Annals of Trinity church, Newport, Rhode Island1698-1821 . e would besome delay in securing the grant that would enable him to establishthe projected college at Bermuda (the object of his visit to America),prepared to make himself comfortable during his stay by buying afarm of ninety-six acres and building thereon a modest house,which he called Whitehall. There he resided till the autumn of1731, when, in September, he embarked from Boston for his return to England he gave Whitehall to Yale College witha valuable collection of books, a list of which may be found in anarticle on Bi
Annals of Trinity church, Newport, Rhode Island1698-1821 . e would besome delay in securing the grant that would enable him to establishthe projected college at Bermuda (the object of his visit to America),prepared to make himself comfortable during his stay by buying afarm of ninety-six acres and building thereon a modest house,which he called Whitehall. There he resided till the autumn of1731, when, in September, he embarked from Boston for his return to England he gave Whitehall to Yale College witha valuable collection of books, a list of which may be found in anarticle on Bishop Berkeleys Gifts to Yale College, by Daniel , Vol. I. of Papers of the New Haven Colony HistoricalSociety. He also gave valuable books to Harvard College andTrinity Church, Newport. To the Church he gave seventy-fivevolumes, some of which are still in the possession of the Church,with many of the volumes sent out by the Society for the Propaga-tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts when the parish was in itsinfancy. 5° ANNALS OF TRINITY CHURCH,. WHITEHALL. CHAPTER III. I73i~I737- The officers of the Church on the 5th day of July, 1731, were: Rev. James Honyman, Minister. Captain William Wanton, | . > Church Wardens. Captain Jonathan Thurston, J Vestry.—Nathaniel Kay, Col. William Wanton, Capt. John Brown, Col. Wm. Coddington, George Goulding, Daniel Ayrault, Col. William Whiting, Capt. John Freebody, Capt. Henry Bull, Capt. Godfrey Malbone, Capt. John Brown, Jr., Capt. John Chase, Jahleel Brenton, Jr., Daniel Updike, John Gidley, Peter Bours, and James Martin. James Martin was appointed Clerk of the : that the Church Wardens do all things necessary forthe repairing of the bell, and have the fence and gates painted. NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND. 51 Ordered : that Captain Robert Elliot43 be invested with the prop-erty of the pew No. 30, for the consideration of £%0, he paying thesame within a month, or else the pew to be returned. Thomas Salter to have pew
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