^00 Nations lately become Literary. [Ch. XXVI. 



kirly intended for the education of ministers for 

 the preshyterian church *, This institution con^ 

 tinued to flourish for some time, and was the 

 means of forming a number of good scholars, and 

 distinguished professional characters. "When it 

 began to decline, the rev. Mr. Roan, a learned 

 and able divine, also of the preshyterian church, 

 erected another academy at Neshaminy, in the 

 vicinity of the former. Mr. Roan, as well as his 

 predecessor, is entitled to grateful remembrance 

 for his zeal and success in promoting useful 

 knowledge. 



About this time also Mr. Theophilus Grew f 

 from England, Mr. Annan from Scotland, and 

 Mr. Stevenson from Ireland, set up grammar 

 schools in Philadelphia, in which the dead lan- 

 guages were taught with great skill and assiduity. 

 Mr. Grevv :ivas the first person in Pennsylvania 



* Mr. William Tennant had been a clergyirian in the esta- 

 blished church of Ireland before he came to America. Soon 

 after his arrival he renounced his connexion vith the episco- 

 pal church, and joined the presbytery of Philadelphia. He was 

 much celebrated for his accurate and profound acquaintance with 

 -the Latin and Greek classics, and taught them with great success 

 in his academy on the Neshaminy, which v.as called at that time 

 his hog college, from the edifice in which his instruction was 

 carried on being built of logs. IMr. Tennant had four sons, Gil- 

 bert, William, John, and Charles, who were all distinguished 

 and useful clergymen, and whose praise has long been in the 

 churches. 



f Theophilus Grew was probably a son or grandson of the 

 celebrated botanist bearing the same name, who, in 1676, first 

 suggested the sexual doctrine of vegetables to the Royal Society 

 of London. The former was much distinguished as a mathema- 

 tician, and was afterward professor of mathematics in the colleg<5 

 of Philadelphia. - " 



