The city of New Brunswick; its history, its homes & its industries . GRANT AVENUE, LIVINGSTON MANOR 43 Sutg^rs Qlnlbg? ^(^*E^ (^ RUTGERS College was foundedas Queens College, Novem-ber I 0th, I 766. It was theeighth collegiate founding in theAmerican colonies. Harvard, Williamand Mary, Yale, Princeton, Kings (nowColumbia), Pennsylvania and Brown hadpreceded it, and Dartmouth completed thecolonial list. The College had its originespecially in the zeal for education and re-ligion shown by the Dutch colonists inNew York and New Jersey. Early inthe eighteenth century, the Reverend Theo-dorus Jacob

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The city of New Brunswick; its history, its homes & its industries . GRANT AVENUE, LIVINGSTON MANOR 43 Sutg^rs Qlnlbg? ^(^*E^ (^ RUTGERS College was foundedas Queens College, Novem-ber I 0th, I 766. It was theeighth collegiate founding in theAmerican colonies. Harvard, Williamand Mary, Yale, Princeton, Kings (nowColumbia), Pennsylvania and Brown hadpreceded it, and Dartmouth completed thecolonial list. The College had its originespecially in the zeal for education and re-ligion shown by the Dutch colonists inNew York and New Jersey. Early inthe eighteenth century, the Reverend Theo-dorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, of centralNew Jersey, distinguished pastor and evan-gelist of his time, urged the erection ofsuch a college. His son, the ReverendTheodorus Frelinghuysen of Albany, con-tinued the effort, persistently seeking thenecessary sympathy and resources both in. DEMAREST, , PRESIDENT this country and in Holland. With bothof these pioneers was associated the lay-man, Hendrick Fisher of Bound Brook,

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