The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

276 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
ter the expiration of five years, there shall be reserved out of
the revenue and income of said building the sum of ~10 annually forever, to be exhibited at the discretion of the President
and Fellows of said College for the time being, towards the
support and education of some poor scholar at the College as
they shall judge most indigent and deserving-a minister's
son to have the preference of others. Provided, nevertheless,
when any of my own kindred, descended either from, my father
or my Uncle Thomrnas Stoughton, late of Windsor, in tlfe
Colony of Connecticut, deceased, shall happen to be a student
at the College and stand in need of support, such shall be
preferred in the first place to the said exhibition, and next to
them any poor scholar that shall come from the town of Dorchester within this Province, and that none receive the benefit
of this exhibition that shall not actually reside at the College,
nor for any longer than that he shall receive the degree of A. M.
And as a further testimony of my desire to promote the
good literature and education of such therein as may be serviceable to God and the Church, I do further give and bequeath unto the President and Fellows of Harvard College
and their successors forever, all that my pasture in Dorchester, vwhich is now in the occupation of John Piobinsonand all that my parcel of salt meadow, which is in the occupation of John Trescott, willing and appointing the clear
profits and income of both to be exhibited in the first place to
a scholar of the town of Dorchester, and if there be none such,
then to a scholar of the town of Milton, and in want of such,
to any Indian student, and in want of such, to any other welldeserving scholar that may be most needy.
The epitaph on his tomb is one of the most comprehensive and elegant ever written. It is almost
the same as the one inscribed on the tomb of Blaise
Pascal, the famous French Philosopher, who died in
1662, and which was written by Aimonius Proust
de Chambourg, Professor of Law in the University
of Orleans. Gov. Stoughton's friend Cotton Mather