The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-07-27

tidiI, anu diteT Hie Itluiu w L"-'"'" IA
8 1888 he presented the Church with fine
6 Organ."l
What is contained in the preceding quo
ations was related to the writer, by an ell
lerly intelligent gentleman, who states that
il is according to his recollection of freqent
held mt his fathers house,
when he was about fourteen or fifteen years
old, by his father and Messrs. Wiskham,
Malbone, Pease, Redwood, Rev. Doctor |
Eyers, Bissit and Gardner Thurston, who /
visited his father nearly every evening du-
ring his long sickness, until his death.
We have given the foregoing tradition in
substance as we received it, but other ua-
dtions vary Il little from that; some of
which state that the ship made no land uu-
til she arrived in the East River, from WHICH
she came round the north end of the Island
to Newport-others state that the first land
she made was Narraganseit, after she had
GOT into the west passage-but we have
found no other so much in detail, or so well
connected, or probable, as the one given.
He purchased an estate soon after his
arrival (probably White NnlD as he must
have been freeholder, and admitted fiee-
man of Newport, preparatory TO bis adrnis-
sion as II freeman of The Colony, which was
done at the General Assembly the May fol-
lowing. The furmv hich he purchased, where
he built and resided, and called by the name
Of White Hall, still retains thar name. The
house is standing--it is situated in what is
now the town of Middlctown about three
miles from the state House ia Newport, a
HIle back from the road which runs cast
ward from the town, near beautiful little
water course which runs sogthward toward
Sachucst Beach. This White Hall estate
he gave 10 Yale College in Connecticut by
whom the fee is still owned.
lie built his house in a valley, not far
from which was Il hill com uSnding an cx-
tcnsiyc prospect, and view OF the ocean and
country--but he preferred the valley to the
hill, as he said, for the following reasons,
That to enjoy the beautiful prospect from
the hill he must visit it Only occasionally
that if his constant residence should be on
the hill, the views would become so COM
mon ms to loose all their charms"
During his residence at White Hall, tra-
diton says he wrote his minute PhiIoso-
phcr, and principally at place about half
a mile soulherly from his house--thcrc he
had ms chair and writing apparatus placed
in n natural alcove, which he found in the
most elevated part of The Hanging Rocks
$50 caIlcd) rooted and open only to the
uth-commanding at once view of
Sachuest Beach, the Ocean and the circum-
iacent Islands. This Hermitage was to
him favorlte and solitary retreat.
/ We suppose he continued here about two
years perhaps a little longer; he was GER
taiuIy hree as late as September 1871, as
appears by supplementary inscription on
the tombstone of Nathaniel Kay ESQ.,
which is as follows. "Joining to the south
of this tomb lieth Miss Lucia Berkley
daughter of Dean Berkly, Obit the 9Th o.
September 1871"
After his return to England, and in tht
year 1888 he presented TO Trinity Church
in Newport an Organ for the use Of said
Church, which organ is now used and j;
still good instrument. This organ is sur.
mounted by crown in the centre support
ed by two mitres, one on each side.
We understand that the first hint of es-
tabIishing a public Library, in Newport
was given by Dean Berkeley, although thu
Library Edihce was not erected until tn
year I7lS.
Elder Conner who preached in the frs
Baptist church in Newport left some mem
orandums from which the following are Ia
t ken, viz: "On September 26ih was ter
rible Hurricane; and more terrible Earth
quake October 29ih which was followed
with a smaller one January 2Sih l72-
From July 2Sih to August 7th 1929, th
, heat was so intense as to cause the dealt
of many. Through the first three nights il
/, August the lightHings were constant an,
amazing" Backas.
Berkley's Apology, book Of about CO.
pages, was printed in Newport this year b.
james Franklin, brother of Doci. Franklin