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and nearly 1000 captured. Six bronze guns, over 1000 

 stands of anus, and various stores were taken. Th! 

 American loss was 1' killed ami ;> wounded. :nnl J wviv 

 frozen ID death in nvruxsiug the river. Washington 

 with his army returned to his head-quarters mi the 

 8.iine niirhl. The lle-siaiis were sent to I'hiladelphia. 

 mil m.irched through its streets, that the dread of 

 them mi,'hi IK- dispelled. 



TKIMTY COLLBO& The C.-neral Assembly of 

 rOoWMOtWU in May, ISlM. granted a cltar- 

 ter for the establishment of a second college in the 

 State, under the name of Washington Collier ; and in 

 i compliance with the wishes of the alumni and 

 the corporation, the name of the institution was 

 ch:in,'e 1 to Trinity College. The plan of the college 

 originated with the Episcopalians of Connecticut, who 

 had established, in 1795, a seminary of lilxT.il learning. 

 but who had in vain sought to gain for it the power of 

 conferring degrot-8. At length, in 1818, a remarkable 

 combination of circumstances social, religious, ami 

 political led to a revolution in the State, the imme- 

 diate n-s i!is of which were the overthrow of the 

 "Sunlinir Order" of Congregationalism, and the 

 adoption of a State constitution. In the following year 

 the long exisiiii'.' vacancy in the bishopric of Connecti- 

 cut was liliel !>y the election of the llev. Dr. Thomas 

 Church Browne)!, who bad been fur ten years tutor 

 mi 1 professor in 1 nion College, a man uf learning, pru- 

 dence, and practical wisdom. 1'nder his guidance 

 advantage was taken of the opportunity to pi 



Iiclition for a new eoile-jc ; an. I after a struggle, in the 

 itcrature of which one finds political and financial 

 questions curiously mingled with those relating to 

 religion and education, the act of incorporation was 

 granted. The corporators included prominent repre- 

 sentatives of the religious bodies who had raited in 

 opposition to the oil Mtabluhmeol ; and the charter 

 contained a cl.iu-e provi linir that no religious test 

 should ever be required of officers or students. 



In consequence of the generous uiits of the citizens 

 of Hartford the trustees voted to Incite the college in 

 that city, and a beautiful site was seeiired for the 

 building*. These were of brownstone, in the Ionic 

 nrl-r of areliiiectinv, of which two wen- erected at 

 once, and a third in 1SI.V A faculty of learned men 

 was gathered, and the institution licgan its work in 

 Bishop Browned was A -ident ; after 



faith f> h- retired in IV! I. and was succeeded 



bv thi; 11 -v I'r. N. S. U'heaton, a steadfast and liberal 

 friend of th'- college, who did much to cnl.irgc its use 

 film--- li ors were: in Is.'i", the Uev. l>r. 



Silos Toiten. professor of mathematics ; in IS4>\ the 

 llev. Dr. John William*, who left academic duties 

 licre to discharge with no less remarkable ability those 

 of the assistant bishopric, and afterward* the bishopric, 

 :u Iv'il. the llev. I'r l> 11. (ioodwin, 

 a profoun 1 inetaphy.-ieian ; in Ix'iii. 1 >r Samuel Eliot, 

 a man of wide and graceful -cholar.-hip ; in ISrll, the 

 llev. Dr. J. 15. Kert'oot. an cx|>eiieii'-ed cilueator. who 

 was soon called to the bishopric of I'iltsburg; and in 

 1867, the Uev. Dr. Abner Jacksoo, formerly professor 

 here, and then president of llohart College, who died 

 in April, IS71. In the course of li fly years the college 

 bad experienced many changes, though it had always 

 bell firmly to its ideal as a place of liberal education 

 under the guidance of ( 'hristian principles. Its endow 

 Uients had been increased by numerous gifts, and the 

 of instruction, which had from the first been 

 practical)} the same; as that of the other eoll 



r.-l ind. with provisions for special students, had 



been modified from lime to time to meet the demands 



upon it. A graduate department had IH-CII 



/I for the study of theol-'L'.v. but it had s 



m-titii: ion. and. under the 



name of the Berkeley Divinity School, had IM-CII located 

 at Middlctown. In I s "! tin- numU'r of undergrad- 

 uates for the first time reached a hundred. 



Near the end of Dr. Jackson's presidency the trus- 



tees accepted an offer from the city of Hartford to pur- 

 iie campus as a site lor (he State eapitol, and 

 elalxir.ite plans were prepared for buildings to be 

 ere, I. ,1 nn a new caliipu.- of eighty acre- -ituated on a 

 bluff in tin 1 southern part of the city. The work was 

 delayed bv 1'res. Jaek-on's death ; but his successor, 

 : U v. Dr. Thomas I!. I'ynehon. prosecuted it with 

 treat energy. In I V T> two blocks of biiildin^- 

 ;;IK| feet long, were finished, and the college was re- 

 moved to it- new home. Four years later these build- 

 ings Were c iceted by a tower 7M feet square, thus 



completing the west side of the great tpmfaaBgk of tho 

 architect's plans. In l xs :l the Kev. Dr. ' 

 Williamson Smith was chosen president. In the fol- 

 lowing year considerable changes were made in (he 

 course of instruction, in order to introduce elective 

 studies into the work of the latter half of the course 

 and to provide for four distinct schemes of study ; one 

 leading to a degree in arts and two to a degree in 

 science. All observatory ami a president's house were 

 soon built, and the last two years have seen tie 

 lion of a I'vninasiiim and alumni hall and of the Jarvis 

 Hall of Science, standimr outside of the sp : 

 for the quadrangles. The style of architecture of these, 

 quadrangles is that known as French secular (iothic, 

 and there can be included in them IMV.H piles of build- 

 ings to provide amply for the present and prospective 

 needs of the college. The library is furnished w-ith 

 30,000 volumes, and is rapidly increasing, and the 

 museum is well supplied with material for study. 



The number of alumni has been al>out ( .KK), many of 

 whom have attained eminence in various profession* 

 and walks of life. Among the liberal benefactors of 

 past years <pecial mention should be made of Mr. 

 Cheater Adams, of Hartford, Col. and Mrs. C. II. 

 Northam. of Hartford (whose name has been given to 

 .nil tower). Mr. Junius S. Morgan, of l,ond'-n, 

 Mr. (iconic A. Jarvis. of Brooklyn (the donor of the 

 hall of science), and Mr. S. M. Buckingham, of 

 I'ouirhkcepsie. Of those who have served in the 

 faculty two are specially worthy of honor on account 

 of their long connection with thaeoUan: 1'rcf. Dun- 

 can L. Stewart (ls:W-18SO), and 1'rof. John Broek- 

 lesby (since 1STJ). H.) 



'FRIST. NICHOLAS PI:N-I>I.ETON (1800-1874), poli- 

 tician, was Ikirn in Virginia, and educated at West 

 I'oint. where he for a time taught French. He re- 

 moved to Washington, and was a warm political friend 

 of 1'ivs. Jackson. He had married a granddaughter 

 of I'lvs JcflVrson and carefully preserved the tradi- 

 tion- and principles of that statesman. In 1M;"> he 

 wa- made chief clerk of the State Department, and 

 during the Mexican war he was sent to Mexico as the 

 direct representative uf I'res. I'olk. and endeavored to 

 control ( ien. Scott's movements, so far as they had po- 

 litic-id beariiiL'. Trii-t negotiated the treaty of (iuada- 

 loUpe-Hidahn) ID January. IS! 1 -;. He was afterwards 

 1". S. consul at Havana, and finally post master of Al- 

 exandria Ya. He died there Feb. II. 1 IS74. 



TR1STKAM. HKXHV BAKIIIS. Knt:lisli clercymnn 

 and naturalist, was born at Eiilimrham. England. May 

 II. IM'L*. He was educated at Durham and at Lin- 

 coln Colleire, Oxford, graduating in 1844. After 



travelling for a year on the continent he was ordai 1 



and becai -unite of Morchard Bishop. In 1S17 he- 

 went to Bermuda as chaplain and secretary to Sir 

 Charles Elliott. After visiting the United States in 

 ]V,| he returned to England and became rector of 

 C.istle Eden, where he established a training school 

 tor female teachers. In IS.V) he was compelled by ill 

 health to seek a wanner climate and went to Algiers. 

 His winter excursions to unexplored localities furnished 

 material for his first liook. '//( di-i'ni Siiliiii-n (!>."(('.). 

 I he was made vicar of (Ircatham and master 

 id' i Ir* ail. am Hospital, which he enlarged and im- 

 provi-d. In 1R70 he was made honorary canon of 

 Durham, in 1874 canon, and ki 1880 dean. He has 

 held also other ecclesiastical positions, and in 1879 was 



