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DeLancey," Lieutenant-Governor of the province, 

 who, besides the aid of the Rev. Dr. Barclay,™ 

 and other literary gentlemen of Nevv -York, was 

 also assisted by the counsels and co-operation of 

 the Rev. Dr. Johnson/ of Connecticut, and the 

 Rev. Dr. Chandler/ of New-Jersey. In the be- 



u Mr. James De Laxcey was a native of New-York. His father, 

 Mr. Stephen De Lancev, came from Normandy, in France, among 

 the Protestants who tied from persecution in that country. The son 

 was sent to England for his education, where, about the year 1725, 

 he entered the University of Cambridge. Here he had the honour of 

 "having for his tu or Dr. Herring, afterwards Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury. Soon after his return home, in 1729, he was appointed a mem- 

 ber of the Governor's Council; afterwards tilled the office of Chief Justice; 

 became Lieutenant-Governor in 1753 ; and had long an extensive and com- 

 manding inriuer.ce in the province. He died about the year 1760. 



%v The Rev Dr. Henry Barclay was a native of Albany, and re- 

 ceived a liberal education at Yale College, where he graduated m the year 

 1734. Soon after leaving College he went to Great-Britain, where he 

 received orders in the Episcopal Church, and was appointed Missionary 

 to the Mohawk Indians. Having served in this capacity for some years, 

 lie was called to the city of New-York, and appointed Rector of Trinity 

 Church. In this respectable situation he continued till his death, which 

 -cook place in 1765. 



x The Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson was bcrn at Guilford, in Con- 

 necticut, October 14, 1696. He was educated at Yale College, where he 

 took his first degree, in the year 1714. In 1720 he was ordained, by a 

 council of Congregational Ministers, and installed pastor of a church at 

 West-Haven, m Connecticut. After remaining in this situation a little 

 more than two years, he alered his views concerning the doctrine, wor- 

 ship, and government of the church with which he was connected, and 

 went to England, where he took orders in the Episcopal Church, in the 

 month of March, 1723. From this time till the year 1754, Dr. Johnson 

 resided at Stratford, in Connecticut, where he had the pastoral care of an 

 Episcopal Church. In the last mentioned year he removed to New-York, 

 ana entered on the duties of his office as President of King's College. In 

 this station he continued till February, 1763, when he resigned, returned 

 to Stratford, and there again exercised his ministry till his death, which 

 happened in January, 1772. Dr. Johnson was a man of distinguished 

 talents and learning. He was intimately acquainted with Dean Berke- 

 ley, during his residence in Rhode-Island; long maintained a friendly 

 correspondence with him ; and became a convert to the peculiar metaphy- 

 sical opinions of that great man. Besides other smaller works, he pub- 

 lished a Compendium of Logic^ and another of Ethics, which were printed 

 together in an octavo volume, in 1752, by D,-. Franklin, then residing 

 in Philadelphia. He also published a Hebrew Grammar, in 1767, which 

 evinced an accurate acquaintance with tha: language. For this account 

 of Dr. Johnson, as well as for seme other facts and names in the history 

 of American literature, the Author is indebted to a manuscript Life cf 

 Dr. Johnson, drawn up by the Rev. Dr. Chandler, mentioned in the 

 following note. 

 y The Rev. Dr. Thomas Bradbury Chandler was a native of 



