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original design. In speaking thus freely, I have given you a fresh 

 proof of the sincerity with which I am your ever affectionate friend 

 and brother. 



The Orphan House buildings, furniture, slaves, and 

 lands, as property held in trust, were left " to that elect 

 lady, the Right Honorable Selina, Countess-dowager 

 of Huntingdon," and in case of her death to White- 

 field's "dear first fellow-traveler, and faithful, invari- 

 able friend, the Honorable James Habersham, Esq., 

 president of his majesty's honorable council " in 

 Georgia. The countess determined to send from En- 

 gland a president and master for the Orphan House, 

 and at the same time to dispatch a number of her 

 Trevecca students as missionaries to the Indians and 

 to the people in the back settlements. The students, 

 summoned from all parts of the kingdom, assembled 

 at Trevecca on the 9th of October, 1772. At the end 

 of the month they embarked for Georgia with the 

 Rev. Mr. Percy, rector of St. Paul's in South Caro- 

 lina, who was appointed president, and the Rev. Mr. 

 Crosse, afterward vicar of Bradford, who was chosen 

 master. The housekeeper of the countess was sent 

 with them to regulate domestic matters according to 

 her ladyship's direction. The missionaries were wel- 

 comed by the people, and for a brief period affairs at 

 the Orphan House seemed to prosper. In the month 

 of June, 1773, this historic edifice, except the two 

 wings, was consumed by fire. In 1782, during the 

 war with England, the estate was confiscated, and in 

 1800 the two wings were in a state of decay, the brick- 

 wall inclosing the premises was leveled with the 

 ground, and the foundations, in many places, plowed up. 



On Sunday, March 23, 1740, two days after Mr. 

 Whitefield left Charleston to lay the foundation of 



