19S Nations lately become Literary. [Ch. XXVI. 



in this academy. lie continued in the office, 

 however, but one year ; and was succeeded by 

 Thomas Makin, who has been followed by a 

 number of good instructors to the present time. 

 But the circumstance of this institution being in 

 a great measure confined to one denomination 

 of Christians, rendered it less viseful than it might 

 have been on a more extensive and liberal foun- 

 dation. Among those who were most active in 

 promoting the interests of literature from 1689, 

 until a iew years after the commencement of the 

 eighteenth century, Vv^e find the names of Edward 

 Shippcn *, Anthony Morris, Jonathan Dickinson, 

 Isaac Norris, Nicholas Wain, and James Loganf. 



time returned to the episcopal church. He was a man of learn- 

 ing and talents ; but arrogant, vain, and given to litigation. 



* Edward Shippcn was early and much distinguished in Penn- 

 sylvania. He came from England to Massachusetts to avoid 

 persecution ; but belonging to the society of friends, he met 

 with no better ti-eatment in New England than in his own coun- 

 try. He therefore removed to Pennsylvania soon after Mr. Penn's 

 arrival, and became conspicuous and useful in the new colony. 

 He was successively speaker of the house of assembly, member 

 of the governor's council, and the first mayor of the city of Phila- 

 delphia. His descendants have continued to be persons of dis- 

 tinction to the present day. 



f James Logan, meotioued in a former chapter as a distin- 

 guished botanist, was born at Lurgan, in Ireland, in the year 

 1674. In 1699 he came to Pennsylvania, in company with 

 William Penn, under whose patronage he was much employed 

 in public affairs. He held, in succession, the several olfices of 

 provincial scrretary, commissioner of property, chief justice, and 

 ibr near two years discharged the duties of governor, as presi- 

 dent of the council. He died in 1751, at Stenton, his country 

 seat, near Germantown, where he had long enjoyed a dignified 

 retirement, devoted to study, and much employed in correspond- 

 ing with learned men in the different parts of Europe. He was 



