An Historical Sketch of the College of New Jersey

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Shippen and Mr. Robert Smith be, in general, the plan of the college ; that the college be built of brick, (it is built of stone, ) if they could be ob- tained in Princeton ; that it be three stories high, without a cellar ; COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY. 15 S and that Messrs. Samuel Hazard and Robert Smith select the spot for the building and mark out the ground. At a meeting held in Newark, September 25, 1754, it was voted that the college be built of stone, and the President's house of wood; only th...e former part of this w:is earned into effect, the President's house being constructed of brick. * In 1755, Governor Belcher donated his library, consisting of 474 volumes, many of them being very valuable, to the college ; some of tliese were purloined by the American and British armies durino- the Kevolution, being taken by the troops of Cornwallis as far as North Carolina, and afterwards found there ; he also gave a full-lenrrth pic- ture of himself, a pair of globes, ten pictm-es, being the heads^ of the Amgs and Queens of England, and a large carved, gilded coat of arms.

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