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Jonathan Dickinson (April 22, 1688 – October 7, 1747) was a Congregational, later Presbyterian, minister, a leader in the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University.
26. Nov. 2013 · Jonathan Dickinson 1747 After graduating from the Collegiate School of Connecticut (later known as Yale University), Dickinson studied theology and became minister of the Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
18. Apr. 2024 · Jonathan Dickinson (born April 22, 1688, Hatfield, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1747, Elizabethtown, New Jersey) was a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of the American colonial period and the first president of Princeton University.
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Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747) was a critical figure in the founding of the College of New Jersey, helping to secure the college’s charter and serving as its first president. Dickinson studied theology at what would become Yale College before his ordination as a Presbyterian minister in Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1709.
Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747), Princeton's first President, died after only four and a half months in office and is chiefly remembered for having been the leader of the little group who, in his words, "first concocted the plan and foundation of the College."
In early 1746, a group of New Lights hatched a plan for a college in New Jersey to educate young men for the ministry. The four original founders— Jonathan Dickinson , Aaron Burr Sr. , John Pierson, and Ebenezer Pemberton Jr.—were all Presbyterian ministers from eastern New Jersey.
Jonathan Dickinson spearheaded the establishment of the College of New Jersey in 1746, amidst the religious upheaval of the First Great Awakening.
