.

"5. By having the body corporate here, I can claim a valuable
subscription of L400 or L500 for the use and support of the school,
payable as soon as it becomes a body corporate, besides a tenement in
this place, given for the same purpose.

"If the school should once be settled in those parts, it is likely
population will proceed with much greater rapidity than ever, and the
whole will be soon effected.

"I design to consult some gentlemen of the law relative to an
incorporation, and get a rough draught made, with a view to save time
if the School should be fixed in your Province. Please to discourse
his Excellency of thoughts I have here suggested, and transmit such
remarks as he shall please to make thereon. Please to commend my
respects suitably to him, and accept the same yourself from, reverend
and dear sir,

Your Friend and Brother, etc.,
"Eleazar Wheelock."

"Colonel Wyllis and Esquire Ledyard," of Hartford, were among Dr.
Wheelock's legal advisers in 1768, and probably at this period.

June 7, 1769, we find Dr. Wheelock addressing Governor Wentworth as
follows:

"I have been making some attempt to form a Charter, in which some
proper respect may be shown to those generous benefactors in England
who have condescended to patronize this school, and I want to be
informed whether you think it consistent to make the Trust in England
a distinct corporation, with power to hold real estate, etc., for the
uses and purposes of this school."

But the impress of Governor Wentworth does not appear till a somewhat
later period. August 22, 1769, Dr. Wheelock informs him that he is
about to present him a "rough draught" of a Charter, for an "Academy,"
adding this somewhat significant postscript: "Sir, if you think proper
to use the word College instead of Academy in the Charter, I shall be
well pleased with it."

Dr. Wheelock's son-in-law, Mr. Alexander Phelps, and Rev. Dr. Whitaker
seem to have been the principal agents to confer with Governor
Wentworth in regard to the Charter.

October 18, 1769, he gives his views at length, in a letter to Dr.
Wheelock, advising some amendments. Proposing some additions to the
Board of Trust, he says: "The nomination of the Provincial officers I
strongly recommend, though I do not insist upon. It was indeed
resolved on my side that the Governor should be one" of the Board.
"That I did not mention any other than the Governor can by no means be
preclusive. Neither did