I so intend it. The three Provincial officers
will be a natural defense, honor and security to the institution."

The following letter indicates that Governor Wentworth had eminent
legal counsel:

"Rev. Sir: I have had an opportunity of conferring with Colonel Phelps
on the affair of the College proposed to be erected here. You'll find
some alterations in the scheme and draft of the Charter; they are
supposed to be amendments, and I think they, to say the least, will
not be impediments. I cannot stay to enumerate them; the Charter will
show them and the Colonel will be able to explain the grounds and
reasons of them. I have spent some considerable time with the Governor
to form the plan in such a manner as will make it most beneficial, and
to prevail on him to make such concessions as would suit the gentlemen
with you. I am apt to think the plan will be more serviceable as it
now stands than as it was before.

I shall be glad to serve the cause, and have persuaded Colonel Phelps
to communicate it before the finishing stroke, though it will cost him
another journey. I have only to add that I am, with great esteem,

"Your most obedient humble servant,
"William Parker.
"Portsmouth, October 28, 1769."

Six Connecticut clergymen, selected by Dr. Wheelock, with one member
of the Connecticut Colonial government, Governor Wentworth, with three
of his Council, and the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of
Representatives, were constituted the first Board of Trust. This
arrangement, the result of friendly negotiation, appears to have been
satisfactory to both parties.

October 25, 1769, Dr. Wheelock writes to Governor Wentworth,
expressing much satisfaction with his "catholic views," and warm
friendship, as indicated by his letter of the 18th, and says: "If your
Excellency shall see fit in your wisdom and goodness to complete the
Charter desired, and it will be the least satisfaction to you to
christen the House to be built after your own name, it will be
exceedingly grateful to me, and I believe to all concerned." He deems
it important that the public should understand, "that the benevolent
charities are not designed to be applied merely and exclusively to the
advancement of sectaries, with a fixed view to discourage the
Established Church of England." It should here be remarked that
three of the original Trustees of the College were nominally
Episcopalians, and the remaining nine were, most or all, nominally