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setts, another at Exeter, in New Hampshire, and 

 a third in Boston, exercised a degree of munifi- 

 cence, which is equally rare in America, and 

 honourable to their generosity and love of litera- 

 ture. In 1778 the honourable Samuel Phillips, 

 of Andover, founded and liberally endowed an 

 academy in the town in which he resided. In this 

 laudable undertaking he was aided by his bro- 

 thers, the honourable John Phillips, LL.D,, of 

 Exeter, and AVilliam Phillips, esq., of Boston. 

 Not long afterward the former of these brothers 

 founded and very richly endowed an academy at 

 Exeter, the place of his residence. Both these 

 academies are called by the name of the family to 

 whom they owe their existence ; both continue to 

 grow in respectability and usefulness, and are 

 likely long to remain monuments of the noble 

 and distinguished public spirit which gave them 

 birth*. ^ 



Immediately on the return of peace, a college 

 was established in the town of Carlisle, in Penn- 

 sylvania, This institution received the name of 

 Dickinson college, being called after the celebrated 

 statesman and political writer, John Dickinson, 

 esq., who was its most liberal benefactor. Doctor 

 Rush also, and several other gentlemen of distinc- 

 tion in Pennsylvania, were among the most active 

 friends and promoters of this establishment. Soon 



munificence exercised towards public institutions at different 

 times by the members of this family would probably furnish au 

 amount of benefactions seldom equalled in America. 



* In furnishing instances of individual liberality to public 

 institutions, it is believed that Massachusetts exceeds all the other 

 states. 



