Records, 1794-1892.

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Records, 1794-1892.

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Collection consists of records of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. Includes material regarding the establishment of the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Correspondents in the United States. Includes correspondence between Nathan Lord, president of Dartmouth College and Moor's Indian Charity School, and John W. Tawse of the Society regarding Indian students at Dartmouth College, as well as correspondence of Bartlett, Codman, Gregg, Morse, Sergeant, and Smith. Also includes accounts, bills, receipts, and reports of the Boards of Commissioners and Correspondents.

1 box (1.5 ft.)

Dartmouth College Library

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Lord, Nathan, 1793-1870

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Nathan Lord was the sixth president of Dartmouth College; he was in office from 1828 to 1863. He was born in Berwick, Maine in 1792, and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1809. In 1815 he was graduated from Andover Theological Seminary. He received his DD from Bowdoin in 1828 and his LL. D. from Bowdoin in 1864. He was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1821 to 1863. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1870. From the description of Papers, 1830-1965. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldC...

Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge

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The Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge was founded in 1709. In 1767 the Society granted funds to Eleazor Wheelock for use in Moor's Indian Charity School. From the description of Records, 1794-1892. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237321367 ...

Gregg, John

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Moor's Indian Charity School

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Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

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Congregational clergyman and geographer of Connecticut and Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1783-1826. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770513 From the description of Account book, 1816-1820. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770209 Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), a Congregational clergyman, was known as "the father of geography". His lectures on geography included Geography Made Easy (1784), the fir...

Codman, John, 1782-1847

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Bartlett, Samuel Colcord, 1817-1898

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Minister, educator. President, Dartmouth College, 1877-1892. From the description of Letter, 1887 June 20, to the Vermont Secretary of State. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 239650358 ...

Tawse, John W.

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Smith, Asa D. (Asa Dodge), 1804-1877

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Asa D. Smith was the seventh president of Dartmouth College; he was in office from 1863 to 1877. He was born in Amherst, N.H. in 1804. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1830 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1834. In 1849 he received his DD from Williams College, and in 1864 he received his LL D from the University of New York. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1877. From the description of Papers, 1865-1876. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237296549 ...

Dartmouth College. Trustees

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Sergeant, John, 1747-1824

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Missionary. From the description of Letter of John Sergeant, 1803 August 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71073227 Missionary and son of the missionary John Sergeant (1710-1749). Born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Sergeant was ordained as a minister of the Congregational church, and in 1775 took charge of the Indian part of the Stockbridge, Massachusetts, congregation. When they removed to New Stockbridge, Oneida County, New York, during the mid-1780s, he followed them and...