From there he came to Bedford, and from Bedford, after a little more than a year's labor, he went to Bensalem and Smithfield churches, in Pennsylvania. From there he accepted a call to Neshaminy, 1726, where a rich man, by the name of Logan, a relative of his, gave him fifty acres or land, on the Neshaminy Creek, on which to locate and carry on a school, which he had already commenced. Here he built a small house, about twenty feet square, mostly of logs, rudely

a The will of Rev. John Jones Pastor of the Chnvch of Fairfield in New England is recorded in that place. In it he mentions his wife Susanna, six children. John Eliphalet. four daughters, Sarah Wilson, widow, ninth Jones), Rebeckah Hull, Elizabeth Kill. To his eldest son John Jones, he leaves part of his library to whit the works of St. Augustine, Cbrysostom, and other Authors usually railed the '• Father's." Mr. Gold ami Mr. Tell of Fairfield were appointed overseers there on Jan'rv 17th, low. Fairfield Book of Rec vol. ii p. 6, 1005, 1675.

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shaped, cut out of the woods from the very spot where the house was erected; and being skilled in the Latin language, so as to speak and write it almost as well as his mother tongue, he continued his school, and educated some of the first and most eminent ministers that ever adorned the American pulpit. This was called the Log College, out of contempt, by its enemies. Every vestige of it has long since passed a\vay,but this was the germ whence sprung Princeton College, with all its vast influence and renown, giving character in a great measure to the intelligence and usefulness of the learned men in this country. Mr. Tennent continued till the close of life in Neshaminy, where he died May 6th, 17-16, aged seventy three years.