From a

GOVERNOR ELIHU YALE

UorM

October, 1789

Address of Sam' Broome Esq. Merch of this City. The Painting is seven Feet high & the Governor at full Length. It was done 1717 the Gov. then æt. 68. It is grand & elegant & in good Preservation, being not a recent Copy, but one of the Original Pourtraits in the Family.

Gen. Wash. Presid' of &c. arrived in New Haven this day, on his Tour & Visit thro' the Eastern States, we he compliments with his first Visitation. The Gen. Assembly sitting here waited upon him by a Committee with an Address to we he replied-as he did also to an Address of six Congregational Ministers w I presented, this Even.

18. Ldsdy. I attended all day at the Brick Meet & P. M. heard Rev. Mr. Holmes of Georgia. Presid' Wash. attended A.M. at Chh. Eng. P.M. D' Edwds.

19. The Presid' went on at sunrise for B°o & Portsmouth.

21. I set up Orders at College, Vac2 being ended. Mr. Tutor Bidwel only Tutor present. Fresh Class 33.

23. Rec Lett. fr. Tutor Bassett who is sick.

24. This Aft. Mr. Tutor Fitch arrived at College.

25. Ldsday. I attended Chapel. D' Wales pr. all day Prov. xi, i. 28. Attended Dr. Danas Lecture. Tut. Basset came.

29. No. Eccl. Lect. I am taken with the epidemical Cold which rages over the whole Territory from the 40 deg. Lat. beyond Philad thro' N Engld. My D. Emilia dangerously sick with the same & St Ant° Fire. My Wife has had the Cold & is recovering.' 31. Emilias Disorder rather at Crisis.

November

1. Ldsdy. I am detained at Home all day by Illness. D' Wales at Chapel taken with a severe Fit in Sacram' time, hav administered the Bread, he took the Cup & gave Thanks & in giv Thanks the fit took him-so the rest omitted. He had no Aft. service.

Scholars went out in Town.

2. Seniors Disputa at my House.

Under this date Dr. Stiles has in his College memoranda this note :"Tutors about resigns on account of Reduct" of their Salaries last Commenc'." The Corporation records show that the salary of the Senior Tutor was reduced at the time named from £85 to 80; and the salary of the others from £80 to £70.

3. Do.

5. Looking out for the Transit of Mercury. Our College Telescope out of order. Saw nothing tho' the Disk of the Sun pretty clear from Clouds part of the day.

7. Finished read Milton's Paradise Lost which I began 25th ult. Still my Cold prevails & my Wife & D. Emilia are sick.

8. Ldsdy. A pleasant day, but I thot it not prudent to go abroad. Read the Venerable Beda, & Dionysius Areop" & also 3 Sermons in Dr. Clarke. My Wife & Daughter better.

9. Disputa as usual.

10. D. G. Wash. in N. Haven.

11. Hon. Henry Marchant of Newport here. His Son examined & admitted Sophimore.

12. No Lecture.

13. Mr. Marchant went away.

Harry Caldwell of

Received a Letter from Mr. Georgia 200 m. up Savanna River giv

acc that Mr. Tutor Denison died at his house there 19th of August last.1

15. Ldsdy. I attended Chapel & heard D' Wales all day upon I Pet. i, 8. Reads Bp. Chichesters Sermons. D' Seabury preached at Chh. to day. [Finished reads Petite Pierre on Universal Salva

tion.]

The unlocated Lands belonging to the United States, by Comput", amo to 483,230 square Miles equal to 309, 267,200 Acres; which

if sold at 1% p acre would amount to The foreign Debt of the U. S. is

The Domestic Debt is

Total Debt of the U. S.

Equal to

Which subtracted fr. the Value of the federal

Lands, as above

23,195,040.

10,070,307 Doll. 27,383,317

37,453,614

£11,236,086

£23&c

Would leave in the Treas

£11,958,954

Which put to Interest at 6 p Cent would produce the ann. sum of £717,537 or 6550 Doll. p day which is more than four times the present Estimates for the Civil List, the War Departm', the Indian Departm', &, for the Invalid & other Pensions

1 Caldwell (now of Fetersburg, Wilkes County, Ga.) and Denison were classmates at Yale in 1784.

14. A great Aur° Bor. in Even".

16. Disput as usual.

17. Do. Mr. Hall left us for Georgia. This Evens I received Letter from D' Price of London with acc" of the Apparatus he has purchased for Yale College, Price £204. Sterls of w° 3 foot Telescope £55 includs Micrometer, and Orrery £40.

18. President Wheelock was here.

19. D' Wales gave a Lect. on the Talents.

22. Ldsdy. I attended Chapel all day. A. M. D' Wales preached 2 Cor. v, 4, a funeral Sermon on Mr. Tutor Denison, who died in Georgia Aug 19th. P.M. Mr. Austin Philip. ii, 4, On disinterested Benevolence. Reads the acc° of Origen's Opinions in the Phoenix.

24. Disputa as usual. Mr. Darling's Life dispaired of. Gen. Lincoln, late L' Gov. of Mass. on Return from the Ind. Treaty in Georgia, spent the Evening at my House, & gave me much Information on various subjects Indian, Literary & political.

He & Col. Humphrey' & were appointed & sent by Congress empowered to treat with all Indian Nations from Ohio to Florida & from the sea to Mississippi. They repaired to Georgia. From Savanna they went 200 or 250 M. up &c. & held a Treaty with the Indians chiefly of the Cherokees at a place about 50 M. West of Augusta. Among the rest of the Chiefs or Warriors was McGilvray-not the greatest or highest in power & political Auth', but greatest in Knowledge & Influence, & totally averse to a Treaty. His Father was a Scotchman, an Ind. Trader who married or took for his Concubine a Daughter of an Indian Queen of one of the Creek Sachems or Chiefs. He was educated in the English School in Charlestown & designed for the Counts House

& to manage Ind. Trade. His father put him to live with a Mer

chant in Savanna where he was at the Commenct of the late War. He told the General Lincoln that he was Nineteen years old when the War began. He is now in the Indian Trade, & is concerned in a large Store at Pensacola. The Spaniards court him. He is a Man of Sagacity and much political & commercial Information, & totally averse to all Coalition of the Indians with the United States.

1 David Humphreys (Yale 1771); the third Commissioner was Judge Cyrus Griffin, of Virginia.