Then several University delegates traveled to East Greenwich, where the Charter had been granted on March 2, 1764, to present a plaque to the Old Colony House in commemoration of this event.Bicentennial celebration
On Wednesday, September 2, 1964 the annual meeting of the Corporation was held in the Colony House in Newport where the first Corporation met for the first time on the first Wednesday in September 1764, when 24 of the original incorporators took the oath of office.Bicentennial celebration
A commemorative plaque inscribed "In this building on September 5, 1764 was held the first meeting of the Corporation of ’the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island,’ now Brown University" was unveiled and installed in the Colony House.Bicentennial celebration
Walter C. Bronson edited "Poems of William Collins" and volumes of English and American poetry and prose, and was the author of "A Short History of American Literature" in 1900, and "The History of Brown University, 1764-1914," written in the sesquicentennial year of the University.Bronson, Walter C.
The first, Stephen Hopkins (1764-1785) was one of the original incorporators of the College, several times Governor of Rhode Island, a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.Chancellors
The Charter under which Brown University is governed was laid before the General Assembly at its meeting in East Greenwich beginning on the last Monday in February in 1764.Charter
The "Act for the Establishment of College or University within this Colony" was passed by the House of Magistrates on March 2, 1764, and the Upper House concurred on March 3.Charter
The preamble to the Charter of 1764 sets forth the purposes of the institution: One provision of the Charter, that of tax exemption for the faculty, became controversial in later years, was amended in 1863 and was gradually phased out after 1965.Charter
The manuscript of the original Act signed by the Clerk of Magistrates on March 2, 1764 and by the Secretary of the Upper House on March 3, is preserved in the State House.Charter
After postponement a different charter was presented at subsequent sessions and granted at the session in East Greenwich on March 2 and 3, 1764.Founding
At the first meeting of the Corporation September 5, 1764 there were present eleven of the twelve Fellows and nineteen of the 36 Trustees.Founding
In 1976 Brown Giving Clubs were established to encourage annual donations of certain amounts, the Century Club ($100-$499), the 1764 Associates ($500-$999), the Manning Fellows ($1,000-$4,999), and the Nicholas Brown Society for donors of an annual gift of $5,000, commemorating the gift of $5,000 given by Nicholas Brown 1786, which changed the name of Rhode Island College to Brown University.Fund-raising
James Manning, who had been sent to Newport in 1763 with the proposal for a Baptist college in the Colony, had settled in Warren and was soon appointed the first pastor of the new Baptist Church there, an offshoot of the church in Swansea, organized in November 1764.Location
In April 1764 Manning opened a Latin school in Warren, Rhode Island, and became the first pastor of the Warren Baptist Church founded in November 1764.Manning, James
The Corporation empowered by the Charter in 1764 was "in Fact and Name to be known by the Name of Trustees, and Fellows of the College or University in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America the Trustees and Fellows at any time hereafter giving such more particular Name to the College in Honor of the greatest & most distinguished Benefactor or otherwise as they shall think proper ..." Thus the college was known as Rhode Island College, and even sometimes casually referred to as Providence College.Name
"Two Centuries of Brown Verse, 1764-1964" was selected and edited by Sharon Brown as a Bicentennial Publication in 1965.Poetry
He is a member of the Board of Fellows, as prescribed by the Charter of 1764, which listed the names of the "the present Fellows and Fellowship to whom the President when hereafter elected "who shall forever be of the Denomination called Baptist or Antepedo Baptist" – the words in italics are an interlineation – "shall be joined to compleat the Number.""President
The pendant on the chancellor’s chain is the present seal of the University surrounded by laurel, suspended from the likeness of the first chancellor, Stephen Hopkins, in the middle of the date of founding, 1764.President’s chain and pendant
The "Brunonian" of February 12, 1878 included this description of the new Library Building: The four inscriptions were, first, the commemoration of the donor John Carter Brown, noting in Latin his dates of birth and death and his bequest of the building; second, the dates of the beginning and completion of the building; third, that the University was founded in 1764 and received its name in 1804 from Nicholas Brown; and fourth, an extract form the Book of Proverbs.Robinson Hall
It is permissible to use the shield by itself without the crest, torse or motto, to vary the shape of shield provided it does not approach the lozenge (diamond) shape used for women’s arms, and to place a scroll lettered "Brown" and "1764" above the shield.Seal