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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... total amount expended up to that time being " 176, 6, 7i, {not including clothing, &c, received from home." * * *) He was graduated in the class of 1767, his diploma in Latin being dated "Nassau Hall on the day before the Callends of October, 1767," and signed by the Rev. William Tennent, pres.; Elihu Spinner, John Blair, John S. Brainerd, Johannes McQus, Richardus Treat, and Carolus Macknight. This diploma was, in 1875, in the hands of Dr. Otho Evans, of Franklin, Warren County, Ohio, whose mother was a granddaughter of the Rev. Wm. Schenck. After leaving college he studied theology with the Rev. "William Tennent at Freehold, New Jersey, and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in 1770. During this time he was intimately associated with the family of one of the old Scotch Presbyterians, Robert Cumming, whilom High Sheriff of Monmouth County, who lived at Matealapau, in the vicinity of the Tennents, and with whom he for a time lived while prosecuting his theological studies, and whose daughter, Anna Cumming, he married on the 7th day of March, 1786. She was born at Monmouth, New Jersey, 3d May, 1750, and died at Franklin, Ohio, 23d June, 1838, "a mother of many children and as full of virtuous honors aB of years." Her grandmother was Catherine van Brugh, of New York city, who married first John Noble, an English gentleman, and married second, 23 August, 1738, the Rev. William Tennent, Jun. This fact may, to some extent, account for some of the movements of the Rev. Mr. Schenck, as, in 1777, he went to Bucks County, Pa., the seat of the famous "log college," founded by the Rev. "William Tennent, Sen. The year succeeding his entry into the ministry, in 1771, he was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church at Allentown, ...