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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers (Originally Queen's College), In New Brunswick, N. J., 1766 to 1909 The charter was granted in the name. Of George the Third, by His Excellency William Franklin, Governor of the Province of New Jersey. No copy of this document is now known to be in existence, but under its provisions the Board of Trustees was created and meetings were called. A second charter was granted March 20, 1770, in answer to the Trustees' desire for slight amendment, and under its provisions, almost unchanged, the institution has continued until now. It provides for a college to be called Queen's College, in honor of the royal. Consort, Charlotte, and to be erected for the education of youth in the learned languages, liberal and useful arts and sciences, and especially in divinity. The. College was located by the Trustees at New Brunswick, New Jersey, where it has occupied successively three sites. During the Revolutionary iyar its activities were at different times removed to neighboring villages, and the tutors in charge, Colonel Frederick Frelinghuysen and Colonel John Tay lor, were frequently called away for the civil and military service which they so patriotically and conspicuously fulfilled. In their absence ih struction was given by John Bogart, one of the first alumni of the Col lege. In 1808 the present campus was acquired and the erection of the College hall begun, still called Queen's Building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.