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184 13 November, 1753. The Trustees visited the Latin School but did no other Business. 9 April, 1754. The Trustees visited the Writing Mathematical and Charity Schools, but did no other Business. 14 May, 1754. The Trustees visited the English School but did no other Business. II June 1754. The Trustees visited the Latin School but did no other Business. 9 July 1754. The Trustees visited the French School but did no other Business. 10 September, 1754. The Trustees visited the Latin School but did no other Business.

To the names of Grew, Alison, Kinnersley, and Creamer, Thomson, Jackson, Duche, and Barton, who at this point of time composed the faculty and tutors of the Academy, and not forget- ting those whose connection with it had ceased by death or resig- nation, Martin and Dove, the two Jones', Peisley and Carroll ; we are led next in order to name, which though first appearing in the Minutes of 25 May, 1754, had been in the thoughts and on the tongues of the Trustees for a twelvemonth, William Smith, who happily formed a connection with it which he made the best and most enduring work of his life, which redounded to the advantage and credit of the Academy and College through his years of work in its behalf, and the remembrance and repute of which must remain to the latest era of its existence. The Trus- tees had now found, they believed, the man of mind and nerve and training to take the headship of the Academy. Though Dr. Johnson had denied them, and had assumed but a few weeks before this the Presidency of King's College, yet it was to his kindly interest as well as to his lasting credit that the sug- gestion of the name of this young Scotch tutor, who was then in the line of his duty on Long Island, may be traced. If the parent