// it is possible write. Perhaps you are now waging Wars with girls —

is better. if it is so, remember &c.
To Simeon Dewitt In Queens College

Student.
The Latin expression is generally good, the grammar sometimes faulty; in-
dicative scripsisii for subjunctive, subjunctives fuerit and veniant, where he should
have used indicative, raelior instead of neuter melius. Memento, "remember = recol-
lect," he wrongly uses for "remember = give remembrances to." The italicized
words are (later?) additions in fainter ink, afterthoughts and corrections. That the
phrase Oollegio (should have been in Collegio) Reginae Discipulus is meant, in spite
of its position, to accompany the signature, is shown by the nominative discipulus.
That the phrase si non aliier, "if not otherwise," in the body of the letter means "if
you are contending otherwise, contending with girls," seems to be shown by the ad-
dition below, "Perhaps/* 1 etc.
59

Raritan. The name included the whole watershed of the Earitan and Mill-
stone Valleys. In a more particular way it came to mean what is now Somerville
and vicinity. Now it belongs definitely to a town just outside Somervi]le. The First
Reformed Church of Somerville is the original Earitan Church. It was served before
the Eevolutionary "War, successively, by Theodoras Jacobus Frelinghuysen, John Fre-
linghuysen and Jacob Eutsen Hardenbergh. It was first located at what is now
Mannville, a half mile south of the Finderne station, near the Earitan Eiver. The
building was burned during the war and the present site in Somerville was occupied.
