1319 acres.
These lands are granted in trust to the deceased, for the use of the Orphan-house, and adjoin each other: the grants are dated 13th of April, 1761.
Another of 500 acres, called Huntingdon, and adjoins on one corner to Ephrata.—This grant is dated 13th of April, 1761.
Another of 1000
Another of 500
Another of 500
2000
These 3 tracts, amounting to 2000 acres are contiguous, and are granted to the deceased in trust for the endowment of a college. The grants are dated 6th of August, 1765.
Another of 1000 acres, left by the Reverend Bartholomew Zouberbuhler, deceased, late minister of Savannah, by Will, for the endowment of a college, but conditionally.
The habendum of the three grants, amounting to 1319 acres of land, for the use of the Orphan-house, run in the following words: “To have and to hold the said tract of four hundred acres of land, and all and singular other the premises hereby granted, with the appurtenances, unto the said George Whitefield, his heirs and assigns for ever, in free and common soccage:—In trust nevertheless for the use and benefit of the Orphan-House,—he the said George Whitefield, his heirs or assigns, yielding and paying, &c.”
And the three grants, together amounting to 2000 acres of land, for the endowment of a college, are thus expressed: “To have and to hold the said tract of one thousand acres of land, and all and singular other the premises hereby granted, with the appurtenances, unto the said George Whitefield, his heirs and assigns for ever, in free and common soccage: In trust for the endowment of a college in our said province,—he the said George Whitefield, his heirs and assigns, yielding and paying, &c.”
So that it plainly appears, these lands cannot be aliened or appropriated to any other use, than the purposes for which they were granted.
Extract from an account of the state of the family at the Orphan-house in April 1770.