Before we enter upon the further proceedings of the Trustees, let us inform ourselves upon the men, in their personal or public characters, who now took upon themselves this Trust, and who laid upon strong foundations an edifice of learning whose history their well matured plans make it worth our while to pursue through these its earliest years. In enumerating them we follow the order of their precedence which was observed in the deed of conveyance to them of the Tenth street property in 1750 and followed in their first minutes; in the conveyance they are thus recited and described:[1]
- James Logan, Esquire
- Thomas Lawrence, Esquire
- William Allen, Esquire
- John Inglis, Merchant
- Tench Francis, Esquire
- William Masters, Esquire
- Lloyd Zachary, Practitioner in Physic
- Samuel M'Call, jr, Merchant
- Joseph Turner, Esquire
- Benjamin Franklin, Printer
- Thomas Leech, Merchant
- William Shippen, Practitioner
- Robert Strettell, Esquire
- Philip Syng, Silversmith
- Charles Willing, Esquire
- Phineas Bond, Practitioner in Physic
- Richard Peters, Esquire
- Abraham Taylor, Esquire
- Thomas Bond, Practitioner in Physic
- Thomas Hopkinson, Esquire
- William Plumsted, Esquire
- Joshua Maddox, Esquire
- Thomas White, Esquire
- William Coleman, Merchant
James Logan, born in Ireland in 1674 of honorable Scotch lineage, was now seventy-five years of age, and the foremost man in the province, eminent in public life, and a faithful adherent of the dominant religion. He had been the patient
- ↑ I am greatly indebted in compiling the personal notices of many of the Trustees to that admirable compendium of local biography and genealogy The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania by Mr. Charles Penrose Keith of the class of 1873. And for records of civic and judicial life, reference is also made to Mr. John Hill Martin's Bench and Bar of Philadelphia.
