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[Pennsylvania County Histories] 9 ^%6\\ S'. i»j> Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniacoun13unse / I Page B Page c INDEX Page s Page S Pase‘ ■ s . ■ j ' T , ' | U V . w : . ■ «_ - 2 w w XYZ 1 v. , — ---"T«... mmm ■■ •„. - ' 1— . -. - 4 L 3 ready to i os tor and encourage.. His aptness and early promise of talent >G COLLEGE AG must have been noticed by the ministers in the Presbytery in which she resided, NOTABLE EVENTS OF THE OLD TIME. and each and every ono of thorn must have _ rendered valuable aid in teaching him the languages which he mastered thoroughly An Interesting tetter From Our Focal before he attained his fifteenth year. Historian, Samuel Evans, Esq —Some On May 20, 1729, Charles Clinton, an Points Worthy of Careful uncle of the subject of this sketch, and a Perusal. number of friends, chartered a ship, in which the widow of Christian Clinton and her son Charles were also taken to emi¬ The ‘‘Log College” celebration at Nesh- grate to America. aminy.a few days ago, recalls the name of On the voyage the captain attempted to one of the students of that historic place. starve the passengers and get possession of their property, several died, among The name has been kept green in my whom vtas a son arid daughter of Mr. memory, when I think of the associations Clinton. They landed at Cape Cod, of my youth, and consequently my hap¬ October 4, 1729, instead of at Philadel¬ piest years. For,say what you will, there phia, where they intended to go. In the spring of 1731 they selected are no friendships or associations in life a permanent settlement in Ulster couuty, half so dear as those of our earlier now Orange county, in New York, which years. They are indeed the genuine at¬ was about six miles west of the Hudson tachments, and when they pass away our river, and sixty miies north of New York. It is probable that Charles Beatty, the hearts do not enter into any new ones of uncle, who was well educated, rendered equal tenderness and force. I was a Sun¬ some assistance to his nephew. Before day School scholar, uuder the superin¬ the latter attained his majority, he eon tendency of the late lamented and pious eluded that he would earn hishi own living—probably after his mother’s William Pitt Beatty, the youngest death. Ho purchased merchandise son of the Rey. Charles Beatty of various kinds in New York and an intimate friend of Erourius and packed the same on his back, and Beatty, the former son who published went out among the settler’s and sold his goods. This pursuit was not a congenial the Columbia, Spy, fifty or more years ago. one, Dor was it calculated to advance him And after a lapse of more than twenty in pursuits more befitting his accomplish¬ years, renewed our early friendship, when ments. i think, therefore, it must have we unexpectedly mer, each other at the been only a temporary expedient to pro¬ cure means to pursue other callings, or headquarters of General McCall, at Camp to see the country. Pierpont, Virginia, in the winter of 1881- In his wauderings among the settlers in ’2. I recall with pleasure the memory of the Province of Pennsylvania, he cam© to his sister, Anna Beatty, the companion of the “Log College” of William Tennent. About the year 1738 — he may never my mother, whom 1 admired very much. have heard prior to that time of this un¬ Both have crossed the great river, to meet pretentious Log College—he met the stu¬ the friends gone before them. dents, perhaps during recess, when it Charles Beatty’s claim to eminence oeourred to him to have a little fun at upon the page of history does not rest their expense. They commenced to wholly upon his prominence as a Presby¬ dicker with the young ma.n for his terian minister of the gospel. In educa¬ wares in Latin, to which he promptly tional, and missionary work along the responded in the same tongue, and | frontiers amoog the pioneer settlers and it was not very long before he cor¬ I rendering active personal aid to resist ! nered the entire school. When their the encroachments of the French and j preceptor,the Rev. William Tennent, eamt Indians upon the unprotected frontiers of to their rescue. He at once engaged vounrf this Province, he was among the foremost ! Clinton in conversation in the Latii advocates of education, the defender of tongue, not only as to his wares, hut they, his country’s cause. He was of tb'at gradually drifted into ecclesiastic history. ] Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, that Mr. Tennent was so impressed with his j never produced a tory in our struggle for i learning, ana the evidence he gave of a j Independence, sincere piety, that he commanded him to i Ho was born in Antrim county, Ireland, discard his pack and enter his ' about the year 1713 or ’14. While ho was college and prepare himself for the a child his father died, and left him to the ministry; which he promptly did. care of a robust and kind mother, Christ¬ He graduated with the highest honors at j iana, who was a Ciinton, and a relative of this primitive college. On October 12, ; the late Gov. Clinton, of New York. Her 1742, he was licensed to preach by the ! gis son Charles, when yet quite a youth, must New Brunswick Presbytery, and was th« have given promise of a great future assigned to Nottingham. In 1743 he was j called to.the‘8forks of Neshaminy.” His lintf| career, which a fond and ambitious mother lud \ - ~- fell | xoquence and erudition and patriot-' <"'•, ism soon attracted the attention he preached to tho soldiers'* of not only those In the neighborhood, but Harris’ Ferry and the -people. The short. throughout the bounds of the Presbytery time he remained at the Ferry he - found , and General Synod. His great influence time to preach to large’ audi¬ among Presbyterians commended him to ences at the Rev. John Roan’s, the attention of the Governors of Hew Rev. John Elder’s, and at Capt. Hen¬ Jersey and Pennsylvania as a very proper dricks’ and Yellow B retches Creek. person to aid the English against the He found .the soldiers an unruly and encroachments and brutalities of the wild set of men, and they did not mani¬ French and Indians along our frontiers. fest much reverence when listening to our His marriage. chaplain expound the gospel truths. Ho On June 24, 1746, he married Mi3s was a bold and eloquent preacher, and I Ann Reading, daughter of Hon. John their waut of reverence did not for a mo¬ Reading, the Governor of New Jersey. ment deter him from telling them some I After the college was removed to Prince¬ unwelcome truths. A very unexpected 1 ton he was very active in its behalf. He condition confronted him with which he was the founder of “Nassua Hall” at that boldly grappled and tried fco remedy. place. In 1754 tho Synod sent him There were too many female camp fol¬ to the valley of Virginia and lowers, which he thought did not conduce North Carolina. The defeat of Brad* to the spiritual welfare of the officers and dock kindled in his bosom the mili¬ men, and in strong terms he reproved tary ardor of his grandfather, who was a them. When the troops moved up along high officer under King Charles. In tho the river, this undesirable class fol¬ spring of 1756, ho accepted the chaplaincy lowed the troops. Mr. Beatty con- in Col. William Claphank’s regiment, tinned to lecture the officers upon which was organized to protect the front¬ their conduct. After arriving twelve or ier settlers. The Synod willingly gave fifteen miles above Harris’ Ferry, he as¬ him permission to go in defence of the sisted to erect “Fort Halifax.” After its border settlers, a large majority of whom completion he asked for leave of absence were followers of John Calvin. to visit his family, which was readily He set out from hia homo atNeshaminy | granted. He was not the kind of a chap¬ to join bis regiment at Harris' Perry, on lain who overlooked irregularities in the May 3, 1756. He was accompanied as far I moral conduct of the soldiers, but he en¬ as the Schuylkill riv6r by his elders, and deavored to make them better men and a number of friends. After leaving them better soldiers. It is likely he went home his first stopping place was at tho sign of a little disgusted with the state of affairs, the “Ship” cn tb8 oid Philadelphia and for it seems that he did not return to his Lancaster road. command again. On Tuesday morning, May 4, he started On September ‘17, 1757,' he with two early, and took breakfast at the Rev. or three others was commissioned to build Robert Smith’s, at Pequay Meeting House, a fort in Wyoming Valley, and ereot where be had founded an academy, justly houses for the friendly Indians. Four celebrated, and it was doubtless an off¬ hundred soldiers and men accompanied shoot of the old Log College through Mr. them. Blair, his father-iD-law, who was one of Iu 1766 the Synod sent him and tho Tennent’s students.
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