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Rh [Maryland], and made them the most grateful acknowledgments for the many Favors they had conferred upon him and particularly for their late Advancement of him into the Latin School, intimating at the same time that if there should be a vacancy in the English School and they should think him worthy of that Professorship, it might induce him to alter his intentions. 3 At the meeting of 1 1 September, Mr. Montgomery, upon his petition, was appointed an Usher in the Latin School on trial, to fill one of the Places which were Vacant in the Latin School by the going away of Mr Latta and Mr Morton, and Mr Peters and Mr Alison reporting that he was a good Latin and Greek Scholar, and in other respects well qualified. And at the meeting of 9 October, he was confirmed as an Usher and John Beard, a graduate at the the last Commencement, was also elected an Usher in the Latin School. Joseph Montgomery, who was a graduate of Princeton in the class of 1755, did not continue in this connection longer than May, 1760. He entered the Presbyterian ministry, and was a member of the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1784* Mr. Grew soon fell a victim to his consumption ; and at the meeting of 1 1 December fol- lowing It was further agreed that our want of a Mathematical Master should be advertised in the next Gazette, and the Provost was instructed to draw and insert a proper advertisement Within a twelvemonth two vacancies occurred among the Trustees by death : to succeed Mr. Francis, Edward Shippen, jr., his pupil and his son-in-law, and the nephew of Dr. William Shippen the Trustee, was elected on 12 September, 1/58 ; and to succeed Mr Mifflin, William Coxe, also a son-in-law of Mr Fran- cis, was elected on 1 1 July, 1759. 3 Mr. Morton subsequently took orders in the Church of England, being ordained by the Bishop of London 17 March, 1760, and licensed for Missionary work in New Jersey. Later we find him Rector of St. Thomas' Church, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, and officiating at Easton, Penna. Penna. Magazine, x. 258. Perry's History of the American Episcopal Church, i. 243. 4 Memoir by his great grandson, Hon. J. Montgomery Forster.