46 September 1748;. 



weftern part of the town. It was formerly 

 as I have before mentioned, a meeting-houfe 

 of the followers of Whitefield, but they fold 

 it in the year 1750, and it was deftined to 

 be the feat of an univeriity, or to exprefs 

 myfelf in more exadt terms, to be a college, 

 it was therefore fitted up to this purpcfe. 

 The youths are here only taught thofe things 

 which they learn in our common fchools ; 

 but in time, fuch ledures are intended to be 

 read here, as are ufual in real univerfities. 



At the clofe of the laft war, a redoubt 

 was eredled here, on the fouth fide of the 

 town, near the river, to prevent the French 

 and Spanifi privateers from landing. But 

 this was done after a very ftrong debate. 

 For the quakers oppofed all fortifications, as 

 contrary to the tenets of their religion, 

 which allow not chriftians to make war 

 either offenfive or defenfive, but direct them 

 to place their truft in the Almighty alone. 

 Several papers were then handed about for 

 and againft the opinion. But the enemy's 

 privateers having taken feveral veflels be- 

 longing to the town, in the rivei, many 

 of the quakers, if not all of them, found 

 it reafonable to forward the building of the 

 fonification as much as poflible, at leafl by 

 a fupply of money. 



Of all the natural advantages of the 



town^ 



