have Power, out of their Stock, to make Presents to the most meritorious Scholars, according to their several Deserts.
The fourteenth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty-nine;
For the Encouragement of this useful, good and charitable Undertaking, to enable the Trustees and their Successors to begin, promote, continue and enlarge the same, humbly hoping, thro' the Favour of Almighty God, and the Bounty and Patronage of pious and well-disposed Persons, that it may prove of great and lasting Benefit to the present and future rising Generations; We the subscribers do promise to pay to William Coleman, the Treasurer, elected according to the above Constitutions, or to his Successor or Successors for the Time being, the several sums of Money by us respectively subscribed to be paid, at the Times in our Subscriptions respectively mentioned. Witness our Hands.
Per Annum, for Five Years.
James Hamilton, Fifty Pounds,£500000Thomas Lawrence, Fifteen Pounds,150000Joseph Turner, Twenty Pounds,200000William Allen, Seventy-five Pounds,750000William Masters, Twenty Pounds,200000Lloyd Zachary, Twenty Pounds,200000William Plumstead, Fifteen Pounds,150000Abraham Taylor, Fifteen Pounds,150000Samuel M'Call, Junior, Fifteen Pounds,150000John Inglis, Ten Pounds,100000Charles Willing, Fifteen Pounds,150000Thomas Bond, Fifteen Pounds,150000Tench Francis, Ten Pounds,100000William Shippen, Ten Pounds,100000Benjamin Franklin, Ten Pounds,100000Phineas Bond, Ten Pounds,100000William Coleman, Ten Pounds,100000Richard Peters, Ten Pounds,100000Joshua Maddox, Ten Pounds,100000Robert Strettell, Ten Pounds,100000Philip Syng, Six Pounds,60000Thomas Leech, Six Pounds,60000Thomas White, Six Pounds,60000
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