The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26

Nut4eh was nlece or GeOfg6 ! euWlck
 Esq. to whom the land formerly Re- longed. Mir. Fenwick was an agent of the grantees of the Warwick patent,
 and as the only one of the patentees
 in the colony acted as ex-oficio gov ernor. He, with his wife, Lady Alice Fenwick, arrived at saybrook in July, 1889. Nathaniel Lynde died in 1729.
 Two other Saybrook men were bene- factors of the college. Major John Clark, a descendant of one of the first
 settlers. having received two thousand acres of land from Chief Attawanhood
 in the Mohegan country in recognition of services rendered to him and his people, transferred them to the Col
 legiate school, and the Rev James
 Fitch, the first pastor of the saybrcok
 church, who in 1860, with a large part of his congregation, removed to the
 Thames river and founded Norwich.
 ''to encourage a work so pleasing to
 God and beneficial to posterity," gave
 a tract of land in Killingly of several hundred acres. Another name associ-
 ated with the early years of the Col
 legiate school was the Rev. Azariah
 Mather who, in 1709, was appointed tutor in the college, and entered upon
 his duties shortly after the death of
 Mr. Buckingham. He graduated from
 the college in the class of 17o5 and
 probably studied theology with his father the Rev. Samuel Mather of
 Windsor Ia relative of the Rev. Dr. h. crease Mather and Rev. pr. Cotton Mather), who married Hannah, daughter of Governor Robert Treat At this time the SayrTook church was looking for a successor to MT. Buck ingham and MT. Mather was asked to supply the pulpit, which he did so ac- ceptably that he received call to the pastorate, where he labored twenty-two years.
 MT Mather was distinguished for his Knowledge of Hebrew, Greek and Latin and was described as a very pungent preacher and fearless reprover." He published several sermons and wrote one in Latin, on being Baptized for the dead' MT. Mather married Mar Una, a daughter of Daniel Taylor of SaYbrook. where a number of his de- seendants are living. When the third house of worship was built in 172s the printing of muse with bars first came into use. This provoked a. great deal ol controversy and the people feared lhat prayers would soon be repeated bv note' Mir Mather was so enthusiastic upon the subject that the societv toot actlon before building the sanctuarv ana finally admitted the new form of singing. It was during Mr. Mathers mlhlstry that the controversy concern ing the Collegiate school arose, and the college was removed to New Haven. Ihls was a great personal loss to MT
 Mather, who was cut to the quick. but ne dld everything in his power to quiet an reassure his people, str,ving to suodue all hard feeling and promote the best interests of the college. At this time the college library. bv eifts ana donations, had increased to nine hundred volumes, and if the doors of the building the morning the books were taken away had to be forced. and the wagons prepared to carry them were found broken, with the horses turned loose, and the bridges down he- tween sayhrook and New Haven. and II in later years in showing treasured rellcs family would now and then tell the stranger that these books once belonged to the Yale college library. e with passing years these incidents have grown dim, and Yale to-day has no more loyal friend than the mother who With fidelity and tenderness cared lor the lntancy of the great university. MT Mather's last years were clouded by depression and he died in saybrook Feb, Il. i7S7, aged B., His grave in the old burylng ground, marked by slate stone, with the following quaint in- scriptlon, written by his daughter is worthy of notice.
 Here lyeth the body of the Rev
 MT Azariah Mather born at
 eM,lndsorl ', August 29 1885 expired In GS4agprook Fep,y II l737 Aetatis suae 52 He was a faithful minister
 A general scholar and eminent
 Snrstlan a very great sufferer
 But now In glory Trumpher
 lie many weeks felt Deaths attacts 9Q1 I1q tesveht prayers Kept him Back FalS ? lslIh ana patience twas to try Hayeing the wings of Faith 6 Love & Feathers of an holy Dove
 he bids this wretched world adue < swiftly ID to Heaven flew
 Disturb not then his Precious Dust .Wlth censors that are most unjust
 John Hart who afterwards became the pastor of the Guilfosd church. was the first student to receive the bache- l9rs a2 degree from Yale, college in the class or l7J3, of which he was the only member and immediately after his graduation he became a tutor and an assistant to the rector His son, the Rev. William Hart, was the loved and honored pastor of the Saybrook church Tor fofty- eight years, following the ministry of the Rev, Azariah Mather Fifteen commencements were held in Sayorook and ttty~dve young men took their degrees. Nine of these were sons of residents of the town, and five were tutors in the college before it's remoyar Benjamin Lord of Saybrook, of the class of l714 who became a tutor in the college the following year, gives this description of the commencements held in Saybrook; Tn my day at Saybrool1 Commencements Rector Andrews al- ways presided in the meeting housa Exercises were held both parts of the day, begun and ended with prayers Dtsputations were carried on with n Salutatory and Valedier ory oration, hut none in English. Tht rector gave de. grees much as in the present form. when ne came to the words hume IT, brum, he gave the candidates a little book which they returned, for they came up two by two No diplomas were given them" Of the whole nrn6. Der graduated from Saybrook trirfv- four became ministers, two magistrates seven Fellows of the College at New Haven, and one president of a coliers in New Jersey. If these students fonSS the accommodations inadenuat te the t,,