[629] See Wheelock's will, ib. 562.
[630] Young Wheelock was very active in the Revolution. He was a member of the New Hampshire Assembly in 1775, a Captain in the army in 1776, a Major the following year, and then Lieutenant-Colonel, serving on the staff of General Horatio Gates until called from military service by the death of his father in 1779. (See Smith: History of Dartmouth College, 76.)
[631] Chase, 564.
[632] Rachel Murch "To ye Session of ye Church of Christ in Hanover," April 26, 1783, Shirley: Dartmouth College Causes and the Supreme Court of the Untied States, 67.
[633] Shirley, 66-70.
[634] Ib. 70-75. Only three of the scores of Congregationalist ministers in New Hampshire were Republicans. (Ib. 70.)
[635] Ib. 82.
[636] Shirley, 81, 84-85.
[637] Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College and Moors' Charity School.
[638] A Candid, Analytical Review of the Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College.