THE BLACK BOOK OF KING'S COLLEGE
 

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Book of Misdemeanours

in King's College

New York

The first of the Kind beginning

in the year 1771
 

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Book of Misdemeanors
Alias
Black Book
Jan. &. Feb. 1771.
 

Shreevc'

Abrahams'

Bogert^
 

Skene^
 

confined to College for taking Tea-cups out of
another student's room, and denying that they
knew anything of them.—N.B. Shreeve the
most culpable.

< restored.>    liberated.
reprimanded publicly at a Visitation for having
come thro' a Hole in the College-fence, at 12.
o'clock at Night.
 

Mar. 27. & 28.                     At a Visitation.

Shreeve                suspended by y^ Committee for wilfully absent¬

ing himself the second afternoon of examina¬
tion—suspended till the next general Meeting
of Governors,
 

[p. 5]   June 22"^ 1771.

Skene suspended by the President for coming over the College-
fence at V2 P^st II. o'clock, last Night.

restored.

1  Rev. Thomas Shreve, B.A. 1773, M.A. 1776, died 1816.

2  Isaac Abrahams, B.A. 1774.

3  Cornelius Bogert, B.A. 1773 (1754-1832), lawyer [N. Y. Geneal and Biog. Record,
XXVI, 123].

* Andrew Skene, B.A. 1772 (1753-1826), Brigade-Major and Captain of Dragoons in
the British Army [A^. Y. Geneal. and'Biog.Record, XXV\, 123].