William Gammell, Ll. D.; a Biographical Sketch, With Selections From His Writings
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His mind was early subjected to the discipline of that best kind of education, which arises from the associations of a well-regulated family circle, of cultivated manners and liberal tastes. He was also sent to a grammar school in his native town, which in its day maintained a high celebrity as one of the best schools in the country. Here, aided, as is probable, by the instructions of his elder brother, Thomas, who graduated at Harvard College in 1733, he passed through a course of study which ...was probably more than usually extensive and thorough for one not destined for either of the learned professions. For a considerable period prior to the American Revo- lution, the ancient town of Newport was among the most flourishing commercial towns on the Atlantic coast. Its capacious harbor made it the resort of much of the for- eign shipping that visited the colonies. The enterprise of its inhabitants had embarked in nearly every branch of colonial trade, while the salubrity of its climate and the SAMUEL WARD.
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