"History, with hardly a dissenting voice, accords to the English Colonists of New England, the credit of having developed those forms of action, in reference to the education of children, which contained more than any other the distinct features of the systems adopted in this cuntry." In the early colonial times, before the revolution, there were nine colleges established in seven out of the thirteen colonies. These colleges, with the date of their foundation, are as follow:-- 1. Harvard--Massachusetts, in 1638 2. William and Mary--Virginia, in 1693 3. Yale--Connecticut, in 1700 4. Nassau Hall (now Princeton)--New Jersey, in 1748 5. Kings (now Columbia)--New York, in 1754 6. Brown--Rhode Island, in 1765 7. Dartmouth--New Hampshire, in 1770 8. Queen's (now Rutgers)--New Jersey, in 1771 9. Hampden--Sydney, Virginia, in 1775 The Legislature of Massachusetts, aided by the Rev. John Harvard, founded Harvard Congregational College, in 1638, and the colonists of Connecticut, established the Yale Congregation College in 1700.[15] [15] "The project of founding a College in Connecticut was early taken up (in 1652), but was checked by well-founded remonstrance from Massachusetts, who (sic), very justly observed that the whole population of New England was scarcely sufficient to support one institution."--President Dwight's _Travels in New England_, vol. I. p. 168. The Legislature made a grant of £50 a year to Yale College, from 1701 to 1750, when "it was discontinued on account of the heavy taxes occasioned by the late _Canadian_ War."--C. K. Adams, in _North American Review_ for October, 1875, p. 381. The New Hampshire colonists endowed the Congregational College at Dartmouth with 44,000 acres of land in 1770. The Episcopalians of the English colony of New York, aided by the Legislature, founded King's now Columbia College, in 1753. Indeed, so true were the English colonists to the educational instincts of the mother land, that when the Dutch Province of New Netherlands fell into their hands in 1644, the King's Commissioners were instructed "to make due enquiry as to what progress hath been made towards ye foundaçon and maintenance of any College Schools for the educaçon of youth."--(Colonial History of N. Y., Vol. III. p. 53.)