History of Colonial Colleges

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  • Harvard is founded

    John Harvard gifts half of his estate and 320 books which leads to the founding of Harvard

  • William and Mary College

    William and Mary College is founded by Anglicans

  • Yale is established

    Yale College is founded in New Haven, CT by Puritans

  • Princeton

    Princeton is founded in NJ by Presbyterians. The fourth colonial college.

  • Brown

    Brown College is founded in Rhode Island by Baptists as the 5th colonial college

  • Columbia University

    The eighth colonial college Columbia University, was founded by Anglicans in New York

  • University of Pennsylvania

    The ninth colonial college founded before the Revolution was the University of Pennsylvania

  • Rutgers College

    The sixth colonial college, Rutgers College was founded in New Jersey by Theodore J. Frelinghuysenand of the Dutch Reformed Church

  • Dartmouth

    The seventh colonial college,Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, grew out of an Indian missionary school