the place for said school, most
subservient to the great end in view. And to enable them
understandingly to give the preference, the said Wheelock has laid
before the said trustees the several offers which have been generously
made in the several governments in America to encourage and invite the
settlement of said school among them for their own private emolument,
and for the increase of learning in their respective places, as well
as for the furtherance of the general design in view.

And whereas a large number of the proprietors of lands in the western
part of this our province of New Hampshire, animated and excited
thereto by the generous example of his Excellency their Governor, and
by the liberal contributions of many noblemen and gentlemen in
England, and especially by the consideration that such a situation
would be as convenient as any for carrying on the great design among
the Indians; and also considering that without the least impediment to
the said design, the same school may be enlarged and improved to
promote learning among the English, and be a means to supply a great
number of churches and congregations which are likely soon to be
formed in that new country, with a learned and orthodox ministry, they
the said proprietors have promised large tracts of land for the uses
aforesaid, provided the school shall be settled in the western part of
our said province.

And they the said Right Hon. Hon. and worthy trustees before
mentioned, having maturely considered the reasons and arguments in
favor of the several places proposed, have given the preference to the
western part of our said province, lying on Connecticut river, as a
situation most convenient for said school.

And the said Wheelock has further represented a necessity of a legal
incorporation, in order to the safety and well being of said seminary,
and its being capable of the tenure and disposal of lands and bequests
for the use of the same. And the said Wheelock has also represented,
that for many weighty reasons, it will be expedient, at least in the
infancy of said institution, or till it can be accommodated in that
new country, and he and his friends be able to remove and settle by
and round about it, that the gentlemen whom he has already nominated
in his last will (which he has transmitted to the aforesaid gentlemen
of the trust in England) to be trustees in America, should be of the
corporation now proposed. And also as there are already lar