No other student enrolled until June 20, 1766, when Richard Stites, young brother-in-law of President Manning, became the second student.Enrollment
In 1768 the faculty was doubled by the appointment of David Howell, a 1766 graduate of New Jersey College (Princeton) as a tutor.Faculty
Perez Fobes was licensed to preach, and on November 19, 1766 was ordained as pastor of a Congregational church in Raynham, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life.Fobes, Perez
In November 1766 Morgan Edwards was authorized to go to Europe to solicit benefactions and returned in 1768, having collected about $4,300.Fund-raising
Before his graduation in 1766, David Howell received a letter from Manning, suggesting that he come to Rhode Island to teach school.Howell, David
William Williams was educated at Hopewell Academy and in 1766 entered Rhode Island College, then in its second year of existence under the care of another Hopewell graduate, James Manning, in the parsonage of the Baptist Church in Warren.Williams, William