Princeton and Rutgers--the Two Colonial Colleges of New Jersey (The New Jersey Historical Series, Volume 5)

xi, 137 pp. Volume 5 in The New Jersey Historical Series. "On the eve of the American Revolution, nine little colleges lay scattered over the mainland of British North America. The four New England colonies had one each, of which Harvard, founded in 1636, was the first. There was one in New York, one in Pennsylvania, one in Virginia. New Jersey had two such colleges: Princeton, chartered in 1746, and Rutgers, in 1766. There were fourth and eighth in the chronological sequence."