Trustees of Dartmouth College, Resolution, 1789 May 7
Date7 May, 1789
Call Number789307.1
abstractA resolution from the Board of Trustees avowing that the board has never used for Dartmouth College any of the money collected by Occom and Whitaker in Great Britain.
handwritingHandwriting is small and heavily slanted, though largely clear and legible. The trailer on the left side of one verso is in a second, unknown hand.
paperLarge single sheet is in good condition, with light staining, creasing and wear.
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noteworthyThis document is marked as a copy. The contents are identical to those of manuscript 789307.2.
Modernized Version Deletions removed; additions added in; modern spelling and capitalization added; unfamiliar abbreviations expanded.
College May 7th Anno Domini 1789.
that apprehensions have arisen in the minds of
some persons, that monies collected in Great Britain
by the reverend Messrs. Whitaker and Occom, for the
use of Moors Charity School under the direction of the
reverend Doctor Wheelock, have been applied by this
board, to the use and benefit of Dartmouth College —
control or direction of said monies, nor have they
to their knowledge at any time received or applied any sum
or sums thereof to the use and benefit of said
College; but on the most critical examination relative
thereto we are convinced this board have ever consid‐
ered themselves as having no concern with the applic‐
ation of the said monies, but that they were subject
to the application of the late reverend Doctor Eleazar
Wheelock and his successors in the Presidency of Moors
Charity School and them only — Nor have they
to their knowledge any interest in their hands on whi‐
‐ch revenues have arisen to them as the effect of
monies laid out by Doctor Wheelock or others, which were
of monies collected by Doctor Whitaker and Mr. Occom
in Great Britain as aforesaid; and should any such
in future arise it is the sense and intention of this
board that such revenues be applied by Doctor
Wheelocks successors Solely to the Objects for which
those donations in Great Britain were made —
Attest B Woodward Secretary
attest Wheelock
Monies from Great Britain
1789 —
Resolution (No 43.) of Board
of Trustees about the
monies of Moors
School in Scotland.
etc. May 7th 1789.
No 41. and 42. in Narrative of 1771.