Founding Purpose and Missionary Aim
- When
- 1769
- Where
- Hanover, New Hampshire
- Part of
- Dartmouth College Charter
Eleazar Wheelock and Samson Occom established Dartmouth in 1769 to train Native American Christian missionaries, as one of nine colonial colleges.
Dartmouth was established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock and Samson Occom to train Native American Christian missionaries, making it one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The charter's language proclaimed the institution was created for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing and all parts of Learning, as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences, and also of English Youth and any others.
Sources
- Dartmouth College Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-30
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