[184] As a corrective of periwigs he advised the good people to read Calvin’s Institutions, book iii. ch. 10.
[185] Cf. Sabin, Dictionary, xv. 65,689.
[186] Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 211, and references.
[187] As to the part Massachusetts discontents, like Sewall and Addington, took in the founding of Yale College, compare the views of Quincy, Harvard University, i. 198, etc.; and of Prest. Woolsey in his Hist. Discourse of Aug. 14, 1850; and Prof. Kingsley in the Biblical Repository, July and Oct., 1841.
The principal sources of the history of Yale College are the following: Thomas Clap’s Annals or History of Yale College, New Haven, 1766. F. B. Dexter on “The founding of Yale College,” in the New Haven Hist. Soc. Papers, vol. ii., and his Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College, with annals of the college history. October, 1701-May, 1745. N. Y. 1885. E. E. Beardsley on “Yale College and the Church,” in Perry’s Amer. Episc. Church, vol. i., monograph 6. The most extensive work is: Yale College; a sketch of its history, with notices of its several departments, instructors, and benefactors; together with some account of student life and amusements. By various authors. 2 vols. New York. 1879. Edited by W. L. Kingsley. In this will be found a photograph of the original portrait of Gov. Elihu Yale (i. p. 37); the house of Saltonstall in 1708 (p. 48), a likeness of Timothy Cutler (p. 49) and his house (p. 49), with a plan of New Haven in 1749, and the college buildings (p. 76). A less extended account is in The College Book, edited by C. F. Richardson and H. A. Clark.
[188] John Marshall, in his diary, July 15, 1701, records the funeral of William Stoughton at Dorchester, “with great honor and solemnity, and with him much of New England’s glory.” Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., April, 1884, p. 155. On July 17, Samuel Willard preached a sermon on his death, which was published. (Haven in Thomas, ii. 349.)
[189] For a portrait of Phipps, see Brit. Mez. Portraits, iii. 1109.
[190] Dudley’s commission is in Harvard Coll. library (Sibley’s Graduates, ii. 176). His instructions (1702) are in the Mass. Hist. Soc., and printed in their Collections, xxix. 101. Haliburton (Rule and Misrule, etc., 235), while he praises Dudley, questions the wisdom of the ministry which selected him to govern such a province. Cf. Sibley, Harvard Graduates, ii. 166.
[191] On the 4th of June, Benj. Wadsworth preached a sermon, King William lamented in America (Harv. Col. lib., 10396.74). There is a portrait in the Mass. Hist. Soc. gallery (Proceedings, vi. 33). Cf. Mag. of Amer. Hist., May, 1884, for a paper on his influence in America.
[192] Keith journeyed from New England to Carolina in 1702-4, indulging in theological controversies which produced a crop of tracts, and in 1706 he published at London Journal of travels from New Hampshire to Caratuck.