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School for the training and education of American Indians. His Indian
work meeting with ill-success, he transferred the Indian scholars and the
funds raised in England to New Hampshire where, in 1769, he founded
Dartmouth College. Wheelock became the first president of the college
(D.A.B.).
ABp of York: Robert Hay Drummond.
Ecclesiastical Affairs of Canada: Seeker's comment on these discussions
is borne out by the Shelburne Papers at Ann Arbor (W.L.
Clements Library, Shelburne Papers MS volume 59). Care about the
ecclesiastical affairs of Canada, and indifference to those of the other
North American territories, was perhaps only to be expected. In his later
years Shelburne held to an "austere Deism, strongly coloured by dislike
for the Anglican clergy" Q.M. Norris, Shelburne and Reform (London,
1963), p. 4].
Mr Wentworth: Benning Wentworth (1696-1770), a strong supporter of
the Anglican church, who had worked hard to make New Hampshire
independent of Massachusetts. After he was successful, he was appointed
the first royal governor, serving for twenty-five years (D.A.B.).
Lord Winchilsea: Daniel Finch (1689-1769), eighth earl of Winchilsea
and third earl of Nottingham, who was lord president of the council,
July, 1765-July, 1766. He and his siblings, for their swarthiness, were
known as "the black funereal Finches" (G.E.C, Complete Peerage).
Sir Henry Moor or Moore (1713-1769), had been lieutenant, and then
acting, governor of Jamaica 1755-62, for which services he had been
created a baronet in 1762. In July 1765 he was appointed governor of
New York where his administration was described by the historian
Bancroft as "well-meaning but indolent" (D.A.B.).
Mr Johnson: William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut (1727-1819),
whose father Samuel was a principal colonial advocate for the Anglican
church and an American episcopate. The younger Johnson, a lawyer,
had embarked for England on 24 December, 1765 [Herbert and Carol
Schneider, Samuel Johnson, President of King's College, His Career and
Writings (New York, 1929), I, p. 48]. As colonial agent 1766-71 he
defended the Connecticut title to the Mohegan lands before the privy
council and helped to win a favorable settlement. He later was selected
as a delegate to the American constitutional convention, and was first
president of Columbia college, 1787-1800 (D.A.B.). He is to be
distinguished from Sir William Johnson, superintendent of Indian
affairs, an Irishman who had emigrated to America in 1738 (see fol. 75).