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Elihu YALE

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Elihu YALE1

5th Apr 1649 - 8th Jul 1721

Governer of Madras/

Life History

5th Apr 1649

Born in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

1670

Birth of daughter Catherine YALE

1677

Birth of daughter Ann YALE in Derbyshire, England

4th Nov 1680

Married Catherine ELFORD in St Mary's, Fort St George, Madras, India/

1685

Birth of son David YALE in Madras, India

1688

Birth of daughter Catherine YALE in Madras, India

1690

Birth of daughter Ursula YALE in Madras, India

1697

Death of son David YALE in Madras, India

1717

Death of son Charles YALE in Cape of Good Hope/

Jul 1721

Death of daughter Ursula YALE in London

8th Jul 1721

Died in London

NOT MARRIED

Married PAVIA

Other facts

 

Buried in Wrexham, Wales

 

Birth of son Charles YALE

Notes

  • The Elihu Yale     Elihu Yale was son of David Yale, who came fromLondon, England with his mother and stepfather, Theophilus Eaton, in1637, and who was one of the members of the company, headed by Mr.Eaton and Rev John Davenport, which founded the town and colony of NewHaven, Connecticut, in 1638. It has been stated by some writers, thatElihu was the son of Thomas Yale of New Haven, but there is noevidence to support this view, and on the other hand, there is ample,indisputable evidence, that he was the son of David. The will of DavidYale and the entry of Elihu's admission to Master Dugard's school aresufficient to prove his parentage, and this evidence is alsosubstantiated by the indirect testimony of Cotton Mather and Mr. Clap,and by the records at Madras, in which Governor Yale's brother,Thomas, is said to have been a trader between China and India, andfurther and most emphatically, by the will of this same Thomas, madeSeptember 29, 1697, in which he makes bequests to his "Brother ElihuYale," and also, with certain provisions to the "heirs male of myuncle Thomas Yale in New England and his right heirs forever." As willbe noted, Thomas Yale by this will makes it clear that Thomas Yale ofNew Haven was Elihu Yale's uncle, instead of father. Furthermore, sucheminent authorities as Franklin B. Dexter M. A., of Yale Universityand Alfred Neobard Palmer, Antiquarian, of Wrexham Wales, as well asother prominent writers, are emphatic in stating that Elihu Yale wasthe son of David. Sometime between March 1641 and April 1644, as hasbeen stated in this work, David Yale removed from New Haven to Boston,Mass. His son Elihu was born April 5, 1649, undoubtedly in or nearBoston. Some authorities state, on Pemberton square, Boston. In theyear 1652 when Elihu was three years of age, David Yale's family leftBoston and went to England, where David had already gone, settlingfinally in London, where we learn about the arrangements for Elihu'seducation.     At the time of the execution of King Charles, themaster of the well known Merchant Tailors' School in London, supportedby the rich company of that name, was Mr. William Dugard, a graduateof Cambridge, a good scholar, and withal an excellent printer, whocombined the business of his trade with other duties. He was the chiefprinter of the first editions of the Eikon Basilike, attributed to thelate king, and in 1650 provoked the Commonwealth authorities stillfurther by printing an English edition of the Defence Of Ike King, bySalmasius; for this his mastership was taken away, and he was throwninto prison. Brought to terms by this, and restored to his office, healso printed Milton's answer to Salmasius; but in 1661 was againdismissed from his place, though not for political reasons, andstarted a private school in Coleman street, in the city, some of theregisters of admission to which are still preserved; and among theentries, under date of September 1, 1662, is the name of "Elihu Yale,2d son of Mr. David Yale, merchant, born in New England, 1649." (Notes& Queries, 2d ser., ix, 101.) There can be no doubt that this was theboy for whom Yale College is named, who, now in the autumn of 1662, inhis fourteenth or fifteenth year, joined Master Dugard's school, inColeman street; the same short and narrow street in which still stood(until the great fire four years later) the parish church of St.Stephen's; memorable to us as the church of which John Davenport wasvicar, and the spiritual parent of the first church of New Haven.But the training of Elihu Yale by Milton's friend, Master Dugard, wasof the briefest; for death ended Dugard's teaching three months afterElihu's admission. We bear no more of his school experience; but weknow the setting of public events, in which he grew from boy to man,and that no other equally brief period in London history has exceededthis in interest and excitement. He was old enough to have seenCromwell riding in London streets with his guards; to have joined insilent concourse at his funeral, and in the shouts of joy at theRestoration. He lived through the agonies of the plague; he saw thedevastation of the great fire. If it pleased him, he may have seenMilton walking in the Park, and Dryden lounging at Will's coffee-house, he may have heard Jeremy Taylor and Richard Baxter preaching inLondon pulpits, and Geo. Fox and Wm. Penn exhorting in Quaker meeting.He saw the last of an older order of things, like nothing since; andhe grew up with the beginnings of what we may fairly call ModernEngland. At the end of the sixteenth century a charter had beengranted by Queen Elizabeth to a Company of London merchants tradingwith the East Indies, by which they secured a monopoly of that trade,so far as not possessed by friendly European powers.  The Portuguesehad already been established in the Peninsula for a hundred years, andsimultaneously with the English, the Dutch took a hand in thelucrative traffic. The first English trading house was at Surat, highup on the Western Coast; but this was not enough; the Eastern side hadsuperior attractions from its offering certain goods, especially thebeautifully dyed or painted calicoes, much in demand not only inEurope, but still] more in Farther India and the islands to theeastward. But the English attempts to establish a permanent station onthe Coromandel Coast were unsuccessful until in 1639, the same year inwhich civil government was set upon the soil of New Haven, a narrowstrip of land, six mile long and a mile in breadth, was purchased ofthe native ruler of the middle Eastern coast. The shore was sandy andharbor less; but the close proximity of the flourishing Portuguesecity of St. Thomas augured well for the security of the newsettlement, and the further circumstance that the territory included asmall island, about as large as our College Square, fixed the bargain.The island was at once fortified, and as none but Europeans wereallowed to live on it, this became known as White Town, or from thename given to the fortifications, Fort St. George; while a Black Townquickly sprang upon the adjacent shore; and both settlements togetherwere known as Madras. In its earliest years the population of the Fortwas very scanty, perhaps twenty or thirty servants in the Company, anda small garrison; but before long the neighboring Portuguese city wasbroken up by a native assault, and many of the refugees were receivedin Fort St. George, and built themselves dwellings there; and with thegrowth of the Company's trade came an increasing official population.At the head of affairs was the agent of the East India Company, styledthe Governor of the settlement and afterwards the President, who wasalso the commander of the garrison. He was lodged in a stately mansionin the center of the island, and kept an open table at which all ofthe Company's servants were expected to report themselves every day atdinner. Next to him were a bookkeeper (or treasurer), a warehousekeeper (or custom house inspector), and a collector of taxes; thesewith some trusted merchants made up the Council, who decided with theGovernor all matters of business concerning the settlement and itstrade, except so far as orders from home took precedence. Under thesewere the subordinates, all of whom were lodged and fed at theCompany's expense. Salaries were notoriously and ludicrouslysmall,-from the Governor's at œ100 a year down to the apprentices' atœ5. It was expected that officers and men would indulge in privateventures of their own in Eastern ports, while nominally promoting theCompany's trade. Then, too, the opportunities for levying extra andillegal taxes on the natives who sold goods to the Company, were soevident that they may be said to have been expected and connived at;while the want of the restraints of family life, and the closeneighborhood of the black town with its temptations to the grosserforms of dissipation, made the Fort a poor school of morals for anynew comer, however correct his principles and his life before leavingEngland. It was about 1670, when just past his majority, that ElihuYale emigrated to Madras to make his fortune as a merchant. Thedetails of his rise there are all wanting; but he probably began inthe lowest grade of the service, as an apprentice, rising from that tothe successive ranks of writer, factor, and merchant. We fix the dateof his beginning by his casual mention in a document in 1691, oftwenty years' diligent service in India; but the first notice of himin print is in describing the solemnity of proclaiming King James II.,at Madras in August, 1685. There was a grand procession of all thechief merchants, English and foreign, great numbers of the inhabitantsof the Gentoo town, with arms and elephants and kettle drums andnative music, besides twelve English trumpets; and in the chief placeof honor was a troop commanded and led by the President, and the rearbrought up by Mr. Elihu Yale.* He had the reached, as appears by therecord of the succeeding month, the rank of second member of council,and less than two years later had become the senior or first member,only subordinate, to the Governor or President himself. At this timethe Sultan of Golconda, the petty Mohammedan ruler in whose domainsthe English fort was situated, was attacked by the great Indianemperor, reigning at Delhi, Aurung-Zeb, and there was need in thecomplications which might arise, of firmer qualities in the Presidencyat Madras than the present incumbent, Mr. Gifford, had shown. Regularpromotion was the principle of the service, and accordingly thedirectors in London, acting by their Governor, Sir Josiah Child, theeminent writer on finance, sent Out orders which were received atMadras on the 23d of July, 1687, retiring President Gifford, andappointing Elihu Yale his successor. Two months later the great Mogulsucceeded in conquering the fortress of Golconda, and became master inconsequence of the Northern Carnatic, the province including Madras;and so it was one of the earliest public duties of our American-bornPresident Yale to proclaim on the part of Englishmen, the formalceremonies of submission to the last and one of the greatest of thegreat monarchs of India. The Mogul proved to be dissatisfied with thesmall rental (about $2000 a year) paid for the occupancy of the Madrasterritory, and attempted to extort additional sums; and threats wereheard of his intending to besiege the fort and destroy all the Englishin his dominions. The defences were quietly strengthened inconsequence, and at the same time conciliatory messages were sent tothe Emperor, for which last the President was roundly rebuked by hissuperiors at home. In 1689 the accession of William of Orange to theEnglish throne, brought a new complication. The rule of William meantwar with France, and that meant for Madras a collision between hercommerce and the French settlement at Pondicherry, eighty miles downthe coast. But the same event brought the Dutch, who were nearerneighbors on the north, into closer alliance, and the result of theonly naval engagement of importance, which President Yalesuperintended, was favorable to the allies. Meantime the city throveand grew rich. Within the narrow limits of the island, garrisoned byseven hundred soldiers, were crowded together about one hundred andthirty houses, containing perhaps three hundred English and many morePortuguese; while within the bounds of the whole territory was apopulation reckoned at three hundred thousand souls. Over thismultitude the President, acting with the advice of his council, wasabsolute; and even by himself could wield very great power. The oldtraveler, Dr. Fryer, who visited Madras about 1675, describes withgusto the Governor's magnificence; his personal guard of three or fourhundred blacks; how he never goes abroad without fifes, drums,trumpets, and a flag; being carried in gorgeous palankeen, and shadedby an ostrich-feather fan. But the records show that this splendor hadits penalties. Year in and year out, a succession of mighty quarrelsraged between the Governor and his subordinates in the council, whichwere relieved perhaps but not quenched, by towering accusations andrecriminations. The prime cause of the attacks on the Presidentappears to have been certain frauds in trading operations, alleged tohave been committed by his brother, Thomas Yale, whose side thePresident espoused. There were further charges against the Presidentdirectly, of arbitrary government, of neglect of duty, and of usingthe Company's funds for private speculation. In answer to suchcharges, in 1691, he states that he has made honestly during twentyyears of diligent service and trading in India, above 500,000 pagodas,that is some $900,000,-which in comparison with the ordinary fortunesof the time would be represented, perhaps, according to our ideas inthis century, by three or four millions, or perhaps more.[this waswritten in 1908] And as salaries were so insignificant, practicallythe whole of this large amount must have been derived from the profitsof private trade. References in letters from the Company seem to showthat they regarded his success in accumulating as somethingextraordinary and not altogether creditable; and yet, that he wasreckoned a public benefactor must be concluded from such a sentence asthis, in a letter of February, 1691, from the Court of Directors: "Wedesire our President, Mr. Yale, whom God hath blessed with so great anestate in our service, to set on foot another generous charitable workbefore he leaves India; that is, the building of a church for theProtestant black people and Portuguese, and the slaves who serve them.The squabbles in Council were brought, however, to the ears of theDirectors, and accompanied with other charges, especially of losingthe trade with Sumatra. A vote of censure was the final result, and adetermination was reached about the beginning of 1692 to remove Yalefrom office. It was not, however, until November 23d, in that year,that the vessel arrived which bore the commission of his successor,and ended his reign of five years and four months. The settlement ofoutstanding accounts between him and the Company dragged through twoor three years, and if one may believe his representations to the homeauthorities, he was grievously plundered by arbitrary seizure of hisgoods, as well as by legal decisions against him, and was kept aprisoner at the Fort when longing to return to England, with design,as he says, "to enforce him into despair, or otherwise to bring on himsome distemper that may hasten his death, which not long since bypoison was near effected." (Wheeler's Madras, i, 289.) There are amplereplies to these charges from the new President and Council, detailingtheir proceedings in conformity to law, but claiming that Yale hadbribed the judges where he could, and that his personal liberty hadnever been abridged. As to his suggestion of poison they say: "Theythat know him will doubtless conclude with us, either this boldreflection is no more than the accustomary strains of wicked policy,or a salvo for his own credit against the common reports of theunusual deaths of several of the Council when he was President; ... ifthey had been living to declare, themselves, what others have sincetheir death declared as from them, some of Mr. Yale's instruments musthave been prosecuted, and he would have been put hard to it to clearhis own reputation.'' As to poisoning him: "There was never a reportthat ever we heard, of anything that would give him the least colorfor such a suggestion since the year 1691, when there was a story toldall about the town, of a rogue that tempted Mrs. Nicks' slave wench topoison her mistress; and because Mrs. Nicks then lived with Mr. Yaleat his garden-house (which she and Mrs. Pavia, with their children,have and do frequent to the scandal of Christianity among theheathens,) therefore he takes occasion to suppose the design wasagainst himself and to insinuate that the new President and Councilhad a hand in it." Probably the truth was not all on either side ofthe controversy; but after this we hear no more of these charges. Itmay be worth while to notice that Yale's successor as President wasNathaniel Higginson, another American, and a native of Guilford in theold New Haven Colony. He was a grandson of the Rev. Francis Higginson,first minister at Salem, whose widow after his early death came to NewHaven, probably because she was a sister to Governor Eaton. This mayhelp to explain how her grandson after graduating at Harvard Collegeand going to England to seek his fortune, followed Governor Eaton'sgrandson by marriage, Elihu Yale (who was Nathaniel Higginson's seniorby three or four years), to Madras, and by his help was started in aprosperous career there.  Truth obliges the statement that Higginsonhas left a cleaner record, both of official and private life in theIndies, than his fellow-countryman and quasi-kinsman. There is oneother unpleasant story, which so far as is known first appeared inprint in 1764, in the second edition of John Harris' Collection ofVoyages (i, 917), to this effect -In comment on the mildness of thepenalties usually inflicted in the East India Government, it ismentioned that President Yale hanged one of his grooms for riding afavorite horse of his without leave, for two or three days' journeyinto the country to take the air; but that Yale was tried on hisreturn to England and heavily fined for the misdemeanor. Later writersenlarge the account by stating that his return to England was in orderto meet his trial for this murder. The whole implication in the storyas first told, is that it was an incident of his presidency; but asthis does not appear among the various charges against him at the timeand as full seven years elapsed before his return, and as no recordsof the trial can be discovered in England, there is some doubt aboutthe evidence. Not that it disagrees with his character; for it isstated that the conclusion of any who study the original documentsmust be that our hero, if hero at all, was like the image inNebuchadnezzar's dream; part of fine gold and part of iron and clay.His surroundings must be his most effective defence for a record ofarrogance, cruelty, sensuality, and greed, while in power at Madras.In 1699, however, at the age of fifty-one, he sailed for England. Hefound that his father, mother and brothers had died, and one of hisfirst acts was to prove, as sole survivor of the family, the will mademany years before. Soon after his return, he built in London a statelyresidence, in Queen's Square, Great Ormond street, a little to theeast of the present British Museum, the site of which is now probablyoccupied by a hospital, built in later years. The Square was afashionable locality, laid out and built up in the reign of QueenAnne, from whom came the name. Though now buried in the heart ofLondon, it was then, and for at least fifty years later, quite on theoutskirts of the city, and the northern side was left open for thesake of the beautiful landscape, formed by the hills of Highgate andHampstead, with the intervening fields. That his was a palatialestablishment and filled with works of art and curiosities of greatvalue, appears from the fact that he received as insurance from theSun Fire Office, in January 1719, on account of a recent fire in thishouse, the enormous sum of œ4,500 In connection with his return fromIndia the story has been handed down that the first auction ever heldin Great Britain was an auction of goods brought home with him andsold in 1700; but though this may have made an epoch in the history ofauctions, it is yet true that the system in its essentials can betraced further back:-see, for instance, Pepys' Diary for 1660 (Nov.6), for a notice of the sale by inch of candle, a method of auctionearly in vogue, both on the Continent and in England.(See, also, Notessod Queries 5th series. xii. 95.) It was on May 11, 1711, that Mr.Jeremiah Dummer, the agent at London for the Province of MassachusettsBay, as later also for the Colony of Connecticut, first mentions in aletter to the Rev. James Pier-pont of New Haven, the principal founderof the Collegiate School at Saybrook, that "Mr. Yale, formerlyGovernor of Fort St. George, who has got a prodigious estate," havingno son, is sending to Connecticut for a relation to make him his heir;that is, I suppose, to secure the descent of the landed property inWales to one of the Yale name.  "He told me lately," adds Dummer,"that he intended to bestow a charity upon some college in Oxford,under certain restrictions which he mentioned. But I think he shouldrather do it to your college, seeing he is a New England and I think aConnecticut man. If, therefore, when his kinsman comes over, you willwrite him a proper letter on that subject, I will take care to pressit home. (Bacon's Historical Discourses, 189). Pierpont was not a manto neglect such an opportunity, and no doubt when young David Yale, aboy of fifteen, son of the oldest cousin of the governor, was sentover, in the year 1714, he carried "a proper letter," describing theachievements and aspirations of the college at Saybrook. About thesame time Dummer was collecting from all his friends a gift of booksfor the college library, and when these (upwards of seven hundredvolumes in all) were received in 1714, between thirty and fortyvolumes (the most from any single donor except the collector himself)were marked as given by Governor Yale. The selection, which waspresumably his own, is an uncommonly broad one; there are goodrepresentatives of theology, history, chronology, polite literature,classics, metaphysics, natural science, medicine, political science,commerce, agriculture, military science, and architecture, providingwe may say, some foundation for every one of the present departmentsin the university which was then so completely in embryo. PresidentClap (Annals, p.23) has stated that another gift of three hundredvolumes followed this three years later; but the contemporary records,which appear to be full on this subject, have no trace of it, andthere is reason to think that the statement is a wrong inference ofClap's, from a vote passed in 1717 with reference to other gifts byDummer. In October, 1716, a majority of the trustees of the CollegiateSchool voted to remove it from Saybrook to New Haven, and in the samemonth instruction was actually begun in temporary quarters here; and ayear later the first college house was raised,-that stupendousarchitectural monstrosity, which stood till the Revolution in front ofthe present South College. We may form a good idea of its appearanceby imagining a wooden building the length of Durfee College, and ofthree-quarters its height, but of only one-half the width, and paintedmoreover a beautiful cerulean color. The trustees were utterly withoutresources to finish so elegant a building; but they had probably begunit with a more or less distinct hope of help from abroad, and in theirextremity one good friend of the college, Dr. Cotton Mather, ofBoston, was appealed to, whose powers of persuasion proved equal tothe need. On the 14th of January, 1718, he wrote to Governor Yale aremarkable letter, in which he praised skillfully the Governor'swell-known charity, and solicits his favor towards the college at NewHaven; with a happy vein of prophecy, linking the two words that hadnever been joined before, as they now stand linked to all the future."Sir," said he, "though you have felicities in your family, which, Ipray, God continue and multiply, yet certainly, if what is forming atNew Haven might wear the name of YALE COLLEGE, it would be better thana name of sons and daughters. And your munificence might easily obtainfor you a commemoration and perpetuation of your valuable name, whichwould indeed be much better than an Egyptian pyramid." (Quincy's Hist.Of Harvard University, i, 524). It is the fashion to sneer at CottonMather for his lively imagination and his overweening credulity; butno inspired vision could have given him firmer ground for his faiththat was in him. The morsel, the merest fragment of his greatpossessions, which the rich man, thoughtlessly perhaps, and possiblygrudgingly, cast on the waters, in response to this appeal, has notbeen lost or scattered. It has brought to his name great honor, andfame more enduring than any possible material structure of man.Dummer, meantime, was "endeavoring to get a present from Mr. Yale forfinishing the college;" and his interviews, seconded by such lettersas Mather's, bore welcome fruit. On June 11th, 1718, there wereshipped from Governor Yale in a vessel bound for Boston, three balesor trunks of valuable goods, to be sold for the benefit of thecollege; and with these the full-length portrait of King George I., byKneller, which still graces the college collection, an escutcheonrepresenting the royal arms, which was destroyed in the Revolution,and a large box of books, -the entire value of the gift beingestimated at œ800. An invoice of a part of the goods is stillpreserved, with its enumeration of "25 pieces of garlix (whatever thatmay be), 18 pieces of calico, 17 pieces of stuff (that is, worstedgoods), 12 pieces  I Spanish poplin, 3 pieces plain muslin, 3 piecescamlet, and 2 of black and white silk crape;" these being set down asworth œ130 at prime cost, but bringing in Boston three times thatamount. Besides there were other parcels sold unbroken at the same twohundred per cent advance, making the entire proceeds of the gift, inhard money, œ562, 12s. Three years elapsed before the goods were allsold and paid for, but it is probable the money was all swallowed upin meeting the bills for the erection of the new college, which issaid to have cost nearly œ1,000. It was a crisis in the history of theinstitution; for though it is hard to imagine the turn of events ifthe trustees had not received this help, it seems extremely doubtfulif they could have finished their new building at once; and everydelay would have strengthened immensely the faction opposed to theremoval to New Haven, which now was conducting a rival college atWethersfield, and which might very probably, but for this timelycontribution, have succeeded in endowing the rival and choking out theNew Haven original. It is saying little to note that this was by farthe largest sum which the college during the first twenty years of itsstruggling existence had received from any private person. Nor shouldwe judge from our modern notions of large endowments, that GovernorYale earned his immortality too cheaply. It was really for those timesa munificent gift; and the giver remained for a full century, thelargest individual donor to college funds; until the receipt of$10,000 in 1837 from the estate of Dr. Alfred B. Perkins, for thelibrary. The news of this great gift reached New Haven a few daysbefore the Commencement celebration. The story of that splendid andlong remembered Commencement is no doubt familiar to all who haveglanced at the annals of the college. On that bright Septembermorning, in the year 1718, "we were favored and honored," writes thecontemporary chronicler, Tutor Johnson, "with the presence of hisHonor Governor Saltonstall and his lady, and the Honorable ColonelTailer of Boston, and the Lieutenant Governor and whole SuperiorCourt," also a great number of reverend ministers and a greatconcourse of spectators. The trustees, meeting in the new building"first most solemnly" in the sonorous Latin periods still spread upontheir records, "named our college by the name of Yale College - uponwhich the Hon. Col. Tailer," who had been sent over by Queen Anne asLieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Bay, and who in anticipation ofthese festivities had made the toilsome journey from Boston,"represented Governor Yale in a speech, expressing his greatsatisfaction." At the public exercises in the church, there was apleasant rivalry in Latin compliments to the absent Maecenas from thesalutatory orator of the graduating class (a son of James Pierpont),from one of the Trustees (a grandson of John Davenport), and mostelegantly of all from that superb old Puritan, Governor Saltonstallhimself. And before they separated the Trustees composed a profuse andpainful letter of thanks, at which, as Dummer reports in due season,the old gentleman was more than a little pleased, "saving that heexpressed at first some kind of concern whether it was well in him,being a churchman, to promote an Academy of Dissenters. But when hehad discoursed the point freely, he appeared convinced that thebusiness of good men is to spread religion and learning among mankind,without being too fondly attached to particular tenets about which theworld never was, nor never will be, agreed. Besides," adds Dummer, "ifthe discipline of the Church of England be most agreeable to Scriptureand primitive practice, there's no better way to make men sensible ofit than by giving them a good learning." It is surely alike to thehonor of the givers and of the recipients that the great benefactorsof this College in its first century, Elihu Yale and George Berkeley,were both church         ELIHU, New Haven, son of the first Thomas, asDr. Stiles positively says, though in more recent times, some at NewHaven have doubted it, and offer very good presumption that he was sonof David, quoted the entry of the Merchant Taylor's school in London,where he was admited 1 Sept. 1662, went home in his youth, and about1678, preceeded to the East Indies, there resided twenty years andwent home with large estate and three daughters, two of whom marriedinto noble families, and he died in London, 22 July 1721.     Hismonumument is at Wrexham, in County Denbigh, bordering on Cheshire.The assid. antiquary, N. B. Shurtleff, in Geneal. Reg. IV. 245, in abrief, but comprehensive notice, slightly varying from Stiles, that isgiven in note to Winthrop II. 217, shows how he was Governor of theEast India Company and by his munificent legacy gained the enduringcredit, of founder of the flourishing institute of Yale College in hisnative city. Savage

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