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Excerpt from Who Invented the American Steamboat?: A Statement of the Evidence That the First American Steamboat, Propelled by Means of Paddle Wheels, Was Invented, Constructed, and Successfully Operated on Connecticut River, About 1792, by Captain Samuel Morey, of Orford, N. H., And That Robert Fulton Sa Between the years 1760 and 1770 occurred a very important emigraion from the vicinity of Leb anon, Connecticut, to Orford and Hanover, New Hampshire. Rev. Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, the minis ter of Lebanon, had established a school for the edu cation of the Indians. As the number increased and his resources increased also, he determined to move the school nearer to the frontiers, both to diminish the expense of living and to be nearer the Indians. The school was therefore moved to Hanover in 1 770, and called Dartmouth College. (life qf It is probable that this removal of Dr. Wheelock and his school from Lebanon to Hanover was in a large measure due to the spirit of emigration which had already sprung up among his parishioners and their neighbors. 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.