The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . arlyfortunate in these respects. A prosperous church stoodon the brow of the hill, just northwest of the village,which attracted the great preacher Whitefield, and hisburning eloquence and new truth caused such an increasein numbers and such a division in regard to the newteachings, that, in 1741, a second church was built inthe meadow across the brook, just west of the oldone. This latter was destined to have a mighty influence,not only upon its immediate community,
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . arlyfortunate in these respects. A prosperous church stoodon the brow of the hill, just northwest of the village,which attracted the great preacher Whitefield, and hisburning eloquence and new truth caused such an increasein numbers and such a division in regard to the newteachings, that, in 1741, a second church was built inthe meadow across the brook, just west of the oldone. This latter was destined to have a mighty influence,not only upon its immediate community, in stampingupon it belief in the highest standards of classical educa-tion, but on all the middle colonies where the name of itsgreat pastor and the school he organized there left theirimpress. It was in 1744 that Rev. Samuel Finley becametheir leader and soon founded Nottingham Academy nearat hand when he was scarcely thirty years of He • Map in Johnstons History of Cecil County, Maryland, 1881.^ Macleans History of the College of New Jersey, 1S77, Vol. I, p. 278,and Johnstons Cecil County, p. 278. V \ oZL^^J^^^_. HIS FOREFATHERS AND THE WEST 3 had been educated in the old Log College, out of whichsprang Princeton, and for the next seventeen years theregrew up under the inspiration of his personality men likeDr. Benjamin Rush, Rev. Dr. John Ewing, GovernorMartin, of North Carolina; Governor Henry, of Mary-land; Colonel John Bayard, Rev. Dr. W. M. Tennent,of Pennsylvania; Rev. Dr. James Waddell, of Virginia,and others of like character. His fame as an educatorwas such that by 1759 he was thought of for the fourthpresident of the College of New Jersey, at Princeton,of which he was a trustee, and two years later he wasspontaneously acknowledged to be the man to head thechief educational institution of the Presbyterians in theAmerican colonies as its fifth president—the last beforeWitherspoon—and thereafter Nottingham Academy waswithout the founder who had made it one
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