The History of Colby College
Notes Ch apter I. The Be ginning 1. Donald G. Tewksbury, The Founding of American Colleges and Universities be fore the Civil War, p. 55 ..,- · Fourteenth Re port of the Society for Promotion of Co llegiate and Th�ological Education, p. 43 3. Tewksbury, op. cit., p. 57 4. See A. H. Newman, A History of Baptist Churches in the United States, pp. 336- 380 5. Henry S. Bu rrage, History of the Baptists in Maine, p. 28 6. Ib id., p. 167 7. The Falmouth Gazette was published in what is now Portland, which in 1794 was still called by its original corporate name, Falmouth. 8. Bu rrage, op. cit., p. 168 9. Ibid., p. 174 10. James T. Champlin, Historical Discourse, p. 2 11. Charles P. Ch ipman, The Formative Period in Colby's History, p. 6 1 :!. Ib id., p. 8 13. Co lby Archives. Letters to William King 14. Ibid. 15. Massachusetts Archives : H. R. 7196 16. �fassachusetts Senate Journal, 1812, p. 238 17. Ch ipman, op. cit., p. 15 18. Ibid., p. 16 19. Massachusetts Senate Jou ·nal, Feb. 19, 1813 20. Edward W. Hall, Higher Education in Maine, p. 99 Chapter II. Ch oosing a Site 1. Co lby Archives. Original Re cords of the Trustees, Vol. 1. This and all fol lowing quotations attributed to votes of the Trustees are from one or another of the several volumes of records kept by successive secretaries of the Bo ard, unless an individual reference is otherwise identified. 2. Although this vote was never specifically repealed, it was abrogated by later actions and precedents.
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