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HISTORY OK THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Tompkins. Vice-President of the United States; Colonel Tallmadge 

 and brother, and the Hon. James Kent, LL.D. " After the removal of 

 Mr. Lewis, the institution appears to have declined for a few years. A 

 revival of its prosperity, however, occurred about 1801, under the Rev. 

 Mr. McNiece. This gentleman is said to have been one of the Irish 

 patriots of 179J, who left his country at the same time with Emmet, 

 Adrain, McNeven and others, for the same cause. He was a man of 

 learning and an eloquent preacher of the Presbyterian denomination, 



Academy, North Salem. 



and the Academy under him had at one time eighty scholars in attend- 

 ance. From this period the reports to the regents indicate great fluct- 

 uations in the number, as well as in the advancement of the scholars. 

 Some years present no report from the trustees, from which we may 

 imply that the building was not occupied as a school during a sufficient 

 portion of the year (four months) to entitle them to a share of the liter- 

 ature fund, or that the scholars were not sufficiently advanced to be re- 

 ported in the higher branches of study. The reports of other years 

 indicate a better condition. And among the teachers are mentioned 

 the Rev. Hermon Dagget, Rev. Abraham Purdy, A.M., Ebenezer Close, 

 Dr. Samuel B. Mead, Rev. Hiram Jelliff, John C. Jones, and G. S. 

 Tozer. 



For quite a number of years North Salem Academy held a respect- 

 able standing among its sister institutions in this part of the State ; 

 sometime numbering nearly one hundred students, and generally, during 

 the winter sessions, from seventy to ninety. The last annual catalogue 

 contained the names of one hundred and forty-five pupils. We regret 



