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Excerpt from Princeton in American History
Twelve years earlier, on October 22, 1746, the College of New Jersey had been chartered by Governor Hamilton, an act notable in American history because the first ofits kind performed without authorization from England or the con sent even of the provincial legislature. The institution was opened under President Dickinson in May 1747, at E'liza bcthtown. After his death, which occurred in October of the same year, the few students were transferred to Newark and put under the care of the Rev. Aaron Burr, one of the twelve trustees. On the fourteenth ofthe following Septem ber, Jonathan Belcher, just appointed governor, granted anew charter fuller and more formal than the first. His interest in the college was from the outset very great, and his Opin ion, already formed, that Princeton was the most desirable spot for its permanent site, ultimately prevailed, the citizens of the hamlet proving more active and liberal than those of New Brunswick, already a good-sized town, to which like wise terms were proposed for fixing the college in that place.
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