The History of Dartmouth College

The History of Dartmouth College is by Baxter Perry Smith, whose preface says the writer has deemed it better to let history, as far as possible, tell its own story, regarding reliability as preferable to unity of style. A testimonial dated Chelsea, Norwich, July 10, 1762 comes from ministers of the gospel and pastors of churches who speak of the zeal, courage, and firm resolution of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock of Lebanon. The testimonial speaks of spreading the gospel among the natives in the wilds of our America, by a mission of their own sons.

A biographical sketch in the text says the person described entered Dartmouth College in his nineteenth year, graduated in 1793, and delivered a philosophical oration on the causes and general phenomena of earthquakes. The same sketch says the man was licensed to preach by a committee of the Association of Tolland County, February 3, 1796. The text also lists names, among them John Green, a Mohawk, Charles Daniel, a Narraganset, and Mundeus and Jacob, Oneidas.