Glimpses of Colonial Society

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Excerpt from Glimpses of Colonial Society: And the Life at Princeton College, 1766-1773, By One of the Class of 1763 William Paterson was born in County Antrim, Ireland, December 24, 174 5. Shortly after his birth his parents emigrated to the New World, and for a period of about three years wandered here and there through the colonies before adopting a fixed abode. In the Paterson papers we find it recorded that they journeyed to the hamlet of Princetown in the spring-time of 1750, and be coming so enamoured with the place, purchased one hundred acres of land in the centre of the set tlement for a permanent home. Six years after the family became residents of this isolated spot on the King's Highway connecting New York City and Philadelphia, President Burr of the young College of New Jersey removed his students from Newark to Princeton, - to shield them from the temptations and allurements of the nearby city of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.