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.ÿþwhose most illustrious students was William Henry Harrison.Thomas C.Parramore, SouthamptonCounty Virginia (Charlottesville, Va., 1978), 46 47.18.Hening, 2:25; WMQ1st ser., 3 (1895): 263; ibid.5 (1896): 83 89; Richard Morton, Colonial Virginia,2 vols.(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960), 1:343 48, 351 52.19.Woolverton s finding that forty-five ministers were educated at William and Mary may in-clude men ordained during and after the Revolution.Woolverton, Colonial Anglicanism, 148.20.Henry Hartwell, James Blair, and Edward Chilton, The Present State of Virginia, and the College, ed.Hunter Dickinson Farish (Williamsburg, Va., 1940), 68 94.For a 1724 assessment with proposalsfor reform, see Hugh Jones, The Present State of Virginia from Whence Is Inferred a Short View of Maryland andNorth Carolina, ed.Richard L.Morton (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1956), 108 10.21.Bell, Making of an Anglican Clergyman, 91 92; Rutherford Goodwin, The Reverend JohnBracken (1745 1818): Rector of Bruton Parish and President of William and Mary College in Vir-ginia, HMPEC10 (1941): 375 78.See also Mark P.Wenger, Thomas Jefferson, the College of Williamand Mary, and the University of Virginia, VMHB 103 (1995): 339 74.22.For Stith, see Edward Lewis Goodwin, The Colonial Church in Virginia with Biographical Sketches ofthe First Six Bishops of the Diocese of Virginia and Other Historical Papers Together with Brief Biographical Sketches ofthe Colonial Clergy of Virginia (Milwaukee, Wis., 1917), 305; and Alumni Oxon B, 4:1356.For Taylor, seeWMQ 1st ser., 5 (1899): 206 7; and Alumni Cant A, 4:203.23.Fulham Papers, 12:229; 24:45.24.Brydon, 2:367.Virginians were of several minds about the quality of instruction at Williamand Mary.Governor Gooch told the assembly in the 1740s that there was not in any part of theworld, a college, where good order, decency and discipline are better maintained, and where GodAlmighty is more constantly and devoutly worshipped, and where greater care is taken to train upyoung students in the rudiments of religion, loyalty, science, and good manners, and carrying themon towards perfection, than in this [William and Mary]. As quoted in Morton, Colonial Virginia,2:766.Others disagreed.William Randolph stipulated in his will that on no account should hisson be sent there.Edmund S.Morgan, Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century (Char-lottesville, Va., 1952), 26.Richard Henry Lee disdained William and Mary when he was looking forthe cheapest and fittest place to send his sons.Both Ludwell and Thomas, the latter of whomwas interested in taking orders in the Church, went to England, even though William and Marywould have been much less expensive.Richard Henry Lee thought its offerings were substandard.Pauline Maier, The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams (New York, 1980; pbk.,1990), 170.George Washington also was not impressed.In deciding against the Virginia institutionfor his stepson, he observed: I cannot think William & Mary College a desirable place to sendJack Custis to the Inattention of the Masters, added to the number of Hollidays, is the subjectof general complaint: & affords no pleasing prospect to a youth who has a good deal to attain. George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 7 January 1773, W.W.Abbot et al., eds., The Papers of GeorgeWashington, Colonial Series, 10 vols.(Charlottesville, Va., 1983 95), 9:154.On the other hand, BishopMeade was of the opinion that the best ministers in Virginia were those educated at the College. Meade, 1:167.25.Statement of Joseph Ball,16 January1723 24, Fulham Papers,11:28; ibid., 42:10a; W.Mac Jones,ed., The Douglas Register: Being a Detailed Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths Together with Other Interesting Notes,As Kept by the Rev.William Douglas from 1750 to 1797.An Index of Goochland Wills.Notes on the French Hugue-not Refugees Who Lived in Manakin-Town (Richmond, Va., 1928), 5; Nelson Waite Rightmyer, Maryland sEstablished Church (Baltimore, Md., 1956), 204.26.James Blair to the Bishop of London, 10 July 1730, Fulham Papers, 12:152 53; ibid., 13:10.27.John Carter to the Honorable George Walker, 17 November 1765, ibid., 27:108.Dunlap servedin Benjamin Franklin s printing shop and married a niece of Deborah Franklin.Franklin pushed hiscandidacy over the objections of William Smith, provost of the College of Philadelphia and leaderof Pennsylvania s Anglican clergy.Bell, Making of an Anglican Clergyman, 98 99.28.Va.Gaz.(Purdie and Dixon), 8 June 1769.29.David Mossom to the Bishop of London, 18 June 1762, Fulham Papers, 24:155.notes to pages 110 11 381
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