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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Rev. Hezekiah Smith raised 300 pounds sterling in South Carolina for Rhode Island College, which could have been more without a competing proposal in Charleston. A meeting is called to consider locating the college in Newport over Providence due to larger subscriptions.
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We hear the Rev. Hezekiah Smith has collected Three Hundred Pounds Sterling in South-Carolina, for the College intended to be erected in this Colony. This Sum, we are told, would have been more than doubled, had it not been for a Proposal lately made there to found one in Charlestown. The high Opinion that People abroad entertain of this Institution, which they manifest by their benevolent Donations, cannot but excite the same commendable Spirit in those of Ability in the more adjacent Colonies, particularly in this, & stimulate them to imitate Actions so truly laudable.
A Notification is given in the Providence Paper, That it is determined the College should be erected in that Town; but Encouragement having been given that such Town or County in that Colony which subscribed the largest Sum should have the Preference, and as the Town of Newport has exceeded that of Providence, a Meeting of the Corporation of the College is called to take it under Consideration.
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Providence
Event Date
January 13
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three hundred pounds sterling collected; meeting called to consider newport location due to larger subscription
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Rev. Hezekiah Smith collected funds in South-Carolina for the College in this Colony, affected by a competing proposal in Charlestown. Notification in Providence Paper states college to be erected there, but Newport's larger subscription prompts a Corporation meeting for consideration.