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The student Romyn, being asked if this letter had been handed to him, answered, No; but he submitted a note, signed at Success, .
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that is, Hempstead, Feb. 3, 1753, by Messrs. Schenck and John Hegeman as members of the Consistory at Success. This stated that they had heard with surprise that he had accepted a call, moderated by (John) Frelinghuysen, and made out by the churches of Oyster Bay and part of Jamaica, and also including the congregations undersigned. This appears strange to them, for they do not recognize Frelinghuysen, but rather de Ronde, as the manager of their church affairs. They advise him not to proceed with the call, as it would tend rather to confusion than to peace, for they would oppose him in it.
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THE CHURCH AND THE COLLEGE.
Reverend Samuel Johnson to the Archbishop of Canterbury, June 29, 1753.
May it please your Grace
This humbly waits upon Your Grace by Mr. Smith a very ingenious Young Gentle- man, in whose favor you wrote to Mr. Chief Justice De Lancey .- He is now return- ing and desires, (as is fit) some account of his conduct since he hath been in these parts, may be transmitted to Your Grace ;- which I the rather very willingly do, as it falls in with a part of that duty which we owe to Your Grace, which is to inform you of the condition of things with regard to the church and religion in these parts of the world-
Your Grace will then be pleased to give me leave to inform you, That "As the church doth hither westward fly-So sin doth dog and trace her instantly." To use the words of good old Mr. Herbert-There is scarce anything of note written by the free- thinkers, (as they affect to call themselves) to the detriment of Christianity, but what is transmitted hither and propagated among us, and greedily read and inbibed by many conceited and unthinking people :- As Truth and Virtue propagate, Error and vice go side by side, and I fear will gain the Ascendant; which makes it extremely melancholy that we cannot be favoured with a good Bishop to assist and go before us in stemming the torrent.
Among other pernicious books the Independent Whigg grows much in vogue; and a notable set of Young gentlemen of figure in New York, have of late set up for writers in that way, in a weekly paper called the Independent Reflector-Several worthy gentlemen of the Church in that province have of late been embarked in a design of erecting a College as a Seminary of the Church, though with a free and generous toleration for other denominations .- Upon which these Reflectors have been indefatigable in their paper, and by all possible means both public and private, endeavouring to spirit up the people against us, and to wrest it out of the Church's hands, and make it a sort of free-thinking or latitudinarian Seminary, as your Grace will see by several of these paper Mr. Smith will lay before you.
We have several of us been writing in the Church's defence against them, and endeavoring, not without some success to defeat their pernicious schemes .- Among others, I beg leave to inform Your Grace how much we are obliged to this Young gentleman for his excellent labours, whose behaviour hath been very virtuous inof- fensive and amiable in all respects, and who hath exerted himself with great zeal and industry, and no less good sense and discretion in the Church's cause, and hath wrote several things with very good advantage for promoting that College, and for the advancement of learning in these parts, and particularly an excellent draught of a College, a copy of which I herewith send Your Grace, by which you will see to how good purpose he hath spent his time, and with what benevolent and affection- ate public spirit he hath been consulting the best interest of this Country, though
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a stranger in it .- We are extremely loth to part with him, as he would make a very excellent Tutor in our College especially in the Belles Lettres, and I humbly beg your Grace's influence with him that he may return again to us for this purpose. As he has a Draught which contains the principal steps the Assembly have taken with regard to their College I beg leave to refer you to him for anything further, and remain, may it please Your Grace
Your Grace's Most dutiful Son and most obedient humble Servant,
(signed) Samuel Johnson.
Stratford in New England, June 29th, 1753.
-Col. Docs. N. Y. Vol. vi. p. 777.
CLASSIS OF AMSTERDAM. Acts of the Deputies, July 3, 1753. (Abstract.) No. 186.
Letter from the Consistory of the two united Dutch Churches of Jesus Christ at Jamaica and Oyster Bay, on Long Island. Without date, but placed in our hands by Mr. Thomas Romyn, July 3, 1753.
Since Rev. Goetschius had been taken away from them, on account of disturances which had arisen, they had not only been without a minister, but also Rev. Arondeus, (who had made such great troubles in Kings County, had fallen upon them in their pastorless condition. Lamentably enough, he had torn them asunder by constituting an unlawful and schismatic Consistory. This he had forced upon their churches and had drawn a thought- less crowd after him. They who hold themselves strictly to the decisions made by this Classis, and who submit to the Coetus, had called, with the helping hand of Coetus, the student Thomas Romyn. They request that we will examine him and ordain him by the laying on of hands, according to Church Order, and that as soon as possible. They conclude with salutations.
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MONEYS FOR THE COLLEGE IN NEW YORK. Colonial Laws of New York. Chapter 932.
An Act for Raising the Sum of One Thousand one Hundred and Twenty-five Pounds by a Publick Lottery for a further provision towards founding a COLLEGE for the advancement of Learning within this Colony. [ See Nov. 5, 1751.]
(Passed, July 4, 1753.)
INASMUCH as it will greatly tend to the Welfare and Reputation of the Colony that a proper and ample Foundation be laid for the Regular Education of Youth
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and as So good and Laudable a design must Readily Excite the Inhabitants of this Colony to become adventurers in a Lottery of which the Profits Shall be Employed for the founding a College for that purpose.
BE IT ENACTED by his Excellency the Governor the Council and General Assembly and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same that a Lottery be Erected within this Colony and that for and towards the Raising the Sum of One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty five Pounds it Shall and may be Lawfull for any Person or Persons Native or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate to Con- tribute by Paying at or before the Respective times by this Act Limited in that behalf to any Person or Persons herein after to be appointed for that purpose the Sum of One Pound Ten Shillings or diverse Entire Sums of one Pound Ten Shillings upon this Act and that every Contributor or adventurer for every Such Sum of One Pound Ten Shillings which he She or they Shall So advance Shall be Interested in Such Lot or Share of and in the Said Lottery Established by this Act as is herein after directed and appointed and the Same Entire Sums of One Pound Ten Shillings each are hereby appointed to be paid unto Such Person or Persons aforesaid on or before the first Tuesday in November Next.
AND be it further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid That Peter Van Brugh Livingston and Jacobus Roosevelt Esq'rs Shall be Managers for preparing and deliv- ering out Tickets receiving of Money for the said Tickets and to oversee the Draw- ing of Lots and to order do and Perform Such other Matters and things as are hereafter in and by this Act directed and appointed by Such Managers to be done and performed and that Such Managers Shall meet together from time to time at Some Publick Place as to them Shall Seem most Convenient for the Execution of the Powers AND Trust in them reposed by this Act and that the Said Managers Shall Cause Books to be prepared in which every leaf Shall be divided or distin- guished into three Colimns and upon the innermost of the Said three Columns there Shall be Printed Five Thousand Tickets Numbered One Two Three and So onward in Arithmetical Progression where the common Excess is to be one until they arise to the Number of Five Thousand and upon the Middle Column in every of the Said Books Shall be Printed Five Thousand Tickets of the Same breadth and form and Numbered in like manner and in the Extreme Column of the Said Books there Shall be Printed a Third Rank or Series of Tickets of the Same Number with those of the other Columns which Tickets Shall Severally be of an Oblong Figure and in the Said Books Shall be joined with Oblique lines Flourishes or Devices in Such Manner as the Said Managers Shall think most Safe and Convenient and that every Ticket in the Extreme or third Column of the Said Books Shall have Printed thereupon besides the Number the following Words, Viz., The possessor of this Ticket if drawn a Prize Shall be intituled to the Prize so drawn Subject to Such deduction as is directed by an Act of this Colony in that behalf.
AND it is further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid that the Said Managers Shall carefully Examine all the Said Books with the Tickets therein and that the Same be Contrived Numbered and made according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act and all and every Such Manager or Managers Respectively is and are hereby directed and required upon his or their receiving of every intire Sum of One Pound Ten Shillings in full Payment for a Ticket from any Person or Persons Con- tributing or adventuring as Aforesaid to Cut out of the Said Book or Books through the Said Oblique lines flourishes or Devices Indentwise a Ticket off the Tickets in the Said Extream Columns which one of the Said Managers Shall Sign with his own name and he or they shall permit the Contributor or adventurer (if it be desired) to write his or her name or Mark on the two Corresponding Tickets in the Same Book and at the Same time the Said Managers or one of them Shall deliver unto the Said Contributor or adventurer the Ticket So Cut off which he She or they are to keep and use for the better Ascertaining and Securing the Interest which he she or they his her or their Executors administrators or Assigns Shall OR may have in the Said Lottery for the Money's So by him her or them Contributed or adven- tured untill the Said Adventure by the Drawing the Lots and the Payment of Such Tickets as Shall be fortunate Shall be fully determined.
AND be it further Enacted that the Said Managers at a Meeting as aforesaid Shall Cause all the Tickets of the Middle Columns in the Books to be Cut Indent- wise through the Said oblique lines Flourishes or Devices and Carefully Rolled up as much alike as may be and Made fast with thread and in the presence of Such Contributers or adventurers as will be there Present Cause all the Said Tickets
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which are to be rolled up and made fast as Aforesaid to be put into a Box prepared for that purpose and to be marked with the Letter (A) which is presently to be Put into another Strong Box and to be Locked up with Two different Locks and Keys to be kept by as many Managers and Sealed with their Seals untill the Said Tickets are to be drawn as is herein after Mentioned and that the Tickets in the first and innermost Columns of the Said Books Shall remain Still in the Books for discover- ing any mistake or fraud if any Such Should happen to be committed Contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.
AND be it further Enacted by the Same Authority that the Managers before Men- tioned Shall cause to be prepared other Books in which every leaf Shall be Divided or Distinguished in Two Columns and upon the innermost of these two Columns there Shall be Printed Five thousand tickets and upon the outermost of the Said two Columns there Shall be Printed five Thousand all which Shall be of equal length and Breadth as near as may be which two Columns in the Said Books Shall be joined with Some flourishes or Devices through which the Outermost Tickets may be cut off Indentwise and that One Thousand and Ninety four Tickets part of those to be Contained in the Outermost Columns of the Books last mentioned Shall be Called the fortunate Tickets to which benefits Shall belong as herein after men- tioned and the Said Managers Shall Cause the Said fortunate Tickets to be written upon or otherwise expressed as well in figures as in Words at length in manner following that is to Say Upon one of them Five Hundred Pounds upon one other of them Two Hundred Pounds upon two of them Severally One Hundred Pounds upon Ten of them Severally fifty Pounds upon Thirty of Them Severally Twenty Pounds upon Fifty of them Severally Ten Pounds and upon One Thousand of them Sever- ally Five Pounds which Sums So to be written or otherwise Expressed upon the Said fortunate Tickets will amount in the whole to the Sum of Seven Thousand and five Hundred Pounds which is the produce of Five Thousand Tickets according to the Valuation of One Pound and Ten Shillings for each Ticket as before mentioned.
AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Managers before mentioned Shall Cause all the Said Tickets Contained in the outermost Column of the last Mentioned Books in the presence of Such Contributors or Adventurers as will then be there Present to be cut out Indentwise through the Said Flourishes or Devices and Carefully Rolled up as near as may be alike and fastened with Thread and put into another Box to be prepared for that purpose and to be Marked with the Letter (B) which Box Shall Presently be put into another Strong Box and Locked up and Sealed in the Manner as the Box Lettered (A) untill these Tickets Shall also be drawn in the manner and form hereafter mentioned and that no money Shall be received from any Contributor or adventurer towards this adventure as Aforesaid after the first Tuesday in November next and that the whole Business of Rolling up and Cutting off and putting in the Said Tickets and Locking up and Sealing the Said Boxes Shall be performed by the Said Managers on or before the Said first Tuesday in November Next And to the End every Person Concerned may be well Assured that the Counterpart of the Same Number with his or her Ticket is put into the Box Marked with the Letter (A) from whence the Same may be drawn and that Other matters are done as hereby directed Some Publick Notifica- tion in Print Shall be given of the Precise time or times of Cutting the Said Tickets and Putting them into the Boxes to the End that Such adventurers as Shall be minded to see the Same done may be present at the doing thereof.
AND be it further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid that on or before the Said first Tuesday in November Next the Said Managers Shall Cause the Said Several Boxes with all the Tickets therein to be brought into the City Hall of the City of New York by Nine of the Clock in the forenoon of the Same day and Shall then and there attend the Service in order for Drawing with two Clerks with Books prepared for that purpose to enter down all the fortunate Tickets and the Said Managers being prepared for Drawing Shall cause the two Boxes Containing the Said Tickets to be Severally taken out of the other two Boxes in which they Shall have been Locked up and the Tickets or Lotts in the Respective Innermost Boxes being in the Presence of the Said Managers and of Such adventurers as will be there Present for the Satisfaction of themselves well Shaken and Mingled in Each Box distinctly and Some one Indifferent and fit Person to be appointed and directed by the Man- agers Shall take out and draw one Ticket from the Box where the Said Numbered Tickets Shall be as Aforesaid put and one other Indifferent and fit Person to be appointed and directed in the like manner Shall immediately draw a Ticket or Lot
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from the Box where the one Thousand and Ninety four fortunate and Three thou- sand Nine Hundred and Six Blank Tickets Shall be promiscuously put as Aforesaid and immediately both the Tickets So drawn Shall be opened and the Number as well of the Fortunate as the Blank Tickets Shall be Named Aloud and if the Ticket taken or drawn from the Box Containing the fortunate and Blank Lotts Shall appear to be Blank then the Numbered Ticket So drawn with the Said Blank at the Same time drawn Shall be Wrote upon Blank and Shall both be put on one File and if the Ticket So drawn or taken out of the Box Containing the fortunate and Blank Lots Shall appear to be one of the Fortunate Tickets then the Sum Written upon Such fortunate Ticket (whatsoever it may be) Shall be Entered by the Clerks So appointed into the Books prepared for that purpose together with the Number Coming up with the Said fortunate Ticket and one of the Said Managers Shall Set their Name as a Witness to every Such Entry and the Said fortunate and Numbered Tickets so drawn together Shall be put upon another File and So the Said Drawing of the Tickets Shall Continue by taking one Ticket at a time out of each Box and with opening Naming aloud and filing the Same and by Entering the fortunate lots in Such Method as is before Mentioned untill the whole number of One Thousand and Ninety four fortunate Tickets Shall be completely drawn and if the Same can not be performed in one Days time the Said Managers Shall Cause the Boxes to be locked up and Sealed in the Manner as aforesaid and Adjourn till the next Day and So from Day to Day and every Day (Except Sundays) and then open the Same and proceed as above till the Said Whole Number of fortunate Tickets Shall be Compleatly drawn as aforesaid.
AND to the end that the adventurers may have all Possible Satisfaction in the due Regular and Just Management of the Said Lottery BE IT ENACTED by the Authority Aforesaid That the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York may and are hereby Impowered to appoint every Day during the whole course of the Lottery Two or more of their Body to Inspect all and every Transaction of the Said Lottery hereby directed and required and that each County in the Colony may and are hereby Impowered if they See Cause to depute two Justices of the Peace or other Reputable Freeholders or Inhabitants for the Afore- said Inspection with proper Certificates, of their being So Deputed from the Next or any Subsequent General Session of the Peace and the Said Managers are hereby Directed and Required to admit them and the Said Members of the Said Corporation to the Aforesaid Inspection Accordingly.
AND be it Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid that immediately After the draw- ing be finished the Said Managers are hereby Required to publish in the New York Gazette the Numbers drawn against the fortunate Lots with the Prizes or Sums drawn by or belonging to each of them Respectively and as Soon as the drawing Shall be over Shall Pay the Said Sums to Such Persons who Shall Produce Tickets with the Numbers drawn against Such fortunate Lots they the Said Managers first deducting fifteen per Cent out of the Said Fortunate Lots to be applyed as is herein After directed.
AND be it further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid that if any Person or Per- sons Shall Forge or Counterfeit any Ticket or Tickets to be made forth on this Act or alter any of the Numbers thereof or bring any Forged or Counterfeited Tickets or any Ticket whereof the Number is Altered knowing the Same to be Such to the Said Managers or either of them to the Intent to defraud the Colony or any Con- tributor or adventurer or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of any Contribu- tor or adventurer upon this Act that then every Such Person or Persons (being thereof Convicted in due form of Law) Shall be adjudged a Felon and Shall Suffer Death as in Cases of Felony without benefit of Clergy and the Said Managers or either of them are hereby Authorized Required and Impowered to Cause any Person or Persons bringing Such altered Forged or Counterfeited Ticket or Tickets as Aforesaid to be apprehended and to Commit him her or them to his Majesty's Goal of the City of New York to be proceeded Against for the Said Felony According to Law.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid that every of the Managers hereby appointed for putting this Act in Execution before his Acting in Such Com- mission Shall take the Oath following, that is to Say, I, A. B. do Swear that I will faithfully execute the Trust reposed in me and that I will not use any indirect Art or means or permit or direct any Person to use any indirect art or Means to Obtain a Prize or fortunate Lot for my Self or any Person Whatsoever and that I will do
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the utmost of my Endeavours to prevent any undue or Sinister Practice to be done by any Person Whatsoever and that I will to the best of my Judgement declare to whom any Prize Lot or Ticket of right does belong according to the true Intent of the Act of Governeur Council and General Assembly passed in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty three in that behalf Which Oath Shall be administered by one of the Supreme Court of this Colony.
Provided allways And be it Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid that the Managers hereby appointed before they take the Oath Prescribed by this Act or perform or Execute anything therein Contained Shall first Enter into the following Recogniz- ance to our Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors, That is to Say Each of them before one of the Justices of the Supreme Court in the Sum of Two Thou- sand Five Hundred Pounds with two Sufficient Sureties each in half that Sum Con- ditioned that they Shall and will well and Truly each for his part Execute the Trust Reposed in them by this Act and well and Truly observe do and Perform all the Directions thereby required to be done and Performed by them accordingly to the true Intent and meaning thereof which Several Recognizances are to be delivered to the Treasurer by the Justice before whom the Same Shall be So taken (having first Caused the Same to be Recorded in the Minutes of the Supreme Court) in order to be lodged in the Treasury.
AND be it further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid That the Several deduc- tions of Fifteen per Cent upon the whole Number of fortunate Tickets Shall be Paid into the Hands of the Trustees appointed in and by an Act Entituled an Act for Vesting in Trustees the Sum of Three Thousand Four Hundred and Forty three Pounds, Eighteen Shillings, raised by way of Lottery, for Erecting a College within this Colony passed in the Twenty fifth Year of his Majesties Reign [See Nov. 25, 1751.] to BE by them put out at Interest according to the directions of the Said Act untill the Same Shall be Imployed by Some future Act for and towards founding a College for the advancement of Learning within this Colony, by the Managers hereof out of which nevertheless there Shall be allowed by the Said Trustees in case the Lottery be Actually drawn the following Sums, Viz., To each of the said Managers the Sum of fifty Pounds to each of the two Clerks Six Shillings per diem for every Day they Shall be Actually Imployed in the Said Drawing to each of the two Per- sons who Shall Draw the Tickets Three Shillings per Diem for every Day they Shall be So Imployed and all Reasonable Charges for Printing Books Tickets and advertisements and Such other Incidents as may Necessarily be Required in the Said Lottery.
AND that the purpose of Founding of the Said College may not be obstructed by any other Applications of the Mony's to Arise from the Proffits of the Said Lottery BE IT ENACTED by the Authority Aforesaid that each and every Representative in the General Assembly for the time being who Shall hereafter in General Assem- bly move or Consent to the applying or Appropriating the Said Moneys to any other purpose Whatsoever than the founding the College aforesaid Shall be and is hereby declared and made forever incapable of Sitting and Voting in this or any Future General Assembly and New Writs Shall Issue accordingly.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid that no Fee or Gratuity whatsoever Shall or may be demanded or taken of any Person or Persons Contribu- tor or Adventurer to the Lottery Aforesaid by any Manager or Managers or any other Officer or Officers appointed by this Act for any thing that Shall be done Pur- suant to this Act upon pain that any Officer or Person Offending by taking any Fee or Gratuity Contrary to this Act Shall forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds to the party grieved to be recovered with full Costs in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record within this Colony.
And be it Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid that in Case all the Said Five Thousand Tickets Shall not be Sold and disposed off before the Said first Tuesday in November Next that then the money that has been Received for any Ticket or Tickets by Virtue of this Act Shall be by the Said Managers repaid to the Person or Persons of whom the Same Shall have been received His her or their Executors Administrators or Assigns he She or they first Producing the Several Tickets for which Such Repayment Shall be required and the Lottery hereby Erected and Made Shall from thenceforth become Viod anything in this Act Contained to the Contrary hereof Notwithstanding and in Such Case the Treasurer of this Colony Shall pay out of any Money then in the Treasury (except Such as Shall be appointed for the Annual Support of the Government) the Several Incidents before mentioned upon
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