afterwards sold, and the money was laid out in the purchase of a farm at Waltham, called the Rogers Farm.

Capt. Richard Sprague of Charlestown, by his last will, gave to the College 32 ewe sheep with their lambs, valued at £30.

Mr. John Ward of Ipswich, "by his last will, gave the remainder of his estate (debts and legacies being paid) to the College, whereof was received, of his executors, horses valued at seventy-two pounds.'

In 1669, Elder Richard Champney bequeathed 40 acres of land in Cambridge, near the Falls of Charles River, "as an expression of his willingness to further the education of youth in all godly literature."

Henry Henley, Esq., of Lime in Dorsetshire, gave to the College £27.

In 1670, William Pennoyer, Esq., ordered by his will, that out of the rents and profits of certain estates in the County of Norfolk, let at the yearly rent of £44, ten pounds per annum should be paid to the Corporation for propagating the Gospel in New England, and "that with the residue two fellows and two scholars for ever should be educated, brought up, and maintained" in this College. This bequest was the earliest existing foundation for those periodical donations to indigent students, called exhibitions.

In 1671, Elder James Penn bequeathed £10 per annum, out of his farm at Pulling Point, to be paid to the elders and deacons of the First Church in Boston, for the maintenance of poor scholars at the College.

In 1672, Mr. John Hayward of Charlestown bequeathed to the College a tract of land in Watertown estimated at twenty acres.

"1669. Several well-minded persons in the town of Portsmouth, upon Piscataqua river, voluntarily en

gaged themselves to give freely towards the encouragement of the College, sixty pounds per annum, for seven years. By a clause of the will of Mr. Richard Cutts, it appears, that he subscribed twenty pounds per annum of this donation.

"In 1673, the town of Portsmouth voted, that what remained unpaid should be levied by rate annually upon the inhabitants of that town."

"A voluntary contribution made towards the new edifice, viz.

In addition to the above, several hundred pounds were given to the College by others, among whom Mr. Henry Ashurst gave £100.

Several parcels of land were laid out, in the Pequod country, in 1658, in lieu of 2000 acres, which had been granted by the General Court in 1653; but the College does not appear to have been ever benefited by these lands; nor did it ever obtain a lot of land at the south end of Boston, containing twenty rods, which was granted to it by Mr. Theodore Atkinson in 1671.

By the above list taken from the College Records, it appears that a part of the money was collected beyond the limits of Massachusetts.

It was, perhaps, fortunate, that, for so long a period after the foundation of the College, and before many other institutions had sprung up to divide the attention of the public, this "school of the prophets" should have experienced no individual patronage of sufficient magnitude to supersede the care and support of the community at large. Its long dependence on the whole people, by whom it was cherished with parental fondness, tended to secure and perpetuate their affection for the College, and even for learning itself; and to this circumstance may probably be traced, in some degree, that general interest in the cause of education, for which New England has always been distinguished.

CHAPTER III.

THUS far the College had been under the direction of scholars from the English Universities; and it was fortunate for the institution that its first presidents were such men as Dunster and Chauncy,-men, not unfit to be proposed as models to those who should come after them; being distinguished, not only for their talents, learning, and worth, but for that energy of character, which, at all times a desirable quality in the head of the College, was, at its commencement and during its early stages, absolutely indispensable.

But there has probably never been a time since the foundation of the College, when it was easier to find officers and instructers, than at that period; for many of the early emigrants to New England were men who had received the best education which England could afford. It would, therefore, have rather excited surprise, if, under such circumstances, the first presidents had not been men of a superior order.

From this time the presidents of the College will be found to have been selected from among its own sons; and it will be no small praise, if it shall appear that under them the College generally maintained the reputation which it had already acquired.

During all this time the various instruments and repositories of learning had been gradually accumulating.