Brown University History



           The foundation of Brown School can be dated to 1761, when three residents of Newport, Rhode Tropical isle drafted a petition to the typical Assembly of the colony:

Your Petitioners propose to open a literary institution or University for instructing young Men in the Languages, Math, Geography & History, & such other branches of Knowledge as should be desired. That for this End... it will be necessary... to erect an open public Building or Buildings for the boarding of the youth & the House of the Professors.

The three petitioners were Ezra Stiles, pastor of Newport's Second Congregational Church and future president of Yale; William Ellery, Jr., future signer of the Unified States Declaration of Self-reliance; and Josias Lyndon, future governor of the species. Stiles and Ellery were co-authors of the Hire of the school two years later. The editor of Stiles's papers observes, "This draft of a request connects itself with other proof of Dr. Stiles's project for a School Institution in Rhode Area, before the charter of what became Brown University or college. "

There is further documentary evidence that Stiles was making plans for a school in 1762. About January 20, Chauncey Whittelsey, pastor of the Initial Church of New Safe place, answered a letter from Stiles:

The week before last I sent you the Copy of Yale College Charter.... If you decide to make any Progress in the Affair of a Colledge, I should be pleased to listen to of it; We heartily wish you Achievement therein.
The Philadelphia Connection of Baptist Churches also had an eye on Rhode Island, home of the mother church of their denomination: the First of all Baptist Church in America, founded in Providence in 1638 by Roger Williams. The Baptists were as yet unrepresented among colonial time colleges; the Congregationalists acquired Harvard and Yale, the Presbyterians had the School of New Jersey (later Princeton), and the Episcopalians had the College of William and Mary and King's College (later Columbia). Isaac Backus was the historian of the Fresh England Baptists and an inaugural Trustee of Brown leafy, writing in 1784. This individual described the October 1762 resolution taken at Phila.

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