Memorial of the Trustees of Hancock College,

by their Committee. January 20, 1819. Read and ordered to lie upon the table by Hancock College, Abraham R. Ellery, Eleazer Wheelock Ripley

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5 pp., 1blank . 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound, leaves loose, light browning, else a very good copy. Item #22971 Document number 103. Addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives, this is a request for endowment of lands and/or funds for Hancock College, an institution established to accomadate the bilingual nature of many of the inhabitants of its area in Hancock County, Mississippi, at the Bay of Saint Louis.

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