46 September 1748. 



weftern part of the town. It was formerly 

 as I have before mentioned, a meeting-houfe 

 of the followers of Whitefield, but they fold 

 it in the year 1750, and it was deitined to 

 be the feat of an univerfity, or to exprefs 

 myfelf in more exact terms, to be a college, 

 it was therefore fitted up to this purpofe. 

 The youths are here only taught thofe things 

 which they learn in our common fchools ; 

 but in time, fuch lectures are intended to be 

 read here, as are ufual in real univerfities. 



At the clofe of the lad war, a redoubt 

 was erected here, on the fouth fide of the 

 town, near the river, to prevent the French 

 and Spanifi privateers from landing. But 

 this was done after a very flrong debate. 

 For the quakers oppofed all fortifications, as 

 contrary to the tenets of their religion, 

 which allow not chriitians to make war 

 either often five or defenfive, but direct them 

 to place their truft in the Almighty alone. 

 Several papers were then handed about for 

 and againrt the opinion. But the enemy's 

 privateers having taken feveral veifels be- 

 longing to the town, in the river, many 

 of the quakers, if not all of them, found 

 it reafonable to forward the building of the 

 fortification as much as poffible, at leaft by 

 a fupply of money. 



Of all the natural advantages of the 



town* 



