He had maintained a school on it, at his own expense, till the eleventh of November, 1842.
While in Philadelphia the winter before, he became acquainted with the trustees of the late Samuel Emlen, a Friend of New Jersey.

He left by his will $20,000 for the "support and education in school learning and the mechanic arts and agriculture, boys, of African and Indian descent, whose parents would give them up to the school.

They united their means and purchased Wattles farm, and appointed him the superintendent of the establishment, which they called the Emlen Institute."-- See Howe's _Historical Collections_, p.

356.] [Footnote 19: Howe's _Historical Collections_, p.

355.] [Footnote 20: _Manuscripts_ in the possession of J.E.