Excerpt from Collections, Historical and Miscellaneous, Vol. 3: And Monthly Literary Journal In 1791, he was a Senator; chairman of the committee to report the measures necessary to be adopted to carry into effect that part of the constitution of this State directing a convention to be called, for a revision of the same was a member of that convention, vice-president of it, and on most of its important committees. In June, President Whee Iock, by desire of several of the Trustees of Dartmouth Col lege, wrote to him, to solicit the honor of his presence at: the approaching commencement, and' saying, that they should then be happy to show him respect. He added, we have a particular sense of your friendship and influence in favor of the institution. They did at that commencement confer on him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. 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.