A biographical memoir of Hugh Williamson, M.D., LL. D : delivered on the first of November, 1819, at the request of the New-York Historical Society / by David Hosack.

  • David Hosack
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1820
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Credit: A biographical memoir of Hugh Williamson, M.D., LL. D : delivered on the first of November, 1819, at the request of the New-York Historical Society / by David Hosack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liam and Mary, in Virginia,* and of Yale College, in Connecticut,! were the only regularly organized establishments at that time in this country ; for nei- ther in New-Jersey,! Pennsylvania,^ New-York,|| nor Maryland, had any public measures been taken for the promotion of literature : what was done was exclusively the result of individual exertion. But although the colonies just mentioned did not en- joy the benefits of regularly organized collegiate insti- tutions, yet they possessed in their academies and grammar schools, the most ample means of instruction in classical literature, and in most of the sciences con- stituting the usual education preparatory to the study of the learned professions. The academies established on the Neshaminy, in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, by the Rev. Mr. William Tennent and Mr. Roan: the grammar school commenced by Mr. Grew, Mr. Annan, and Mr. Stevenson, in the city of Philadelphia ; the still more celebrated institution of the Rev. Dr. Alison, * Established in 1690. t do. do. 1701. % College of New-Jersey, was established in 1746. § College of Philadelphia, in 17o3. ]| King's, now Columbia, College, in 1754.
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