In 1701 New Haven was designated a co-capital of the colony with Hartford. Each minister presented a donation of books, stating, “I give these books for the founding a College in this Colony.” Purchases and plans for a college library date back to 1656 but were suspended when King Charles II forced the colony to unite with Connecticut in 1665.Īccording to the early histories of Yale, a group of ten ministers led by the Reverend James Pierpont of New Haven met in nearby Branford in 1700 to found a college. It was the dream of the Reverend John Davenport, the religious leader of the colony, to establish a theocracy and a college to educate its leaders. Yale University had its beginnings with the founding of the New Haven Colony in 1638 by a band of 500 Puritans who fled from persecution in Anglican England. By Judith Schiff, Chief Research Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives Beginnings
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