Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Being so well versed in the Latin and Greek languages, I had not much occasion to study during the two first years of my collegiate life, which I have always thought had a tendency to make me idle, when, if I had rightly improved my time, it would have afforded me an opportunity for improvement in other sciences. It, however served to induce me to Dean's bounty, which I should have been a candidate for, had not the measles wholly prevented me from studying during a part of my junior and senior years.