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 842 PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND PRINCETON other cattle, 4,906 sheep, and 9,045 swine. Capital, Upper Marlborough. PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. See PENANG. PRINCE'S FEATHER. See AMAEANTH. PRINCESS ANNE, a county forming the S. E. extremity of Virginia, bordered N. by Chesa- peake bay, E. by the Atlantic, and S. by North Carolina; area, about 400 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 8,273, of whom 3,902 were colored. It has a level surface and sandy soil, and contains large forests of pine and cypress, affording an impor- tant lumber trade. The chief productions in 1870 were 2,831 bushels of wheat, 398,105 of Indian corn, 21,985 of oats, 17,617 of peas and beans, 19,975 of Irish and 39,416 of sweet potatoes, 1,229 tons of hay, 7,105 Ibs. of wool, and 25,112 of butter. There were 1,299 horses, 239 mules and asses, 1,538 milch cows, 2,955 other cattle, 3,061 sheep, and 13,564 swine. Capital, Princess Anne Court House. PRINCETON, a township and town of Mercer co., New Jersey, at the terminus of a branch (3 m. long) of the Pennsylvania railroad, 40 m. N. E. of Philadelphia, and 11 m. N. E. of Trenton; pop. in 1870, of the township, 3,986; of the town, 2,798. The town is neatly built and pleasantly situated, and contains a num- ber of elegant residences. It has a bank, two hotels, two public and several private schools, a weekly newspaper, and nine churches, be- sides the chapels of the college and seminary. The continental congress met here June 30, 1783. Princeton is the seat of the college of New Jersey, popularly called Princeton college, and of the theological seminary of the Pres- byterian church. The college of New Jersey was founded under the auspices of the Pres- byterian synod of New York, which then in- cluded New Jersey under its jurisdiction. It obtained a charter in 1746, and a more liberal one in 1748. It was opened in May, 1747, at Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), and the same year was removed to Newark, whence it was transferred to Princeton in 1757, upon the completion of a college edifice, which at the suggestion of Gov. Belcher was named Nassau hall, "to the immortal memory of the glorious King William the Third," u of the illustrious house of Nassau." From this circumstance the college itself is often called Nassau Hall. It suffered greatly in the war of the revolution, and the main building was occupied as a bar- rack and a hospital both by the American and the British troops. Gen. Washington drove a detachment of British soldiers from its walls at the battle of Princeton, Jan. 3, 1777. (See PRINCETON, BATTLE OF.) Dr. Witherspoon and two of the alumni, Richard Stockton and Ben- jamin Rush, were signers of the Declaration of Independence. The continental congress and Gen. Washington were present at the com- mencement in 1783. Gen. Washington pre- sented 50 guineas to the college to repair the building, but the trustees appropriated the sum to the painting of a portrait of Washington by the elder Peale. It is said to occupy the frame which once held the portrait of George II., de- stroyed by a cannon ball in the battle of Prince- Library of the College of New Jersey. ton. After the revolution, by dint of great effort, means were obtained to repair the build- ings and pay the salaries. Nassau hall was destroyed by fire, March 6, 1802. Funds were collected from friends in the middle and south- ern states, and the college was rebuilt, and two other buildings were erected for lectures and recitations. Nassau hall was again burned