The administration of the earlier hospitals for mental diseases was placed very wisely in the hands of local boards of directors, managers or trustees. These were made up of persons prominent in the community in which they lived, well known as having a keen interest in humanitarian movements, and fully deserving of the confidence reposed in them by the public. They received no compensation other than the satisfaction of having served in a worthy cause. The state hospital at Williamsburg, Virginia, the first of its kind in America, was controlled by a court of directors which was made up of some of the most prominent Virginians of colonial days. It included Thomas Nelson, Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence who served with distinction in the Revolutionary War, Peyton Randolph, the President of the first Continental Congress, and George Wythe, the preceptor in law of both Marshall and Jefferson, as well as a signer of the Declaration of Independence and professor of law at William and Mary College, together with various other distinguished citizens, some perhaps of less prominence, but all men of the highest standing in Virginia. The first "court" consisted of fifteen members. The second state institution, the Maryland Hospital, under the management of the city of Baltimore for some years, was eventually placed under the control of a board of visitors in 1828. Kentucky's first hospital was from the beginning in the charge of a board of ten commissioners. When the second Virginia institution was opened at Staunton, the form of organization adopted at Williamsburg was duplicated and a court of directors appointed. There were, however, thirteen instead of fifteen members. The state hospital at Columbia, South Carolina, was originally, and still is, under a board of regents. The Massachusetts hospitals, dating from the opening of Worcester in 1833, have always had trustees. The Vermont Asylum, later the Brattleboro Retreat, was also managed by a board of trustees, as was the New Hampshire State Hospital at Concord. The Georgia State Sanitarium, opened in the same year, adopted a similar form of control. The Utica State Hospital has been conducted from the first by a board of managers, a term which is generally used by the New York institutions. When the Trenton State Hospital was founded it was placed under a board of ten managers, more or less along the lines followed at Utica. The State Hospital at Raleigh, North Carolina, had a board of directors. For many years the earlier institutions for mental diseases were under no other form of control, the powers of the trustees being absolute. This is still the case in a few states. Usually, however, there is some additional form of supervision.