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Philadelphia, conferring its medical degree for the first 

 time in 1769 ; Dr. Samuel Bard, whose father was a 

 Pennsylvanian and a pupil of Kearsley, had a large part 

 in the founding of this college, resuscitated in 1792 as 

 Columbia College. 



Fothergill continued his kind offices to young Americans 

 when they came to Britain for study. Amongst these was 

 Dr. Thomas Parke, who afterwards married the daughter 

 of James Pemberton, and held a leading position in Phila- 

 delphia. 



It came into the power of Fothergill to do the Penn- 

 sylvania Hospital a considerable financial service, in 

 connection with the Pennsylvania Land Company. This 

 company was formed in the year 1699, and held certain 

 lands in this and the adjoining provinces. In order to 

 the sale of the estates they were in 1760 vested in nine 

 trustees, who were chiefly Friends, Fothergill's name 

 standing first. 1 Many shares in the company were at 

 this time unclaimed, and it occurred to Fothergill to 

 suggest to the Agents of the colony that the Hospital, 

 doubtless as an institution of public usefulness, should 

 become the ultimate recipient of this unclaimed property. 

 The other trustees gave their consent, negotiations took 

 place, the British ministry were favourable, and a clause 

 was inserted in the Act of Parliament passed in 1760, 

 providing that after the lapse of ten years to allow for 

 claims to be made, the residue of the proceeds should be 

 handed over to the Pennsylvania Hospital. The following 

 extracts from Fothergill's letters to James Pemberton 

 deal with this subject. 



I have inclosed some papers that relate to unclaimed 

 shares of the Land Company, in which your hospital is so 

 happily interested. The money was vested in the Funds as 



1 An Appeal was heard before the Lords of the Privy Council for Plantation 

 affairs in 1766 ; John Fothergill, M.D., and others, against a judgment of the 

 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1763. by which Christian Stover had been 

 upheld in his rights to 340 acres of land in Lampeter, Lancaster Co., leased 

 to him by the company for four years at the rent of i : 45. current. Stover 

 set up a ticket issued by the Secretary of the Land Office, as superseding the 

 Company's warrant. The judgment was affirmed. A printed copy of Appel- 

 lant's case is in the author's hands ; see also Brit. Mus. MSS. Add. 36200, 73. 



