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brought under the everlasting gospel." The expected 

 revenue from this farm, however, was not realized, and 

 Mr. Whitefield says, May 26, 1752: "I am come to a 

 determination if I can dispose of Providence planta- 

 tion (in South Carolina), to carry all my strength to 

 the Orphan House;" and February 1, 1753: "With 

 this 1 send your brother a power to dispose of Provi- 

 dence plantation. I hope to hear shortly that you 

 have purchased more negroes." On the 18th of 

 December, 1764, Mr. Whitefield asked the governor 

 and the two houses of Assembly for a grant of two 

 thousand acres of land to enable him to convert the 

 Orphan House into a college. Both houses voted a 

 favorable address to the governor, who transmitted 

 the same with his hearty approval of the contemplated 

 measure to the lords commissioners for trade and 

 plantations, and the two thousand acres were granted 

 near Altamaha. In October, 1765, he sent a memorial 

 to the king, concluding thus: 



Having received repeated advices that numbers both in Georgia 

 and South Carolina are waiting with impatience to have their sons 

 initiated in academical exercises, your memorialist therefore prays 

 Irhat a charter upon the plan of New Jersey College may be granted ; 

 upon which your memorialist is ready to give up his present trust, 

 and make a free gift of all lands, negroes, goods, and chattels, which 

 he now stands possessed of in the province of Georgia, for the present 

 founding, and toward the future support, of a college to be called 

 by the name of Bethesda College, in the province of Georgia. 



The charter tendered him by his majesty's Privy 

 Council was not such as he felt he ought to accept, 

 because it contained a clause which made it obligatory 

 that the head of the college should be a member of 

 the Church of England. He made known his objec- 

 tions to- the Privy Council, and reminded them that by 

 far the greatest amount of the 'Orphan House collec- 



