A handsome donation of school-books, slates, and pencils was made by the Greek School Committee in New York, and forwarded to the President of Greece, through the American Board.

It was gratefully acknowledged by the government.
In the autumn of 1830, Mr.King, anticipating the evacuation of Athens by the Turks, made a visit to that city, then a ruin, and arranged for his future residence.

In April of the next year, having resumed his connection with the American Board, he made a second visit, and opened a Lancasterian school for both sexes; placing a Greek, named Nikotoplos, at the head of it, who was author of an epitome of the Gospels.

The school was soon filled.

He purchased from a Turk, with private funds and at a nominal cost, the ruins of a stone edifice with a garden, and there built himself a home, to which he removed his family.