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A LOT of Land, containing by Estimation about nine Acres, lying at Rocky Brook, in Middlesex County, New-
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Jersey, on the great Road from Burlington to Amboy, about nine Miles from Allen's Town, and three from Cranberry brook, whereon is a good new and convenient Dwelling-house, Shop, Stable and Outhouses, a good Grist-mill and Saw-mill, and lies on a very good Stream, and convenient for a Merchant or Shop-keeper. Also a Tract of 300 Acres of Upland, and 30 Acres of salt Mead- ow adjoining thereto, with a good House, Barn and young Orchard; about 40 Acres of the Upland cleared, fronting upon Rariton River, and lies about a Mile from South Amboy Ferry, and convenient for getting of Clams, Oysters and for Fishing. Good and sufficient Deeds, with Warranty, will be given, and two or three Years or longer Time if required, for the Payment of the Purchase-money, upon paying Interest from the First of May next.
PHILIP KEARNY.
On Tuesday, the 17th Instant departed this Life, at his House at Cape May, West New Jersey, JACOB SPICER, 1 Esq; in the 50th Year of his Age: He was more than 20 Years a Representative in Assembly for the County of Cape May, which as well as many other public Services he was constantly engaged in, he executed with distin- guished Ability, approved Integrity, and uncommon As- siduity, affording the utmost Satisfaction to his Constit- uents, who will long remain truly sensible of the great Loss they have sustained by his Death, as well for his Patriotism as domestic Worth, he being a kind Neigh- bour, a judicious Friend, a tender Husband, and an affec- tionate Parent .- And it may be justly added, that he was an able and zealous Advocate for the Birth-rights of Brit- ish Subjects, and an hospitable, benevolent and honest Man.
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1 For notices of Jacob Spicer, see N. J. Archives, XIX., 393, and N. J. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, 2d Series, XIII., 53-54.
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CUSTOM - HOUSE, Philadelphia, Inward Entries. Schooner Polly. A. Mansfield, Salem.
WAS LOST in Philadelphia, on Sunday Evening last, a gilt Leather Pocket Book, containing sundry Accounts, Receipts &c, and a Six Shilling Jersey Bill. Likewise two Church Lottery Tickets, Number 6674 and 5633. The Papers and Tickets will be of no Use to any Person . but the Owner. Whoever has found said Book, and will deliver it to the Printers hereof, shall receive Ten Shil- lings Reward.
THREE POUNDS Reward
RUN away from the Subscriber, living in Deptford Township, Gloucester County, a Servant Man, named John Kennedy, about 5 Feet 7 Inches high, about 22 . Years of Age, has brown Hair, thin visaged, light grey Eyes : Had on and stole a light coloured Coat and Jack- et, and a striped Jacket, with Leather Breeches, two Pair of Silver Buckles, not Fellows, one of them a Woman's Girdle Buckle, a Pair of blue grey Stockings, and one Pair of black and blue twisted together, new Ozenbrigs Trowsers, a Pair of Check Ditto, two new Ozenbrigs Shirts, a half worn Hat, a red striped Silk Handkerchief, and two Check Linen Ditto. Whoever takes up said Ser- vant, and brings him to his Master, or secures him in any Goal, shall have the above Reward, paid by
HENRY WEATHERBY.
N. B. The said Servant is known to be guilty of changing his Name, and the Girdle Buckle above men- tioned is marked D V. All Masters of Vessels and others . are forbid to carry him off, at their Peril.
Hunterdon County, New Jersey, ss.
ON the Petition of Titus Hexon, an insolvent Debtor,
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and the major Part in Value of his Creditors, to the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the said County; Notice is hereby given to all his Creditors, to meet at the House of Richard Cox, Inn-keeper, at Trenton, on the 4th Day of October next, at 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon, to shew Cause, if any they have, why he should not be admitted to the Benefit of an Act lately passed entituled "An Act for the Relief of insolvent Debt- ors.
Hunterdon County, ss. Trenton, August 13, 1765.
AGREEABLE to Adjournment, will be exposed to Sale at public Vendue, to the highest Bidder, on Saturday, the 19th Day of October next, on the Premises between the Hours of 12 and 5 o'Clock, a Plantation, situate in Maid- enhead, containing II0 Acres of Land, be it more or less, bounded by Lands of John Price, William B ge, Josiah Furman (late Houghton Morshon Lands) and the Prov- ince Line, on which said Lands is a large Stone Dwelling- house, two Stories high, a good old Orchard, and some Meadow; it is a well accommodated small Farm. The Conditions will be made known at the Day of Sale. The above described Farm was late the Property of Samuel Stockton, and now in the Possession of William Walker; seized and taken in Execution, at the Suit of Richard Stockton, Capt. John Anderson, Ezekiel Furman and others, and to be sold by
SAMUEL TUCKER, Sheriff. -The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1918, September 26, 1765.
LIST of LETTERS remaining in the Post-office at Tren- ton.
1 Now Lawrenceville.
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A. Elizabeth Adlum (2) and George Ahehurst, Tren- ton.
B. Edward Broadfield, near Trenton.
C. William Cormhell, to the Care of John Hacket, Esq; James Clunn or the Widow Britain, Trenton; Susannah Councill, in Hopewell.
G. Samuel Gilmore (2) to the Care of Christopher Cunningham, near Bordentown.
K. Duncan Kenilly, at William Boyd's near Trenton.
M. Robert Magilard, Monmouth County; Thomas Moore.
O. Mary O'Bryan, near Trenton.
P James Patrick, Baskinridge
R Samuel Reed, Monmouth County; Martin Ryer- son, Esq; (3) Amwell; Samuel Rodgers, Bordentown; Andrew Reed, East Jersey; John Robins, Allentown; Trad Taylor, to the Care of Robert Rutherford, Philadel- phia.
S. Benjamin Stevens, Maidenhead; Isaac Sadler, to the Care of the Rev. Mr. Thompson, Pennsylvania; Eze- kiel Smythe, Allentown.
T. Francis Titus, Pennsylvania.
This Day there is a Meeting of the Members of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey at Am- boy, by a Letter from their Speaker, relating to sending some Gentlemen likewise to the Congress. [At New- York]
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, That the Council of Proprietors of West Jersey, at their last Meeting in Au- gust, adjourned to meet again at Burlington, in October inst. to begin Business on Third Day, the 22d of said Month; the usual Time of Meeting, in November, being inconvenient this Year.
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TO BE SOLD,
A Tract of Land, containing 1270 Acres, with usual Allowance, situate in Sussex County, West Jersey, about 60 Miles from Philadelphia, and about as far from New York, on a Branch of Delaware, called Pohatteenny,1 well watered and timbered, having a Stream of Water run- ning through the same sufficient for a Grist-mill, Saw- mill, or Iron-works; a large Quantity of Meadow may be made thereon. The Title indisputable. For Terms of Sale, enquire of Jeremiah Elfreth, in Philadelphia, or of the Subscriber, at Little Mantua Creek, in New-Jersey, about 12 Miles from Philadelphia, who will sell the same either altogether, or in Parcels, as shall best suit the Pur- chasers.
ISAAC ANDREWS.
-The Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1919, October 3, 1765.
New-York, October 3. The Piece signed Colonist came too late for this Weeks Paper. In the Conclusion the Author advises a total discontinuance of Business, rather than to purchase any Stamps; and asserts, That the Lawyers of New-Jersey have resolved to lose all Busi- ness rather than make use of any; a noble Resolution, worthy of universal Imitation !
New-Jersey, { PURSUANT to an order of the worship-
Middlesex, S ful Thomas Gach and Stephen Skin- ner, Esqrs. two judges of the court of common pleas for the county of Middlesex, upon the petition of George Lang, an insolvent debtor, and several of his creditors : Notice is hereby given to all the creditors of the said George Lang, to shew cause (if any they have) before
1 Query: a clerical error for Pohatcung, or Pohatcong.
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the said judges, on the 14th day of October next, at the city of Perth-Amboy, at 12 o'clock on the same day, why an assignment of the estate of the said George, should not be made to persons to be then nominated by the said cred- itors, pursuant to the prayer of the said petition, and the said George be thereupon discharged from his debts, agreeable to the directions of an act of the governor, council and general assembly of the province of New- Jersey, made this present year, entitled, "An Act for the relief of insolvent Debtors."
September 24, 1765.
To be SOLD,
Either in Lots or altogether, as may best Suit the Buyer;
O NE Thousand Acres of Land in the County of Sus- sex, near Cooper Shearer's, about 6 Miles from the Court-House, and on the Main Road to Delaware, over Pequally Mountain. It is well situated and timbered; through it runs a fine Rivulet, contigious to which may be easily made upwards of Two Hundred Acres of excel- lent Meadow; the whole Tract, together with the Stream, are well calculated either for an Iron Work, or Saw-Mill : Bonds upon Interest, with good Security, will be taken in Payment, unless it may suit the purchaser better to de- posit the Cash. For further Particulars inquire of the Proprietors, CORTLAND SKINNER, at Perth-Amboy, or at New-Brunswick, of Cornelius Low, junior.
October 1765.
-The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, Oc- tober 3, 1765.
Trenton, September 19.
WHEREAS at a meeting of the major part of the cred- itors in value of Jacob Roeters Hooper at Trentown on
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Friday the sixth of this inst. September, we the subscrib- ers were chosen Assignees and have received an assign- ment of all his estate, real and personal, together with certain houses and lotts, conditionally made over by his father Robert Lettis Hooper, Esq; for the benefit of all his creditors; and whereas it appears to us that the said Jacob Roeters Hooper intentions are honourable and that he hath done all that could be reasonably requested of hin for the benefit of all his creditors, we therefore inform them, that unless two thirds of his said creditors in num- ber do apply to Samuel Henry and Alexander Chambers in Trentown or to Thomas Wallace, Merchant in Second street, Philadelphia, within eighteen months from this date, and agree in writing to accept their dividends of the said Jacob Roeters Hoopers estate, with their dividends arising from the sale of the houses and lotts to us as- signed by his father, they will be forever excluded from any part of said estate by his father assigned.
SAMUEL HENRY, ALEXANDER CHAMBERS, and THOMAS WALLACE.
PRINCETON, (New Jersey) September 25, 1765.
This day the trustees of the college of New-Jersey, at- tended the public commencement. The exercise was pre- ceeded by an animated Latin oration On the evils to which a people is liable when involved in debt, delivered with great propriety and spirit by Mr. Jonathan Edwards, one of the candidates for Batchelor's degrees. Then succeed- ed Sylogistic disputes in Latin and Forensic in English as usual, that all parts of the auditory might share in the entertainment. The following Thesis were de- bated in the forenoon
I. Dictamina conscientiæ semper sequenda sunt.
2. To play at cards or dice is neither expedient nor law- ful.
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3. Comedere sanguinem nunc temporis fas est.
4. A wicked man cannot be an accomplished Orator.
The several respondents and opponents acquitted them- selves to general satisfaction. After the two former dis- putes, a short intermediate oration, for the sake of vari- ety, was introduced by Mr. Richard Goodman, in which he pointed out the difference between the eloquence of Cicero and that of Demosthenes, with their peculiar ex- cellencies; his delivery very well exemplified his subject. The exercises of this part of the day were closed with an oration on Liberty pronounced with beauty and propriety, by Mr. Jacob Rush.
The Thesis debated in the afternoon were
I Quo magis necessarie, sensu morali, co liberus agit homo.
2 There cannot be true friendship but among the good.
The former in the Syllogistic, the latter in the Forensic way, as before. These were succeeded by an elegant Val- edictory oration on Patriotism, by Mr. Ebenezer Pember- ton, in the close of which the usual addresses were deliv- ered with such tenderness and marks of sincere affection as sensibly touched the whole audience. After the de- grees were conferred, Mr. Joseph Periam, one of those who had just received the degree of Master of Arts, highly entertained the assembly with an animated and elegant oration on Frugality. A polite dialogue on Lib- erty, composed and delivered by three of the candidates for Batchelor's degrees, finished the business of the day.
The following young gentlemen were admitted to the degree of Batchelors of Arts,1Jacob Van Arsdalin, John
1 The following biographical sketches are principally based on Alex- ander's "Princeton College in the Eighteenth Century," except where otherwise credited:
John Bacon was born in Canterbury, Conn., in 1737. After leaving College, he studied theology, and was ordained a Congregational Min- ister and preached for a time in Somerset County, Maryland. In 1771, 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. He
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Bacon, John Bay, Joel Benedict, Joseph Chambers, George Corbin, Gersham Cravan, William Davis, Jonathan Ed- wards, Samuel Finley, Joseph Finley, Richard Goodman, . Robert Halstead, Richard Hutson, Samuel Kirtland, Al-
left his church in 1775 on account of doctrinal difficulties which arose and removed to Stockbridge, Mass., 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, 1501-3, affiliating with the Republican party. He was one of the original Trustees of Williams College. He died in Berkshire, Mass., October 25, 1820 .- Lanman's Dictionary of Congress; Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, I., 686, note.
The ancestors of John Bay were Huguenots, who fled from France during the persecutions under Louis XIV., and went first to Holland and thence to Ireland, from which latter country his grandmother came to America in 1720, and settled in Maryland, with her two sons- Andrew and William, and probably Hugh, who graduated at Nassau Hall in 1750, and was a physician at Herbert's Cross Roads, near Deer Park, Md. Andrew was ordained to the ministry by the New Side Presbytery of New Castle, Del., some time prior to 1748, and was set- tled as pastor of various churches in Pennsylvania and Maryland until 1767, when he was transferred to the charge of the churches north of Albany, and ministered to them and to the Presbyterian church 011 Beaver street, Albany, until 1773, in which year he accepted a call to Newtown, L. I., remaining in charge for two years. He is understood to have died soon after 1776 .- Webster's Hist. Presbyterian Church in America, 573-5; Calendar N. Y. Hist. MSS., II., 770; Annals of Albany, I., 170: Riker's Annals of Nowtown, 229-30. John Bay was the son of William and a nephew of the Rev. Andrew Bay; he was born August 15, 1743, probably in Maryland, but located in Albany while yet a young man, probably about the time his uncle was settled there. He graduated at Princeton in 1765. John Bay, schoolmaster, is witness to a will at Albany in 1771, which indicates what his early occupation was .- Cal- endar of Albany Wills, p. 427. He was secretary pro tem. of the Albany Committee of Correspondence, and in June, 1775, transmitted to the Provincial Congress of New York a letter just received from his class- mate, the Rev. Samuel Kirkland .- Annals of Albany, VII., p. 211. He was elected a Deputy to the Provincial Congress of New York, May 10, 1775, from the First Ward of Albany. He sold 400 lbs. of powder in June, 1775, for the Continental Army .- Calendar N. Y. Revolutionary MSS., I., 65, 69, 111, 113. He enlisted as a private in the First Company, Second Regiment (Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt), June 4, 1777, for the war, but is recorded as having deserted four days later. As nearly the whole company deserted at the same time, the offence was prob- ably merely technical .- Ib., II., 186, 320. He was also an enlisted man in the Eighth Regiment of the Albany County Militia .- N. Y. Rev. Records, by Comptroller Roberts, p .-. He represented Rensselaer County in the Assembly of New York, 1779-80. It was probably soon after this that he removed to Claverack, then in Albany, but now in Columbia County, where he practiced law. He is named as counsellor-at-law in witnessing the will of Killian Muller, of Clav- erack, Albany County, in 1782 .- Calendar Albany Wills, p. 273. He is recorded among the lawyers present at the first court held in Albany after the Revolution, to wit: the Court of Common Pleas, January 10, 1785. His name appears frequently in the legal annals of that vicinity. In a sermon preached on his son, Dr. William Bay, by the Rev. Rufus Clark, for more than thirty years pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, he makes particular mention of John Bay, as a lawyer of culture, and distinguished for his integrity, and refers to the valuable services rendered by him during the Revolution as a · member of the local Committee of Safety and Correspondence. John Bay died at Claverack, June 10, 1818, and is buried there. He married Ann Williams, probably in 1772. They had two children: 1. William, b. Oct. 14. 1773, studied at Princeton, and became an eminent physician of Albany: reference has been made to the funeral sermon preached on his death, by the Rev. Rufus Clark: 2. John Bay, junior, a promi- nent resident of Albany for many vears. In the preparation of the foregoing sketch the writer has been under special obligation to
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exander M'Causland, Alexander Mitchell, Robert Ogden, Jonathan Ogden, Henry Parkinson, Ebenezer Pemberton, Edward Pope, David Ramsey, Theodoric Romeyn, Jacob Rush, John Staples, Henry Stevenson, Alexander Thayer,
Richard W. Brass, of Albany, a great-great-grandson of John Bay, and who is a member of the same profession as his distinguished ancestor.
Joel Benedict was b. in Salem, New York, January 8, 1745. After leaving Princeton, he taught school in the South, but the climate af- fecting his health, he returned to Salem and studied theology under Dr. Bellamy. After his licensure he supplied destitute churches in Maine and Massachusetts until 1771, when he became pastor of a Con- gregational Church at Newent (now Lisbon), Connecticut, where he labored until 1781, when he resigned on account of his health, which had long been feeble. Recovering his health in 1784, he became pastor of the Church at Plainfield, Connecticut, where he preached with great acceptance until his death, February 13, 1816. In 1808 the honorary de- gree of Doctor of. Divinity was conferred upon him by Union College, and in 1814 by Dartmouth. Mr. Benedict was a distinguished classical scholar, and was also profoundly versed in mathematics, while as a biblical scholar he had few superiors.
Gershom Craven, b. 1744; graduated at Princeton, 1765; it is said that his father was one of the Professors at Princeton at the time, but there are no College records of the Professors prior to 1767. Gershom attended medical lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, and settled at Ringoes, Hunterdon County, in 1771, practicing in that vicinity until 1812. when he became entirely disabled, by paralysis. He was surgeon of the Second Regiment of Hunterdon in the Revolution. He is said to have attended Lafayette while the young French of- ficer was in that neighborhood. He died May 3, 1819. "He was popu- lar, regular, persistent and successful in his profession."-Medical History of Hunterdon County, by John Blane, M. D., 86; Hist. of First Century of Hunterdon County, by the Rev. Geo. S. Mott D. D
William Davies was the eldest son of President Davies, of Prince- ton College. After graduating in 1765, he 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 confi - dence of Washington. He was a man of powerful mind, highly culti- vated and enriched by various knowledge. He died in Virginia be- fore 1820.
Jonathan Edwards, second son of President Edwards, was b. at Northampton, Mass., May 26, 1745. In February, 1760, he entered the Grammar School at Princeton, and in September, 1761, he entered the College, graduating in 1765. After leaving college he studied divinity with Dr. Bellamy, and was licensed by a Congregational Association at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1766. In 1767 he was appointed tutor at Princeon, where he remained two years. On the 5th of January. 1769, he was ordained and became pastor of a church at White Haven, Conn., where he remained until January, 1796, when he was installed pastor of the church at Colebrook, Connecticut, where he hoped to spend his life in retirement; but in June, 1799, he was elected and inaugurated the President of Union College. where he re- mained until his death, August 1, 1801.
Robert Halsted was descended from Timothy Halsted, the first of the name in America, who came from England as early as 1660, and settled at Hemstead, L. I. His son, Timothy Halsted, Jr., removed to Elizabethtown early in the eighteenth century, where he d. Feb. 27, 1734-5, in his 77th year. The latter's eldest son, Caleb, of Hemstead and later of Elizabethtown, d. at the latter place in 1721. He left a . son, Caleb, b. July 8, 1721; m. Sept. 16, 1744, Rebecca, daughter of Robert Ogden, 1st, and Phebe (Baldwin) Roberts; he d. at his resi- dence, Halsted's Point, Elizabeth, June 4, 1784; she d. March 31, 1806. They had twelve children, the eldest being Robert, b. Sept. 13, 1746. After graduating from Princeton College at the age of nineteen he studied medicine, and practiced his profession in Elizabeth and vicin- ity for nearly sixty years. He was held in high esteem as a physician. It is said that he was demonstrative, bold, energetic and sometimes
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Stephen Vorrhies, Simon Williams, and Samuel Will- iams.
The following were admitted Master of Arts, Joseph Shippen, Esq; the Revd. Messrs. William Gordon and
brusque in speech and manner. He was strict in his observance of the Sabbath, a regular church-goer, and always in his seat at the hour of worship. Being decided and outspoken in his patriotic sentiments at the beginning of the Revolution, he became obnoxious to the loyalists, and it is said that he was arrested and taken to New York and con- fined in the old Sugar House. He m., 1st, April 15, 1773, Mary Wiley; 2d. Oct. 1, 1787, Mary Mills, dau. of the Rev. William Mills, a grad. of Princeton, 1756; he d. Nov. 25, 1825; she d. May 20, 1841, aged 78. Dr. Halstead is probably buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, but there is no tombstone to his memory in that burying ground. He had ten children: five by his first wife, and five by his second. Among his brothers were William, Sheriff of Essex County, 1790; Caleb, licensed as a physician, 1774, and who practiced until his death in 1827; Matthias, a Brigade Major in the Continental Army. See "Descendants of Rebecca Ogden, 1729-1806, and Caleb Halsted, 1721-1784," and Wickes's "Medical Men of New Jersey."
Richard Hutson was a son of the Rev. William Hutson, one of the early Presbyterian ministers in South Carolina, and was b. June 12, 1747. He entered the profession of the law after leaving Princeton, and practiced in Charleston, S. C., until the beginning of the Revolution. He was a member of the Continental Congress from South Carolina in 1774, 1776 and 1778, and in the latter year was taken prisoner by the British and confined for some time in St. Augustine, Florida. He was Intendant of Charleston, 1783-8; became Chancellor of South Carolina in 1784, and Senior Judge of the Chancery Court in 1791. He was a member of the State Convention that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788. He d. at Philadelphia in 1793 .- Appleton's Cyclopedia of Ameri- can Biography.
Samuel Kirkland was b. at Norwich, Conn., December 1, 1741, son of the Rev. Dr. Kirkland (b. at Saybrook, 1701), who was pastor of the Third Congregational Church at Norwich, 1723-1753, 1758-1773. Samuel entered the sophomore class at Princeton in 1762, and 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. It was in November, 1764, that he went on a missionary expedition to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the most warlike and distant tribe of the Six Nations, a scene of constant hardships, of unremitting labour, and often of im- minent 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. It was through his influence that Hamilton Oneida Academy was founded and incorporated in 1793. In the same year he conveyed to its Trustees several hundred acres of land. In 1812 this academy became Hamilton College, under a new charter. Mr. Kirkland was admitted to a Master's degree at Yale in 1768, and at Dartmouth in 1773. He died February 28, 1808 .- Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, I., 623-630.
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