1Power of Attorney to Deborah Franklin, 4 April 1757 (Franklin Papers)
..., 1756, vestryman of Christ Church. His son Jacob Duché, Jr. (1738–1798), graduated in the first class of the College of Philadelphia, 1757, where he taught oratory after further study at Cambridge University and ordination as a deacon. The son entered the priesthood in 1762 and succeeded Richard Peters in 1775 as rector of the united parishes of Christ Church and St. Peter’s. He was made...
2Certificate of Nomination to the Royal Society, 17 May 1759 (Franklin Papers)
The first recommendation Franklin signed was for Edward Hussey Delaval of Cambridge University, who was proposed on May 17, 1759, and elected the following December 6. The text of his certificate is printed in full below. Other certificates that Franklin signed nearly always followed the same general form, although they...
September 29, the feast of St. Michael the Archangel. Used as a general term for autumn, particularly at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, where it denotes the autumn term.
4To Benjamin Franklin from Alexander Small, 1 December 1764 (Franklin Papers)
, 412 n), had recently been a candidate for the office of high steward of Cambridge University in a bitterly contested election which split the university voters, caused student riots, and wound up in the courts. D. A. Winstanley,
5[May 1768] (Washington Papers)
...s home. Rev. Thomas Smith (1738–1789) was the rector of Cople Parish, which comprised the lower end of Westmoreland County, including both Nomini and Yeocomico churches. He had assumed that post soon after his graduation from Cambridge University in 1763 and retained it until his death 26 years later (
6[Diary entry: 22 May 1768] (Washington Papers)
...s home. Rev. Thomas Smith (1738–1789) was the rector of Cople Parish, which comprised the lower end of Westmoreland County, including both Nomini and Yeocomico churches. He had assumed that post soon after his graduation from Cambridge University in 1763 and retained it until his death 26 years later (
7Mississippi Land Company’s Petition to the King, December 1768 (Washington Papers)
...1736–1818) of New York, a business associate of William Lee; Ralph Wormeley (1715–1790) of Rosegill, Middlesex County, or his son Ralph Wormeley, Jr. (1744–1806), a recent student at Cambridge University; Mann Page (b. 1718), now living at Mannsfield in Spotsylvania County; John Alexander (1735–1775) of King George and Stafford counties; Cuthbert Bullitt (d. 1791), a lawyer in Prince...
8[September 1771] (Washington Papers)
Ralph Wormeley (1744–1806) of Rosegill, Middlesex County, was the eldest son of Ralph Wormeley (1715–1790) of Rosegill. Young Wormeley had been educated in England at Eton and Cambridge University and earlier this year had been appointed to the governor’s council in Williamsburg (
9[Diary entry: 19 September 1771] (Washington Papers)
Ralph Wormeley (1744–1806) of Rosegill, Middlesex County, was the eldest son of Ralph Wormeley (1715–1790) of Rosegill. Young Wormeley had been educated in England at Eton and Cambridge University and earlier this year had been appointed to the governor’s council in Williamsburg (
10To George Washington from Joseph Nourse, 20 February 1778 (Washington Papers)
Daniel Batwell was an Anglican minister, educated at Cambridge University, who arrived in America in 1774 to work for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He received a 200–acre farm near Carlisle from the Pennsylvania government and based his activities in York and Cumberland counties....
11To George Washington from Henry Laurens, 5 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Ralph Izard (c.1741–1804), a prominent South Carolina planter, was educated at Cambridge University in England. He moved to London with his family in 1771 and remained there until 1776, when he attempted to return to America by way of France. While waiting in Paris for passage, however, he received word...
12To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 7 February 1783 (Madison Papers)
Randolph probably had in mind Ralph Wormeley, Jr. (1744–1806). After several years of study at Eton College and Cambridge University, Ralph, Jr., returned to Rosegill, his father’s plantation fronting the Rappahannock River in Middlesex County. In 1775, having served for four years in the Governor’s Council and being critical of both the Loyalists and...
13To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 13 September 1783 (first) (Madison Papers)
During his ten, not twelve. years of residence in England, Francis Corbin (1759–1821) studied at Cambridge University and the Inner Temple in London. He was a delegate from Middlesex County in the Virginia General Assembly for a decade beginning in 1784, and an influential member of the Virginia Convention of 1788 which ratified the Federal Constitution...
14July 1786 (Washington Papers)
...a cousin of Mann Page, Jr., and a son of Richard and Elizabeth Tayloe Corbin of Laneville, King and Queen County. He went to England in 1773 where he attended the Canterbury School and Cambridge University, and entered the Inner Temple in Jan. 1777. At the close of the Revolution, he returned to Virginia. He represented Middlesex County in the House of Delegates from 1784 to 1794. A staunch...
15[Diary entry: 12 July 1786] (Washington Papers)
...a cousin of Mann Page, Jr., and a son of Richard and Elizabeth Tayloe Corbin of Laneville, King and Queen County. He went to England in 1773 where he attended the Canterbury School and Cambridge University, and entered the Inner Temple in Jan. 1777. At the close of the Revolution, he returned to Virginia. He represented Middlesex County in the House of Delegates from 1784 to 1794. A staunch...
16Note of Agenda to Reduce the Government to True Principles, [ca. 11 July 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
in the words “committee” and “manufactures”—have been silently corrected in the decipherment. The Editors also wish to thank Robert C. Latham of Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and Frances Macdonald of New College, Oxford University, for assistance with Shelton’s shorthand system.
17From John Jay to Daniel Coxe, 4 April 1796 (Jay Papers)
). Possibly Joseph Bewsher, a prize-winning student of mathematics at Cambridge University in 1789.
18To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 15 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Born in England and educated at Cambridge University, John Anstey (c.1757–1819) was a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and later worked as a commissioner for auditing public accounts and as an investigator into American Loyalist claims. Anstey also was a poet and wrote under...
19To Thomas Jefferson from David Redick, 19 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...should forfeit his title to both or either.” Corbin, of “The Reeds” in Caroline County and previously of Middlesex County, had been born in Virginia in 1759 but received his education at Cambridge University. During the Revolution he remained in England, where he was admitted to the Inner Temple. Serving in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1784 to 1794, in 1785 he strongly opposed TJ’...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Lord Somerville, 28 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Born at Fitzhead Court in Somersetshire, England, John Southey, Lord Somerville (1765–1819), received an M.A. from Cambridge University in 1785. Upon the death of his uncle in 1796, he became the fifteenth Lord Somerville and was at once elected to serve as a representative of Scotland in the House of Lords. One of the founding members...
21To George Washington from Ralph Wormeley, Jr., 12 May 1799 (Washington Papers)
Ralph Wormeley, Jr. (1744–1806), of Rosegill in Middlesex County, was educated at Eton and at Cambridge University. During the Revolution he was suspected of Loyalist tendencies. Although he was elected to the Virginia house of delegates several times in the late 1780s, he took little part in politics.
22To James Madison from Joseph Bartlett, 21 October 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...those who know his political character. “Stern necessity frequently commands what delicacy in other situations would forbid.” Has never before solicited executive notice but would feel guilty remaining silent any longer. He was educated in law at “Cambridge University”
23To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bartlett, 1 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
”—as the question will arise, who are you? & what are your pretensions? it becomes necessary to say—that I received my early education at Cambridge university—that I was admited to the honors of that society 1782—that I read law in Boston under the direction of the Honorable Benjamin Hichborn Esquire & that I have been in the profession ever since the year 1788—I...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew C. Groves, 26 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...quadrants and promoting a plan to discover longitude at sea with his astronomical quadrant, for which he is seeking subscription support (in Papers of the Board of Longitude, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge University Library). (2) “Hear me for I will Speak,” an undated essay denouncing the use of titles of nobility and partisan efforts to raise a standing army and extolling TJ’s...
25To James Madison from William Lee, 25 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...have taken the liberty to mention, that I have known Mr Erving from my youth, to be a very honest, honourable man. His connections are very respectable, and having been educated at Cambridge University and regularly bred a merchant he is every way qualified to discharge the duties of such an office. Should there be other applicants for this place perhaps Mr Ervings having a family of...
26John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Cambridge University [index entry] schools and colleges; Cambridge University [index entry]
27William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Cambridge University [index entry] schools and colleges; Cambridge University [index entry]
28To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 6 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Francis Corbin (1759–1821) had been a delegate from Middlesex County in the Virginia General Assembly, 1784–94. He had received his education in Great Britain, where he studied at Cambridge University and was admitted to the Inner Temple in London (
29John Tayloe to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Saint John’s College, Cambridge University
30Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Trinity College, Cambridge University
31Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 22 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
: by the middle of the eighteenth century the tripos, or Senate House examination, with a heavy emphasis on mathematics, had become the only road to a degree at Cambridge University in England (W. W. Rouse Ball,
I was glad to hear from William Cranch, that he had obtained the desired Object, of being receivd a member of Cambridge University—I think he will a respectable member of Society—& so will Richard—but not eminent in the classicks—
33From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 14 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
...it, as mine. Yet, without it you will be exposed to innumerable dangers. What Shall I Say of dissenting Ministers, Presbyterian Parsons, Unitarian Divines, Royal Societies, Oxford and Cambridge Universities? some meddling People without my Knowledge, and to my mortification put about an Idea of electing me a member of the Royal Society. John Temple, to my great Embarrassment and...
34From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
...is a merchant in Boston. his mother being out of health was a Border with mrs Black one summer by which means this young Gentleman became acquainted in the family. he had his Education at Cambridge university, Studied Physick with the late dr Warner and is now going to Edinburgh to finish his studies there. he is a young gentleman of a fair character—by him I Send you mr Channings...
35From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 October 1815 (Adams Papers)
...his Father is a merchant in Boston. his mother being out of health, since dead, past a summer at mrs Blacks, by which means, this young gentleman became acquainted in our Family. he received his Education, at Cambridge university, Studied Physicks with the late Dr Warren, and is now going to Edinburgh to finish his Studies there, he is a young Gentleman of a fair character.
36Francis Hall’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [7–8 January 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
Cambridge University
37To James Madison from Charles Kelsall, 15 February 1817 (Madison Papers)
Charles Kelsall, son of an East India Company merchant, was educated at Cambridge University and settled into a life of traveling, architecture, and translating.
38Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 6 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Cambridge University [index entry] schools and colleges; Cambridge University [index entry]
39Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Cambridge University [index entry] schools and colleges; Cambridge University [index entry]
40Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Cambridge University [index entry] schools and colleges; Cambridge University [index entry]
41Benjamin Vaughan’s Notes on Climate Change, March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Trinity College, Cambridge University
42To John Adams from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 8 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
I make you a respectful acknowledgment for the opportunity afforded by your note of decr. 13. 1819. of becoming acquainted with the revd Mr. Professor Norton, of Cambridge University. A gentleman so learned and so amiable merited particular attention. I endeavoured to make the most of him.
43George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Cambridge University [index entry]
44Oliver Towles to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
for Cambridge University. they being total strangers in that Country your introduction will be of Service to them & lay me under Particular obligations to you. cambridge university:
45Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 9 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Cambridge University [index entry] schools and colleges; Cambridge University [index entry]
46To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1824 (Madison Papers)
Robert Woodhouse (1773–1827), a mathematician educated at Cambridge University, taught there until his death, holding successively the Lucasian professorship of mathematics from 1820, and the Plumian professorship of astronomy and experimental philosophy from 1822. Woodhouse published a number of works, including
47To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
George Long (1800–1879) was a classicist educated at Cambridge University who was first professor of ancient languages at the University of Virginia. He taught there from 1825 until 1828, when he returned to England to become professor of Greek at the University of London.
48To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 10 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
...and has a high reputation for talents and learning, being known among the literary men of Boston for his able articles in the North American Review & other periodical works of the day. he was formerly Latin Tutor in Cambridge University, and is the author of a criticism upon “Pickering on Greek pronunciation,” and a review of Chalmer’s’ “Christianity in connexion with modern Astronomy.” M
49To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
Cantabs: short for Cantabrigians (i.e., from Cambridge University, England), referring here to Thomas H. Key and George Long.
50To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 26 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
...not withholding your name, as we had your permission for doing so, and believed him entirely worthy of the confidence. he is, as you know, a strenuous advocate for reform in the Cambridge University, which has brought him into trouble, with many of the most distinguished men of letters here; & I have no doubt the opposition he meets with strengthens his interest in an institution based...