Consecrated to the memory of Mary Of the family of Brinsmead in Milford, Connecticutt And consort of Eleazer Wheelock S.T.D. President of Dartmouth College &c She lived in the fear of God And in the lively exercise of the Christian virtues till her departure in 1783 Anno aetatis 69 (This line not legible)

In testimony of filial reverence This monument was erected and inscribed by John Wheelock in the year 1810.

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Hic quiescit corpus Eleazer Wheelock S. T. D. Academici Morensis, et Collegii Dartmuthensis Fundatoris, et primi praesidis. Evangelio barbaros indomuit; Et e.xcultis nova scientiae patefecit Viator I, et imitare Si poteris Tanta meritorium praemia laturus. MDCCX natus; MDCCLXXIX obiit. __________ Here rests the body of Eleazer Wheelock S.T.D. Founder, and first president, of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity School. By the gospel he subdued the ferocity of the savage; And to the civilized he opened new paths of science. Traveler, Go, if you can, and deserve The sublime reward of such merit. He was born in the year 1710; and died in 1779. _____________ Pietate filii Johannis Wheelock, Hoc monumentum constitum inscriptumque fuit Anno MDCCCX

* See also following pages 8 and 9.

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10 Inscript. on west face;

Mary wife of George Wheeler Esq. Died Feb. 22, 1828 aged 39 years

11 Table stone;

Here are deposited the remains of Mrs. Mary, Consort of the Hon. B. Woodward, and daughter of the Rev. E. Wheelock, D.D. born Sept. 8th. 1748, died March 26th. 1807. She was a dutiful daughter, an inestimable companion, a tender mother, and a kind neighbor. The religion of JESUS shone in her life, and brightened her path through the vale of death. Her example hath left an indelible impression on the hearts of her acquaintance, who while they lament their loss, rejoice in her gain. Her remembrance will last when this marble is defaced, and the latest reader of this inscription is numbered with the dead.

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Lot No. 93 (con.) (7)

15 Table stone;

Gulielmo H. Woodward natu inter filios nostrae leuphaniae primo, virtute primo jurisconsulto insigni Bonarum litterarum fautori assiduo patrifamilliae optimo CIVI CIVIUM benemerito, vita publicis numerus exacta, pietate ornata filii dolentes, ne tantl ingenii. tantarumque virtutum, memoria omnio perisset hoc monumentarum, magni amoris parvum munus, posuere. Natus Sep. XVII. MDCCLXXIV Obiit Aug. IX. MDCCCXVIII ___________

Note; On June 19, 1954, the ashes of Harold H. Pratt were scattered around the base of the Eleazar Wheelock stones. See card.

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Wheelock, Eleazar, 1711-1779

Eleazar Wheelock was a New Light Congregationalist minister who founded Dartmouth College. He was born into a very typical Congregationalist family, and began studying at Yale in 1729, where he fell in with the emerging New Light clique. The evangelical network that he built in college propelled him to fame as an itinerant minister during the First Great Awakening and gave him many of the contacts that he later drew on to support his charity school for Native Americans. Wheelock’s time as an itinerant minister indirectly brought about his charity school. When the Colony of Connecticut retroactively punished itinerant preaching in 1743, Wheelock was among those who lost his salary. Thus, in 1743, he began operating a grammar school to support himself. He was joined that December by Samson Occom, a Mohegan Indian, who sought out an education in hopes of becoming a teacher among his people. Occom’s academic success inspired Wheelock to train Native Americans as missionaries. To that end, he opened Moor’s Indian Charity School in 1754 (where he continued to train Anglo-American students who paid their own way as well as students who functionally indentured themselves to Wheelock as missionaries in exchange for an education). Between 1754 and 1769, when he relocated to New Hampshire, Wheelock trained approximately 60 male and female Native American students from nearby Algonquian tribes and from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of central New York. At the same time, he navigated the complicated politics of missionary societies by setting up his own board of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, although he continued to feud with the Boston Board of the SSPCK and the London Commissioners in Boston (more colloquially called the New England Company). By the late 1760s, Wheelock had become disillusioned with the idea of Native American education. He was increasingly convinced that educating Native Americans was futile (several of his students had failed to conform to his confusing and contradictory standards), and, in late 1768, he lost his connection to the Haudenosaunee. With his inclination and ability to sponsor Native American missionaries largely depleted, Wheelock sought instead to fulfill his ultimate ambition of obtaining a charter and opening a college, which he did in 1769. To fund this new enterprise, Wheelock drew on the £12,000 that Samson Occom had raised for Moor’s Indian Charity School during a two-and-a-half year tour of Great Britain (1765 to 1768). Much of this money went towards clearing land and erecting buildings in New Hampshire for the Charity School’s relocation — infrastructure that also happened to benefit Dartmouth. Many of Wheelock’s contemporaries were outraged by what they saw as misuse of the money, as it was clear that Dartmouth College was not intended for Indians and that Moor’s had become a side project. Although Wheelock tried to maintain at least some commitment to Native American education by recruiting students from Canadian communities, the move did a great deal of damage to his public image. The last decade of Wheelock’s life was not easy. In addition to the problems of trying to set up a college far away from any Anglo-American urban center, Wheelock experienced the loss of relationships with two of his most famous and successful students, Samson Occom and Samuel Kirkland (an Anglo-American protégé). He also went into debt for Dartmouth College, especially after the fund raised in Britain was exhausted.

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