removed to Long Island, and became
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Jamaica, where he
died suddenly on Sabbath, August 2I, I815, having
preached with his usual vigor in the morning. Mr.
Faitoute was an amiable, pious man.
John Evans Finley, a nephew of President Finley,
was licensed to preach by New Castle Presbytery about
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-1780, and was settled at Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania.
About the year I795 he removed to Kentucky, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Bracken,
Mason County, where he exercised his ministry during
the great revival in the West.
Joseph Washington Henderson was licensed by
the Presbytery of Donegal sometime between I778 and
I78I, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
Great Connewago, Pennsylvania, where he remained
until I797. From I799 to I824 he. was pastor of the
Churches of Bethlehem and Ebenezer in Western Pennsylvania.
John Wilkes Kittera lived and practiced law in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania
in Congress from I79I to I8oI, when he was appointed
United States District Attorney for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania.
Henry Philip Livingston was the youngest son
of Philip Livingston, the signer of the Declaration of
Independence, and a brother of Philip Phills Livingston
of the class of I758. Immediately after graduating, he
entered the American Army, and became an officer in the
celebrated Body Guard of General Washington. An
estimate of his character may be formed by an extract
from a letter written to his brother-in-law announcing
the death of his father. The letter is dated Yorkville,
June 14, I778, and was written when he was but eighteen
years old:" I sincerely lament," he writes, "that Providence has made it necessary to address my friends on
so mournful an occasion as the present. Oh! for words
to soften their distress and lessen the bitter pangs of
grief! I feel myself unequal to the duty, and utterly at
a loss what to say. My dear friend! have you received
my letter of the I Ith? written with intent to prepare the
minds of the family for the melancholy subject of this,
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and to prevent, in some measure, the effects of a too sudden impression. Unhappily, my apprehensions were not
ill founded, for the disorder was too malignant and obstinate to struggle with.
" Must I tell you! my dear father expired early on the
morning of the I2th, and was buried the same evening.
My dear mother and sister! grieve not immoderately, even at the loss of an excellent husband and
parent! Consider that worth and excellence cannot exempt one from the lot of human nature, for no sooner do
we enter the world than we begin to leave it. It is not
only natural, but commendable to regret the loss of so
tender a connection, but what can an excess of sorrow
avail?"
Cyrus Pierson, a son of Deacon John Pierson, of
South Orange, New Jersey, after leaving college studied
medicine, and became a highly respectable practitioner in
Newark, where he died, October, I804. Dr. McWhorter's
old book of funerals and marriages testifies, that at the
funeral of Dr. Pierson he "received a scarf but no gloves."
John Pintard entered upon the study of the law,
but never practiced. During the Revolution he joined
a company commanded by a professor of the college,
and afterwards acted for three years as clerk to his uncle,
Lewis Pintard, commissioner for American prisoners in
New York City. For a short time he was editor of the
New York Commercial Advertiser, and afterwards became
eminent as a merchant. Mr. Pintard was the chief founder
of the New York Historical Society, and was the zealous
promoter of other useful institutions. He was an intelligent antiquary, and author of a number of papers in
periodicals of the day.
He died in 1844.
Among the best known of his productions, are an Account of the City of
New Orleans, published in New York in the Medical Repository; and a
Notice of Philip Freneau in the New York Mirror for June I2, x833.
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Joseph Rue, a native of New Jersey, was ordained
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in I784, and
was settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Pennington, New Jersey. Here he remained a faithful
pastor for forty-one years. He died in I826.
John Rutherford was born in New York City, and
was a nephew of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling.
He became a lawyer. From I79I to 1798 he represented
New York in the United States Senate, and was the last
survivor of the.senators during the administration of
Washington. He early retired from public life, and resided upon his large landed estate in New Jersey until
his death, which occurred February 23, I840.
N-athaniel Welshard Sample came to Princeton
from Pennsylvania. He was licensed by the New Castle
Presbytery in I799.  Having supplied a church at St.
Georges, Delaware, for six months, and declining their
call to settle, he accepted a call to Leacock, Lancaster,
and Middle Octorara Churches in Pennsylvania. His
relation to these churches continued forty years.  He
was released from his charge September 26, I82I, and
died August 26, I834.
Samuel Shannon received his license to preach
from the Presbytery of Hanover, October 25, I78I, and
in I784 was ordained and settled as pastor of Windy
Cove and Blue Spring Congregations in Virginia. About
I788 he removed to Kentucky, and became pastor of
Bethel and Sinking Spring Presbyterian Churches, where
he preached four years. He then took charge of Woodford Church, of which he continued pastor until i806.
In the war of 81I2, Mr. Shannon volunteered to accompany the Northern Army as a chaplain. He was a
man of great physical strength.  His fist was like a
sledge-hammer, and he is said to have lopped off a stout
bough at a single stroke of his sword when charging
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through the woods. Notwithstanding his strength, he
was one of the best-natured men in the world, and nothing could provoke or ruffle him. To a rough, awkward,
slovenly appearance, was added a slow and stammering
utterance. He laboured indefatigably, but had no animation. The latter years of his life were employed in missionary labours, chiefly in the destitute regions of Indiana.
He died in the summer of 1822.
Benjamin Parker Snowden, the first of five
brothers who graduated at Princeton, was the son of
Isaac Snowden, of Philadelphia, for a number of years a
Trustee of the College. The son, after leaving college,
studied medicine, and was lost at sea.
Nehemiah Wade was admitted as an Attorney of
the Supreme Court of New Jersey at the September
Term, I784. He lived and died in Elizabethtown, New
Jersey.
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James Ashton Bayard was the eldest son of that
distinguished friend of his country, Colonel John Bayard,
of Philadelphia.  He was born in I760, and therefore
graduated at the early age of seventeen. Mr. Bayard
married a daughter of the Rev. John Rodgers, of New
York. There is an interesting incident related of him
b,y his sister. Owing to the progress of the war, the
College at Princeton was vacated. Dr. Witherspoon
was in Congress, and the other officers and students
were dispersed. Mr. Bayard, among the others, had to
return home. He procured a horse, and took, what he
supposed, the safest road to avoid the enemy. Unfortunately he fell in with a party of marauders, who seized
him, and inquired his name. When he told them, they
immediately pronounced him a rebel. They then pinioned his arms and carried him to Philadelphia, and committed him to prison, where a fearful doom awaited him.
His mother hearing the sad news, obtained a safe conduct,
and made application to the commanding officer, and was
successful in securing the release of her son. Several
years after he pointed out to his sister the place where
he stood when the order for his release came; it was a
gate by the roadside; the halter was round his neck, and
he was awaiting the moment of execution. Mr. Bayard
died in 1788.
James Crawford graduated in perilous times, and,
on account of the proximity of the British army, failed
to get his degree at the proper time, but received it afterwards. A curious trait of the times is seen in the certificate of church membership which his pastor, the Rev.
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John Craighead, gave him the year of his graduation; to
the usual certificate was added these words: "And also
he appears well affected to the cause of American liberty!" When we bear in mind the probability, from the
date, that this was furnished as a part of the credentials
necessary for his reception by the Presbytery as a candidate, it gives us insight into the political preferences of
the Presbyterian clergy. Warm patriots themselves, it
doubtless constituted a strong recommendation for a
candidate to entertain similar sentiments. In I779 Mr.
Crawford was licensed by Hanover Presbytery, and in
I784 he removed to Kentucky, where he settled at
Walnut Hill, and gathered and organized a flourishing
church. He remained here until his death, which took
place in I803. Mr. Crawford was a plain-looking man of
very grave demeanour; not a popular preacher, but
highly useful and instructive.
John Young Noel read law in the office of the Hon.
William Paterson, of the class of 1763, and was admitted
as an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at
the April Term, I783; and as a Counsellor at the May
term, I786. Mr. Noel removed soon after to the State
of Georgia, and became one of the most eminent lawyers,in the South. Many of the most distinguished men in
Georgia studied law in his office, among whom were Governor Troup and Governor Forsyth, both graduates of
Princeton. Mr. Noel died in Augusta, Georgia.
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William  Boyd was a native of Franklin County,
Pennsylvania. On leaving college he engaged for a few
years in teaching, first an academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and then a school near Baltimore. In I783 he was
licensed by the Presbytery of Donegal. In I784 he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Lamington,
New Jersey, where he remained till the close of life. In
I8oo he was elected a Trustee of the College of New
Jersey, which office he held while he lived. Mr. Boyd
was a man of great dignity and gravity. His mind was
cast in a superior Inould. He had a vein of keen wit,
which he brought into exercise on suitable occasions, but
never in a way to disparage his ministerial character.
He was distinguished for uncommon knowledge of the
Scriptures. He never used notes in the pulpit, but his
thoughts were always well matured. His manner was
animated and earnest, and well fitted to secure attention.
H-e died May I7, I807.
Jacob Morton studied law and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the September term, I782. He removed soon after to the city
of New York, where he became prominent at the Bar.
In I797 he was appointed, by Governor Jay, Justice of
the Peace in a new court just established by the Legislature. The governor selected several of the most promising young lawyers for these positions. John Wells, of
the class of I788, was an associate of Mr. Morton on the
Bench. From I807 to I8o8 he was Comptroller of the
City of New York. During the war of I812 Mr. Morton
was quite prominent, and became a general of militia.
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He never returned to the active pursuit of his profession,
but was for twenty years the Clerk of the Common Council of New York City. Mr. Morton died in I837.
Joseph Scudder was the son of Nathaniel Scudder,
of the class of I75I, and the- father of the distinguished
missionary, Rev. Dr. John Scudder. He was admitted to
the Bar by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, in November, I786, and practiced law in New Brunswick and
in Freehold, New Jersey. For a number of years he was
the Clerk of Monmouth County.
Peter Wilson was ordained by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick about I785, and was settled as pastor
of Hackettstown and Mansfield Presbyterian Churches,
New Jersey, where he remained until his death, July
24, I799.
Matthew  Woods was ordained by the Presbytery
of Donegal about I783, and died September I3, I784.
Whether Mr. Woods was a pastor during the few months
that intervened between his ordination and his death, I
have not discovered.
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Andrew Bayard was a son of Colonel John Bayard,
and a brother of James Ashton Bayard of the class of
I777. He became a merchant in Philadelphia, and was
for many years the President of the Commercial Bank in
that city. In I8o8 Mr. Bayard was elected a Trustee of
the College, and served in that position until 1823. He
died in 1832.
Matthew McCallister, although a native of Pennsylvania, entered the profession of the law and began the
practice in the State of Georgia about I783. He soon
became distinguished for the fidelity with which he discharged the many public and private duties which devolved upon him. From May 25, I8oI, to May 26, 1802,
he was Judge of the Superior Courts of the Eastern District of Georgia. He died May 9, I823, deeply regretted
by all who knew him.
George Merchant, after graduating, became an eminent classical teacher.
James Riddle, a native of Pennsylvania, served as a
tutor in college for two years after graduating. He became a lawyer, and attained some eminence. He was for
a long time Judge of the High Court of Errors and Appeals of Pennsylvania. Judge Riddle was a man of learning and worth. He died February 5, I837.
Richard Stockton was a son of Richard Stockton
of the class of I748. He was admitted to the Bar at the
age of twenty, and soon became distinguished for his
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legal ability. From  1796 to I799 he represented New
Jersey in the United States Senate, and from I 813 to I815
was in the House of Representatives. He was eminently
distinguished for his talents; was an eloquent and profound lawyer, and during more than a quarter of a century was at the head of the New Jersey Bar. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from, Columbia College in I815, and from Union College in I816.
He was for thirty-seven years a Trustee of the College.
He died in Princeton, New Jersey, March 7, 1828. Mr.
Stockton was the father of the late Commodore Robert
F. Stockton, and the grandfather of the Hon. John P.
Stockton of the United States Senate.
Aaron Dickinson Woodruff, the eldest son of
Elias and Mary J. TWoodruff, was born at Elizabethtown,
New Jersey, September I2, I762. He was the Valedictorian of his class. Mr. Woodruff was admitted to the Bar
in I784. In I793 he was elected Attorney-General of the
State, and was annually re-elected, except in I8II, until
his death. He also served in the Legislature. He was
for many years a trustee in the Presbyterian Church in
Trenton. The epitaph upon Mr. Woodruff's tomb describes well his character: " For twenty-four years he filled the important station of Attorney-General with incorruptible integrity. Adverse to legal subtleties, his professional knowledge was exerted in the cause of truth and
justice. The native benevolence of his heart made him
a patron of the poor, a defender of the fatherless; it exulted in the joys, or participated in the sorrows, of his
friends."
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Ebenezer Stockton, a native; of New Jersey, studied medicine and entered the army as a surgeon. After
the war he practiced for many years in Princeton. He
was a man of professional skill, and was highly esteemed
by the whole community during a long life. Towards
the close of his life, he gave up the practice of his profession on account of bodily infirmity. Dr. Stockton died
in I837.
Samuel W. Venable fought bravely in the Revolutionary war. After leaving college he expected to study
law, but was led by some circumstances to engage in
merchandise, which he carried on largely in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
Mr. Venable was a man of clear head and sound judgment, and had made observations on the characters of
men as they passed before him; and these observations
he reduced to maxims. He was one of the main founders of Hampden Sidney College. Dr. Archibald Alexander was accustomed to speak of him as the most remarkable instance of wisdom matured by experience and
observation, that he had ever known; in which respect
he was fond of comparing him to Franklin.
When about fifty years of age, Mr. Venable relinquished
active business, hoping to spend the rest of his life in a
course of reading and study; but he soon fell into a hypochondriac state, fancying that his lungs were seriously
affected, and the opinions of his friends and physicians
could not convince him of his error. Colonel Venable
died suddenly at the Virginia Springs in I825.
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Abraham B. Venable, a brother of the preceding,
also became distinguished for his patriotic ardour on the
field of battle. He represented Virginia in Congress
from I791 to I799; and from I803 to I804 he was in the
Senate of the United States. He perished in the burning of the Richmond theatre, December 26, I8II.
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Joseph Clark was from Elizabethtown, New Jersey. When the British entered the State, he left college
and joined the American Army. He continued several
years in the service of his country, rendered important
aid in the Revolutionary contest, and received attentions
from distinguished military characters, very flattering to
a youth of his age. On leaving the army he returned to
Princeton and received his degree.
On the 23d of April, I783, he was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and commenced preaching at
Allentown, New Jersey, but was not installed as pastor
until June, I788.
In I796, he removed to New Brunswick as pastor of
the Presbyterian Church, where he remained until his
death. In I802, he was elected a Trustee of the College,
and remained in office till his death. In I809, he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Jefferson
College.
Dr. Clark's health was always feeble, but notwithstanding, he was one of the most active ministers of the
day. He possessed a mind of a high order, enlarged and
cultivated by much study. In the pulpit he was solemn
and dignified; his discourses solid and judicious. He
possessed extraordinary colloquial powers and a strong
relish for cultivated society. In details of business, few
men probably have surpassed him. In person, he was of
full medium stature, but slender; his eyes sharp and
blue; his hair light and not very abundant. His memory well deserves to be honoured and embalmed. He
died October I9, 8 I3.
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of the Hon. Will'iam Paterson, 80o6. Two Discourses in the New Tersey
Preacher, I8I3.
William  Crawford served in the House of Representatives of the United States, from Pennsylvania, from
I8o09 to 18I7. He died in I823.
William   Branch  Giles entered  Congress from
Virginia as early as I796, where he remained for many
years. In I8II, he was elected to the United States
Senate, but resigned his seat in I8I5. In I826, he was
elected Governor of Virginia, and continued in office
three years. He died December 8, I830.
Governor Giles published: A Speech on the Embargo Laws, i8o8. Political Letters to the people of Virginia, 8I13. A Series of Letters, signed
" A Constituent," in the Richmond Enquirer, January, I8  8, against the plan
for general education. And a number of Letters on Public Affairs.
Edward  Livingston was a brother of Robert R.
Livingston, tfre Chancellor of New York, and was related to the family of Governor Livingston of New Jersey. He was born at Claremont, Livingston Manor,
New York, in 1764. After graduating, he studied law
with his brother the Chancellor, and was admitted to the
Bar in I785. He pursued his profession in New York
City until I794, when he was elected to Congress, and
held the seat until I802. Returning to New York, he was
appointed by Jefferson United States District Attorney,
being at the same time Mayor of the city. In I804, Mr.
Livingston removed to New Orleans, where he immediately became conspicuous at that Bar. At the invasion
of Louisiana, he acted as aid to General Jackson. In
i823, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives, and in I829 was transferred to the United
States Senate.  In I83i, he was appointed Secretary of
State, and in 1833, Minister to France.
Mr. Livingston was employed, with others, by the
Legislature of Louisiana, to prepare a system of Jurisprudence, and also of Municipal law, and performed the
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service  with  great industry  and  deep  research.   His
Penal Code, his own unaided work, is a monument of his
profound learning, and his desire to promote the welfare
of mankind. Mr. Livingston died in I836.
The publications of Mr. Livingston are: Judicial Opinions delivered
in the Mayor's Court in the City of New York, I802. The Batture Case at
New Orleans, 8vo, i8o8. The Batture Case; in answer to President Jefferson's pamphlet of 1812-I8I4. Reports made to the General Assembly of
the State of Louisiana, of the Plan of the Penal Code of said State, 8vo,
I822z. (This was reprinted in London and Paris.) A System of Penal
Law for the State of Louisiana, I826.
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Conrad Elmendorf was a member of the House
of Representatives from New York from I797 to I803;
and a member of the New York Assembly during I804,
I805; and a State Senator from I814 to I817.
John A. Hanna came to college from Pennsylvania.
After his graduation he resided at Harrisburg, and from
I792 to I8o5 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States. Mr. Hanna died in
I805.
William  Mahon received a license to preach from
the Presbytery of Hanover about I790. He presided at
the meeting of Presbytery at which Dr. Archibald Alexander was ordained in I794.  In I796 he removed to
Kentucky, and became pastor of New Providence Church
in Transylvania Presbytery, but was brought before Presbytery on various charges, and admonished to maintain
a stricter guard over his temper. The people being dissatisfied with him, the connection was dissolved by Presbytery, October 5, of the same year. Mr. Mahon was
finally deposed for drunkenness in I804. He applied in
I8I2 to be restored; but the Presbytery, not being satisfied of his reformation, refused his request.
Robert Pearson studied law after his graduation,
and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of
New Jersey at the April Term, I789; and as a Counsellor
at the May Term, I794. He practiced in Gloucester
County, New Jersey.
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Richard N. Venable, a brother of Abraham B. and
Samuel W. Venable of the class of 1780, studied law, and
practiced in Prince Edward County, Virginia, where he
died in I805.
Samuel Wilson received a license to preach from
the Presbytery of New Castle, and became pastor of
Big Spring Presbyterian Church, Pennsylvania, about
I788. He remained in this charge until his death in
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Timothy Ford was the eldest son of Colonel Jacob
Ford, Jr., of Morris County, New Jersey, and brother of
Gabriel Ford of the class of I784, and Jacob Ford of the
class of I792. His father died in I777, and he was reared
by his mother, at whose house Washington had his headquarters, while the army was at Morristown.
Ashlbel Green was born at Hanover, New Jersey,
July 6, 1762. He was the son of the Rev. Jacob Green,
who was for forty-five years pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Hanover. When only sixteen years old, Mr.
Green entered the army as a private, and rose to be sergeant of his company. On one occasion, after a rencontre with a party of British troops, his captain said to
his company, " I think you might get a shot at those men
in the boats! Who of you will try?"  "I will," was
Green's immediate answer; and although only one other
man would accompany him, he was as good as his word.
He was also present with the American troops who pursued the British after they had burned the village of Connecticut Farms, and murdered the wife of the Rev. James
Caldwell. At this time Mr. Green was the teacher of a
classical school; and on both the above occasions he dismissed his school to rally with others around the standard of his country.
The Commencement at which Mr. Green graduated,
was a memorable one.  Congress had been driven
by a disorderly corps of soldiers from Philadelphia,
and had adjourned to Princeton.  They held their
sessions in the library of the college.  Dr. Boudinot,
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gress, and General Washington was in attendance, in the
latter part of the summer and beginning of autumn, for
the final disbanding of the army.
On the arrival of the Commencement, Congress, as a
compliment to the college, and their own president, as
well as to the president of the college, who had recently
been one of their own members, determined to adjourn
and attend the exercises of the day. A large stage was
erected, on which were seated all the members of Congress, two foreign ministers and General Washington.
At the close of the valedictory oration, which had been
assigned to Mr. Green, he had an address of some length
to the General. Let me give the words of Dr. Green:
"The General colored as I addressed him, but his modesty was among the qualities which so highly distinguished him. The next day, as he was going to attend a Committee of Congress, he met me in one of the long entries of
the college edifice, stopped, and took me by the hand, and
complimented me on my address in language which
I should lack his modesty if I repeated it even to you."
Mr. Green held the office of tutor in the college for
two years, and was then appointed to the Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, which he retained for a
year and a half. In February, I786, he was licensed to
preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. In May,
I787, he was settled as colleague of Rev. Dr. Sproat, in
Philadelphia; and the same year was elected a member
of the American Philosophical Society.  In I792 the
University of Pennslyvania conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity; and the same year he was
elected Chaplain to Congress, and was re-elected by
every successive Congress till the removal to Washington. Dr. Green was one of the chief instruments in
founding the Theological Seminary at Princeton.  In
August, I812, he was elected President of the College;
and in the same year received the degree of Doctor of
Laws from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Green
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count of increasing infirmity, he resigned.   He immediately took up his residence in Philadelphia, and became
the editor of the Christian Advocate, a monthly religious
magazine.  The work was continued through twelve volumes, in which the editor displayed the fertility of his
active, well-disciplined mind, the extent of his learning,
the acuteness of his critical powers, and his devotion to
the interests of the kingdom of Christ.
The last regular sermon preached by this venerable
man was in the African Church at Princeton, July I6,
I843, in his eighty-second year. He died on the I4th of
May, I848.
Dr. Green in person was of a medium height, but portly, having features well formed; a florid complexion, enlivened with dark brilliant eyes.  He was in his youth
handsome. His intellectual powers were of a high order.
He was characterized by much firmness and decision.
He rejoiced to preach the Gospel, and his discourses
were uniformly written. Dr. Carnahan, his immediate
successor, said of him: " He was by his talents fitted to
fill any station; and by his eloquence to adorn the walls
of our National Legislature." Dr. Green's publications
are numerous.
He superintended an edition of Witherspoon's works, i802, and left in
manuscript a biography of that eminent man.
In 1822, he published a History of the College of New Jersey, in connexion with a Series of Baccalaureate Discourses. A History of Presbyterian Missions. A Sermon at the funeral of the Rev. George Duffield, D.D.,
1790. The Address and Petition of a number of the Clergy of Philadelphia,
to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania,
relative to Theatrical Amusements, I793. A Sermon occasioned by the
death of the Rev. Dr. Sproat, I793. Obedience to the Laws of God; a Fast
Sermon, I798. An Address of the Trustees of the College of New Jersey,
8o02. A Discourse at the opening for Public Worship of the Presbyterian
Church in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, 1805. An Address of
the Bible Society of Philadelphia, I8o9. An Address to the Students
and Faculty of the College of New Jersey, 1802. Report of a Committee
of the General Assembly exhibiting the Plan of a Theological Seminary,
I8So. Life and Death of the Righteous; an Address at the funeral of
the Rev. William M. Tennent, D. D., x8io. Advice and Exhortation addressed to the People of the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadel[ 215 ]




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phia, on resigning the pastoral charge of that congregation, 1812. A Report to the Trustees of the College of New Jersey relative to a Revival of
Religion among the students of said college, in the winter and spring of
1815. Doing good in imitation of Christ; a Discourse delivered in the
College of New Jersey the Sabbath preceding the annual Commencement,
I822. Christ Crucified the Characteristic of Apostolic preaching; a Sermon delivered at the opening of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, i825. The Christian Duty of Christian Women; a Discourse delivered at Princeton before a Female Society, for the support of a Female
School in India, i825. A Sermon (National Preacher, No. 9), delivered at
the opening of the Synod of Philadelphia, i826. An Address at the interment of Robert Ralston, 1836. A Sermon at the Whitefield Chapel, I836.
Lectures on the Shorter Catechism, 2 vols. I2mo, originally published in
the Chrislian Advocate.
James Hunt was probably the son of Rev. James
Hunt of Montgomery County, Maryland, of the class of
I759, and a brother of William Pitt Hunt of the class of
1786.  He probably assisted and succeeded his father in
his admirable classical school so long a blessing to Maryland.
Nathaniel Lawrence  belonged  to  an  influential
family of Long Island. He was a son of Captain John
Lawrence, a naval officer in the old French war. Immediately upon his graduation, he joined the North Carolina line of the regular American army as a lieutenant,
and was made prisoner by the enemy after behaving
with  great gallantry.   In  I788, he  was chosen  from
Queens County, New  York, to the  Convention  which
ratified the Constitution of the United States. He also
held the office of Attorney General of the State from December 24, I792, to November 30, I795, and represented
Queens County in the Legislature for four years.  His
daughter married the Rev. Philip Lindsley, D.D., formerly professor in the college.  He died at Hempstead,
Long Island, July 5, I797.
Jacob  Radeliff was a son of William  Radcliff of
Dutchess County, New  York, a Brigadier-General during the Revolution.  After graduating, he read law, and
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commenced practice at Poughkeepsie, which he followed
with distinguished success, and at an early age was raised
to the Bench of the Supreme Court of New York. Removing to New York City, he soon after resigned his
judicial office, returning to the practice of his profession.
In I8Io, he was elected Mayor of the City of New York,
and was again elected in I8II, I812 and I8I3.
Mr. Radcliff continued his professional pursuits for
many years, dying at a venerable age in i823.
Gilbert Tennent Snowden, a brother of Benjamin Parker Snowden of the class of I776, was licensed to
preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. On the 24th
of November, I79o, he was transferred to the Presbytery
of New Brunswick, and ordained and installed pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at Cranberry, New Jersey.
Before entering the ministry, Mr. Snowden had applied
himself intensely to the study of law. But on one occasion,
attending the funeral of an eminent member of the Bar,
he was so deeply impressed with the vanity of the fame,
wealth, and honours of the world, that he resolved to renounce his former purpose and devote himself to the
Gospel ministry. His ministry was a short one, but filled
with labour and crowned with fruit. He died February
20, I797. President Samuel Stanhope Smith preached his
funeral sermon, in which he says: " The best eulogy of
Gilbert Tennent Snowden, would be a faithful history of
himself."
Edward Taylor studied medicine after graduating,
and received his degree under Dr. Rush in Philadelphia
in I786. Dr. Taylor was a native of Upper Freehold,
Monmouth County, New Jersey.  He began the practice of medicine and surgery at Pemberton, New Jersey,
but shortly after removed to his native place, where he
was assiduously engaged during a long life of remarkable activity and usefulness in the arduous labours and
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ing from the Delaware river to the sea coast, and usually
traveling in the saddle, and not unfrequently during whole
nights, regardless of weather. Notwithstanding such a
life of intense physical and mental toil, his temperate
habits in eating, with abstinence from intoxicating
drinks, preserved his well-formed, compact, mediumsized frame, in an unusually healthful condition to the
close of his life.
In the latter part 6f his life, from a conviction of duty,
(having joined the Society of Friends,) he removed to
and superintended the " Friends' Asylum for the Insane"
at Frankfort, Pennsylvania, which responsible duty he
fulfilled for nine years; when he returned to his home in
New Jersey, about three years prior to his decease.
Few men, perhaps, have occupied a higher position in
the estimation of all who knew them, than did the subject of this notice, for strict integrity to his high standard of morality, and justice to all. In life and conversation he adorned the " doctrine of Christ " our Saviour,
and this was the great object of his life, and made him
honoured and beloved in his own religious society, and
out of it-and he left a large unbroken family of children
to mourn his loss. He died May 2, I835.
Joseph VTentable, a native of Virginia, studied law,
and removed to Kentucky soon after his admission to the
Bar, when we lose sight of him.
George Whitefield Woodruff, a brother of A. D.
Woodruff of the class of 1779, was born at Elizabethtown,
New Jersey, March I6, 1765. After graduating, he studied law, and was admitted to practice as an Attorney at
the April term of the Supreme Court, in I788. He removed then to the State of Georgia, and acquired a position of much respectability at the Bar of that State; so
that he was appointed, by President John Adams, United
States District Attorney.  Having acquired an ample
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dence near Trenton. Here he lived in much companionship with books, withdrawn from active business, but
not from constant amiable intercourse with men, until
his death, which occurred in I846, at the age of eightytwo. At the time of his death Mr. Woodruff was the
oldest member of the New Jersey Bar. It is said that
his most intimate friends never knew him to be betrayed
into an angry deed or word. Possessed of fortune, and
a well-cultivated and well-stored mi'nd, he exercised, notwithstanding his retiring manners, the influence which
wealth and intelligence confer.
A son of Mr. Woodruff graduated in the class of I836.
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John Baldwin, a son of Jonathan Baldwin of the
class of I755, after graduating, studied law and practiced
for a number of years in New York City.
James Ashlton Bayard, a son of James A. Bayard,
M.D., and a nephew of Colonel John Bayard, was born
in Philadelphia in I767. After leaving college, he studied
law in Philadelphia and commenced practice in Delaware. In I796 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the United States. He was in the House
that elected Mr. Jefferson President, and was very influential in the result. In I804 he was chosen to the United
States Senate. He remained in this position until he
was selected by Mr. Madison, as a Commissioner, with
Mr. Gallatin, to negotiate a peace with Great Britain,
and sailed on his mission, May'9g, I8I3. In 18I4, while in
Europe, he was appointed Envoy to the Court of Russia,
but he declined the appointment, stating " that he had no
wish to serve the administration, except when his services were necessary for the good of. his country." Soon
after this he was seized with violent illness, and was obliged to return home. He arrived in June, and died at
Wilmington, August 6,  185.
Mr. Bayard was a keen and able debater, and eloquent
beyond most of his contemporaries. His fine countenance and manly person recommended his eloquent
words.
Mr. Bayard's Speech on the Foreign Intercourse Bill was published in
i798, and his Speech on the Repeal of the Judiciary, in a volume of the
speeches delivered in this controversy, in I802.
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Samuel Bayard was a son of Colonel John Bayard,
of Philadelphia. He resided the greater part of his life
in Princeton, and was a man of sterling worth and high
Christian character. He was for some years a Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Bayard corresponded
with W. Pitt, Lord Erskine, Lord Lansdowne, Sir John
Sinclair and Wilberforce.  Dr. James W. Alexander
writes of him, in i839, " Our old friend Bayard, now in
his seventy-third year, is one of the most pleasing specimens of religious serenity and hope that I have seen. He
is tottering over the grave, but his inward man is renewed day by day."
Judge Bayard was for several years a Trustee of the
College. He died May I2, i840.
Mr. Bayard published, Letters on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Joseph Clay was born in Savannah, Georgia, August I6, I764. He was a son of the Hon. Joseph Clay, a
soldier, patriot and Judge, of the Revolution. Returning
to his home in Savannah, Mr. Clay entered upon the
study of the law, and having been admitted to the Bar,
soon rose to the highest eminence in his profession. He
was particularly distinguished as an advocate in criminal
cases.  He was a leading member of the Convention
which formed the Constitution of Georgia. In I796 he
was appointed District Judge of the United States for the
District of Georgia, where he presided with distinguished
ability and universal approbation.  He resigned the
office in I8oI.
In I803 Mr. Clay became a'member of the Baptist
Church, and was ordained the next year as pastor of a
church in Savannah. In I807 he visited New England,
and was induced to take charge of a Baptist Church in
Boston; but in a year or two he resigned on account of
ill health. A lawyer in Providence once hearing him
preach, remarked to a friend, "See what a lawyer can
do." The reply was, " See what the grace of God can
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cember, I804. He published his Installation Sermon in
i807.
Ira Condict, after leaving college, taught a school in
Freehold, New Jersey, and studied theology with the
Rev. John Woodhull. In April, 1786, he was licensed by
the Presbytery of New Brunswick; and in 1787 he was
installed pastor of the Presbyterian Churches of Newton
and Shappenac, New Jersey. In I793 he became pastor
of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Brunswick. At
the revival of Queens College (afterwards Rutgers) in
i8o8, in effecting which he had an important agency, he
was chosen Vice-President. Dr. Livingston was the President, but the office was a nominal one, as he confined
himself to his theological professorship, and Mr. Condict
was virtually the President until his death in I8 iI.
Mr. Condict had a strong athletic frame, and was considerably above the medium height; had dark eyes and
hair, with an expression of countenance which indicated
a vigorous masculine intellect. HIe was a man of great
reserve and remarkable gravity. He was a Trustee of
the College for six years.
Gabriel H. Ford was a brother of Timothy Ford
of the class of I783. He was admitted to the Bar in I789,
and practiced in Morristown, New Jersey, his native
place. On the I5th of November, I820, he was elevated
to the Bench of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and
held the position for twenty-one years. Judge Ford was
considered an efficient and eloquent lawyer, and an up.
right and conscientious judge. He died at Morristown,
August 27, I 849.
James Hopkins, a native of Pennsylvania, was admitted to the Bar in Philadelphia, and soon after removed
to Lancaster, where he was enrolled as a member of that
Bar in I787. Mr. Hopkins soon secured a most extensive
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dent Buchanan read law in his office, although afterwards
they were usually opposing advocates. While engaged as
leading counsel in an important ejectment suit, in September, I834, in which Mr. Buchanan was the leading
counsel upon the opposite side, and while in the act of
citing an authority, with the words of the sentence half
finished, Mr. Hopkins was struck with apoplexy, and
never spoke again. It is rather a singular coincidence,
that this was also the last instance in which Mr. Buchanan was engaged in the trial of a case in a court of
law, having been verWy soon thereafter called to positions
of official trust. Mr. Hopkins died September I4, 1834,
in the seventy-second year of his age.
Mr. Hopkins's son, George Washington, graduated at
Princeton in I817, and afterwards had a short but brilliant career at the Lancaster Bar. He was so much prostrated while defending a man who was accused of the
crime of murder, that he never rallied from the effects of
the prostration, dying a few months before his father.
Alexander Cumming iMeWlioter was the son of
the Rev. Alexander McWhorter, D. D., of the class of
I757. Mr. McWhorter studied law, and was admitted to
the Bar in September, 1788, and became a highly respectable practitioner in Newark, New Jersey. He died
in I8o8.
Isaac Ogden became a lawyer in Delaware County,
New York, and was for many years a prominent member of the Legislature of New York. H-le was a man of
strong and vigorous intellect, and of great decision of
character.
William Radeliff was a brother of Jacob Radcliff
of the class of I783. He removed to South America, and
was for some time United States Consul at the City of
Lima. He afterwards returned to the United States, and
died in Brooklyn in I847.
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John E. Spencer was a son of the Rev. Elihu Spencer, D.D., so long a Trustee and friend of the college.
He studied law, and was admitted an Attorney of the
Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the April Term, I789,
and as Counsellor at the April Term, I798. Mr. Spencer
resided and practiced at Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
Abner Woodruff was a brother of George W. Woodruff of the preceding class.  He was the son of Elias
Woodruff of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and was born
December 28, 1767. In I772, his father removed to Princeton.  In February, I779, Abner Woodruff joined the
grammar school in Nassau Hall, and, as he says, " commenced the rudiments of education." In I780, he entered the Freshman Class. Soon after graduating he took
up his residence in Sussex County, New Jersey, where
he engaged in mercantile operations until I787, when he
returned to Princeton in September of that year, and
was admitted to the degree of Master of Arts. In September, 1794, having resumed business in Sussex County,
he, with his partner, who both belonged to a volunteer
troop of horse, joined the expedition to quell the Whiskey
Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Woodruff
became a Paymaster of the Second Regiment of New
Jersey Cavalry. In December of the same year, he returned to New Jersey. In I798, he received an appointment as Midshipman in the Navy, and continued in the
service until I803, when he resigned his commission and
removed to Georgia, where he resided for a number of
years. Returning from Georgia, he took up his residence at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he died
January I,  842.
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Mathias Cazier became pastor of a Congregational
Church in Pelham, Massachusetts, in the same year that
he graduated. In August, I799, he removed to Connecticut, and was installed pastor of a church in South Britain, where he laboured until January, I804. In May of
that year, he supplied Salem Church in the town of
Waterbury, but for how long a period I do not find. Mr.
Cazier died in I837.
Robert Goodloe Harper was born in Virginia in
1765. When a youth he served in a troop of horse, under General Greene, in the Southern campaign. While
in college he acted as tutor to one or two of the lower
classes. Soon after graduating he went to Charleston,
South Carolina, and found himself among strangers with
but a dollar or two in his pocket. While standing on the
wharf after landing, a by-stander asked him whether he
had not taught school in Princeton. This proved to be
a gentleman whose son he had taught while in college.
He offered him assistance and his friendship, and introduced him to a lawyer, in whose' office he studied for a
year, when. he was admitted to the Bar. He then entered into professional life in the interior of the State, and
soon became known by a series of articles published in a
newspaper, on a proposed change in the Constitution of
the State. He was soon elected to the Legislature, and
then to Congress, where he became distinguished. After the election of Mr. Jefferson as President, Mr. Harper retired from Congress, and having married the
daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, he entered
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ployed in the defence of Judge Chase of the Supreme
Court at the time of his impeachment. In course of
time he was elected to the United States Senate from
Maryland. In I8I9 and I820, Mr. Harper visited Europe, and on his return became an active member of the
American Colonization Society, a scheme in which he
took the deepest interest. He died January I5, I825.
Mr. Harper published: A Speech in behalf of the American Colonization Society. An Address on the British Treaty, 1796. Observations on
the Dispute between the United States and France, 1797. Letter on the
Proceedings of Congress. Letters to his Constituents, 18oi. Correspondence
with Robert Walsh respecting Germany, i8I3. Address on the Russian
Victories, 1813. Select Works, 1814.
John Vernon Henry studied law and entered upon
its practice in Albany, New York. In I8oo, he was appointed Comptroller of the State; but owing to the
change of parties, he was removed the next year. Deeply disgusted at the transaction, he resolved never again
to accept any office, but to devote himself to his profession.
This resolution he kept, and by his assiduous application
he attained the highest eminence at the Bar. His distinguished talents, and high and deserved character for
integrity and honour, were everywhere acknowledged.
The great superiority of Mr. Henry as an advocate consisted in his skill in condensing his argument-in saying
everything which could be said in favour of the position
he wished to establish, with the fewest possible number
of words.  These words were selected in the best possible manner. He never used a single word but such as
was the very best to express precisely the idea he desired
to impress on the mind of his hearer. Of course he was
neither florid nor brilliant, but luminous and strictly
logical, and at times powerfully eloquent.
He received the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1823. A
son of Mr. Henry graduated in the class of I8I5. He
died in I829.
James Wilkin studied law and entered upon the
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practice in Goshen, New York, his native place. In
800oo, he was elected a member of the Legislature. He also
represented his State in Congress, and held almost every
station in the gift of his immediate fellow citizens, having
been through life greatly beloved and respected. He
died in Goshen in I805.' A son of Mr. Wilkin graduated
in the class of I812, and a grandson in I843.
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Henry Clymer was born in Philadelphia, July 3I,
I767. He was the third son (the first and second having
died in infancy) of George Clymer who signed the Declaration of Independence. His mother was a daughter
of Reese Meredith, of the Society of Friends, born in
Wales, but afterwards a prosperous and respected merchant in Philadelphia. Henry Clymer, after graduating,
entered the office of James Wilson, the leading lawyer in
Philadelphia, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1794 he married the third daughter of
Thomas Willing, who, for thirty-nine years, was partner
of Robert Morris. Mr. Clymer's taste inclining him to
agriculture, led him in the summer of I799 into the
country, where he resided on a farm near Morrisville,
Pennsylvania, opposite Trenton, New Jersey. There he
continued to live until his father's death, at the son's residence, in I813, when the large landed interests of his
father's estate carried him to Northumberland and then
to Wilkesbarre. In these two places on the Susquehanna,
he resided till the winter of I819, when he moved to
Trenton, and afterwards to a country seat on the opposite
bank of the Delaware, in Pennsylvania, where he died
April 1I7, I830.
Mr. Clymer was a great friend of education, connecting himself with what was useful wherever he happened
to live. Three of his sons graduated at Princeton in
1821, 1822 and 1823, respectively.
William  Gordon Forman was a native of Monmouth County, New Jersey. He studied law, and was
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tember Term, I791.  Soon after his admission to the
Bar, he removed to Natchez, Mississippi. In I8o6, Mr.
Forman married a daughter of Dr. John Woodhull, of
the class of I766. He died in Lexington, Kentucky, October 3, I8I2.
Edward Graham joined the college from North
Carolina, to which State he returned after graduating,
and entered upon the practice of the law.
Thomas Grant was ordained by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick in I79I, and was settled as pastor of the
Churches of Amwell and Flemington, New Jersey. Mr.
Grant died in I8II, being succeeded in his churches by
Rev. Jacob Kirkpatrick, D. D.
William King Hugg studied law, and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey,
September, I790.
Ralph P. Hunt studied law, and was admitted an
Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey at the
September Term, I79I, and practiced in Hunterdon
County, New Jersey. He is said to have died young.
William  Pitt Hunt was a son of the Rev. James
Hunt, of the class of I759. After leaving college, he studied law, and practiced at his home in Montgomery County,
Maryland. William Wirt, afterwards so eminent as a
lawyer, commenced the study of law in Mr. Hunt's
office. Mr. Hunt afterwards removed to Virginia, the
place of his father's birth. He died about I80O. His
widow married the Rev. Moses Hoge, D. D.
James Henderson Imlay acted as tutor in the
college for one year after graduating. He was admitted
an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey at the
April Term, I79o, and a Counsellor at the April Term,
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1796. From I797 to i8oi, Mr. Imlay was in the House
of Representatives of the United States. He lived and
died in Allentown, New Jersey.
Maturin Livingston, a brother of William Smith
Livingston of the class of I772, studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in New York City, where he practiced
for many years. On the Ioth of November, 1804, he was
appointed Recorder of the City. Mr. Livingston was a
brother-in-law of Governor Morgan Lewis, of the class
of I773.
Peter William  Livingston was a son of Peter
Robert Livingston of the class of I758. I can find nothing of him after his graduation.
Amlos Marsh entered college from New England.
After graduating, he took up his residence in Vermont,
and probably pursued the profession of law. In I789, he
was admitted to a Master's degree at Dartmouth. From
I799 to I8oi, Mr. Marsh was Speaker of the General Assembly of Vermont. He died in I8II.
Thomas Pollock was a native of North Carolina.
His mother was Eunice, the fourth daughter of President Edwards. After graduating, he studied law, but
never practiced his profession, but living the uneventful
life of a planter. He died in Italy, September, I803.
Henry Smalley was fiom New Jersey. In I788, he
was licensed to preach by the Piscataway Baptist Church.
In I790, he became pastor of the Cohansey Baptist Church
in Cumberland County, New Jersey. In this charge he
remained forty-nine years.
Mr. Smalley was a laborious and successful minister.
He died February ii, I839.
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sey. He studied medicine, and after receiving his diploma, was appointed a surgeon in the army raised in
New Jersey, which, under Governor Howell of that
State, took part in suppressing the " Whiskey Insurrection." At the close of the war he began the practice of
medicine in New Brunswick, in partnership with Dr.
Moses Scott. After the death of Dr. Scott, he practiced
many years in New Brunswick, where he was highly
esteemed as a man and physician. He was for a long
time a Trustee of Rutgers College, and also President of
the State Bank at New Brunswick. He died in i845.
Samuel Finley Sinowden, a brother of Gilbert T.
Snowden of the class of 1783, was licensed to preach by
the Presbytery of New Brunswick, April 24, I794, and
ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Princeton on the 25th of November following. This
charge Mr. Snowden resigned April 29, i8oI, on account
of ill health. He was afterwards settled successively at
Whitesboro, New Hartford, and Sackett's Harbour in
the State of New York. -He died suddenly in May, i845.
JSamuel Robert Stewart read law with Samuel
Leake, of Trenton, of the class of I774, and was admitted
to the Bar, September, I790. He settled and practiced
at Flemington, New Jersey. Mr. Stewart was the father
of the'Rev. Charles S. Stewart, of the class of I815, the
Missionary, and afterwards Chaplain in the Navy. Mr.
Stewart died in I802, at the early age of 36.
John W. Vancleve was a son of Benjamin Vancleve of Lawrence Township, Hunterdon County (now
in Mercer) New Jersey, for many years a member of the
Legislature. From I787 to I79I, Mr. Vancleve served as
a tutor in the college. He was admitted to the Bar in
September, I79I, and practiced in Trenton, New Jersey.
He died of yellow fever in Philadelphia in I802.
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John Nelson Abeel served as tutor in the college for
two years after his graduation. He then commenced the
study of the law under Judge Paterson of New Jersey;
but relinquishing the purpose of becoming a lawyer, he
entered upon the study of theology under Dr. Livingston, and was licensed to preach in April, I793. He first
became pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia,
but in I795, was installed as pastor of the Reformed
Dutch Church in the City of New York. With a discriminating mind, and a sweet and melodious voice, and
his soul inflamed with pious zeal, he was pre-eminent
among extemporaneous orators. In performing his pastoral duties he was indefatigable. Mr. Abeel was a man
of unassuming manners, and a truly eloquent preacher.
He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Harvard in I804. Dr. Abeel died January 20, I812.
Evan Alexander was from  North Carolina.  He
was a member of the House of Commons of that State
from 1797 to I803, and was in Congress from I805 to I809.
He died October 28, I809.
Meredith Clymer was the son of George Clymer, a
signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a brother
of Henry Clymer of the class of 1786. After graduating,
he pursued a course of reading and study under his
father, and in the office of Mr. Milligan, and was admitted to the Bar at the age of twenty-one, with a career of
promise before him. But as a member of the First City
Troop of Philadelphia, he was soon called to assist in
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vania. From exposure in the camp he took a cold which
terminated his life November I8, 1794, about thirty miles
above Pittsburg. His death was noticed with respect by
his brethren of the Troop, and by Dr. Rush in the newspapers of the day. Dr. Rush, in his notice of Mr. Clymer, says: "Few young men have ever died richer in
the love of their friends. He had been strictly educated
in Republican principles and habits, and hence arose the
zeal with which he joined the standard of Liberty in the
form of law in the expedition to the western counties of
Pennsylvania. His genius was of the first order, his
knowledge extensive, accurate and useful; there was a
commanding poignancy of ideas in his conversation;
above all, his morals were pure, and his temper kind and
benevolent."
George Clymer, the father, resided near Princeton for
two years, superintending the education of his sons. The
house he occupied was on the Lawrenceville road, adjoining " Morven." On leaving Princeton, he placed his
sons in the family of Colonel George Morgan, whose home
was at" Prospect," where now stands the handsome residence of Mrs. Potter.
Robert Finley graduated before he was sixteen
years old. He was the son of an old friend of Dr. Witherspoon, who followed him from Scotland, and resided in
Princeton. By the advice of Dr. Witherspoon, our graduate was appointed teacher of the grammar school connected with the college. After remaining in this situa-'tion some time, he took charge of an Academy at Allentown, New Jersey. In I79I he removed to Charleston,
South Carolina, and became Principal of an Academy in
that city, where he gained a high reputation as a gentleman, a Christian, and a teacher.
Having determined to devote himself to the ministry,
he returned to Princeton, and again conducted the grammar school, but was soon appointed tutor in the college,
and served in that capacity from 1793 to I795.
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On the I6th of September, I794, he was licensed to
preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and on the
I6th of June was ordained and installed pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Baskingridge, New Jersey.
While here, he was induced to take a few boys into his
family fir the purpose of fitting them for college. This
soon grew to be one of the largest and most popular
schools of the day.
About this time Mr. Finley conceived the idea of African Colonization, and he may be considered as the founder of the American Colonization Society.  In I817 he
was elected to the Presidency of the University of Georgia, but he had hardly entered upon the duties of his new
position, when disease seized him, and he died October
3, I8I7.
Dr. Finley had a large well-proportioned frame, and
a countenance marked by decision and energy; his perceptions were uncommonly vivid, and his feelings proportionately strong. He sustained a high rank as a
preacher. Dr. Finley was for ten years a Trustee of the
College.
The publications of Dr. Finley are: A Sermon on the Baptism of John,
showing it to be a peculiar dispensation, and no example for Christians.
1807. A Sermon at the Funeral of the Rev. William Boyd, of Lamington, New Jersey. i807. A Sermon on the Nature and Design, the Benefits
and Proper Subjects, of Baptism. i8o8. Two Sermons in the New Jersey
Preacher. I8I3. Thoughts on Colonization. i816.
Jaimes Gibson was born in Pennsylvania, September
13, I769. After graduating, he was admitted to the Bar,
after the usual study, and became a lawyer of high standing in Philadelphia. Mr. Gibson died July 8, I856.
Charles Dickinson Green was an uncle of ChiefJustice Green, and John C. Green, Esq., the munificent
friend of the college. Mr. Green studied theology, and
was licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, but never entered upon his profession. He
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was a fine scholar and a man of considerable ability. He
died in I857.
George Pollock, a brother of Thomas Pollock of
the class of I786, was a grandson of President Edwards.
Like his brother, he was bred to the law, but never practiced. He followed planting as a business. He died in
April, i839, in Halifax County, North Carolina.
Elijah D. Rattoone was ordained Deacon by Bishop
Provost, January IO, I790. Shortly after, he took charge
of St. Anne's Church, Brooklyn. In I792 he was elected
Professor of the Latin and Greek languages, and in I794
Professor of Grecian and Roman Antiquities, in Columbia College. He resigned these positions in I797, and
the same year became Rector of Grace Church, Jamaica,
Long Island, where he continued till April, I802, when
he accepted a call to the Associate Rectorship of St.
Paul's Church, Baltimore. Some peculiar circumstances
induced him to resign this charge after a number of
years, upon which Trinity Church, in the same city, was
at once built for him, where he ministered with his usual
popularity till the autumn of I809. At that time he left
Baltimore for Charleston, South Carolina, having been
elected President of Charleston College; and there he
died of yellow fever in I8Io. He received the degree of
Doctor of Divinity from Charleston College in I804.
Dr. Rattoone was a highly accomplished scholar and an
eloquent preacher.
John Read- was from Delaware, and was the son of
George Read, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and was the father of John M. Read, of Philadelphia. In I817 he was a member of the Legislature of
Pennsylvania. He died in I854.
Mr. Read published, Arguments on the British Debt. 1798.
John R. Smith was a native of Pennsylvania. After
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graduating, he studied law and practiced in Philadelphia
until his death. Mr. Smith was a brother of the first editor of the National Intelligencer of Washington City.
Nathaniel Randolph  Snowden, a brother of
Samuel F. Snowden of the class of I786, was licensed by
the Presbytery of Carlisle, in I794, and was settled over
the Presbyterian Churches of Harrisburg, Paxton and
Derry, Pennsylvania.  These charges he resigned in
about three years, and afterwards supplied many congregations, but making no permanent settlement. He died
November 3, I850.
Lucius Horatio Stockton was a son of Richard
Stockton of the class of I748. He studied law and settled in Trenton, New Jersey. Mr. Stockton was for some
time District Attorney of New Jersey. A few weeks before the close of the administration of President Adams,
he was nominated as Secretary of War, which gave great
umbrage to Mr. Jefferson, just coming into office.
Mr. Stockton was eccentric, and a very earnest politician, but did not deserve to be called "a crazy, fanatical
young man," as Wolcott wrote in Gibbs's " Federal Administration."
Mr. Stockton wrote a long series of articles in the Trenton Federalist, in I803, defending himself and his uncle
Samuel Witham Stockton from attacks in the Democratic
True American. He died May 26, I 835.
Daniel Thew, a native of Newark, New Jersey, after
graduating, studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in
the City of New York, where he practiced for many
yiears. Mr. Thew married a daughter of Dr. William
Burnet of the class of I749. He died in I814.
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Thomas A. Bellach was a native of Kent County,,
Delaware. After graduating, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar.
George Clarkson, a son of Gerardus Clarkson, M.D.,
of Philadelphia, was born February 27, 1772. He graduated in his seventeenth year, with the highest honours of
his class. He died April 3, 1804.
Aaron Condict was a native of Orange, New Jersey.
He was licensed by the Presbytery of New York in I790.
Shortly after, he became pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Stillwater, New York, where he remained for
about three years. On the 13th of December, I796, he
was installed pastor of the Church at Hanover, New Jersey, which he served for thirty-five years, when he resigned on account of ill health. His ministry was eminently successful. He was distinguished for his wisdom,
humility, benevolence, hospitality and a deep interest in
the affairs of the Church. He died in April, I852.
Richard Eppes was born near Petersburg, Virginia.
He came to New York, on his way to college, in a
schooner, and was three weeks on the passage. Mr.
Eppes remained seven years in Princeton without once
returning home.
It is probable that after graduation he studied law in
Princeton. After his return home he was admitted to
the Bar.
Mr. Eppes died unmarried in I80I.
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Thomas R. Harris, after leaving college, studied
medicine, and in I790, received the degree of Bachelor
of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, which
was an inferior honour to that of Doctor of Medicine. I
can trace him no further.
Nathaniel W. Howell resided, after  graduation, in Ontario County, New  York, and was a lawyer of high standing. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, and a Representative in
Congress from  I813 to I815. He died October I6,
i85I.
William  Kirkpatrick, a son of William Kirkpatrick of the class of I757, was born at Amwell, New Jersey, November 7, I769. After leaving college, he studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia,
and in I795, commenced practice in Whitestown, New
York. The professional education of Dr. Kirkpatrick was
of the highest order, and he might have attained a commanding position as one of the most scientific physicians
of the age in which he lived had he continued in his profession, but a nervous temperament, of such a peculiar
and sensitive character as to unfit him in a great measure for the practical duties of a physician, led him to enter into other employments. In I8o6, he was appointed
Superintendent of the Salt Springs, and removed to Salina, New York, now the first ward of the City of Syracuse. In I8o8, Dr. Kirkpatrick was elected to the House
of Representatives, it being the last Congress under Jefferson's administration. Although not prominent as a
public speaker, yet he was greatly respected at Washington as an intelligent, educated and high-minded man,
and during that period formed an intimate acquaintance
and friendship with many of the most distinguished men
of the day. Dr. Kirkpatrick was a warm and earnest
advocate for the making of the Erie Canal. At the close
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tendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs in I 8  I, and held
the office until I83I.
During the whole life of Dr. Kirkpatrick after removing
to Salina, he continued to cultivate his literary taste by
an intimate reading of all of the standard works of the
day, and particularly of the English and Scotch Reviews;
indeed to works of this character he devoted a large portion of his leisure time. At this time, when books were
scarce, he possessed one of the largest libraries in Western New York. He was of a joyous and pleasant temperament, and delighted to sit down with literary friends
and' converse upon the current topics of the day. He
was in mind, thought and feeling a gentleman. In manners he was dignified, easy, graceful and refined. Dr.
Kirkpatrick died of cholera, September 2, I832.
Timothy Treadwell Smith.  I find no trace of
Mr. Smith until I8oI, when he was appointed Professor
of the Greek and Latin Languages in Union College.
He died in November, I803.
David Stone was born in Bertie County, North
Carolina, February I7, I770. After graduating, he returned to North Carolina, and commenced the study of
law under XWilliam R. Davie of the class of I776. In 1790,
he was admitted to the Bar, and from his assiduity in his
profession, and his deep and varied acquirements, he
soon rose to the highest ranks of the profession. Mr.
Stone entered early into political life.  From  I791 to
I794, he was in the State Legislature. From  I795 to
1798, he was Judge of the Supreme Court of the State.
In I799, he was elected to the House of Representatives
of the United States; and in I8oi was transferred to the
United States Senate. In this capacity he served until
i8o6, when he was again elected a Judge of the Supreme
Court; this position he resigned in I8o8, on being elected Governor of the State. In I8II, he was again in the
Legislature, and in I813, was again chosen United States
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Senator. - This was a most stormy period. The war
which had been declared against Great Britain was at
its height; parties were violently excited. Differing
from his party in many important points, he resigned his
seat November 2I, I814, and went into retirement. Mr.
Stone never recovered his position with his party, or his
influence in the State. He died in October, I818.
Smith Thompson rose rapidly to distinction in New
York, his native State. Having studied law with Judge
Kent, he entered upon practice, and was soon appointed a
District Attorney. In I8oi, Mr. Thompson was appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, two of his
associates, Morgan Lewis and Henry Brockholst Livingston, being graduates of Princeton. The Reports
of the Supreme Court are enduring monuments of
the learning and ability of Brockholst Livingston and
Smith Thompson.  As a man of genius, Livingston
was unquestionably the superior of Thompson; but
for legal acumen, clearness of perception, and logical
powers of mind, there are few if any men, in this or any
other country, who excel Judge Thompson. In February, I814, Chief-Justice Kent being appointed Chancellor,
Judge Thompson succeeded him as Chief-Justice. In
i8I8, he was appointed by President Monroe Secretary
of the Navy, and in I823 was elected to the Bench of the
Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Thompson
was a man of great learning in his profession, and his
private life was pure and exemplary. He died in I843,
aged 76.
lNicholas Vandyke represented the State of Delaware in Congress from  I807 to 1811; and again from
I817 to I826. He died in May, I826.
John Wells was born in Otsego County, New York.
About the time of the massacre of Wyoming, the Indians,
under the lead of the celebrated Brant, made an attack
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upon the settlements of Western New York, and the
father, mother, uncle and aunt, and four brothers and
sisters of John Wells, were murdered by the savages.
He, being on a visit from home, escaped the fearful
slaughter.
At college, Mr. Wells was distinguished for his habits
of study and good conduct, and was pronounced the best
Greek scholar and mathematician in the class. He was
a great favourite with Dr. Witherspoon, who was in the
habit of holding him up as an example of exemplary conduct, of industry, and of personal neatness.
He studied law in New York City, and was licensed
as an Attorney in I79I, and admitted as a Counsellor in
I795. In I797, he was appointed ~by Governor Jay one
of the Justices of the Peace in a new court just established. He discharged the duties of this post with distinguished ability and impartiality.
In I805, Mr. Wells first became prominent as an advocate in a number of libel suits, growing out of the
duel between Hamilton and Burr.  For some time
previous to this he had been Editor of the Evening
Post, and many of its ablest articles were from *his
pen. In I807, Mr. Wells argued his first cause at the
Bar of the Supreme Court, before the full Bench of
Judges, and from that time to 1823, the year of his death,
the Reports of the State bear abundant evidence of his
extensive and varied practice, and of his research and
profound learning.
On one occasion in an important case, after concluding
his speech, his learned friend and illustrious rival at the
Bar, Mr. Emmett, who had attended both the English
and Irish Courts, observed, that it was the most able and
finished argument he had ever heard. Laudatus a laudato
viro-no higher praise could be bestowed.  After its
close, Mr. Wells went from court to his house, where
his family, and some friends who had been listeners, overwhelmed him with compliments, He soon after retired,
and was afterwards found kneeling in his chamber, and
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said that he had sought solitude to thank his God that he
had enabled him to discharge his duty, and to pray for
strength against the petty folly of vanity.'Mr. Wells died at Brooklyn, in September, 1823, of
yellow fever, contracted in the cause of benevolence and
humanity. All said that a great man had fallen. He
was considered the pride of the New York Bar.
Mr. Wells possessed an acute, logical and investigating
mind, improved by early discipline and culture. In his
studies he possessed, in an eminent degree, the power of
abstraction. He could pursue a train of thought amidst
noise and conversation. Modesty formed a prominent
trait in his character, and its deep tinge was perceptible
throughout his whole life. The lofty integrity which
adorned his character was founded in a deep sense of
religion, and from a conviction arising from examination
of its truth and holy uses. He was as eminent as a Christian as he was as a lawyer.
David Wiley received his license from the Presbytery of New Castle, and from I794 to I802 was pastor of
Spring Creek and Cedar Creek Churches, in the State
of Pennsylvania. He died in I813.
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I789.
William  A. Anderson was admitted an Attorney
of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the May Term,
I792.
Nathaniel Boileau was admitted to the Bar and
practiced in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was
at one time Secretary of State of Pennsylvania.  Mr.
Boileau was for many years President of the Montgomery
County Bible Society. He died at an advanced age in
1850.
Robert Hett Clapman was the son of Rev. Jedediah Chapman, the pioneer Presbyterian minister in
Western New York. He spent the year after graduating
at his father's house, devoting himself to general reading, undecided what profession to follow. But finally deciding upon the ministry, he pursued his studies, at the
same time acting as an instructor at Queens College,
New Brunswick, and was licensed by the Presbytery of
New York, October 2, I793, and immediately proceeded
on a missionary tour through the Southern States. On
his return from this tour he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Rahway, New Jersey, and was installed
in I796. In I8oI he became pastor of a Presbyterian
Church in Cambridge, New-York. In I8II he was appointed President of the University of North Carolina,
and entered upon his duties in I812. He was eminently
successful in elevating the tone of the college. Here he
remained laboriously employed, not only in his college
duties, but in preaching the Gospel, until I8I7, when he
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ginia, where he became pastor of Bethel Church. He
remained in Virginia for about ten years; then spent a
year or two in North Carolina, and in I830 removed to
Tennessee, and settled at Covington. Here he was upon
the frontier, and his influence for good was powerfully felt.
As a teacher, he was faithful and diligent. As a preacher,
he was highly evangelical. He died June i8, I833.
Mr. Chapman published: A Sermon on Conscience; A Sermon on Regeneration.
John Collins. The ancestor of Mr. Collins came to
this country from England in the seventeenth century,
that he " might enjoy a purer worship of God and a more
exact church discipline." Two of his distinguished sons
are the subject of an article in Mather's " Magnalia," entitled " Gemini-The Life of the Collins's."
The subject of our sketch was born in Somerset County, Maryland, February I6, 1769. After graduating, he
assumed the Presidency of Washington Academy, in his
native county, at that time and long afterwards a most
distinguished Seminary. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Lewes in I79I. In I797 he purchased an estate
in New Castle County, Delaware, whither he removed,
and became and continued to be pastor of the Presbyterian Church in St. George's until his death, which occurred April 12, I804. Acute disease claimed the victim,
when in the vigour of his manhood-leaving a precious
memory.
"Non annis, sed factis vivunt mortales."
Isaac Watts Crane, after graduating, studied law,
and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of
New Jersey at the September Term, 1797, and as Counsellor at the November Term, I8oo. Mr. Crane was from
Essex County, but practiced most of his life in Cumberland County, New Jersey. He died in I856.
Mahlon Dickerson was from New Jersey. After
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graduating, he read law and was admitted to the Bar by
the Supreme Court of New Jersey in November, I793.
Soon after, he removed to Philadelphia, where he became
Recorder of the City, and subsequently Quarter-MasterGeneral of the State. Returning to New Jersey, he became a member of the Legislature, and then a Judge of
the Supreme Court of the State. In I815, he was elected
Governor, which office he held until I8I7, when he was
chosen United States Senator, and continued in that position for sixteen years. In I834 he became Secretary of
the Navy under General Jackson, and held that Department until I838, two years after the accession of Martin
Van Buren. He died October 5, I853.
David English resided in Georgetown, District of
Columbia, after his graduation, probably engaged in
teaching. In I794 he was appointed tutor in the college,
and held the post until 1796, when he took the management of the Seminary established at Baskingridge, New
Jersey, by the Rev. Robert Finley. Here he remained
for a few years, sustaining the high character of the institution. After retiring from this laborious position, he
took up his residence again in Georgetown. Mr. English
was a man of amiable manners and fine scholarship.
John Lyon Gardiner was the son of David Gardiner, the sixth proprietor of Gardiner's Island, Long
Island. John Lyon was the seventh proprietor. After
graduating, he resided upon his large estate, where he
died November 22, i8i6.
David Gardiner, a brother of the above, took up his
residence in Flushing, Long Island, where he died April
6, I8I5.
David Hosack was born in New York City, August
3I, I769. He was the son of a Scotchman who came to
America with Lord Jeffrey Amherst. After graduating,
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he studied medicine, and received his degree at Philadelphia in I79I, and immediately proceeded to Europe,
and pursued his studies in Edinburgh and London. A
paper which he wrote on Vision, while in London, was
published in the Transactions of the Royal Society in
I794. On his return to New York, he was appointed
Professor of Botany and of Materia Medica in,Columbia
College. In the new College of Physicians and Surgeons he taught Physic and Clinical Medicine, in which
branch he was especially eminent.  From  I820 to I828,
he was President of the New  York Historical Society.
For more than thirty years Dr. Hosack was a prominent
medical practitioner in New York.  He exerted a wide
and commanding influence in the community, and his
Saturday evening parties, where he was accustomed to
entertain the professional gentlemen of the city and distinguished foreigners, were widely known. In all prominent movements connected with the arts, the drama, medical and other local institutions, and the State policy of
internal improvements, Dr. Hosack bore a part.
His Alma Mater is indebted to him for a Mineralogical Cabinet, containing about one thousand valuable
specimens.
Dr. Hosack died suddenly December 23, I835.
Dr. Hosack's publications are: Hortus Elginensis, 8vo. Facts relative
to the Elgin Botanic Garden, 8vo. American Medical and Philosophical
Register; editor. A Biographicall Memoir of Hugh Williamson, M. D.,
LL.D., x820, 8vo. Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science, I82430; 3 vols. 8vo. Inaugural Discourse at the opening of Rutgers Medical
College, 1826, 8vo. A System of Practical Nosology, I829, 8vo. Memoirs
of DeWitt Clinton, I829, 4to. Lectures on the Theory and Practice of
Physic, edited by Rev. Henry Ducahet, M. D., 1838, 8vo. He also published, A Paper on Vision in Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society),
I794. Medical Papers in Annals of Medicine, I793, I796. A Biographical
Account of Dr. Benjamin Rush. Several Discourses.
Thomas Pitt Irving came to Princeton from Maryland.  From about I790 to I812, he was the Principal of
an Academy at Newbern, North Carolina, whence he was
called to the double duty of presiding over the Academy,
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and officiating as Rector of the Church, at Hagerstown,
Maryland. He was much distinguished as a teacher, and
was regarded as one of the best Greek scholars and mathematicians of his day.
William Perry was a native of Talbot County, Maryland. From the best information I can obtain he died
early in life.
Isaac Pierson belonged to an old New Jersey family. After graduation, he studied medicine, and was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He followed his profession in Orange,
New Jersey, where he continued to practice for nearly
forty years. From 1827 to I83I, he was in the United
States House of Representatives. He was a man of high
Christian character. He died in I84I.
Charles Snowden was the youngest son of Isaac
Snowden of Philadelphia, and the last of five brothers
who graduated at Princeton. After graduating, he remained a few months as a tutor in the college, and pursued the study of theology. He was licensed to preach,
and delivered one very eloquent and pathetic sermon,
and that was all. Soon after, he became the proprietor
of a newspaper in the City of New York; but the name
of the paper, or how long he remained in New York, I
have not been able to discover. After leaving New York,
he removed to Pennsylvania, and engaged actively in the
development of a coal property which he possessed, and
in the building of a canal.
Ephraim King Wilson represented Maryland, his
native State, in Congress from I827 to I83I. He died in
I834. His son, William S. Wilson, graduated in the
class of I835, and was killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg
in I862, on the Confederate side. The family resided in
Snow Hill, Maryland.
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Silas Wood, after graduating, became a tutor, which
position he held for nearly five years. He afterwards
resided on Long Island, and was a Representative in
Congress from the State of New York, from I8I9 to I829.
He died March 2, I847, aged 78.
He published: A History of Long Island.
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Israel HIarris, a son of Dr. Harris of Pittsgrove,
Salem County, New Jersey, after graduating, pursued
the study of law, and was admitted an Attorney of the
Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the May Term, I795.
He practiced in Somerset County, New Jersey. Mr.
Harris died young.
Robert G. Johnson was a son of Robert Johnson
of an old family of Salem County, New Jersey. The
father was a man of wealth and station, and the mother
a descendant of early and wealthy settlers from England.
On one occasion the father of young Johnson complained bitterly to Dr. Witherspoon that his son had
not been advanced as he expected. After bearing considerable reproach, the doctor broke out with the strong
Scotch accent common when he was excited, " I tell you,
sir, the boy wants capacity!"
Soon after graduating, Mr. Johnson became Captain
of a troop of Cavalry, and soon rose to be Colonel. In
1794, he served in the army raised to quell the Whiskey
Insurrection, as a paymaster.
Colonel Johnson was in his own right, and in the right
of his wife, probably the largest land-owner in Salem
County. In I821, and from I823 to I825, he was a member of the Legislature of New Jersey. He was a man of
truth and honour, but so fixed in his convictions as not
always to be tolerant of those who differed with him.
He was very hospitable and beyond question a true
Christian, but owing to this peculiarity of temper was
unpopular with many.  Colonel Johnson was fond
of historical research, and was Vice-President of the
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New Jersey Historical Society from its foundation in
I845, till near his death, and furnished much historical
matter; among other things, a Memoir of John Fenwick,
the early proprietor of West Jersey. Colonel Johnson
died at New Haven in October, I85o.
William   Johnson  studied  law  and settled in
Charleston,: South:Carolina, where he rapidly rose to
eminence.  He was Associate-Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. Judge Johnson was not only
an able lawyer, but a man of cultivated tastes. He published a life of General Greene, that was -deemed by General Henry Lee, the son of General Lee of the class of
I773, so unjust to his father's fame, and that of his brave
Legion, that he resolved to defend both, which he did
with success in an octavo volume, entitled "Campaigns
of 1782 in the Carolinas." Judge Johnson besides his Life
of General Greene, published, Essay to Philosophical
Society; Nugae Georgicae, I8Ig; Eulogy on Adams and
Jefferson, I826.  He received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws from Princeton in I8 8, and also from
Harvard.  Judge Johnson died in Brooklyn, New York,
August 4, I834.
John R]uan came from -the Island of St. Croix. After graduating, he studied medicine, and practiced for
many years in the City of Philadelphia. Dr. Ruan died
in 1845.
John Taylor was born in South Carolina.  He
studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in I793, but
turned his attention chiefly to planting. He was a member of the South Carolina Legislature for a number of
years, and represented that State in Congress from I807
to I809, and again from I817 to I821. From I8Io to I816,
he was in the United States Senate, and from I826 to
1828 he was Governor of South Carolina.
He died in 1832.
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George Spafford Woodhull was the son of Rev.
John Woodhull of the class of I766. After graduating,
he studied law for two years, and medicine for one year;
but determining to enter the ministry, he was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, November 14,
I797, and was ordained and installed as pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, at Cranberry, New Jersey, June 6,
I798. Here he remained until I820, when he was chosen
pastor of the Church in Princeton. For twelve years he
laboured here faithfully and successfully. In 1832 he resigned his charge, and spent the two last years of his life
as Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Middletown Point,
New Jersey, where he died December 25, I834. He was
eminently blameless and exemplary in his life-eminently
peaceful and happy in his death. Three of his sons
graduated at Princeton; one in 1822, and two in I828.
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David Barclay, after leaving Princeton, studied theology, and was ordained by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, December 3, I794, and installed as pastor of
the Church at Bound Brook, New Jersey, where he remained until April, I805, when, on account of some
troubles, in June of that year, he removed, and became
pastor of Knowltonj Oxford and Lower Mount-Bethel
Churches, New Jersey. He continued here until ISI I. Mr.
Barclay was a man of decided ability; quick, earnest and
energetic in his motions and his speech; of stout, athletic
frame, but of an impetuous, imprudent temperament. Mr.
Barclay had much trouble with his congregations, and
one of his elders, Mr. Jacob Ker, published a volume of
more than four hundred pages, entitled, "The Several
Trials of David Barclay before the Presbytery of New
Brunswick and Synod of New York and New Jersey."
On the 25th of April, I819, Mr. Barclay was dismissed to
the Presbytery of Redstone, and took up his residence in
Punxatawny, Pennsylvania, where he died in I846.
Jacob Burnet was a son of Dr. William Burnet of
the class of I749. After graduating, he studied law for
one year in the office of Richard Stockton, and afterwards with Elisha Boudinot. He was admitted to the
Bar in I796, and removed immediately to the Northwest Territory, and settled at Cincinnati. He immediately rose to eminence in his profession. In these early
times, Mr. Burnet was accustomed to travel on horseback from court to court, carrying his blanket and provisions; at night he camped in the woods, there being
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neither tavern, bridge, ferry nor even a road in his
route.
After being a member of the Legislature of Ohio repeatedly, in I8i6 Mr. Burnet retired from active practice,
but in I82I he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court
of Ohio, which position he filled with distinguished ability. From this position he was transferred to the Senate
of the United States, where he exhibited the same traits
of character for which he had always been remarkableclearness and depth of understanding, sound reasoning,
equable and happy temperament.
One of the founders of Ohio, Mr. Burnet lived to see
the few early settlers of Cincinnati increased to one hundred and thirty thousand.  At the age of eighty, he
walked the streets erect, and he was yet interesting by his
colloquial powers.  Judge Burnet died May Io, I853,
aged 80.
He published, Notes on the North-western Territory, Cincinnati, 1847.
Joseph Caldwell was a native of New Jersey.
During his whole collegiate course, he maintained the
highest rank as a scholar. On the day of his graduation,
he spoke the Latin Salutatory. For about a year he remained in Princeton as a tutor. In I796 he was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and was elected
Professor of Mathematics in the University of North
Carolina, being then only twenty-three years of age.
Under his care, the prospects of the University speedily
brightened and flourished; and in I804 he was elected
the First President.  He continued to hold this office
until I812, when he returned to the Mathematical Chair,
being succeeded by the Rev. Robert Hett Chapman,
also an alumnus of Princeton of the class of I789.  In
I817 Dr. Chapman resigned, and Dr. Caldwell was again
elected President. In I824 he visited Europe for the purpose of purchasing books and apparatus for the University, and was absent about a year. The greatest good of
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tellectual improvement of the State, were ever the most
engrossing objects of Dr. Caldwell's care, and with untiring perseverance and fidelity he presented the claims
of education to the community, and appealed to the community for their support.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon
him  by his Alma Mater in I8I6.  He died January 24,
I835. North Carolina reveres his memory. Her most
distinguished sons were his pupils, and cherish for him
a truly filial affection; and the advance which that State
made in intelligence and virtue, through the instrumentality of his labours, is an enduring monument of his
power and wisdom.
Besides two or three occasional Sermons, Dr. Caldwell published A
Compendious System of Elementary Geometry, in seven books: to which
an eighth is added, containing such other Propositions as are Elementary.
Subjoined, is a Treatise of Plain Trigonometry. He published also in one
of the Raleigh newspapers, a series of articles called, " Letters of Carlton,"
which were designed to awaken a spirit of internal improvement in the
State of North Carolina; and another series on Popular Education, or Free
Schools. These were republished in a volume about the year 1825.
Samuel Sharpe Dickerson was a native of Talbot
County, Maryland. After graduating, he became a physician, and representated his native county in the House
of Delegates once or twice.  He died about 1847 or
I848.
Maltby Gelston was the son of David Gelston, of
New York, for some time a member of the Continental
Congress, and afterwards Collector of the Port of New
York. The son, after graduating, studied law, and was
admitted to the Bar, but never entered actively into practice.  When Mr. Monroe went as Minister'to France,
Mr. Gelston attended him as his private Secretary. For
a number of years Mr. Gelston was President of the Manhattan Bank in New York.  He was a man of sterling
integrity and high character in the community. He died
December 2, I86o.
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Henry Hollyday was a native of Talbot County,
Maryland, where his ancestors had lived for more than
a hundred years.  At one time he represented his
county in the State Senate, and was never in public life
except in that instance, having devoted himself thereafter
to agricultural pursuits. He died in I85o.
Francis MIarkoe came to college from the Island of
Santa Cruz. His ancestors were of Huguenot descent,
and of high rank, the Duke of Sully being among them.
After graduating, he returned to his native Island. Here,
in the midst of luxury and wealth, he was, by a remarkable providence, converted to God. Finding the Island
unsuited to his new feelings and new purposes, he removed to the City of Philadelphia about the beginning
of the century, and entered into mercantile life. Here
he was abundant in labour, especially in the instruction
of the ignorant, in which was his great delight. Removing from Philadelphia to New York, he became an elder
in the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church, of which Dr.
Skinner was pastor. Here his Christian character shone
forth pre-eminently. Dr. Skinner wrote of him: "Among
contemporary Christians, so far as my acquaintance has
extended, as complete and perfect pattern of holiness as
he was, I have not seen; nor have I heard or read of
many among saints of former times that seem to have
more adorned, in all things, the doctrine of Christ."
A son of Mr. Markoe, Dr. Thomas M. Markoe, a distinguished surgeon of New York, graduated in I836. Mr.
Markoe died in triumph in New York, February I6,
I848.
Fredrick Stone came to Princeton from one of the
Southern States. After graduating, he went to Philadelphia and entered upon the study of the law; but in I793
the yellow fever appearing in the city, he repaired to
Princeton, but was taken ill of the disease and soon died.
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Elias Van Artsdale studied law, and was admitted
to the New Jersey Bar at the September Term of the
Supreme Court in I795. He settled in Newark, New
Jersey, and was long a distinguished lawyer. For many
years he was President of the State Bank at Newark. He
died in I846, aged seventy-five.
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Joseph McKnitt Alexander was the son of John
McKnitt Alexander, famous for his connection with the
Mecklenburg Declaration. After graduating with eclat,
he returned to his native State and began the study of
medicine.- In due time he entered upon the practice of
his profession, and acquired both reputation and wealth.
He was distinguished for his practical judgment and
plain common sense. For a time he was in great danger
from the influence of French infidelity, which was then
prevalent, but the truth triumphed, and in the meridian
of life he became a worshipper of the God of his fathers,
connected himself with the Presbyterian Church, and
continued through life, until the infirmities of old age
prevented, to be active in the promotion of its interests,
in alleviating and ameliorating the condition of men. He
died in 1841.
Nicholas Bayard was the youngest son of Colonel
John Bayard of New Brunswick, New Jersey. After
leaving college he studied medicine, and received his diploma in Philadelphia. He first commenced practice in
New York City, but soon relinquished it for the drug
business. After his marriage he removed to New Brunswick, but failing health led to his removal to Savannah,
Georgia, in I803, where he died, October 30, 1822.
George M. Bibb was a native of Virginia, but after
graduating he studied law and was admitted to the Bar
in Kentucky. Mr. Bibb was a Justice, and twice ChiefJustice of the Court of Appeals, and afterwards Chancellor of the State. For two years he was a member of the
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State Senate. From I811 to I8I4, and from 1829 to I835,
he was in the Senate of the United States, from Kentucky. When Mr. Tiler became President of the United
States, Mr. Bibb was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. On retiring from this office he took up his residence permanently in Washington, and until the close of
life practiced his profession in that city. For a time he
acted as an assistant to the Attorney-General of the
United States. Until the last Mr. Bibb retained the ancient dress of broad-brimmed hat, small clothes, black
silk hose and silver shoe-buckles. The personal appearance of Mr. Bibb, aside from his costume, was remarkable; he was a man of great physical vigour of constitution, as shown in his erect carriage and firm step after he
had become an octogenarian. He was rather above the
middle size, and his frame, like his mind, was compact
and well knit together. He was a firm friend, a kind husband and an affectionate parent. His freedom and frankness with young people was especially remarkable and
pleasing. One of his peculiarities was his great fondness
for fishing. On one occasion in the Senate, it had been
insinuated by the opposers of the administration, that
some of the Senators, whose terms of office were about to
expire, would be recipients of Presidential favours. " I
deny this," said Mr. Bibb, at the conclusion of his speech,
"so far as I am concerned. I have no personal object in
view. I have no ambition. For myself, I prefer to sit
with my rod and line on the banks of a pellucid stream
enjoying the pleasure of calmness and contemplation, to
any object that my ambition could achieve." A good
story is told of him in this connection. One warm afternoon the officer in command at the Washington Arsenal
observed Mr. Bibb sitting on a broken-down wharf hour
after hour intently watching his float. At last he strolled
down from  the quarters to inquire, "What luck?"
"None," replied Mr. Bibb. "I thought I had some bites
two or three hours ago, but there is not a fish hereabouts,
now, apparently."
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"What is your bait?" asked the officer.
"A plump young frog, hooked through the fleshy part
of his leg." Scarcely had he finished this reply, when
the questioner, overcome with laughter, pointed to a log
which was partly out of water, and there the fisherman
saw his bait; the frog having got tired of swimming
about, hadjumped upon the log and was calmly enjoying
the sun.
Mr. Bibb died in Washington, April 4, I859.
He published, Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Chancery in the
Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1808-1817. 4 volumes, 8vo.
Peter Bleeker was a native of the City of New
York. He died a few months after his graduation in I793.
George Whitefield Burnet studied law and was
admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New
Jersey, at the September Term, I796. He settled and
practiced in Newark, New Jersey; but subsequently removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where.he died in I8oo.
James Chestnut was from South Carolina. After
graduating, he returned to the South and engaged in
Planting. His wife was Miss Cox, of Burlington, New
Jersey, and was one of the company of young ladies who
in I789 strewed flowers in the path of Washington at
Trenton, as he was on his way to his inauguration. A
son of Mr. Chestnut graduated in the class of I835, and
was afterwards a United States Senator from South Carolina. Mr. Chestnut died in i866.
William  Chetwood, a native of New Jersey, was
admitted to practice at the New Jersey Bar in 1798. During the Whiskey Insurrection, in Western Pennsylvania,
he attended Major-General Lee, of the class of 1773,
as Aid-de-camp. He was at one time a member of the
upper house- of the New Jersey Legislature, and during
the administration of General Jackson was appointed, to
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fill a vacancy in Congress. He was an able lawyer,
and practiced his profession until his 7oth year. He died
December I8, I857.
Peter Early was a Virginian by birth, but after graduating he removed to Georgia, and entered upon the
practice of law. In I8o02 he was elected to Congress,
and soon became a leading member of that body. When
the impeachment of Judge Chase was before Congress,
he was associated with John Randolph and others in
conducting the prosecution. His speech on this occasion is said to have been the ablest that was delivered on
the side of the prosecution. He continued in Congress
until I807, when he was appointed Judge of the Superior
Court in Georgia. In I813 he was elected Governor of
the State. In these critical times he acted with the greatest wisdom and firmness. His military arrangements
were extremely judicious, and his administration of the
government most able and patriotic. When some one
suggested that the Union of the States might not be permanent, Governor Early replied, that if such a thing
should happen, he had no wish that Georgia should survive the general wreck; he wanted to swim or sink together. He died August I5, I8I7.
Jacob Ford was a brother of Timothy Ford of the
class of I783, and Gabriel Ford of the class of I784. What
became of him after his graduation, I have not been able,to discover.
Charles Wilson Harris was a native of North Carolina. On his return to his home, he commenced the
study of law, but in 1795 was appointed Professor of
Mathematics in the University of North Carolina. He
accepted the office only for one year, and declined renewing his term of engagement, wishing to follow his
profession, in which he became eminent, being considered one of the best lawyers in the State.
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William  Hosack was a brother of David Hosack of
the class of I789. He never followed any business, but
resided in the City of New York. He was intimate with
Aaron Burr, and they were in Europe together about
I809.
Edmund Jennings Lee was the fifth and youngest
son of Henry Lee of Prince William County, Virginia,
and was born in that county, May 20, 1772. He was a
brother of Henry Lee of the class of 1773, and of Charles
Lee of the class of 1775. He married the daughter of
Richard Henry Lee of the Continental Army. Mr. Lee
was a lawyer by profession, and was, for many years,
Clerk of the United States Court in Alexandria, when
that county was part of the District of Columbia. He,
however, continued to practice his profession in the Supreme Court of the United States, and in the courts of
his native State. Mr. Lee died May 30, I843.
In reply to the resolutions of respect on the occasion
of his death, by the members of the Washington Bar, the
Chief-Judge Cranch, said: " The Judges of this Court
sympathize sincerely with the members of the Bar in the
loss of one of its oldest, most respected and learned members. Mr. Lee, at the time of his death, was the only
survivor of those who were counsellors of this Court at
-the time of its organization in I8oI, and the Judges from
their long association with him in the administration of
justice, from their high respect for his character as a
learned, able and upright advocate, as well as for the
virtues which adorned his private life, cannot but greatly
lament his loss, and uniting with the Bar in their sympathy with his bereaved family and friends, most willingly accede to the request that their proceedings be entered upon the minutes of the Court."
Mr. Lee died in the Communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he was a consistent and useful' member for nearly half a century. In the history of that Church
in Virginia since its revival, no name among the laity
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stands more conspicuous than his. He was one of the
small number who, in I814, gave their sanction to the
call of the venerated Bishop Moore to the Episcopate of
Virginia. From that period to the time of his death, he
was elected annually a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese. Bishop Meade wrote of Mr. Lee,
"I not only knew Mr. Lee from my youth up, but I saw
him in his last moments, and heard him with the truest
humility speak of himself as a poor sinner, whose only
hope was in Christ."
Mr. Lee left several children, most of whom are now
living in Virginia.
George C. Mlaxwell after leaving college studied
law, and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme
Court of New Jersey, at the May Term I797, as a Counsellor at the May Term, I8oo, and called as Sergeant-atLaw in I8i6. Mr. Maxwell practiced in Hunterdon
County, New Jersey. From I 8 II to I813, he was in the
House of Representatives of the United States from New
Jersey. He died at Flemington, New Jersey.
George Washington Morton was a brother of
Jacob Morton of the class of I778. After graduating, he
entered upon the practice of law in New York City, but
soon relinquished it for the mercantile business, and became a leading merchant in the St. Domingo trade. He
died in I8I0.
John C. Otto was the son of Bodo Otto, an eminent
physician, and distinguished as a public character in the
stirring periods of the Revolution. The son was born
near Woodbury, New Jersey, March I5, I774. After
graduating, he entered the office of Dr. Rush, and in
1796 received his medical diploma from the University
of Pennsylvania. Dr. Otto soon attained a highly respectable rank among his contemporaries, and in r798
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pensary; an institution which he faithfully served for a
period of five years. In I813, he was appointed to succeed Dr. Rush, lately deceased, as one of the Physicians
of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Here his untiring devotion to the sick, his sound medical knowledge, his matured judgment, and a deep sense of the responsibilities
of the post, proved him to be the right man for the important position. Dr. Otto held this office during a
period of twenty-two years.
His clinical lectures while connected with the hospital
were models of conciseness, simplicity and truthfulness.
One of his pupils, himself afterwards eminent as a physician, writes: " Who cannot look back with lively satisfaction and recall the slender and slightly-stooping frame
of this venerable physician, as he passed around the wards
of the hospital, stopping at each bed as he passed, kindly
saluting his patient, making the necessary inquiries into
his condition, and then, in the most unaffected, and yet
impressive manner, addressing himself to the assembled
class, and fastening upon their minds some valuable
medical precept."
In addition to this responsible position, Dr. Otto was
connected with several other public charities. During
twenty years he served the Orphan Asylum, where he
was much beloved by the children and by all connected
with the institution. He was also physician during many
years to the Magdalen Asylum, in the prosperity of which
he took a deep interest. In I840, Dr. Otto was elected
Vice-President of the College of Physicians, a position
which he occupied at the time of his death.
In social life Dr. Otto was remarkable for the simplicity and ease of his manners, and for the instruction which
pervaded his conversation. He was a warm Presbyterian, but of a truly Catholic spirit. His religion was
eminently vital and practical.  He read the Scriptures
morning and evening, and rarely passed a day without
perusing a portion of Thomas A Kempis' Imitation of
Christ. Dr. Otto died as he had lived, an humble and
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devout' Christian, beloved and respected by all, June 26,
I844.
Dr. Otto published: Medical Papers in the New York Medical Repository, 1803; Coxe's Medical Museum, 1805; Eclectic Repository; North
American Medical and Surgical Journal, I828, 1830.
Joseph Reed, a son of General Joseph Reed of the
class of I757, was born in Philadelphia, July II, I772'.
After graduating, he studied law in Philadelphia, and
was admitted to the Bar. Mr. Reed was for a number
of years Recorder of the City. He died March 4, I846.
Mr. Reed published: The Laws of Pennsylvania, I822-1824. Five volumes, 8vo.
Williamn Ross became a lawyer and practiced in
Orange County, New York. At one time he was quite
prominent in' politics. In 1812, he was an active member of the Lower House of the Legislature of New York,
and in I814, a member of the State Senate, where he remained for many years.
Janmes Ruan was from St. Croix, and was probably
the brother of John Ruan of the class of I790. I cannot
find a trace of him after his graduation.
Robert Russell was ordained by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick in 1795, and about 1797 he joined the
Presbytery of Philadelphia, and settled as pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Allen Township (now Allentown), Pennsylvania, succeeding the Rev. Francis Peppard, a graduate of the class of 1762. Here Mr. Russell
laboured for more than a quarter of a century. He died
in I827.
John J. Sayres was a native of New York.  He was
admitted to Deacon's and Priest's Orders by Bishop
Clagget of Maryland. In January, I799, he entered on
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land. After remaining here about a year, in consequence of feeble health, he removed to Georgetown,
District of Columbia, where he supported himself by
teaching and preaching as strength would permit. He
was Chaplain to the United States Senate in I8o6 and
I807. He died in I8o8. Mr. Sayres is remembered as
a faithful and excellent minister, and was much beloved
by his people.
William  B. Sloan came to Princeton from Lamington, New Jersey, of which place he was a native. He
studied theology with Dr. John Woodhull, of Freehold,
New Jersey, and was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, May 3I, I797, and in I798 was ordained by
the same Presbytery, and installed as pastor of the United
Congregations of Greenwich and Mansfield. For seventeen years he served both congregations, and then became
the pastor of Greenwich only; when, through increasing infirmities, he was compelled to resign his charge in
October, I834.
Mr. Sloan was a man of noble presence -above the
medium height, erect, slender, but well formed; his features finely chiselled, yet manly and dignified in expression; his eye, a clear expressive blue; his gait and bearing stately yet unconstrained. His talents were respectable, though not great; his style simple and unaffected.
He was not a very vigorous thinker, but was an earnest
and affectionate preacher. He died July 3, I839.
Jacob S. Thompson read law and was admitted an
Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the
November Term, I796, and practiced in Sussex County,
New Jersey. In February, I8oo, he was appointed by
the Governor Clerk of that county; and in October of
the same year was reappointed by the Legislature, and
held office till I805.
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turned to Virginia and studied law, but never practiced
his profession, but engaged in planting. He was, at one
time, a member of the Legislature. Mr. Watkins was a
man of considerable talent. He died at an advanced age
in I865.
George Willing was the son of the Honourable
Thomas Willing, of Philadelphia; and was born in that
city, April I4, I774. It is probable that he received his
earlier instruction from teachers there; and it was a high
testimony to the reputation in that day of Princeton College that his father, so closely identified with the reputation and people of Philadelphia, and a man of the highest
discernment and sagacity, should have given him his
later education at Nassau Hall. On leaving college, he
entered the counting-house of his father; he afterwards
went to India on commercial business of the house of
Willing & Francis. A disposition not inclined to the
activities of business, and the possession of an ample fortune, induced him to retire from commerce in early life;
and during part of the year, at his country residence of
Richland, near Philadelphia, he devoted himself a good
deal to the occupations of elegant agriculture. He was
a member of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, which, under the presidency of his near connection,
the Honourable Richard Peters, of Belmont, Philadelphia, attained reputation many years ago, and still preserves it. He died December 22, I827, and is buried in
the grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia, where many
of his ancestors lie.
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Dow  Ditmars, the son of Abraham  Ditmars, of
Jamaica, Long Island, was born June I2, 177I.  After
graduating, he studied medicine, and settled at Hellgate
(now Astoria), Long Island, where he continued to reside
until his death.
Manuel Eyre, after graduating, became a successful
merchant in Philadelphia. One of his sons graduated in
the class of I838.
John Gibson, a brother of James Gibson of the class
of I787, was a well known merchant in Philadelphia. He
was also a fine classical scholar. Mr. Gibson never married. He died about I824, and is buried at St. Peter's
Church, Philadelphia.
John Henry Hobart was descended from an ancient Newr England family, and was born in Philadelphia,
September I4, I775. Soon after graduating, he entered
a counting-house in his native city, but finding the employment repugnant to his tastes and habits, and a tutorship at Princeton being offered to him, he left Philadelphia and entered upon his new duties in the college in
January, I796. Here he prosecuted his theological studies under the direction of the President, Dr. Samuel
Stanhope Smith. Having remained in Princeton two
years, he repaired to Philadelphia and completed his theological course under the direction of Bishop White, and
in June, I798, was admitted by him to the Order of Deacons. He was first settled in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, but in 1799, accepted an invitation to Christ's
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Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Here he remained
for one year, when he took charge of St. George's Church
at Hempstead, Long Island. He had scarcely become
settled there, when he was offered the Rectorship of St.
Mark's Church, New York, which he promptly declined;
but in September, I8oo, he became Assistant Minister of
Trinity Church, New York, and shortly after was ordained Priest by Bishop Provost. In  8 I I he was elected
Assistant Bishop of the Diocese' of New York. Here his
labours were immense. On the death of Bishop Moore
in I8I6, Dr. Hobart became Diocesan of New York.
There was scarcely any subject in which Bishop Hobart
felt a deeper interest than the proper education of the
clergy, and the incipient efforts which he put forth on the
subject at that early period may be said to have formed
the germ of the Theological Seminary which was located
in New York in I8I9. About I82I Dr. Hobart was appointed to the chair of Pastoral Theology and Pulpit
Eloquence in that institution. He discharged the duties
of his professorship so as effectually to secure the affection, gratitude, and admiration of his pupils. In I823 he
visited Europe, on account of his health, which had become impaired, where he remained until September, I825.
On his return he addressed himself to his duties with renewed zeal and energy. He died September Io, I830.
As a preacher Dr. Hobart was rapid and business-like,
earnest in his manner, and perfectly natural in his delivery. His voice, though not strong, was clear, and his
tones varied. His attachment to his own church was
very strong, and led him to the most vigorous efforts for
the promotion of its interests.
Bishop Hobart was a voluminous writer, and published
much that was ephemeral. His principal publications
are:
The Companion for the Altar. I8o4. The Companion to the Book of
Common Prayer. I805. The Clergyman's Companion. I806. A Collection of Essays on the Subject of Episcopacy. i8o6. The Christian's Manual of Faith and Devotion. 1814. Mant and D'Olyly's Bible, with Notes.
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i823. Besides these, Bishop Hobart published between twenty and thirty
Pastoral Charges, Pastoral Letters, Sermons, Addresses, etc.
Nathaniel Hunt was a native of New Jersey. After
graduating, he lived and died upon a farm about two and
a half miles from Princeton. Mr. Hunt taught a country
school for some years before his death, which occurred
in I805 or I8o6.
Robert Hunt studied law and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey at the February Term, I799, and practiced in Trenton, New Jersey.
He was a son of Abraham Hunt, a merchant of that city.
He died in October, I802.
John Neilson, a son of John Neilson of New Brunswick, New Jersey, became a Physician of great eminence,
and practiced during a long life in the City of New York,
where he was respected and honoured by the whole community. He died in I857.
Robert Ogden was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the September Term,
I797. He was a nephew of Governor Aaron Ogden of
the class of I773, and was born September I6, I775. After
his admission to the Bar, Mr. Ogden settled in Newbern,
North Carolina, where he practiced for a time, and then
removed to Charleston, South Carolina. In I82I he removed to Louisiana, and in I825 was appointed Judge of
the Parish of Concordia. Mr. Ogden died at Greenville,
Louisiana, in I857.
Charles Tennent was a native of South Carolina,
and a son of the Rev. William Tennent of the class of
I758. I can learn nothing of his history after his graduation.
Isaac Van Doren was a native of New Jersey.
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dore Dirck Romeyn, and completed his studies with
Dr. Livingston. He was licensed by the Classis of New
York, and was ordained about I798. In I8oo he became
pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Hopewell, Orange County, New York, where during a pastorate of
twenty-three years he was blessed with eminent success.
Leaving his charge, he removed to Newark, New Jersey,
and was for four years Principal of an Academy in that
place; after which, with his eldest son, he established the
Collegiate Institute on Brooklyn Heights. From thence
he removed to Lexington, Kentucky. After spending
several years in teaching in the West, he returned to
New Jersey. His latter years were passed happily and
usefully among his children. Mr. Van Doren was eminently social, given to hospitality, the gifted counsellor
of young clergymen and of all who sought his advice.
He was not a brilliant man, but was remarkable for sound
common sense, of a cheerful disposition, unspotted integrity, and unostentatious piety. He died at Perth Amboy,
August 12, 1864.
Mr. Van Doren's only publication was a Tract entitled, " A Summary of
Christian Duty," compiled from the Douay Bible.
Joshua Madox Wallace, son of Joshua Madox
Wallace, Esq., was born at Philadelphia, September 4,
1776. The capture of the city soon after by the British
forces, caused the retirement of the family of the parents of
Mr. Wallace to a seat of theirs on the Raritan, Somerset
County, New Jersey, called Ellerslie, after the ancestral estate in Scotland, from which country, Mr. John Wallace,
the grandfather of the subject of our notice, came. The
elder Mr. Wallace, himself a scholar, instructed his son
during more tender years, at his own home. He was afterwards placed with a younger brother, John Bradford (of
whom more hereafter), under the care of the Rev. William
Frazer, a particular personal friend of the elder Mr. Wallace, and a most exemplary clergyman of the Church of
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well, not very far from the country seat of Mr. Wallace.
On the close of the war; the elder Mr. Wallace having
established his residence in Burlington, New Jersey, this
son in due time was entered at Princeton College; an
institution in which the father had always taken great
interest, and of which, from I798, till his death in I8I9, he
was an active and efficient Trustee. -We have no particular record of his studies and progress there.  It
seems to have been satisfactory. His younger brother
was placed there a year or two afterwards. President
Samuel Stanhope Smith writes to their father, March 27,
1792: " It gives me singular pleasure to be able to say of
the good morals, diligence and talents of your sons, every
thing that the fondest and worthiest parents can wish,
and I anticipate the satisfaction which you must have in
their company when they return home after their examination; and you will allow me to say I sincerely participate in it."
After his graduation, Mr. Wallace was placed in the
counting-house of Mr. William  Cramond, an English
merchant of high standing in Philadelphia, with a view
to entering on commercial pursuits. A few years afterwards, he was sent abroad, visiting the Island of Madeira, and passing some time in Great Britain and Ireland, and making what was then called the "grand tour"
of the Continent. He married, as appears by Sir Bernard
Burke's "Visitation of Seats and Arms " (where an account of the family is given, vol. i., p. 32), "Rebecca'daughter of William MclIlvaine, of Burlington, in New
Jersey, M.D.," and died at his country residence near
Philadelphia, January 7, 182I. A son of Mr. Wallace
graduated at Princeton in I833, and an only surviving son,
Ellerslie Wallace, M.D., a well-known physician of Philadelphia, is now a Professor in one of the principal medical colleges in that city.
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Thomas M. Bayly, a Virginian by birth, entered
into public life in 1798, and continued therein until I830.
He served in both branches of the Virginia Legislature,
and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of I830. From  81I3 to I8I5, he was in the House of
Representatives of the United States. It was said of Mr.
Bayly that he never lost an election. He died in I834.
James M. Broom was a member of Congress from
Delaware, from I805 to I807. He died in I850.
George Washington Campbell entered the profession of the law. He was a member of Congress from
Tennessee from I803 to I809, serving during the two last
terms as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means.
He was afterwards appointed Judge of the United States
District Court of Tennessee. In i8i I, he was elected to
the United States Senate, but resigned on being appointed Secretary of the Treasury in I814. The following
year he resumed his seat in the Senate, and served till
i8i8, when he was appointed Minister to Russia, where
he remained until I82I. He died February 7, I848.
Edmund Elmendorf acted as a tutor for several
months after graduating. He studied law and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the September Term, I799; and as a Counsellor
at the May Term, I8oo. Mr. Elmendorf removed to the
City of New York, where he engaged in practice. For a
number of years he was Clerk in Chancery. He died in
i856.
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Nlicholas Everett was a nephew of the wife of Walter Minto, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the College at Princeton. He studied law and
practiced in New York City. He was at one time a
Justice of one of the City Courts. Mr. Everett was a
laborious, active man, but not at all brilliant.
William B. Ewing became a Physician. He was a
member of the Legislature of New Jersey, and at one
time Speaker of the Lower House. He died in I866.
James G. Force was ordained by the Presbytery of
New York, November 30, I796, and installed as pastor of
New Providence, New Jersey. He was dismissed from
this charge October 6, I802. He died in I849.
Moore Furman was a son of Moore Furman, a
prominent citizen of Trenton, New Jersey. He entered
no profession, and died at Lawrenceville, New Jersey,
April I8, I804.
John White Furman, a brother of the above, after
his graduation, resided on a farm at Pittstown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He was killed by falling from
his horse. He died April 28, I802. It was no doubt the
intention of the two brothers to follow agriculture, as
their father was a large landed proprietor, but their
premature death defeated their plans.
Richard M. Green was a brother of Charles D. Green
of the class of I787. He never entered a profession, but
followed the bent of his inclinations in agricultural pursuits. He died in I853.
John Sylvanus Hiester, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Hiester, was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania,
July 28, I794. He began the study of law with AttorneyGeneral Bradford, but upon the death of that eminent
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lawyer in 1795, he passed into the office of Jared Ingersoll, under whose direction he finished that study. Mr.
Hiester never practiced law, but upon Thomas McKean
becoming Governor of Pennsylvania, he was appointed
Prothonotary of the Common Pleas, and Clerk of the
Criminal Court of Berks County. He held this position
for nine years. For many years he was Cashier of the
Farmers' Bank of Reading. He died March 7, I849.
Thoim-as Yardley:How  studied law, and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in May, I799. A few years later, he took orders in
the Episcopal Church, and was for a time Rector of
Grace Church in the City of New York. He had a share
in the celebrated Church Controversy with Hobart, Linn,
Beasley, Mason, Miller and others, in the early part of the
present century.
In I812, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Columbia College, New York. It is said
that Dr. How afterwards relinquished the ministry, and
returned to the law, removing to one of the Western
States, where he probably died.
Holloway Whitefield Hunt received license from
the Presbytery of New Brunswick about I792, and on
the I7th of June, I795, was ordained and settled as pastor
of the Churches at Newton and Hardiston, New Jersey.
In 1804, he removed to Hunterdon County, and took
charge of the United Churches of Kingwood, Bethlehem
and Alexandria. He was a tall, portly man, of a very
fair complexion, and in later years his hair white with
age. He was a man of fair abilities, and in his prime was
a popular preacher. His manners were bland and attractive, and he had the faculty of attaching the people
of his charge very strongly to him. In the latter years
of his life, Mr. Hunt gave up the active duties of the
ministry on account of increasing infirmities. He died
in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in I858.
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Titus llutchinson. I presume that Mr. Hutchinson was a native of Vermont, where he practiced law
and rose to distinction.  In October, 1825, he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, in
which position he remained until I830, when he was appointed Chief-Justice.
Mr. Hutchinson died in I857.
Henry Kollock, a son of Shepard Kollock, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, spent three years following his
graduation at his father's house, reviewing his college
studies. In I797 he was appointed tutor, John Henry
Hobart being his colleague, between whom and Kollock
there sprang up a most intimate and ardent friendship,
which lasted during life. At this period there was in the
college a Literary Association called the " Belles Lettres
Society," consisting of the officers of the college and the
resident graduates. They met once in two weeks, and
the exercises consisted in reading an essay, followed with
remarks or criticisms by the members, and then a debate
on some political, literary, moral or religious question.
The subject was selected several weeks before it was
taken up, and all were expected to come prepared. On
one of these occasions, the subject selected was the exclusive right of Bishops, in the Episcopal sense of the
term, to ordain to the office of the gospel ministry; and
our two young tutors were the combatants. Great interest was excited, not only by the nature of the subject,
but also by the known talents of the debaters. Each, of
course, took the side of the church to which he belonged,
and brought all his ability to the defence of it. It was
Saturday afternoon, and many of the under-graduates,
who were not permitted to enter the room, abandoning
their usual walks and amusements, collected, some around
the library door, where the debate was held, and others
on the outside of the building, so that, through the open
windows, they might catch something of what was said.
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bate was ably and eloquently conducted on both sides;
and the Presbyterians who were present did not think
their cause suffered in the hands of Mr. Kollock. To the
honour of the disputants, this exciting debate did not, for
a moment, interrupt their kindly feelings towards each
other. In I8oo, Mr. Kollock was licensed to preach by
the Presbytery of New York, still holding his position
as tutor, and preaching to the congregation in princeton,
where his eloquence made a profound impression.
After leaving the college, he became pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown, where he remained for three years. His fame was not confined to his
own State. He received calls from many important
churches. In I803, the Trustees of the College appointed
him Professor of Theology, and the Congregation of
Princeton invited him to be their pastor. Accordingly,
in the autumn of that year, he returned to Princeton in
the double character of professor and pastor. But he
was not permitted to remain here long. After repeated
solicitations, he was prevailed on to accept a call from
the Independent Presbyterian  Church in Savannah,
Georgia, and in I8o6 he removed to his new field of labour.
In I8Io he was called to the Presidency of the University of Georgia, which he declined.  While in Savannah his labours were abundant, especially among those
ill with the yellow fever; and although he was not attacked by the fever, yet his health finally gave way, and
he was compelled, for a time, to leave his charge, making
a tour through Europe. On his return in I817 he entered
again into the same exhausting course of labour; but in
less than two years he broke down again, and died December, 29, I8I9.
Dr. James W. Alexander says of Mr. Kollock that he
was " one of the most ornate yet vehement orators whom
our country has produced."
A collection of Dr. Kollock's Sermons was published in Savannah in
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Paul Paulison, after graduating, studied theology,
intending to enter the ministry of the Reformed Dutch
Church, but he was never ordained. He passed his whole
life in Hackensack, New Jersey, his native town, where
he died in I832. Two of his sons graduated at Princeton, one in I822 and the other in I834.
Henry Polheamus, a native of Somerset County,
New Jersey, was licensed by the Classis of New York
in 1798, and settled as pastor of the Reformed Dutch
Churches of Harlingen and Nashanic, New Jersey, ill
1798, where he remained until I809, when he became
pastor of the Church at English Neighbourhood, New
Jersey.  Mr. Polhemus contiriued in this charge until
i813, when he became pastor of the Church at Shawangunck, New York, where he remained until his death,
which occurred in I8I6.
Edwin Reese was probably the son of Dr. Thomas
Reese of the class of I768. After his graduation, he returned to the South, and became Principal of a flourishing Academy in Pendleton District, South Carolina.
John N. Simpson was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, April 6, I770. After graduating, he married a
daughter of Dr. Wiggins, of Princeton, and settled upon
a farm near that place. After a few years he removed
to Baskingridge, and represented the County of Somerset in the Legislature of New Jersey. In I8II he removed to New Brunswick and entered largely into mercantile business, having a partner in a large house in
New York. He was again elected to the Legislature,
and represented Middlesex County for a number of years;
he was also at one time Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of that county, and was for a long time Cashier of
the Bank of New Brunswick. Mr. Simpson was a great
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sources of the State. When the project was first spoken
of, for a canal to unite the Delaware and Raritan, by
Mr. Simpson, in the Legislature of New Jersey, it
was considered impracticable. He drew up the first
bill that was ever presented for a charter for a company to make the said canal, but did not live to see it
completed.
It was owing mainly to his influence that the State
of New  Jersey was stimulated to take the part she
did in promoting the cause of common school education.
A few years before his death, Mr. Simpson edited a
paper in Princeton called the Princeton Courier.  He
was a great friend of his Alma Mater, and, after his
death, there was found among his papers a subscription-list in behalf of rebuilding the college, drawn
up by him, while it was in  flames, and  headed
by him with a subscription of five hundred dollars;
and it is said that, before the flames were  extinguished, he had a subscription-list of five thousand
dollars.
Mr. Simpson was an elder in the Presbyterian Church
in New Brunswick. He died in Princeton, May 13,
I832.
John Brown Slemrons received his license to preach
from the Presbytery of New Castle in 1797, and was
installed pastor of Monokin and Wicomico Churches
in Maryland in June, I799. He remained in this charge
until I82I, when he retired to a farm which he owned,
and spent the remainder of his days in retirement. Mr.
Slemons was a man of more than ordinary powers, and
was said to have been a Boanerges. He was pointed
and often blunt. His delivery was not esteemed equal
to his sermonizing powers. An anecdote of Benjamin
Dashiel, an Episcopalian and lawyer, contemporary of Mr.
Slemons, who set a pretty high estimate upon his own
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mate put upon Mr. Slemons's Sermons. Mr. Dashiel is
handed down to have said, "Let Parson Slemons write
the sermon, let me preach it, and big Billy Handy set
the Psalm, and we will convert the devil."
John Bradford Wallace was a brother of Joshua
M. Wallace of the preceding class. He was born at
Ellerslie, his father's seat, August I7, I778. His course
at Princeton was manly and exemplary. He was invariably diligent, patient and accurate in his studies. The
vigour and precision of his memory was one of the results of his regularity and care, and, in connection with
a delightful voice and enunciation, was such that President Smith used often to say, " It was indeed a pleasure
to hear Mr. Wallace's recitations."
Mr. Wallace was admitted to the Pennsylvahia Bar in
I797.  nd before long was acknowledged to stand in its
most dignified ranks. Strength, discrimination and directness were the characteristics of his understanding.
In 1822 Mr. Wallace fixed his residence in Meadville,
Pennsylvania. He was soon elected to the Legislature
of the State, which position he held for three successive
years, when he removed to Philadelphia.
Mr. Wallace was a warm and active member of the
Episcopal Church. HIis piety was bright and remarkably
practical. A fervid and delightful sentiment, it inspired
in his own heart both love and confidence. After his
graduation Mr. Wallace assumed the middle name of
Bradford, after his mother's family. He died in Philadelphia, January 7, I83,7.
William  R. Williamson was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the
May Term, I799, and practiced in Essex County, New
Jersey.
John R. Witherspoon was from South Carolina.
He studied medicine and practiced in his native State,
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but afterwards removed to Alabama, where he died in
I850. He published a description of a Latin Bible in his
possession. Dr. Witherspoon was widely known and
highly respected throughout the South.
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James Agnew was the son of Daniel Agnew, an
Irishman, an Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Princeton, and for some time Steward of the College. After
graduating, Mr. Agnew studied medicine, and was rising
to prominence as a physician at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
when he died in I8oo.
John A. Boyd studied law, and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the November Term, I799, and settled at Hackensack, Bergen
County, New Jersey. Mr. Boyd was Surrogate of Bergen County from November, 1803, till his death in I828.
David Comfort was licensed by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick in I798, and soon after became pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at Kingston, New Jersey, where
he laboured during a long life, honoured and beloved by
all. From I8i6 until his death in I853, he was a Trustee
of the College.
Silas Condit was a native of Newark, New Jersey.
He represented New Jersey in Congress from I83I to
I833; and was a member of the State Convention which
formed the Constitution in I844. Mr. Condit was a man
highly esteemed, and held offices of trust in his native
town. He died November 29, I861.
George R. Cuthbert belonged to an influential
family in Canada. After graduating, he returned to
Canada.
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Josiah Harrison, a native of New Jersey, after his
graduation studied law, and was admitted to the Bar at
the February Term of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, in I8oo. He practiced for many years in Gloucester
and Burlington Counties, and was for a number of years
Law Reporter of the Supreme Court. He died in I865.
Mr. Harrison published: Laws of New Jersey, I820 —I833; Camden,
1833, 8vo. New Jersey Supreme Court Reports, 1837-I842, 4 vols., 8vo,
1839-I843.
Samuel Hayes was from Newark, New Jersey. He
studied medicine with Dr. J. R. B. Rodgers of the class
of I775. In I799, he was appointed " Apothecary of the
New York Hospital."  In I8oo, he sailed to India as Surgeon of the ship " Swan." In I803, he was in the drug
business in New York for a few months, and in I8o4, he
became associated with Dr. Cyrus Pierson in the practice of medicine in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Hayes
was a man of acknowledged skill. He was a good scholar
and faithful to the interests of his patients. He ever
maintained a high Christian character. He died July 30,
I 839.
Elbert Herring, the sole living representative of the
graduates of the eighteenth century, bears about with him
the burden and the honours of ninety-five years. He is still
sound in body and in mind. He was born the year after
Independence was declared. He entered college when
Dr. Witherspoon was President, and was present at his
funeral the next year, and the impression made by the
appearance of that noble form as it lay in the coffin, has
never been obliterated. Seventy-three years after that
event, Judge Herring sat with his classmate Joseph Warren Scott upon the stage, and witnessed the inauguration
of another eminent Scotchman, who like his great compeer, has infused new life into the venerable body of our
beloved Ahbna Mater.
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tice of the law in New York, his native city. In I805, he
was appointed Judge of the Marine Court, which position he held for three years; and was again appointed to
the same office a few years later. Judge Herring was a
confidential friend of De Witt Clinton, and was by him
appointed the first Register of the City and County of
New York. In I83I, he was appointed by General Jackson the first Commissioner of Indian Affairs, which position he held for about five years. Judge Herring long
since retired from the active duties of life, but not from
the public duties of a living Christian. His seat in the
church and the prayer-meeting is seldom vacant.
Patrick Houstoun was a son of Richard Houstoun
of Georgia, and was a grandson of Sir Patrick Houstoun,
and a nephew of Governor John Houstoun of Georgia.
After graduating, he returned to Georgia.
George W. Woodruff of the class of I783, married a
sister of Patrick Houstoun.
Richard Rayhold Keene was a native of Dorchester County, Maryland. While in college he was a scholar of respectable standing. After graduating, he established himself as a lawyer in Baltimore, and married the
daughter of Luther Martin of the class of 1766.  Mr.
Keene afterwards removed to New Orleans, and made
quite a figure in the political world as District Attorney
of the United States for the Orleans Territory, and was
a conspicuous character in the disputes which grew out
of the Burr Conspiracy. He afterwards resided several
years in Spain, where, during the war with Napoleon, he
bore the rank of Colonel in the Spanish service. Mr.
Keene's second wife was a native of Spain. The life of
Mr. Keene was checkered by many and singular turns of
adverse and prosperous fortune, and he closed his career
possessed of little of this world's wealth.
He died at St. Louis while on a visit to Colonel Richard R. Keene, in I839.
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Mr. Keene published: " A Memorial to the Spanish Government," which
made some noise at the time.
Eleazer W. Keyes returned to his home in Connecticut after graduation, and became quite prominent as a
lawyer. Mr. Keyes married the daughter of General
Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame.
Elias ]Riggs received his license to preach from the
Presbytery of New York in March, i802, and for some
time supplied the Presbyterian Church at Perth Amboy,
New Jersey. On the 2d of August he was ordained. In
the month of October, i8o6, he removed to New Providence, New Jersey, and was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that place, June Io, I807. He continued in this pastoral charge to the end of his life. He
died February 25, I825. Mr. Riggs was eminently a
godly man and a faithful pastor, and commanded by his
exemplary life and conversation, the affections of his
people and respect of the community. He entailed upon
the world a well-trained family that does honour to his
name, and has done good to the Church and the world.
Mr. Riggs left a family of two sons and four daughters,
both of his sons becoming Presbyterian ministers, the
younger one being the distinguished missionary at Constantinople, the Rev. Elias Riggs, D.D., LL.D.
Joseph Warren Scott, a son of Dr. Moses Scott of
New Brunswick, New Jersey, after graduating, studied
medicine for a short time with his father, and also paid
some attention to theology, a science congenial to his intellect and early education. On one occasion he attended
court in New York and became greatly interested in the
able argument of one of the lawyers, and this was the incentive that led him to adopt the law as his profession.
He was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of
New Jersey, at the February Term, I80I, and a Counsellor, February, I804, and was called Sergeant at Law, at
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the February Term, i8i6. In criminal cases he showed
great power and almost resistless eloquence. He argued
his last case at the age of eighty, and spoke for several
hours without much weariness, considering his years.
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United
States, on hearing of his death writes to a friend, " Genial-and bright in intellect and wit, four score and ten
years had not, when last I met him, quenched the ardour
of his warm and impulsive nature; and I shall ever remember Colonel Warren Scott as one of the most attractive talkers and agreeable companions whom it has been
my fortune to meet." Colonel Scott died April 27, I871,
having, with the lion. Elbert Herring of the same class,
long outlived all his contemporaries.
John Sergeant, a native of Philadelphia, was a son
of Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant of the class of I762, and
a great grandson of President Dickinson. After leaving
college, Mr. Sergeant was for a short time a clerk in a
mercantile house, but this not suiting his tastes, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1799. For several
years he was Prosecutor for the Commonwealth of Penn'a.
Mr. Sergeant was a member of the House of Representatives from 1815 to I823, from I827 to I829, and from
1837 to I842. He was especially famous for his part in
the great Missouri Compromise of 1820. He was selected
by President Adams to represent the United States in
the Panama Congress. The measures of international
law which were proposed to be settled in that Congress,
were deemed so important that Mr. Clay, the Secretary
of State, had filled eighty pages of instructions to Mr.
Sergeant on the subject. In 1832 he was a candidate for
Vice-President of the United States on the same ticket
with Mr. Clay. In I840 President Harrison tendered to
him  the mission to England, which he declined.  Mr.
Sergeant was for half a century known and honoured for
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doubted integrity. In the cause of charity he was never
appealed to in vain; and for many years before his death
took an active interest in all the public affairs of his native city.  He received the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws from Union College in I822, from Dickinson
College in I826, and from Harvard in I844.
Mr. Sergeant's Select Speeches were published in i832; and a number
of Addresses appeared separately.
Edward Darrell Smith studied medicine and became Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the College of South Carolina. He died near St. Louis, Missouri, August 17, I8 I9.
Dr. Smith published, Translation of Desault's Surgical Works, two volumes, 8vo. I814. Inaugural Dissertation on the Circulation; Philadelphia, i8oo.
John  Witherspoon  Smith, a son of President
Samuel Stanhope Smith, studied law and removed to St.
Louis, where he became Judge of the United States District Court of St. Louis.
Robert Johnstone Taylor was born at Belfast,
Ireland, in December, I777. He was the son of Captain
Jesse Taylor and Elizabeth Johnstone. On the 29th of
September, I779, his father, with his entire family, consisting of his wife and eight children, of which the subject
of this notice, then not two years old, was the youngest,
embarked in a vessel, of which he was the sole owner,
mounting fourteen guns, bound for Philadelphia. After
a long and stormy passage of thirteen weeks, and being
compelled to throw ten of his guns overboard, his ship,
by stress of weather, was driven ashore at the mouth of
James River, in Virginia, got amongst the ice, and with
a cargo of salt, then estimated to be worth ten " hard dollars" per bushel, was totally lost. After the loss of his
vessel, he went with his family to-Williamsburg, and remained there until May, 1780, when he removed to Alexandria.
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The subject of this sketch was prepared for college by
the celebrated Dr. James McWhirr, who predicted for
his pupil a brilliant career. Mr. Taylor graduated at the
head of his class, and immediately commenced the study
of law at Alexandria, in the office of Colonel Charles
Simms, and was admitted to the Bar in I798. On the fly
leaf of his note book, under the date of November, 1795,
in his own handwriting, is the following quotation from
"Johnson's London:"
"But thou, should tempting villany present,
All Marlbro hoarded, or all Villiers spent,
Turn from the glittering bribe thy scornful eye,
Nor sell for gold what gold can never buy;
The peaceful slumber, self-approving day,
Unsullied fame and conscience ever gay."
Practicing on the principles inculcated in these noble
lines through a long, useful and active life, he secured
the confidence and respect of every one who knew him,
and at the time of his death stood in the front rank of his
profession, side by side with those great Virginia lawyers
of his day, Chapman Johnson, Henry St. George Tucker,
Benjamin Watkins Leigh, and Robert Stannard. From
the year I813 to I830 his practice was large in the Supreme Court of the United States, but he was compelled
to relinquish it, his practice in the courts of his State
having become so extensive and onerous as to leave him
no time for any thing else. At the Bar of the Supreme
Court he ranked as a lawyer with Pinckney, Wirt, Walter Jones, and his class-mate, John Sergeant of Philadelphia, whom he frequently encountered in the argument
of important cases, and who all recognized in him  "a
foeman worthy of their steel." It was after an able argument in one of these cases, that Chief-Justice Marshall
paid him the highest compliment probably ever paid to
a lawyer, when he said that he was the only lawyer he
had ever known in all his experience at the Bar and on
the Bench, who never said a word too much or a word
too little for the cause he advocated. Mr. Taylor died
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at Alexandria on the 4th of October, I840, universally beloved, esteemed and lamented.
A son of Mr. Taylor graduated in the class of I835, and
is now an eminent lawyer in Alexandria.
Abraham  Ten Eyke was from Albany, New York,
to which city he returned after graduation and commenced the practice of law.
James Tilton was a native of Delaware, and a son
of Nehemiah Tilton, a Colonel in the Revolutionary
army, and otherwise employed during his life in government service. After his graduation he studied medicine
and commenced practice in Wilmington. He afterwards
removed to the western country.
Matthew  G. Wallace studed theology with the
Rev. Nathan Grier, and removed immediately to Ohio.
Mr. Wallace was among the first Presbyterian Ministers
who settled in Ohio. About the year 1802 he became
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati,
which had been founded in I790o by Rev. David Rice of
the class of I76I. Afterwards he preached at Springfield,
Hamilton and other places in Ohio. He was in the
ministry nearly sixty years, and in the latter part of his
life resided in Terre Haute, Indiana, without charge,
where he died at the age of eighty, August 12, I854.
Clayton Wright was a native of Queen Ann County,
Maryland, and was killed early in life in a duel.
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William  T. Anderson, a Jerseyman by birth, studied law, and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme
Court of New Jersey at the September Term, I8oi. Mr.
Anderson pursued his profession in Sussex County, New
Jersey, for many years. He was a man of high standing
and character, and of considerable legal attainments.
He died in I850.
Henry Axtell, a son of Henry Axtell, a farmer and
a revolutionary officer, was born at Mendham, Ne w
Jersey, June 9, I773.  After his graduation, he taught
school for several years at Morristown and Mendham.
In I804 he removed to Geneva, New York, where he was
for several years more at the head of a flourishing school.
On the Ist of November, I8Io, he was licensed to preach
by the Presbytery of Geneva, and, after preaching in
various places, he was, in I812, installed as colleague
pastor with the Rev. Jedediah Chapman, at Geneva.
Here he remained during his life. The degree of Doctor
of Divinity was conferred upon him by Middlebury
College in I823. Dr. Axtell was a bold and faithful
preacher, and sometimes very powerful. He was both
practical and argumentative, and eminently scriptural in
his preaching.
In stature, he was rather above the average, of a broad,
athletic form. He died in the utmost peace, February
I I, I849.
Dr. Axtell published a Sermon preached at the ordination of Julius
Steele, x8 I6.
George C. Barber was admitted -an Attorney of the
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Supreme Court of New Jersey at the February Term,
I8oi. He practiced in Elizabethtown, and was for some
time Clerk of the Borough. Mr. Barber was an elder in
the Presbyterian Church. He married a daughter of
Governor Aaron Ogden of the class of I773. He died
in 1828.
John Macpherson Berrien.  The ancestors of
Mr. Berrien were Huguenots. His grandfather was
John Berrien, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court
of New Jersey. The father of Mr. Berrien removed in
early life to Georgia, and during the Revolutionary
struggle was an officer in the American Army, and was
very conspicuous at the Battle of Monmouth.  His
mother was a sister of John Macpherson of the class of
I766.
The subject of our sketch was born in New Jersey
during a temporary residence of his parents, August 23,
i78I. After graduating, he returned to Georgia, and
read law in the office of Joseph Clay, a graduate of the
class of I784, and was admitted to the Bar before he was
eighteen. He now applied himself to his profession with
great industry. His books were his delight, and to his
studious habits, in the early stages of his legal career,
may doubtless be attributed the great success which he
afterwards met with, and which placed him  in time
among the first lawyers in America. In November, I809,
he was elected Solicitor of the Eastern District of the
State of Georgia, and the following year Judge of the
same district. This office he held for twelve years, being
re-elected every three years. During this period, the
war of I812 occurred, and the excitement of the public
mind added, in no small degree, to the responsibilities of
his station; but he administered the laws with prudence,
firmness and impartiality.
Ii I822 and I823 he was in the Legislature, and in I824
was chosen to the United States Senate.  During his
term  in the Senate, there was not a subject of general
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interest with which he did  not display consummate
knowledge. His speeches were always listened to with
profound attention, and acquired for him the reputation
of being one of the most gifted orators and able statesmen in our country.
In I829 Mr. Berrien was appointed Attorney-General
of the United States, in consequence of which he resigned
his seat in the Senate. This office he resigned in 183I.
In 1840 he was re-elected to the Senate. This period
will long be remembered for the important and delicate
questions which agitated the counsels of the nation. In
them Mr. Berrien took a prominent part, and added to
the fame he had already acquired. He resigned his seat
in the Senate in May, I852, and retired to private life.
In I830 Princeton conferred upon him the degree of
Doctor of Laws, on the occasion of his delivering an address before the literary societies. Mr. Berrien died January I, I856.
His publications consist of a few Addresses and Speeches.
Elias Boudinot Caldwell, a son of James Caldwell of the class of I759, was for many years Clerk of the
Supreme Court of the United States, but is especially
known for the prominent part he took in the cause of
African Colonization. In honour of him the managers of
the Society gave the name of Caldwell to a town in their
African colony. While living in Washington, Mr. Caldwell obtained a license from the Presbytery, and was accustomed to preach to the ignorant and-degraded in that
city. He died in May, I825.
A Speech of Mr. Caldwell's, on African Colonization, was published in
I817.
Moses I. Cantine entered college from the State of
New York, and, after graduating, studied law and settled
in Catskill. In 1814 he was elected to the State Senate from
the Middle District, his colleague from the same District
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canie one of the proprietors and editors of the A/bany
Arrgus. Mr. Cantine was a brother-in-law of Martin Van
Buren. He was frank, generous and kind in his social
intercourse, and, although not brilliant, was a man of
highly respectable talents.
John Starke Edwards was a son of the Hon. Pierpont Edwards of Connecticut, and grandson of President
Edwards. After graduating, he returned to New Haven
and commenced the study of law, and attended the lectures at the law school of Tapping Reeve at Litchfield.
He was admitted, to the Bar as Attorney and Counsellor
in I799; and in the same year removed to Ohio-to what
was then known as the Western Reserve. In I8oo, he
was appointed by Governor St. Clair, Recorder of Trumbull County. He was admitted to practice by the General Court of the Territory North-west of the Ohio River,
in October of the same year. In I812, he was commissioned as Colonel of one of the regiments in the Fourth
Division of Ohio Militia, then under command of General Elijah Wadsworth, a distinguished Revolutionary
patriot; and after General Hull's surrender at Detroit,
August I5, 1812, by which the whole north-western frontier was thrown open to invasion by the enemy, he took
an active part with other patriotic citizens of the country
in concerting measures of defence.
In October, 18i2, he was elected to Congress from the
Sixth District of Ohio, but he never took his seat, for in
January, I813, on a visit to the army on the north-western frontier, he was seized with camp fever, and died on
the 29th of that month.
The social and professional standing of Mr. Edwards
was all that the most ambitious and aspiring could desire, and his prospects of future distinction in public and
private life were bright and flattering in the highest
degree.
Mr. Edwards was a man of fine appearance, and in
stature about six feet in height, stoutly built, of florid
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complexion, and commanding presence. He was not an
easy and fluent speaker, and therefore not distinguished
as an advocate; but his fine legal attainments, his candour, honourable bearing and undoubted integrity, won
the confidence and respect of his professional brethren
of the court and of the jury, and he was eminently a successful lawyer.
Wilhemus Eltinge received his license to preach
in I798, and from I799 to I850, was pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Paramus and Saddle River,
New Jersey, and other churches gathered in the vicinity.
Called at the early age of twenty-one to the ministry, he
remained for fifty-one years in a single charge; at times,
however, adding to this a neighbouring congregation.
He was a man of great firmness and decision. It was
difficult to change his opinion when once formed. He
was a pointed preacher. He neither courted the favour
nor feared the frowns of men.  During the first three
years of his ministry, he was blessed with a great revival,
about three hundred being added to his churches. He
was a ready debater, and always active in ecclesiastical
bodies. He lived almost forty.years on a farm of his own,
ten miles from his charge; and would start on Saturday
morning, lecture in some house in the evening, preach on
Sabbath morning, and lecture again in the evening on his
way home. He often quoted to young ministers, when
urging them to diligence in the Master's work, " 7uniories ad labores! Seniores ad honores!"  He received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Rutgers College in 1839. He died in I85I.
John Fitzgerald, a native of South Carolina, died
the year after his graduation.
Robert M. Forsyth was the eldest son of Major
Forsyth, the first Marshal of Georgia, and brother of
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nounced the Valedictory Oration at the time of his graduation, and was considered the best public speaker who
had been in the college for many years, and he has not,
perhaps, often been since surpassed. He was distinguished for his remarkable scholarship while in college,
as well as for every moral grace and virtue. Mr. Forsyth died of the yellow fever at Savannah in the autumn
of I797, the year after his graduation.
Williamn Gaston was a native of Newbern, North
Carolina. His father, Dr. Alexander Gaston, was a man
of letters, and a determined patriot. Mr. Gaston was
first sent to the Catholic College at Georgetown, District
of Columbia, but his health failing, he returned home, and
in I794, entered Princeton. He graduated with the highest honours of his class. " The proudest moment of my
life," he once said, " was when I communicated the information to my mother that I had not only graduated,
but with honour."  And he has often been heard to say,
that whatever distinction he had attained in life, was owing to her pious counsel and faithful conduct, Mr. Gaston studied law with Fran9ois Xavier Martin, and was
admitted to the Bar in I798.
In I8oo00, when only twenty-two years of age, he was
elected to the Senate of North Carolina. But' his small
patrimony demanded his close attention to his profession,
and he did not again appear in public life until 18o8, when
he was elected a member of the House of Commons, of
which body he was chosen Speaker. In I813, he was
elected a Member of Congress; and again in I8I5. Here
he attracted the attention of the whole country by his
eloquence and manly boldness. At the end of his second
term, he declined re-election, and devoted himself to his
profession. In I827, he was again returned to the House
of Commons. In I834, Mr. Gaston was elected Judge of
the Supreme Court of North Carolina. In I840, he was
solicited to accept the post of United States Senator,
but he declined, and devoted himself with new ardour to
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the duties of his Judgeship. The manner in which he
discharged his important duties; his profound and varied
literature; his extensive legal knowledge; his severe and
patient research; his polished and clear composition, render his opinions not only monuments of legal learning,
but models of elegant literature. He died January 23,
I844. Judge Gaston received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws from Princeton, on the occasion of his
delivering an address before the literary societies of the
College in I835; from the University of Pennsylvania in
i819; from Harvard in I826, and from the University of
New York in I834.
French F. McMullen was born in Delaware, and
after his graduation studied law, and resided near Dover,
Delaware. He never became distinguished in his profession.
John Moody, a native of Pennsylvania, after leaving
college, studied theology, and was licensed by the Presbytery of Carlisle in I8oI. He was soon after ordained
by the same Presbytery and settled as pastor of Middle
Spring Presbyterian Church, Pennsylvania, where he remained until his death in I857. During the latter years of
his life he was, through the infirmity of age, unable to
perform ministerial work.
He was a laborious, faithful and successful pastor. He
received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Marshall
College in I849.
Henry W. Ogden, a son of Mathias Ogden of
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, after graduating, removed to New Orleans, where he continued until his
death.
Philip  Clayton Pendleton was from  Virginia.
He studied law, and rose to some eminence in his profession. He was the United States District Judge for the
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Western District of Virginia for some years. He died
in I863.
Nathaniel Venable, a brother of Samuel W. Venable of the class of I780, returned to Virginia and followed planting. Mr. Venable was one of the first Trustees
of Hampden Sidney College.
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William and Martin Agnew were twins-the sons
of Daniel Agnew of Princeton, and brothers of James
Agnew of the class of I795. William became insane, but
continued to reside at Princeton until his death at an
early age. He wore a long beard, a very uncommon
thing in those days. Martin became a farmer, and died
at a very advanced age in Hunterdon County, New
Jersey, in I857.
Thomas Bayley was a native of Somerset County,
Maryland. He represented his native State in Congress
from I8I7 to I823.
Fredrick Beasley was born in North Carolina.
During his college course he contracted an intimate
friendship with John Henry Hobart and Henry Kollock,
which was terminated only by death. After graduating,
Mr. Beasley studied theology with President Samuel
Stanhope Smith, acting at the same time as tutor in the
college. In I80I he was ordained Deacon by Bishop
Moore of New York, and Priest by the same, in I8O2.
In September, I802, he became Rector of St. John's
Church, Elizabethtown, but the next spring he resigned
his charge, and accepted a call to the Rectorship of St.
Peter's Church, Albany. He remained here until I809,
when he removed to Baltimore and became Rector of
St. Paul's Church in that city. In I813, his health being
delicate, and feeling the need of a position where lighter
service would be required, he resigned his charge and
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sylvania, a place that admirably suited his intellectual
tastes and habits, and its duties he discharged with acknowledged ability and fidelity for fifteen years. Dr.
Beasley resigned this post in I828, and in I829 became
Rector of St. Michael's Church, Trenton, New  Jersey,
where he remained until I836. His health becoming very
much impaired, he gave up  his charge at Trenton and
removed to Elizabethtown, where he spent the remainder
of his days, dying November I, I845.  He received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Columbia
College and from the University of Pennsylvania in I8i5.
Dr. Beasley was a man of slight frame, below the ordinary height, and was very easy and rapid in his movements. He was remarkably social and frank in all his
intercourse. His acquirements in literature were very
considerable, and in these pursuits was his chief delight.
His sermons were terse, well written, and cogent as to
reasoning. His studies lay mainly in the direction of
Mental Philosophy. He had no relish for the Scotch
Philosophers, but admired John Locke above all others.
Dr. Beasley published: A Discourse before the Ladies' Society, instituted
for the Relief of Distressed Seamen in the City of Albany. 80o8. Inaugural Sermon in St. Paul's Church, Baltimore. I8Io. A Sermon on Duelling.
I8II. An Anonymous Pamphlet, entitled Serious Reflections addressed
to Episcopalians in Maryland, on the State of their Church generally, but
more particularly on the Pending Election of a Suffragan Bishop. I813.
A Sermon before the Diocesan Convention of Pennsylvania. 1815. American Dialogues of the Dead. I8I5. A (second) Sermon on Duelling. I822.
A Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind; Part I., one volume,
8vo. I822. [He left in MS. Part II. complete.] A Vindication of the Argument apriori in proof of the Being and Attributes of God, from Objections of Dr. Waterland. I825. Review of Brown's Philosophy of the Human Mind. I825. A Vindication of the Fundamental Principles of Truth
and Order in the Church of Christ, from the Allegations of Rev. William
E. Channing, D.D. I830. An Examination of No. go of the Tracts for the
Times. I842. Dr. Beasley edited the two volumes of Dr. Samuel Stanhope
Smith's Posthumous Sermons, and wrote the Memoir of his Life prefixed
to the first volume. He also contributed largely to the periodical literature
of the day.
Richard  L. Beatty, a native of Monmouth County,
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New Jersey, after graduating, studied law, and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
at the November Term, I802. Mr. Beatty lived and died
at Allentown, New Jersey.
James W. Clarke was a native of Bertie County,
North Carolina. In 1802 and 1803, he represented his
native county in the House of Commons; and was again
a member from Edgecombe County in i8ii. From 1812
to 1814 Mr. Clarke was a member of the Senate of North
Carolina. In I8I5 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the United States; he served out his term
and declined re-election. In I828 he was appointed Chief
Clerk in the Navy Department at Washington, which
post he soon resigned. Mr. Clarke died in I843, esteemed
and loved by all who knew him.
Aaron Coe studied law and was admitted an Attorney of the Supreme.Court of New Jersey at the November Term, I8oI. He died in I857.
Daniel Crane was from Essex County, New Jersey.
In I803 he was licensed by the Morris County Presbytery,
and the year following was ordained by the same Presbytery and settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Chester, New Jersey. He remained in this charge until
i808, when he became pastor of the Church at Fishkill,
New York, June 7. Here he laboured with great zeal
and success for thirteen years. In July, 1821, he took
charge of the First Congregational Church in Waterbury,
Connecticut, still retaining his connection with the Presbytery. In 1825 he returned to Fishkill and taught in a
select school for two years, and then accepted a call to
his old charge in Chester, New Jersey. He was installed
July I8, 1827, and continued there until September 14,
183I, when he resigned. The remainder of his life was
passed in preaching and doing good, as health and opportunity permitted. He died April I, I86I.
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Henry Waggamlan Edwards was a brother of
John Starke Edwards of the class of 1796, and a grandson of President Edwards. He studied law at Litchfield
under Tapping Reeve, and commenced practice in New
Haven. He was a Representative in Congress from I8I9
to i823, and United States Senator from I823 to I827,
and a member of the State Senate of Connecticut from
1828 to I829. In I830 he was Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, and was Governor of the
State in I833, and from I835 to I838. Upon his recommendation a Geological Survey of the State was taken.
Mr. Edwards received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws from Yale in I833. He died July 22, I847.
William  Clark Frazer, a native of White Hall,
New Castle County, Delaware, after graduating, studied
law, and practiced for some years in the City of New
Castle. Having married a lady in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he took up his residence in that place, and in I836
was appointed, by General Jackson, Judge of the Eastern
District of Wisconsin Territory. He filled his judgeship
a very brief period, dying at Milwaukee, October I8,
i838, aged 62 years.
Abraham  Harrison, a native of New Jersey, after
his graduation, followed agricultural pursuits and resided
in Orange, New Jersey. Mr. Harrison was for many
years an officer in the Presbyterian Church, and a leading man in the community where he resided. He died
in I85I.
Thomas Edgar Hughes came to Princeton from
York County, Pennsylvania. He was licensed to preach
by the Presbytery of Ohio, October 17, I798. On the
27th of August, I799, he was ordained and installed
pastor of the Church of Mount Pleasant, Beaver County,
Pennsylvania, where he laboured successfully for upwards
of thirty years. He afterwards removed to Wellsville,
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Ohio, and was pastor of a Presbyterian Church in that
place for three years. He died May 2, I838. He was the
first minister of the gospel who settled north of the Ohio
River. He performed, at least, two missionary tours to
the Indians on the Sandusky River, and in the neighbourhood of Detroit.
Alexander S. Kerr, a native of Pennsylvania, died
in I798, the year after he graduated.
Peter Le Conte was a son of the Rev. Jedediah
Chapman, of Orange, New Jersey, and afterwards of
Western New York. He dropped the name of Chapman
in order to preserve the name of his mother. He studied
law as a profession, and rose to eminence at the Bar in
Western New York. Mr. Le Conte was for many years
an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Ovid, New York.
His conversation and life bear witness that he was acquainted with God, and lived in daily communion with
him. He was a man of sound judgment, punctual in the
performance of duty, and employed his talents in the
service of Christ. He died September 17, I836.
Charles Fenton fiercer. In I798, while a student
of law, Mr. Mercer tendered his services to General
Washington for the defence of the country against a
threatened invasion by the French, and received from
him a commission as First Lieutenant of Cavalry, and
soon after that of Captain, which he declined, not intending to devote his life to the military profession. In I803,
after spending a year in Europe, he commenced the practice of the law in Virginia, his native State. From I8Io
to I817 he was a member of the General Assembly ot
that State. In I8 II he was again called to military service by the General Government; and, in I813, was appointed aid to the Governor, and rose to the rank of
Brigadier-General of Militia, having command of the
forces in Norfolk. In I8i6, while in the Legislature, as
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Chairman of the Committee of Finance, he devoted his
time to the promotion of internal improvement, and was
chief supporter of the measure for the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, and was appointed President of the Company. From  I817 to I840 he represented his State in
Congress. In I853 he visited Europe for philanthropic
motives, and used his efforts for the entire abolition of
the slave trade. Mr. Mercer received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Princeton in I826. He died
May 4, I858.
Edmund Morford was born in New Jersey.  He
removed to South Carolina after graduating, and became
editor of the Charleston Courier.  Mr. Morford afterwards established the Charleston Mercury and became
its editor. H e was very prominent as a political writer.
He died in I833.
Jacob S. Otto, a brother of John C. Otto of the class
of I792, became a merchant in the City of Philadelphia.
Matthew  La Rue Perrine belonged to a large
and influential family in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
He studied theology under Dr. John Woodhull, of Freehold, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of
New Brunswick, September I8, I799.  On the 24th of
June, I8oo, he was ordained, and for four months acted
as a Missionary in Western New York. On the I5th of
June, I802, he was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Bottle Hill, New Jersey. In I809 he made
another missionary tour, and on the 3 Ist of October, 181 I,
was installed as pastor of the Spring Street Church, New
York. Here he continued till the summer of I820, when,
by his own request, the pastoral relation was dissolved.
In I82I he was elected to the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity in the Auburn Theological Seminary. He continued actively engaged in the
discharge of his various duties till near the close of his
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life. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Allegheny College in 1818.
The personal appearance of Dr. Perrine was altogether
agreeable.  His countenance indicated great mildness
and benignity, mingled with thoughtfulness and intelligence; his manners were urbane and winning; his temper amiable and benevolent.  He was naturally of a
speculative and metaphysical turn. In theology, he harmonized with Dr. Emmons. As a preacher; he was
always instructive and interesting, but could not be called
popular. His style was correct and perspicuous, but, in
a great measure, unadorned. There was great charm in
the mellow and gentle tones of his voice. He had the
reputation of being an accurate and thorough scholar.
He died February II, I836.
Dr. Perrine published: Letters concerning the Plan of Salvation, addressed
to the Members of the Spring Street Church, New York, I8i6. A Sermon
before a French Missionary Society in New York, I8I7. An Abstract of
Biblical Geography, 1835.
John Howe Peyton was the son of John Rowzee
Peyton, of Stafford County, Virginia. Being admitted
to the Bar, he settled at Staunton, Virginia, where he
was long eminent.
Dennis De Berdt Reed was a son of the distinguished General Joseph Reed of the class of I757. Mr
Reed died at sea, January 5, I805.
Richard Rush was the son of Dr. Benjamin Rush,
and grandson of Richard Stockton-both signers of the
Declaration of Independence, and both graduates of
Princeton. He studied law with William Lewis, Esq.,
then one of the leaders of the Philadelphia Bar, and was
admitted to practice in I8oo. For the next seven years
he was devoted to the study of his profession. In I8o8, he
became prominent by his defence of Colonel Duane, editor of the Aurora, the Democratic organ in Philadelphia.
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In January, I8I I, he  was  appointed  by  Governor
Snyder, Attorney-General of Pennsylvania.  In November of the same year, he was appointed by Mr. Madison
First Comptroller of the Treasury. When the war of
I8I2 commenced, Mr. Rush by his pen and in public addresses, entered warmly into the defence of Mr. Madison
and his policy. In I814, when but thirty-three years of
age, he was offered the post either of Attorney-General,
or Secretary of the Treasury. He chose the first, which
he held until I817, discharging its important duties with
eminent success.  After the inauguration of Mr. Monroe,
in I8I6, John Q. Adams, then Minister to England, was
appointed Secretary of State, but for about six months
previous to his return, Mr. Rush acted in that capacity.
In October, I817, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Great Britain, holding this high position until I825. In I825, he
entered upon the office of Secretary of the Treasury, to
which he had been previously appointed by Mr. Adams,
and served during the continuance of that Administration. In I828, Mr. Rush was nominated on the same
ticket with Mr. Adams for the office of Vice-President of
the United States, and received the same number of
electoral votes. Mr. Rush warmly sympathized with
General Jackson in his administration. In March, I847,
he was appointed by President Polk, Minister to France.
This was the last public position held by him. The
closing years of his life were spent in retirement at the
paternal estate of Sydenham, in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia, July 30, I859.
The publications of Mr. Rush are: Narrative of a Residence at the Court
of London from 1817 to I825, 8vo, London and Philadelphia, I833. In
1845, he published a new and enlarged edition of the same work under the
title of " Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London, comprising
incidents, Official and Personal, from I8I9 to 1825; including negotiations
on the Oregon Question and other unsettled questions between the United
States and Great Britain." Oration delivered at Washington, July 4, I812.
Letters on Free Masonry, Philadelphia, I83I. Report against the Bank ot
the United States, I834. Whilst Attorney-General of the United States, he
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superintended the publication of a new edition or codification of the Laws
of the United States, issued in 1815 in 5 volumes. Washington in Domestic Life; from original Letters and Manuscripts. 1857. Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic and Miscellaneous. I857. He also occasionally contributed to periodical literature.
John Strawbridge was a native of Pennsylvania.
After graduating, he entered mercantile life, and was for
many years a merchant in Philadelphia. He died at
Germantown, Pennsylvania, April 4, I858.
Stephen Thompson received his license from  the
Presbytery of New York, October 9, I8oo, and was ordained and installed pastor of the Church at Connecticut
Farms, New Jersey, June I5, 1802.  In I834, he removed
to Indiana, where he died, May 3I, I856.
George McIntosh  Troup  was born in Georgia.
On his return from college he studied law.  In I80I, he
was a member of the Legislature of Georgia, and was reelected in I802 and 1803. In I8o6, he represented his
State in Congress, holding the position until I815. In
i8I6, he was elected to the United States Senate, where
he remained two years.  In I823, he was elected Governor of Georgia, from  which post he retired in I827,
with a popularity equal to that of any former Chief
Magistrate.  In 1828, lie was returned to the United
States Senate, and held the position until I834. In the
Senate his feebleness of health forbade his participation in debate.  Governor Troup was a great advocate
for State Rights and State Sovereignty.  He died in
I856.
John  Vancleve  studied  medicine, and  practiced
during his life in Princeton.  He was a man of high attainments and great skill in his profession. He was a Trustee of the College from I8IO to the day of his death in
I826. Dr. Vancleve was a native of Hunterdon County,
New Jersey.
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John Watson, probably the most remarkable man in
a most distinguished class, was a native of Western Pennsylvania; but being left an orphan at an early age, he
was received into the house of a friend of the family.
When about six or seven years old, a copy of the " Vicar
of Wakefield " fell into his hands, and from that time his
desire to obtain knowledge was insatiable.
The lady who had taken him into her house after the
death of his parents, had a handsome collection of books,
and especially of novels, of which she was a great reader.
She soon discovered that Watson was, at every leisure
moment, reading these books, and she peremptorily forbade him the use of them. He wished to be obedient,
but he could not resist his desire to read. He secretly
took her books, and concealing them in a private place,
read them by stealth. The stratagem being discovered,
the book-case was locked and the key securely laid
away; but he finding a key which unlocked the case,
continued to read until he had devoured every book in
the library. When about nine years old, he lived with a
man who kept a tavern and a retail store, and under his
instruction became proficient in writing and arithmetic.
He was employed in the store and in the bar-room as
circumstances required. About this time he fell in with
a copy of Addison's Spectator, which he read with great
delight, and the Latin sentences prefixed to.each number, excited in him an intense desire to learn Latin. He
soon got possession of a copy of Horace and an old Latin
dictionary, and without the help of a grammar or other
aids, he soon became familiar with the greater part of
that difficult author.
While he was thus employed, Judge Alexander Addison of Western Pennsylvania, while attending court,
stopped at the public-house where Watson lived, and
returning late one night found the young bar-keeper
reading Horace by the light of the fire. From the Judge
he received the first encouraging word that he had received since the death of his father. He remained in this
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place until he was nineteen, keeping bar and studying
the classics and various branches of literature and
science.
About this time his proficiency became known to Rev.
John McMillan, D.D., who appointed him an assistant
teacher in the Academy at Cannonsburg. Here he remained eighteen months, when he entered the College at
Princeton. Here he was pre-eminent for scholarship,
unblemished morals and unaffected piety.
On returning to his native State, he was immediately
chosen Principal of the Academy at Cannonsburg; and
soon after, by an able and powerful appeal to the Legislature, he obtained the Charter of Jefferson College, of
which he became the first President. In I798, he was
licensed to preach, and took charge soon after of a small
congregation near Cannonsburg, and continued its pastor
in connection with his college duties, until a short time
before his death, which occurred November 3i, I802.
Mr. Watson's scientific and literary attainments were
equally extensive and exact. He was a good French,
Spanish and Italian scholar, and was familiar with the
Hebrew and Arabic. In a word, he was one of the most
remarkable men of the day.
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{Charles Ewing was the son of James Ewing, a distinguished citizen of New Jersey.  He took the first
honour in his class; and, after graduation, studied law
in Trenton, New Jersey, and was admitted to practice in
1802. In'October, I824, he was appointed Chief-Justice
of the State of New Jersey, and re-appointed in I83I.
Judge Ewing may be justly reckoned among the greatest
ornaments of the New Jersey Bar. His acquaintance
with his own department of knowledge was both extensive and profound, closely resembling that of the English
black-letter lawyers. In a very remarkable degree he
kept himself abreast of the general literature of the day,
and was even lavish in regard to the purchase of books.
He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, and was an active and earnest Christian. He was
eminently conservative in Church and State; punctual
in adherence to rule and precedent, incapable of being
led into any vagaries, sound in judgment, tenacious of
opinion, indefatigable i'n labour, and incorruptibly honest
and honourable, so as to be proverbially cited all over
the State. Judge Ewing received the honorary degree
of Doctor of Laws from Jefferson College in I830. He
died at Trenton, August 5, i832.
Daniel Eliot Huger came from South Carolina, to
which State he returned after graduating. For nearly
half a century he was identified with the public service
of his State as a member of the Legislature, State Senate and Judge of her Courts. From 1843 to I846 he was
in the Senate of the United States. He died in August,
i854.
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George -Washington Reed, the youngest son of
General Joseph Reed, was born in Philadelphia, May 26,
1780. After graduating, he entered the navy as a midshipman, and was soon promoted. In I804 he was in
command of the "Nautilus," and was in the engagement
at Tripoli, where he showed great heroism. When the
War of I8I2 broke out, Mr. Reed, then a Commander,
was placed in command of the sloop-of-war "Vixen."
On the I2th of November, I8I2, his vessel was captured
by the British frigate " Southampton." Soon after the
capture, both vessels were wrecked on the Bahama Keys,
at the Island of Conception. The frigate's crew became
mutinous from intoxication, and the property which was
saved from both wrecks was retrieved by the generous
and indefatigable exertions of the American sailors. Captain Reed himself was as actively engaged in the direction and encouragement of the men as any of the British
officers, and received the public acknowledgment of the
British Commander, accompanied by an offer of his parole to return home. But such were the noble sentiments
by which he was ever actuated, that he would not leave
his officers and men, preferring to remain with them in
an unhealthy climate, to which they were taken; he became a victim to an obstinate fever, brought on by the
anxieties and fatigues to which, by his unpleasant situation and his unremitting attentions to the comforts of his
men, he was necessarily exposed. His interment was attended by the British officers and a detachment from the
garrison, and his funeral obsequies were accompanied by
those honours due to his rank, and seldom withheld from
each other by brave and generous enemies. He died at
Jamaica, West Indies, January 4, I813.
Henry Sergeant, a brother of John Sergeant of the
class of I795, resided, after his graduation, in Philadelphia, where he pursued a mercantile life.
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came eminent for his legal knowledge; and from I834 to
I846 was Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
and filled many other public stations with high reputation. He died May 5, I86o.
The publications of Judge Sergeant are: Treatise upon the Laws of Pennsylvania relative to the Proceedings by Foreign Attachment; Philadelphia,
i8iI, 8Vo. Constitutional Law, i822, 8vo. View of the Land Laws of
Pennsylvania, etc., i838, 8vo. Reports, etc. Sketch of the National Judiciary Powers.
In early life Judge Sergeant was a contributor of prose
and poetical articles to the periodicals.
Joseph Htolmes Van Mater, of Monmouth County,
New Jersey, never studied a profession, but engaged
largely in agricultural pursuits. He died in I86o.
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John Alston, after graduating, returned to South
Carolina, his native state, and was occupied in planting
cotton.
William A. Alston, a brother of the above, never
studied a profession, but, like his brother, was engaged
in planting in South Carolina.
Eleazer Burnet received his license to preach from
the Presbytery of New York in I804; and was ordained
and installed at Newburg on the 20oth of November, 1805;
and died at New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 22,
I8o6. He was labouring under a pulmonary disease at
the time of his ordination. Mr. Burnet was distinguished
for a quiet, amiable and devout spirit.
John Forsyth was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, but removed with his father to Georgia when he
was but four years old. He was prepared for college by
the Rev. Mr. Springer, a graduate of Princeton of the
class of I775. After graduating, he returned to Georgia,
and read law in the office of John Y. Noel, of Augusta,
a graduate of the class of I777. Soon after his admission
to the Bar he was appointed Attorney-General of the
State, and in this office attained great distinction. In
I8II he was elected to the House of Representatives of
the United States. In I8I8 he was transferred to the
United States Senate, where he remained until I819,
when he was appointed Minister to Spain, where he remained several years engaged in adjusting the differences
between that country and the United States. While in
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Spain he was again elected to the House of Representatives, in which body he took his seat in 1823. In I827 he
was elected Governor of Georgia. At the expiration of
his term of office in I829, he was again elected to the
United States Senate, where he remained until I834,
when he succeeded Mr. M'Lean as Secretary of State.
During no period since the War of I8I2, had our foreign
relations involved questions more important; and the
honour and success with which they were conducted
were owing, in a great degree, to the talents and firmness
of Mr. Forsyth. He died in Washington City, October
21, I84I.
In person he was upright and finely proportioned. As
a speaker, he never failed to attract attention. He was
always courteous and complimentary to his antagonist.
He used little gesture, and his most emphatic passages
were always in an under tone, which never failed to produce a deep impression. In a still small voice he poured
out heart and soul and feeling, charming his audience into
silence.
Mr. Forsyth was not a hard student, but he was a deep
thinker.  He mastered the contents of a book whilst
others would be turning over its leaves. His knowledge
was extensive, and whatever he knew was always at command. As an off-hand debater, he had no superior.
Williaml Jenllkills, the youngest son of David Jenkins, Esq., was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
in I779. After completing the study of the law, he soon
became prominent at the Lancaster Bar, and second to
none among famed contemporaries, who made that Bar
so distinguished. Mr. Jenkins was an able jurist and ripe
lawyer, a safe counsellor and most eloquent advocate,
winning his way to the hearts of a jury with, a resistless
power, and presenting to the court the strong law points
of his case with a tact and energy that seldom failed in its
effects. His mind was eminently legal, and a superior
knowledge of law was his distinguishing characteristic.
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in the City of Lancaster in I853, universally respected
for his social and high moral qualities.
James Catlhcart Johnson, a native of North Carolina, after leaving college studied law in his native State,
but never practiced. His whole time was taken up in
managing his large estates.
Fredrick Nash was the son of Abner Nash, the second Governor of North Carolina under the Constitution.
He became a distinguished lawyer. In I864, I8O5, he
was in the House of Commons of North Carolina. In
i818 he was elected a Judge of the Superior Courts of
Law and Equity, which he resigned in i8I9. In I827,
i828, he was again in the House of Commons. In I836
he was elected a Judge of the Superior Court, from which
he was transferred in I844 to the bench of the Supreme
Court, which he occupied with great satisfaction to the
State and credit to himself.
James Rogers was born in Milford, Delaware, and
was a son of Governor Daniel Rogers of that State. He
studied law with Nicholas Ridgley, afterwards Chancellor of Delaware, and after admission to the Bar settled in
New Castle, where he followed his profession. He married a daughter of the Hon. James Booth, Chief-Justice
of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, and held for
twenty years the office of Attorney-General of Delaware.
Mr. Rogers ranked with the first lawyers of his day, was
a leading man of the Federalists, and was respected and
esteemed by all. He was a communicant, trustee and
vestryman of Immanuel Church, New Castle, for many
years. Relinquishing the practice of the law, he retired
to his seat, Boothhurst, about a mile and a half from
New Castle, and resided there till his death, May I2, 1868,
aged eighty-eight years. He was erect, and retained his
powers of mind and body remarkably to his decease. He
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is universally spoken of as a perfect gentleman in dress,
manners and character. Four sons survive him; two of
them lawyers in San Francisco, California.
Henry G. Wisner was a son of Henry Wisner, a
man of note in Orange County, New York. After studying law he settled at Goshen, New York, where he rose
to the highest eminence in his profession.
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James Carnahan, the son of Major Carnahan of the
Revolutionary army, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
in I775. He graduated with the highest honours, speaking
the English Salutatory at Commencement. For one year
after his graduation he studied Theology under Dr. McMillan at Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to Princeton, becoming tutor in the college, and
pursuing his theological studies under President Smith.
In April, I804, he was licensed by the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, and supplied the vacant churches in the
bounds of that Presbytery for some time. On the 5th of
January, i8o5, he was ordained pastor of Whitesborough
and Utica Churches in New York, where he remained
until I814, when, on account of the state of his health,
he resigned his charge, and, after teaching for a short
time at Princeton, New Jersey, removed to Georgetown,
District of Columbia, and opened a Classical Academy,
which soon became quite prosperous. In I82I he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Hamilton College.
In I823 Dr. Carnahan was elected President of the
college, Dr. Green having resigned the year before.
He remained in this eminent post for thirty years, presiding with dignity and honour. But in I853 failing
health, and the increasing infirmities of age, compelled
him to resign. He remained a member of the Board of
Trustees till his death. He died at his son-in-law's, in
Newark, March 3, I859. The time during which Dr.
Carnahan presided over the college was the period of its
greatest prosperity.
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Addresses and Sermons, and some articles in the earlier
numbers of the Princeton Revz'ez,' he also edited the Life
of the Rev. John Johnson, of Newburg, New York, in
I856. Though a forcible writer, with great perspicuity
of style, he was very reluctant to appear as an author, so
much so, that he expressly stated in his will that none
of his lectures or other manuscripts should be published.
His funeral took place in Princeton, and his dust mingles
with the dust of the mighty dead of Nassau Hall.
Arthur Rose Fitzhlugh, a native of Stafford County, Virginia, took the second honour of his class, and delivered the Valedictory. He returned to Virginia and
read law, but did not practice his profession. He died at
the early age of forty-two in the year I823. Mr. Fitzhugh was a man of remarkable talent; and was celebrated for his handsome person and address.
Jacob Lindly came to college from Western Pennsylvania in company with his classmate James Carnahan.
Lindly had a fine horse which he would ride for five or
ten miles, and then tie him by the road side and proceed
on foot; his friend, Carnahan, coming up, would mount
the horse and ride on. Thus alternating they at last
reached Princeton. How little did the young men imagine, while they were "riding and tying," that both
would in course of years become Presidents of Colleges;
the one of his Alma Mater, the other of a college in what
was then a far western Territory.
Mr. Lindly became the first President of Ohio University at Athens, about I804. Whether he was ever settled
after he left the University, I have not been able to discover. He died in I856.
Benjamin Morgan Palmer was the grandson of
the Rev. Samuel Palmer of Barnstable, Massachusetts,
and a son of Job Palmer who emigrated from Massachusetts to Charleston, South Carolina, previous to the Revd[ 316




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lution. The subject of our sketch was born in Philadelphia, September 25, I78I, his parents having been driven
there by the storm  of the Revolution.  He was licensed
to preach on the 7th of June, I803, by the " Congregational Association  of Ministers" in South Carolina, and
ordained  and  installed  pastor of the  Church  at Beaufort, South  Carolina, April 28, I804.  Here  he laboured
with  much  fidelity  until  I813, when  he  removed  to
Charleston, and became pastor of the Circular Church,
where he continued until I835, when his health failed,
and  he resigned.   The  honorary degree  of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred upon him by the College of
South Carolina in I815.  He died October 9, I847.
The great charm  of Dr. Palmer's character was transparent simplicity.  His  mind  was saturated  with  the
meaning, spirit and language of the Bible.  His thoughts
in the pulpit were, therefore, always fresh. His prayers
were  most remarkable.  He  was  of medium   stature;
though a spare habit and an erect figure added to his
apparent height. He was pre-eminently composed in
manner, and dignified in his carriage; his voice was deep
and sonorous.  In the midst of society he was often sunk
in deep reverie, wrapped up in the seclusion of his own
thoughts.
Dr. Palmer published: Believing Baptism, no Argument against Infant
Baptism; a Sermon preached in Beaufort,  809. Gratitude and Penitence recommended from the united consideration of national judgments; a Sermon
delivered on a day appointed for Humiliation, Thanksgiving and Prayer in
Charleston, II84. The Signs of the Times discovered and improved; two
Sermons delivered in the Independent Church, Charleston, i816. The Dejected Christian Encouraged; two Discourses preached in the Independent
Church, Charleston, I8i6. A Charge at the Ordination of Rev. Jonas King
and Alfred Wright, the former of whom was ordained a City Missionary in
Charleston, among the Seamen and others; the latter as a Missionary to
the Choctaw Indians; 18 9. A Sermon on the Anniversary of the Sabbath
School Association in Charleston, I8I9. Importance of the Ministerial Office; a Sermon preached in the Independent or Congregational Church in
Charleston at the Ordination of five young men as Evangelists, I821. Religion Profitable; a Sermon with a special reference to the case of Servants,
delivered in the Circular Church, i822. The three following were published in the Southern Preacher-,:I 824. The Reasons which Christians have
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for mourning the sudden removal of men who have been distinguished for
the excellence of their characters, and the usefulness of their lives; a Sermon delivered on the death of Dr. David Ramsay. A Sermon on the Consequences of Unbelief. A Sermon on the Admonition administered to
Elijah. Good men the Protection and Ornament of a Community; a Sermon delivered in the Circular Church, Charleston, on the death of Josiah
Smith, Esq., eldest Deacon of the Church, i826. The Children of professing believers God's Children; or, The Right of the Children of God's people to the initiating seal of the Covenant asserted and maintained; a Sermon delivered in the Circular Church, I835. A Sermon published in the
Aational Preacher, entitled, " The Sinner Arraigned and Convicted," I836.
The Family Companion, with an Appendix containing a Sermon delivered
on the Sacramental occasion that terminated his pastoral relation to his
people in July, I835.
Robert F. Smith was a son of John Blair Smith of
the class of I773. He was settled for some time over a
Presbyterian Church at Snow Hill, Maryland, where he
died in I824.
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INDEX.
PAGE.                               PAGE.
Abeel, John Nelson..   232 Barclay, David.. 252
Agnew, James..    281 Bard, David...  160
Agnew, Martin.. 297 Barnum, Caleb.      43
Agnew, William...  297 Barrett, Moses...   27
Alexander, Evan... 232 Bay, Hugh....             9
Alexander, Isaac.       147 Bayard Andrew.        204
Alexander, Joseph... 63 Bayard, James Ashton.. 199
Alexander, Joseph McKnitt.  257 Bayard, James Ashton..  220
Alexander, Nathaniel... 193 Bayard, Nicholas... 43
Alison, Hugh...   ~   76 Bayard, Nicholas...  257
Allen, Moses.   e.. 147 Bayard, Samuel.... 221
Alston, John.                311 Bayley, Thomas..  297
Alston, William A.... 311 Bayly, Thomas M.... 272
Anderson, William A...  243 Beasley, Fredrick...  297
Anderson, William T...289 Beatty, Charles Clinton...182
Archelr,'John..            64 Beatty, John....             127
Archibald, Robert... 147 Beatty, Richard L....97
Armstrong, James Francis.  160 Bedford, Gunning...  139
Avery, Waightstill... 104 Bellach, Thomas A... 237
Axtell, Henry.                289 Benedict, Joel...   95
Ayres, Enos...     1 Benedict, Noah... 44
Berrien, John Macpherson.      290
Bacon, John...      95 Bibb, George M... 257
Bainbridge, Absalom.. 76 Black, John....  139
Balch, Hezekiah...  104 Blackwell, Robert.. 121
Balch, Hezekiah James. 105 Blair, John Duburrow..  182
Balch, Stephen Bloomer..  173 Blair, Samuel.       64
Baldwin, John. 220 Blair, William Lawrence.  127
Baldwin, Jonathan...   34 Bleeker, Peter. 259
Baldwin, Moses..      43 Boileau, Nathaniel...  243
Baldwin, Samuel...  134 Boyd, James.      82
Barber, Francis....117 Boyd, John A.                      281
Barber, George C....  289 Boyd, William.'... 202
(319)




320                            INDEX.
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry.  140 Clinton, Alexander.  9
Bradford, Ebenezer. 161 Close, John.           82
Bladford, William..     173 Clymer Henry.. 228
Bradfordcl. William. 148 Clymer, Meredith.              232
Bradner, Benoni.   34 Coe, Aaron... 299
Breck, Daniel. 174 Collins, John..  244
Brevard, Ephraim...  123 Comfort, David.. 281
Broom, James M.                 2.. 272 Condict, Aaron...  237
Brown, Daniel I..   22 Condict, Ira.. 222
Brown, John                       5 Condit, Silas..          281
Brush, Abner.                   44 Conklin, Benjamin. 35
Burnet, Eleazer... 311 Cooper, Robert..82
Burnet, George Whitefield.  259 Cowell, David.. 83
Burnet, Ichabod.. 183 Cowell, Ebenezer                 105
Burnet, Jacob....  252 Craig, Archibald.     161
Burnet, Mathias.. 127 Craighead, John                   83
Burnet, William...          5  Craighead, Thomas B... 183
Burr, Aaron... 149 Crane, Daniel..    299
Burr, Thaddeus.34.              Crane, Isaac Watts. 244
Crawford, Edward.  184
Caldwell, David.... 70 Crawford, James. 200
Caldwell, Elias Boudinot.  291 Crawford, William.              209
Caldwell, James..           57.   Cumming, John Noble.        174
Caldwell, Joseph.253 Curtiss, Caleb. 45
Calhoun, John Ewing. 174 Cuthbert, George R.              281
Camp, Stephen...   38
Campbell, Donald..       141 Davenport, Ebenezer... 76
Campbell, George Washington   272 Davenport, John.        128
Camhpfield, Jabez..       58 Davie, William  Richardson. 193
Canfield, Israel.... 22 Davies, John Rodgers.  128
Cantine, Moses J.               291 Davies, William.. 96
Carmichael, John. 58 Dayton, Jonathan.          194
Carnahan, James...  315 Debow, John.. 150
Case, WVheeler.      35 Devens, Richard.        118
Cazier, Mathias                 225 Dewitt, Peter.        128
Channing, William... 128 Dickerson, Mahlon...  244
Chapman, Benjamin..   27 Dickinson, Samuel Sharpe.. 254
Chapman, Robert Hett.          243 Ditmars, Dow.  267
Chestnut, Benjamin...  1 Doak, Samuel.. 184
Chestnut, James...  259 Dod, Thaddeus.        161
Chetwood, William.  259 Duffield, George.. 17
Clagget, Thomas John..   90  Dunlap, James..  162
Clark, John.... 58
Clark, Joseph.  208 Eakin, Samuel..       84
Clark, Samuel.... 12 Early, Peter....  260
Clarke, James W...          299 Eckley, Joseph..    150
Clarkson, George... 237 Edminston, Samuel.  105
Clay, Joseph...  221 Edwards, Henry Waggaman. 300




INDEX.                              321
Edwards, John Stark..  292 Gelston, Maltby.                254
Edwards, Jonathan. 96 Gibson, James... 234
Edwards, Pierpont..         124 Gibson, John...  267
Edwards, Timothy... 45 Giles, William Branch. 209
Ellsworth, Oliver..   *  106 Gordon, Alexander...   12
Elmendorf, Conrad... 211 Graham, Edward... 229
Elmendorf, Edmund.  272 Graham, William...  163
Eltinge, Wilhemus... 293 Grant, Thomas.... 229
Emerson, Ezekiel..   84 Green, Ashbel.                    213
English, David.. 245 Green, Enoc.. 65
Eppes, Richard...  237 Green, Charles Dickinson.234
Erwin, Benjamin.. 195 Green, Richard M...        273
Evans, Israel.                 151 Gregory, Elnathan...   45
Everett, Nicholas C... 273 Grier, James.... 152
Ewing, Charles    ~..  308
Ewing, John... 27 Hait, Benjamin..  28
Ewing, William B.               273 Hall, James..      175
Eyre, Manuel...        257 Halsted, Robert...   97
Halsey, Jeremiah. 17
Faitoute, George   o..  195 Handy, Isaac.                71
Faneuil, Peter,...  45 Hanna, John. 36
Farrand, Daniel...  9 Hanna, John A..           211
Finley, Ebenezer..       151 Harper, Robert Goodloe... 225
Finley, John Evans...  195 Harris, Charles Wilson..  260
Finley, Robert... 233 Harris, Israel. 249
Fish, Peter..            174 Harris, John...     22
Fithian, Philip Vicars. 151 Harris, Roert.. 23
Fitzgerald, John...  293 Harris, Thomas R...  238
Fitzhugh, Arthur R..      316 Harrison, Abraham... 300
Force, James G....  273 Harrison, Josiah..            282
Ford, Gabriel H.. 222 Hart, Joshua.... 135
Ford, Jacob...  260 Hasbrouck, Joseph...  107
Ford, Timiothy.        e        213 Hayes, Samuel. 282
Forman, William Gordon.  228 Hazard, Ebez ezer                    77
Forsyth, John.      311 Hazard, Nathaniel'.92
Forsyth, Robert M.. e.  293 Henderson, Joseph Washington  196
Foster, William... 91 Henderson, Thomas.. 71
Frazer, William C..             300 Henry, Hugh....
Frelinghuysen, Frederick.. 134 Henry, John                       12
Frelinghuysen, Jacobus.             Henry, John V....  226
Freneau, Philip. 141 Henry Robert...  12
Furman, John W....  273 Herring, Elbert...  282
Furman, Moore.. 273 Hiester, John S.                 273
Hobart, John Henry..  267
Gantt, Edward..   76 Hodge, Andrew..      152
Gardiner, David.. 245 Hodge, Hugh..      164
Gardiner, John Lyon.        245 Hodge, Hugh..              177
Gaston, William... 294 Hogg, John..               7
21




322                            INDEX.
Hollvday, Henry..     255 Kerr, Alexander S.              301
Hopkins, James                 222 Keyes, Eleazer W...   284
Horton, Azariah.. 135 King, Andrew..    165
Horton, Ezra..        29 Kirkland, Samuel... 98
Hosack, David.. 245 Kirkpatrick, Andrew.      186
HIosack, William...  261 Kirkpatrick, William.      45
Houston, Alexander..   65 Kirkpatrick, William.  238
Houston, John..          23 Kittera, John Wilkes.. 196
Houston, William Churchill. 124 Knox, Hugh..  29
Houstoun;  Patrick.           283 Kollock, Henry..     275
How, Thomas Yardley.. 274
Howell, David..  107 Lathrop, John.      85
Howell; Nathaniel W... 238 Lawrence, Nathaniel              216
Hugg, Wiilliam King.       229 Leake, Samuel-..   92
Huger, Daniel Eliot.. 308 Leake, -Samuel.     177
Hurghes, Thomas Edgar..  300 Lee, Edmund J...     261
Hunt, Holloway W.... 274 Lee, Charles...       188
Hunt, James....   59 Lee, Henry... 165
Hunt, James... ~     216 Le Conte, Peter..  301
Hunt, Nathaniel..     269 Leslie, James..              60
Hunt, Ralph RP.. 229 Lewis, Josiah -.. 108
Hunt, Robert.. 269 Lewis, Morgan..  166
Hunt, William Pitt..      229 Lindly, Jacob.... 316
Hunter, Andrew..    153 Linn, James....  129
Huntington, John..     59 Linn, John... 166
Hutchinson,. Titus...  275 Linn, William...  154
Hutson, Richard..   97 Livermore, Samuel... 18
Livingston, Edward.  209
Imlay, James Henderson.  229 Livingston, Henry Brockholst. 177
Irving, Thomas Pitt... 246 Livingston, Henry Philip.  196
Trwin Nathaniel.      ~  135 Livingston, Maturin.. 230
Livingston, Peter R..   52
Jauncey, James.   ~. 85 Livingston, Peter V. B.. 108
Jauncey, William..        72 Livingston, Peter William.  230
Jenkins, William...   312 Livingston, Philip Peter.. 52
Johnson, James Cathcart        313 Livingston, Philip Phils.   52
Johnson, Robert G... 249 Li'vingston, William Smith. 155
Johnson, William..  249 Low, Cornelius..           19
Joline, John.... 185 Luckey, George... 155
Jones, Daniel...    108 Lydekker, Garret..   36
Lyon, James. e.60
Keene, Richard R... 283 Lyon, Joseph...               86
Keith, Isaac Stockton..    185
Keith, Robert.          153 Macconnell, James.  167
Kelsey, Enos....   65 Macay, Spruce...  188
kennedy, Thomas,.  7 Macpherson, John... 110
KRei Jacob...    52 Madison, James.   ~.  143
Ker, Nathan...             72 Mahon, William..      211




INDEX.                             323
Manning, James...   77 Noble, Obadiah... 86
Markoe, Francis. 255 Noel, John Y....    200
Marsh, Amos...  230 Noyes, Ebenezer.      60
Martin, Alexander...38 Noyes, Joshua.        60
Martin, Henry...       14 Noyes, Natlhaniel.  61
Martin,, Luther.. 111
Martin, Thomas...   78 Odell, Jonathan                     31
Miason, Jonathan...    Ogden, Aaron..     168
Matthews, David.30 Ogden, Henry W..                            295
Maxwell, George C.... 262 Ogden, Isaac... 2
McAden, Hugh                    24 Ogden, John Cosins..  136
McAllister, Matthew.. 204 Ogden, Jonathan                  99
McCaule, Thomas Harris.  178 Ogden, Josiah...   39
McCalla, Daniel...09  Ogden, Robert.        99
McClintock, Samuel..   13'Ogden, Robert.  269
McCorkle, Samuel E... 156 Osborne, Adlai                  124
McC~rackin, Thomas-..   72 Osborne, Sylvanus                    31
McCrea, John                    77 Otto, Jacob S..302
MIeCrery, John. 92 Otto, John C.                     262
McKesson, John..   24 Palmer, Benjamin M..         316
McKnight, Charles..  142 Parkhurst, Samuel..           47
McKnight, John.. 167 Paterson, William... 86
McMillan, John..        157 Paulison, Paul...  277
McMullen, French T.. 295 Pearson, Robert.... 211
McPherrin, Thomas..           136 Peck, Joseph....   39
McRee, James...        188 Pemberton, Ebenezer..       100
McWhorter, Alexander.          46 Pendleton, Philip C...  295
McWhorter, Alex. Cumming. 223 
Peppard, Francis... 78
Melville, Thomas...  129 Peiam, Joseph..             79
Periam, Joseph'79
Mercer, Charles Fenton. 301 Perkins, Nathan... 136
Merchant, Geor~ge...  204 Perrine, Matthew La Rue.  302
Miller, Alexander... 92 Perry, William.... 247
Mills, William...        * 39 Peyton, John Howe..  303
Milner, John                    53
Pierce, Thomas.... 61
Mitchell, Alexander..   99 Pierson, Cyrus...  197
Moffat, John..          Pierson, Isaac.... 247
Montgomery, John.       189 Pintard, John                   197
Montgomery, Joseph.      36 Platt, Richard..        169
Moody, John....  295 Polhemus, Henry... 277
Morford, Edmund..  302 Pollock,Geoge                    235
Morris,; Lewis.   e.*.   179 Pollock, Thomas..  230
Morton, Jacob.... 202
Pomeroy, Ralph...   53
Morton, George Washington.  262 Potter Nathaniel                   25
Potter, Nathaniel.             25
Power, James.                 113
Nash, Fredrick.... 313 Prime, Benjamin Y... 14
Neilson, John....  269 Purviance, David..       31
Niles, Nathaniel... 112
Niles, Samuel..               130 Radcliff, Jacob. 216




324                           INDEX.
Radcliff, William...  223 Sergeant, John.. 285
Ramsay, David.. 100 Sergeant, Jonathan D..       79
Ramsay, Nathaniel..  118 Sergeant, Thomas... 309
Ramsay, William. 31 Shannon, Samuel..  198
Rattoone, Elijah D.            235 Sherburne, Henry.      61
Reade, John..235 Sherman, Josiah..   32
Reed, Dennis D. B.             303 Sherman, Nathaniel. 25
Reed, George Washington. 309 Shippen, Joseph.         25
Reed, Joseph.                 47 Shippen, William. 33
Reed, Joseph. 264 Simpson, John.        88
Reese, Edwin....  277 Simpson, John N.. 277
Reese, Oliver. 158 Skillman, Isaac.       115
Reese, Thomas..  125 Slemmons, John.. 67
Reeve, Tapping.. 87 Slemons, John B..    278
Reid, Israel.                 2 Sloan, William B.. 265
Rice, David.                   72 Smalley, Henry.            230
Riddle, James..               204 Smith, Belcher Peartree..169
Riggs, Elias. 284 Smith, Charles.       230
Rodgers, John R. B.            189 Smith, David. 50
Roe, Azel... 40 Smith, Edward D..              286
Rogers, James                  313 Smith, Hezekiah.      80
Romeyn, Theodore D..  101 Smith, Isaac.                   37
Root, Jesse.                41 Smith, Isaac. 137
Roots, Benajah.. 32 Smith, James.                   49
Rosbrouah, John                 73 Smith, John.. 137
Ross, Robert.         15 Smith, John B...  170
Ross, William.                264 Smith, John R..   235
Ruan, James. 264 Smith, John W.                  286
Ruan, John....    250 Smith, Jonathan B.              67
Rue, Joseph. 198 Smith, Joseph..        92
Rush, Benjamin                  66 Smith, Robert F.               318
Rush, Jacob. 101 Smith, Samuel.                115
Rush, Richard                  303 Smith, Sanmuel Stanhope.  130
Russell, Caleb. 137 Smith, Thomas..   33
Russell, Robert  264 Smith, Thomas    o                             53
Ruston, Thomas. 79 Smith, Thomas.. 126
Rutherford, John               198 Smith, Timothy T...  239
Smith, William.               115
Sayre, Stephen.... 49 Smith, William R....  171
Sayres, John J....  264 Smith, William S.... 179
Sample, Nathaniel W.. 198 Snowden, Benjamin P..    199
Schenck, William...  119 Snowden, Charles.   *. 247
Scott, Archibald..     190 Snowden, Gilbert T...  217
Scott, Joseph Warren..  284 Snowden, Nathaniel R.. 236
Scudder, John A...      190 Snowden, Samuel F...  231
Scudder, Joseph...  203 Spencer, John E..... 224
Scudder, Nathaniel... 15 Spencer, Samuel...   61
Sergreant, Henry...  30   Spring, Alpheus... 115




INDEX.                             325
Spring, Samuel..  145 Van Bunschooten, Elias.. 126
Springer, John.. 191 Vance, Hugh...    120
Staples, John...          101 Van Cleve, John... 305
Stelle, Benjamin... 115 Van Cleve, John W... 231
Stewart, Samuel R..       231 Van Cortlandt, Nicholas B.. 180
Stockton, Ebenezer... 206 Van Derveer, Lawrence. 75
Stockton, Lucius H...  236 Van Doren, Isaac..      269
Stockton, Richard..  2 Van Dyke, Nicholas.. 240
Stockton, Richard...  204 Van Mater, Joseph H..          310
Stockton, Samuel W.. 119 Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah.. 55
Stone, David...  239 Voorhees, Stephen... 102
Stone, Fredrick.... 255 Venable, Abraham B...  207
Story, Isaac....  126 Venable, Joseph.. 218
Strain, John.. 50 Venable, Nathaniel... 296
Strawbridge, John...  305 Venable, Richard N... 212
Venable, Samuel W..     206
Taylor, Edward.... 217
Taylor, John  2. 250 Wade, Nehemiah..   199
Taylor, Robert J..  286 Wadhams, Noah..    33
Templeton, James..  158 VWallace, Caleb... 138
Ten Eyke, Abraham... 288 Wallace, John B... 279
Tennent, Charles...  269 Wallace, Joshua Madox..  270
Tennent, John V. B... 54 Wallace, Matthew G... 288
Tennent, William...   54 Warford, John..    180
Tennent, William M... 89 Watkins, William M...    265
Thane, Daniel..          4 Watson, John.. 305
Thatcher, Josiah. 67 Watt, James.                  89
Thayer, Alexander..          102 Waugh, Samuel..            171
Thayer, Elihu.. 133 Wells, Henry.. 51
Thew, Daniel.                 236 Wells, John.                  240
Thomson, Amos.. 68 Whitaker, Nathaniel...           19
Thomson, Jacob S..           265 Whittlesey, Eleazer.  8
Thomson, James.. 75 Whitwell, Samuel.    180
Thomson, Smith.             240 Whitwell, William.          56
Thomson, Stephen   o.  305 Wiley, David.                  242
Thurston, David...   16 Wilkin, James.'.. 226
Tichenor, Isaac... 191 Willing, George...  266
Tilton, James.                288 Williams, Simeon... 102
Todd, John....  7 Williams, Simon...   89
Townsend, Micah...  116 Williamson, Mathias.. 138
Tracy, Stephen.    137 Williamson, Williamso n, William R..  279
Treadwell, Thomas...   93 Wilson, Ephraem K... 247
Treat, Joseph.      50 Wilson, James.          138
Troup, George MlcI..   305 Wilson, Lewis F..              171
Tuttle, James..     94 Wilson, Peter. 203
Wilson, Samuel...  212
Vanarsdale, Elias... 256 Wisner, Henry G... 314
Vanartsdalen, Jacob..  102 Witherspoon, David..  181




326                          INDEX.
Witherspoon, James. 138 Woodruff, Abner.     224
Witherspoon, John   172 Woodruff, Benjamin.                26
Witherspoon, John R.. 279 Woodruff, George W...  18
Wood, Silas.248 Woodruff, - Joseph.. 26
Woodbridge, Jahleel..   75 Woods, Matthew... 203
Woodhull, George S..     251 Wright, Clayton.            288
Woodhull, John.             116 Wright, John.... 20
Woodhull, William.    94
Woodman, Joseph... 116 Zubley, David.. 133
Woodruff, Aaron D.  205