Princetonians, 1748-1768
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Aaron Burr
Alumnus
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Baptists
Battle of Long Island
Benedict Arnold
Benjamin Rush
Brown University
Career
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Chaplain
Charity school
Charles Chauncy
Charles Willson Peale
Clergy
Committees of safety (American Revolution)
Congregational church
Continental Congress
Dartmouth College
David Brainerd
David Mathews
Dickinson College
Eleazar Wheelock
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Ezra Stiles
First Continental Congress
Francis Barber
George Whitefield
Graduation
Grammar school
Half-Way Covenant
Hartford Convention
His Family
Isaac Watts
James Manning (minister)
John Dixwell
John Witherspoon
Joseph Bellamy
Joseph Brant
Josiah
Luther Martin
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
Mecklenburg Resolves
Morgan Edwards
My Country
Myles Cooper
Nassau Hall
New York Provincial Congress
Newspaper
Oliver Ellsworth
Pastor
Physician
Pierpont Edwards
Presbyterianism
Princeton University
Prison ship
Provincial Congress
Rembrandt Peale
Rhode Island College
Salary
Samuel Davies (clergyman)
Schoolmaster
Scottish Enlightenment
Seminary
Shays' Rebellion
Silas Deane
Slavery
Stamp Act Congress
Synod
Tax
Tories (British political party)
Whigs (British political party)
William Burnet (colonial administrator)
Product details
- ISBN 9780691616636
- Weight: 992g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Benjamin Rush, William Paterson, David Ramsay, Oliver Ellsworth, Jonathan Edwards, Jr.--these are only a few of the remarkable men who attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in its first twenty-one classes. Alumni included five members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, twenty two participants in the Continental Congress, four Senators, seven Congressmen, and two Justices of the Supreme Court. This volume describes the lives of the 338 men who graduated from the College between 1748 and 1768. Their biographies are arranged by year of graduation, and an introduction provides the early history of the College and its role in colonial culture. In sharp contrast to the graduates of other colleges at the time, Princeton's early students were either born or found their later careers in every one of the thirteen states as well as in Tennessee, Kentucky, the West Indies, and Ireland. After graduation most became clergymen, lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and soldiers. While some served as national leaders, others rose to prominence in state and local government, becoming governors, state legislators, and participants in the drafting of state constitutions.
This record of their lives is a mine of information about America during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National periods. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
