Author: Thomas Bradbury Chandler

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781331180074

Excerpt from The Life of Samuel Johnson, D.D: The First President of King's College, in New York; Containing Many Interesting Anecdotes; A General View of the State of Religion and Learning in Connecticut During the Former Part of the Last Century; And an Account of the Institution and Rise of Yale C Dr. Samuel Johnson, the first President of Kings College, in New York, was born at Guilford, in Connecticut, October 14, 1696.His father Samuel, and his grandfather William, were both persons of reputation, and successively Deacons of the church in that town, which was formed on the congregational plan, at that time almost universally received throughout the New England colonies. His great-grandfather Robert, came from Kingston upon Hull, in Yorkhire, and was one of the first settlers of New Haven, about the year 1637. He was probably of the same family with Johnson, the associate of Robert Brown, the father of the Brownists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.