The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . d church. His devisee was John Blair, hisnephew, president of the Virginia council. By hiswill the college received his books, and £500 for theestablishment of a scholarship. His p
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . d church. His devisee was John Blair, hisnephew, president of the Virginia council. By hiswill the college received his books, and £500 for theestablishment of a scholarship. His published ser-mons, entitled Our Saviours Divine Sermon onthe Jlount, were highly commended by Waterlandand Doddridge, and Bishop Burnett, in his His-tory of Our Own Times, calls Blair A worthyand good man. Two portraits of Dr. Blair andone of his wife, Sarah, are still preserved at Williamand Mary college. The degree of was con-ferred on him by the University of Edinburgh it Issupposed. He died Apr. 18, 1743, after havingbeen a mijiister of the gospel sixty-eight years, amissionary fifty-eight, commissary of Virginia fifty-three, and president of William and Mary collegefifty. DAWSON, William, second president of Wil-liam and !Mary college, was born in 1704, son ofWilham Dawson, of Aspatia, Cumberland county,Eng.; entered Queens college, Oxford, March 11,1719-20, and took his , Feb. 22, 1724-25, and. his in 1728. He assumed orders, and in 1729was professor of moral philosophj- in William andMary college. In 1743 he became its president, andin 1746-47, by diploma, dated Feb. 10th, receivedfrom Oxford university the degree of , like Dr. Blair, was also commissary to theBishop of London, and held a seat in the governorscouncil. One thing is set forth by him which isworthy of mention: that the hopes and designs ofthe founders of the collegein relation to its being a //v^. Qi seminary for the instruc- CC/oCCca^ttt-^ of pious ministers, were not di
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