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The Baptist minister Reverend James Manning was the first to think of founding of a college in 1762. Brown University also was the first to accept students no matter the religion. Reverend Isaac Backus and the Reverend Samuel Stillman were also essential in the founding. At the same time, local Congregationalists, led by future Yale College president Ezra Stiles, were working toward a similar end. The inaugural board meeting of the Corporation of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations was held in the Old Colony House in Newport, Rhode Island. Former Royal Governors of Rhode Island under King George III Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward.

The charter had more than sixty signatories, including the brothers John, Nicholas and Moses of the Brown family, who would later inspire the College's modern name

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