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 Although this vote was never specifically repealed, it was abrogated by later actions and precedents. In fact, within six months of its enactment, the Trustees themselves either violated or waived it when they elected the non-Baptist, William King, to the Board. 3. King Co llection, Maine Historical Society 4. Nehemiah Cl eaveland, History of Bowdoin College, p. 10 5. King Collection, Maine Historical Society 6. Ib id. 7. Cl eave�and, op. cit., p. 10 8. Louis C. Hatch, The History of Bowdoin College, p. 42 9. King Co llection, Maine Historical Society 10. Ib id. 11. Ibid. Ch apter III . Pangs of Bi rth 1. Th e term "officers" was frequently used to mean president and professors. 2. Tuition at Bowdoin in 1818 was $6.67 per term (three terms a year). The Waterville trustees later decided to charge only four dollars per term. 3. The college records give no indication why this chair was at different times desig­ nated Divinity, Theology, and Sacred Theology. 4. The original deed of this lot, signed by Ro bert Hallowell Gardiner and his wife, was found in 1958 by this historian, and is now in the Co lby Archives. 5. E. C. Whittemore, History of Colby College, p. 16 6. Ib id., p. 24 7. James T. Ch amplin, Historical Discourse, p. 17 S. Bu rrage, H story of the Ba tists in Maine, p. 174 8. Henry J . _ P_ 9. King Co llection, M atne Htst oncal Soctety 590 HISTORY OF COLBY COLLEGE 10. Ibid. 11. Edward W. Hall, History of Higher Education in Maine, p. 102 12. Ibid., p. 100 Chapter IV. Jeremiah the Prophet 1. Mittie M. Chaplin, Elder Asa Chaplin, p. 46 2. Ibid., p. 47 3. Ibid., p. 47 . 4. For this and other information about Chaplin we are indebted to �e edit<?r of Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit. In Volume VI, page 4l;)2, IS pubhshed a letter written in 1853, at the editor's request, by Chaplin's son-m-la'Y and co�· league on the faculty of Waterville College, Thomas J. Conant. Also mcluded IS a letter written in 1850 by James Brooks of Washington, D. C., who was a stu· dent at the college when Chaplin was President. 5. Mittie M. Chaplin, op. cit., p. 62 6. The longboat is not to be confused with the bateau, a much smaller boat, pointed at both ends. It was bateaux, not longboats, that Col. Colburn built at Pittston for Arnold's Expedition in 1775. 7. In 1754 Governor Shirley had ordered a road opened from Fort Western in Augusta to Fort Halifax in Winslow, but that road was little more than a blazed trail and could not accommodate wheeled vehicles. In 1763 it was improved to permit passage of carriages. By 1780 it had become possible for carriages to go also over a road up the west side of the river through Sidney. By 1818, when Chaplin came to Waterville, carriage travel was common over both routes; but many travelers, like the Chaplins, found it more comfortable to journey by long­ boat than to endure the jolting over the primitive road. 8. Danvers Historical Collections, Vol. 13, p. 51 9. Jeremiah Chaplin, A Sermon preached at North Yarmouth, February 16, 1825, at the Ordination of Rev. George Dana Boardman as a Missionary to the Heathen, p. 10 10. R. E. Pattison, Eulogy on Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, p. 18 11. Ibid., p. 20 Chapter V. A Modest Start 1. The petition for four townships of land and $3000 a year was rejected by the Massachusetts Legislature largely because of objections raised by General Rich­ ardson. 2. The three institutions (the only ones established in Massachusetts preceding the charter to M L & T I), were Harvard, Williams and Bowdoin. 3. These three local trustees had become key men in the development of the Insti· tution. It is noteworthy that all three were laymen, and only one (Redington) was a Baptist. 4. This entire letter is in the King Collection, Maine Historical Society. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Stackpole Papers, Waterville Historical Society 8. The only known copy of this document is in the Colby Archives. 9. This circular is in the Colby Archives. 10. This letter is in the Colby Archives. Chapter VI. Waterville College 1. William D. Williamson, The History of the State of Maine, Vol. II, p. 672 2. Ibid., p. 675. Opposition collapsed when it was agreed, at the same time, to admit Missouri as a slave state. 3. Louis C. Hatch, History of Bowdoin College, pp. 43-45 4. Ibid., p. 45 5. This and immediately preceding quotations are from Chipman, The Formative Period in Colby's History. 6. Henry S. Burrage, History of the Baptists in Maine, p. 174 7. Ibid., p. 175 8. James T. Champlin, Historical Discourse, p. 16 9. This letter is in the Colby Archives. 10. This letter is in the Colby Archives. 11. E. C. Whittemore, History of Colby College, p. 33 NOTE S 591 Ch apter \'ll. Th e First Decade 1. �his chapel was soon turned into a classroom and the single college chapel con­ tinued to be located in North Co llege until the erection of Recitation Hall. .,-· Letter in the Co lby Archives . 3. The f..Jaine Register, 1822, p. 72 4. Letter in the Colby Ar chives. 5. The Latin Grammar School in Waterville, started 'by Ch aplin to prepare students for the college course, for which the admission standards were immediately set higher than for the theological course, later became Waterville Academy and still later Co burn Cl assical In stitute. 6. Elijah Foster, who was a tutor in the College for one year at the same time as Boardman's classmate, Ephraim Tripp, entered the ministry in 1825 at the age of 35. 7. Joel Hayford was pastor at Johnson, Vermont, when he died in 1831, only 32 years old. Calvin Holton was Co lby's first missionary to Africa. Only a few months after his arrival in Liberia in 1826, he died of tropical fever at the age of 29. 8. Al l four received their degrees in 1825. John Hovey had a long career as a teacher in �fichigan. Al onzo King, a Massachusetts pastor who died before he was forty, was author of Memoir of George Dana Boardman. Francis Macomber, another �1assachusetts minister, also died young at the age of 29. Thomas \Vard 11errill, teacher and home missionary, gained fame as the founder of Kalamazoo Co llege. Longest lived of the four, he died in Michigan at the age of 76. 9. Al l three of these men graduated in the Cl ass of 1827. Harvey Dodge had suc­ cessful pascorates in New York and Oh io. Enoch Freeman, when a pastor in Lo�·ell, published a volume of hymns. Timothy Ropes had a long life as pastor in 11innesota. 10. In spite of Professor Briggs' doubts, William Rowen completed the theological course \vith Silas Kenney in 1824. Ezra Going finished it in 1825. 11. Letter in the Co lby Arc hives. 12. The 1Iaine State Ca pital was then in Portland, not in Au gusta. 13. Letter in the Co lby Ar chi\'es. 14. This letter, in the Co lby Arc hives, does not give the name of the addressee. 15. Letter in the Co lby Ar chives. 16. Letter in the Co lby Ar chives. 17. Foster's entire letter, from which these extracts have been taken, is in the Co lby Archives. 18. Letter in the Co lby Ar chives. 19. E. C. Whittemore, Centennial History of Waterville, pp. 140-142. Ch apter VIII The End of a Reign 1. Henry S. Burrage, History of the Baptists in Maine, p. 207 2. E. W. Hall, History of Higher Education in Maine, p. 106. 3. This report is in the Co lby Archives. 4. Un til 1958 it was thought that no original records of the workshop remained. Then there suddenly turned up a badly disintegrated account book, with only a few of its pages still legible.