Request for Question Clarification by
pinkfreud-ga
on
01 Mar 2006 11:39 PST
Rhode Island College (which later became Brown University) was founded
in 1764. I've found no record of any college that was closed after
Indian attacks in Rhode Island. Could you be thinking of the College
of William & Mary, in Virginia, which is descended from the plans for
a college at Henrico?
"The College of William & Mary, over 300 years old, was the first
college planned for the United States. Its roots go back to the
College proposed at Henrico in 1619. An Indian attack on March 22,
1622, in which at least 347 people were killed, caused the plan to be
temporarily abandoned. The College is second only to Harvard
University in actual operation."
http://www.wm.edu/law/about/firsts.shtml
"1618, November 18.
The Virginia Company of London gave orders for the laying out of
grounds for a university at Henrico, of which an Indian School was to
be a branch, and endowed it with 10,000 acres of land. Henrico was on
the north side of the James River, 12 miles below the present city of
Richmond.
1619, May 26.
Sir Edwin Sandys, treasurer of the Virginia Company, reported that
£1,500 had been collected toward the proposed college, following
authorization of King James I that each bishop in England makes a
collection in his diocese for the purpose.
1619, July 31.
The General Assembly of Virginia petitioned the Company to send
workmen from England for 'erecting the University and College.'
1620, May 11.
George Thorpe was appointed by the Virginia Company as the first
deputy in charge of the College lands.
1622, March 22.
An Indian uprising left 347 colonists dead. Thorpe was killed and
Henrico annihilated. When the charter of the Virginia Company was
revoked in 1624, Virginia became a royal colony and plans for the
College were abandoned."
http://www.wm.edu/vitalfacts/seventeenth.php
Please let me know if this is the information you're seeking.
