Early American Colleges P4

Yale 1701 started “to plant and, under Divine blessing, to propagate in this wilderness the blessed reformed Protestant religion in the purity of its order and worship.” Some famous early graduates of the school included Constitution signers Jared Ingersoll, William Samuel Johnson, William Livingston, early educator Noah Webster, and other notables such as Nathan Hale, Eli Whitney, and Samuel F. B. Morse.

Princeton (College of New Jersey), 1746. One of its early presidents was a signer of the Declaration, John Witherspoon, and his educational philosophy was clear: “Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.” Some famous early graduates included signer of the Declaration Benjamin Rush; signers of the Constitution James Madison, William Paterson, and Jonathan Dayton; and Constitutional Convention delegate William Houston (who later returned to Princeton as a professor).

Content sourced from The American Story The Beginnings by David Barton and Tim Barton