Abstract
THE NATURE of the American college during the Colonial and early national periods has concerned many educational historians. Questions of curricula, organization and finance have been frequently posed and often answered. Yet these approaches have ignored perhaps the most central element in the collegiate scene: the professors. (i) Professors were the most important members of the college. They provided the vital link between the academic world and the neophyte student. They were the intellectual essence of the college community, but little is known of them. Several questions arise. Where were they educated, and what were their intellectual accomplishments? What was the nature of their family backgrounds? What were their relationships to college teaching as an occupation?
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