NEW HAMPSHIRE RECOVERS DARTMOUTH CHARTER DRAFT

One of the original drafts of the charter of Dartmouth College is among a collection of documents of extraordinary historical interest into possession of which the state of New Hampshire has come recently. Interlineations in the charter draft show what Dartmouth men know, that the college was established to educate Indian youths as well as white. "The Christian Science Monitor", in which an account of the charter and other papers appears, notes that the instruction of English youths "was to be a consideration secondary to that of civilizing the savage tribes of North America."

The Dartmouth charter draft was found among papers left by the late Joseph B. Moore, Jr. of New York. The state of New Hampshire, alleging that Mr. Moore could not have had title to the papers, filed suit. Title was established by attorneys for the Moore estate who showed the papers had passed into the Moore family's possession from that of Nathaniel Weare, son of Meshech Weare, New Hampshire's Revolutionary war governor. The state then bought the papers for $3,000.