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378 Arguments would hurt the Institution or the Characters of any concerned in the Trust or Schools.

The Lotteries were too popular to be scolded down, and were too fruitful in financial results for needy institutions to forego their service. In the space of a few years at this period of the city's history Lotteries were opened to erect Christ Church Steeple, 3 to aid in building St. Peter's Church; to finish St. Paul's Church; for the Steeple of the Second Presbyterian Church; to enlarge Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia County; for the use of St. James' Church, and for the Presbyterian Church, at Lancaster, Penna.; to rebuild St. John's Church, in Chester County; for the Presbyterian Church at Middletown, and for the new Presbyterian Church on the Brandywine; for the new Presbyterian Church in Baltimore; to build a Light House at Cape Henlopen and improve the navigation of the Delaware; for a bridge over Conestoga Creek; to pave Second Street from Race to Callowhill Street; for a company of rangers in Tulpehocken, Berks County; and one also to raise .6000 for the New Jersey College at Princeton, and one for .1 125.1.1 y 2 for the new Germantown Academy, the cornerstone of which was laid 21 April, 1760, and which before the end of the year had gathered in sixty-one English and seventy German pupils, and where David James Dove was now employed as English teacher, and as English usher or tutor Thomas Pratt, whom by the beginning of the year 1762 we find again in the employ of the College and Academy. But a line was drawn on the object of a Lottery if it was not acceptable, for where one was proposed for the erection of public baths and pleasure grounds, the clergy and others of the community protested strenuously against them, as tending to further the growing inclination among the people for "pleasure, luxury, gaming, and dissipation," and among the protestants were Dr. Jenney, Dr. Smith, Dr. Alison, Mr. Ewing and Mr. Duche.

3 At their meeting of 30 October, 1752, the Vestry of Christ Church appointed twelve of their number, adding thereto Benjamin Franklin, to be the Managers of the Lottery; it is this conjunction which originated the statement that Franklin was a Vestryman of Christ Church, but he was never elected thereto, though a pew holder in the Church. Of the Vestry on this Committee, Mess. Taylor and Leech were Trustees of the College and Academy.