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The Colonial Colleges

NAME
 LOCATION FOND. CHART. DENOM.
Harvard College
(Harvard University)
 Province of Massachusetts Bay
 1636 1650 Puritan
College of William and Mary
 Colony and Dominion of Virginia
 1693 1693 Anglican
King William’s School
(St. John’s College)
 Province of Maryland
 1696 1784 Non-denominational
Yale College (Yale University)
 Connecticut Colony
 1701 1701 Congregationalist
Moravian College
 Province of Pennsylvania
 1742 1863 Moravian
Newark
Academy
(Univ. of Delaware)
 Delaware Colony
 1743 1833 Non-sectarian
College of New Jersey (Princeton University)
 Province of New Jersey 1746 1746 Presbyterian
Augusta Academy
(Washington and Lee University)
 Colony and Dominion of Virginia
 1749 1782 Non-sectarian
Public Academy of Philadelphia (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
 Province of Pennsylvania
 1749 1755 Non-sectarian
King’s College
(See below)
 Province of New York 1754 1754 Anglican
Rhode Island College (Brown University)
 Colony of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations 		1764 1764 Baptist
Queen’s College
(Rutgers University)
 Province of New Jersey 1766 1766 Dutch Reformed
Dartmouth College Province of New Hampshire 1769 1769 Congregationalist
College of Charleston Province of South Carolina 1770 1785 Non-sectarian
Salem College Province of North Carolina 1772 1866 Moravian
Hampden-Sydney College Colony and Dominion of Virginia 1775 1783 Presb.

Note One: “Non-denom.” should be interpreted as Christian but not of a denominational nature. “Non-sectarian” should be interpreted as secular and having little or nothing to do with religion.

Note Two: King’s College in New York has two successor institutions: King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Columbia University in New York, New York. The largest portion of the faculty of King’s College in New York fled north and in 1789 refounded the college in Windsor, Nova Scotia. However, the original buildings of King’s College were usurped by a new institution called Columbia College four years earlier in 1784.

King’s College formerly counted its foundation from 1754, while Columbia used the 1784 date. However, this has since switched and Columbia now proudly (though perhaps dubiously) claims 1754 as its foundation while King’s College more safely uses 1789.

Perhaps both institutions have a shared right to the founding date, as the loyal alumni continued their allegiance to King’s in Nova Scotia while the rebellious graduates considered Columbia the rightful heir. As stated, Nova Scotia had more of the people from the original foundation, whereas New York had little more than the physical building and a few of the graduates. I would be inclined to award 1754 to King’s College and 1784 to Columbia, (but then I’m biased against Columbia for being such a fallen institution).

Published at 4:54 pm on Friday 29 July 2005. Categories: New York Tradition Tags: .
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