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Article from the Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon)announcing new officers elected at a meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Useful Knowledge.

In June of 1774, the Society for the Advancement of Useful Knowledge met in Williamsburg to elect new officers and award a prize for a new invention. The meeting was reported in the Virginia Gazette newspapers, stating that John Page (1743-1808) had been chosen president of the society, and George Wythe chosen as vice-president.^[1] Also mentioned as "corresponding members" of the society are Benjamin Franklin, and Benjamin Rush.

Article text,16 June 1774

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☞ Yesterday, the Society for the Advancement of useful Knowledge met at the Capitol, when the Honourable John Page of Rosewell was chosen President, George Wythe, Esq; Vice President, Mr. James Madison, Orifessor of Natural Philosophy in the College of William and Mary, and the Reverend Mr. Robert Andrews of York, Secretaries, David Jameson, Esq; Treasurer, and Mr. James Madison, Curator.

A pecuniary Reward, and Medal, were voted to Mr. Holiday, for his Model of a very ingenious and useful Machine for threshing our Wheat.

Doctor Franklin, and Doctor Lettsom, of London, the Reverend Thomas Baldwin, and John Baldwin, Esq; of Chester, in England, Doctor Smith, Provost of the College, Doctor Morgan, Doctor Rush, and Mr. Rittenhouse, of Philadelphia, Edward Foy, Esq; of New York, Doctor Steward of Bladensburg, Maryland, and Doctor Smibert of Boston, were chosen corresponding members.

References

1. ↑ Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon), June 14, 1774, 2.

Further reading

• Richard A. Overfield, "Science in the Virginia Gazette, 1736–1780," Emporia State Research Studies 16, no. 3 (1968): 5–53.

External links

• "A Field Spacious and Untrodden: The Virginian Society for the Promotion of Usefull Knowledge," The Colonial Williamsburg Journal (Autumn 2003).]]