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Princeton University was founded in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, shortly before moving into the newly built Nassau Hall in Princeton. In 1783, for about four months Nassau Hall hosted the United States Congress , and many of the students went on to become leaders of the young republic.
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Princeton was founded before the American Revolutionary War. The borough is the home of Princeton University, one of the world's most acclaimed research universities, which bears its name and moved to the community in 1756 from the educational institution's previous location in Newark.
Colony or state Founded Chartered Religious influence King William's School (absorbed by St. John's College when the latter was founded) Province of Maryland: 1696 1784 Church of England: Kent County Free School (absorbed by Washington College when the latter was founded) Province of Maryland: 1723 1782 Nonsectarian Bethlehem Female Seminary
The Ohio Country, showing present-day U.S. state boundaries. The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans.
Plymouth Colony is founded in what would be Massachusetts, by the Plymouth Company. 1621 – Anthony Johnson is held as an Indentured servant in the Colony of Virginia. 1622 – Indian massacre of 1622 in Virginia. 1624 – King James I revokes the Virginia Company's charter, and Virginia becomes a royal
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America, and included what was thereafter "Virginia." (The Pilgrims and the Plymouth Company's successor finally established a permanent colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620, but by then the area was no longer part of Virginia.
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.