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it being found thai the school', on its original nar-* 

 row establishment, was not sufficient to answer the 

 purposes which its friends had in view, a royal 

 charter was obtained, constituting a college, and 

 naming Dr. Wheelock as the first president, with 

 the privilege of nominating his successor in his 

 last will. The charity-school, together with the 

 newly-constituted college, was removed to Hano- 

 ver, in New Hampshire, where both have been 

 ever since fixed : and though neither of them 

 flourished during the revolutionary war, which 

 soon succeeded, yet, since the restoration of peace, 

 they have grown considerably; the college, m 

 particular, having become, at the close of the cen- 

 tury, a large^ respectable, and thriving seminary*. 

 About this time we may date the establishment 

 of a college at Providence, in Rhode Island. 

 This institution was erected by certain persons of 

 influence of the baptist denomination ; and among 

 these perhaps no individual so well deserves to be 

 considered as its founder, as the rev. Dr. Man- 

 ning f,. the first president. The charter for this 



stinct as to its property, design, and government. Dr. E. Whee* 

 Jock died in 1779, in the sixty seventh year of his age, and was 

 succeeded by his son, John Wheelock, LL.D., wha has ever 

 sinc& presided over the institution.. 



* Among the benefactors to this institution^ beside his majesty 

 George III, lord Dartmouth, the countess of Huntingdon, and 

 several other persons of eminence in Europe, we find the names 

 of Dr. Franklin, John Adams, esq., late president of the United 

 States, John Jay, esq., late chief justice of the United States, and 

 governor of the state of New York, and the hon. John, Phillips, of 

 Exeter, in New Hampshire. 



t The rev. Dr. Manning was born in New Jersey in the year 

 1738. He was educated at Nassau Hall, where he was admitted 

 to the first honours of the college in 1762. la 1765 he removed. 



