and successors, make, ordain,
constitute and appoint, our trusty and well beloved John Wentworth,
Esquire, Governor of our said province, and the governor of our said
province of New Hampshire, for the time being, and our trusty and well
beloved Theodore Atkinson, Esquire, now president of our council of
our said province, George Jaffrey and Daniel Pierce, Esqrs., both of
our said council, and Peter Gilman, Esq., now Speaker of our House of
Representatives in said province, and William Pitkin, Esq., one of the
Assistants of our colony of Connecticut, and our trusty and well
beloved Eleazar Wheelock, of Lebanon, Doctor in Divinity, Benjamin
Pomeroy, of Hebron, James Lockwood, of Weathersfield, Timothy Pitkin
and John Smalley, of Farmington, and William Patten of Hartford, all
of our said colony of Connecticut, ministers of the gospel (the whole
number of said trustees consisting, and hereafter forever to consist,
of twelve and no more) to be trustees of said Dartmouth College, in
this our province of New Hampshire.

And We do further, of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere
motion, for us, our heirs and successors, will, give, grant and
appoint that the said trustees and their successors shall, forever
hereafter, be in deed, act and name, a body corporate and politic, and
that they the said body corporate and politic, shall be known and
distinguished in all deeds, grants, bargains, sales, writings,
evidences or otherwise however, and in all courts forever hereafter
plead and be impleaded by the name of _The Trustees of Dartmouth
College_. And that the said corporation by the name aforesaid, shall
be able and in law capable for the use of said Dartmouth College, to
have, get, acquire, purchase, receive, hold, possess and enjoy,
tenements, hereditaments, jurisdictions and franchises for themselves
and their successors, in fee simple or otherwise however, and to
purchase, receive, or build any house or houses, or any other
buildings, as they shall think needful and convenient for the use of
said Dartmouth College, and in such town in the western part of our
said province of New Hampshire, as shall, by said trustees, or the
major part of them be agreed upon, their said agreement to be
evidenced by an instrument in writing under their hands ascertaining
the same. And also to receive and dispose of any lands, goods,
chattels and other things of what nature soever, for the use
aforesaid. And also to have, accept and r