Oliver
Ellsworth was born on April 29, 1745, in Windsor, CT, to Capt. David and Jemima
Ellsworth. He entered Yale in 1762 but transferred to the College of New Jersey
(later Princeton) at the end of his second year. He continued to study theology
and received his A.B. degree after 2 years. Soon afterward, however, Ellsworth
turned to the law. After 4 years of study, he was admitted to the bar in 1771.
The next year Ellsworth married Abigail Wolcott.
William Samuel Johnson, Connecticut
William
Samuel Johnson was the son of Samuel Johnson, the first president of King's
College (later Columbia College and University). William was born at Stratford,
CT, in 1727. His father, who was a well-known Anglican clergyman-philosopher,
prepared him for college and he graduated from Yale in 1744. About 3 years later
he won a master of arts degree from the same institution and an honorary
master's from Harvard.
Roger Sherman, Connecticut
In
1723, when Sherman was 2 years of age, his family relocated from his Newton, MA,
birthplace to Dorchester (present Stoughton). As a boy, he was spurred by a
desire to learn and read widely in his spare time to supplement his minimal
education at a common school. But he spent most of his waking hours helping his
father with farming chores and learning the cobbler's trade from him. In 1743, 2
years after his father's death, Sherman joined an elder brother who had settled
in New Milford, CT.
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Oliver
Ellsworth was born on April 29, 1745, in Windsor, CT, to Capt. David and Jemima
Ellsworth. He entered Yale in 1762 but transferred to the College of New Jersey
(later Princeton) at the end of his second year. He continued to study theology
and received his A.B. degree after 2 years. Soon afterward, however, Ellsworth
turned to the law. After 4 years of study, he was admitted to the bar in 1771.
The next year Ellsworth married Abigail Wolcott.
William
Samuel Johnson was the son of Samuel Johnson, the first president of King's
College (later Columbia College and University). William was born at Stratford,
CT, in 1727. His father, who was a well-known Anglican clergyman-philosopher,
prepared him for college and he graduated from Yale in 1744. About 3 years later
he won a master of arts degree from the same institution and an honorary
master's from Harvard.
In
1723, when Sherman was 2 years of age, his family relocated from his Newton, MA,
birthplace to Dorchester (present Stoughton). As a boy, he was spurred by a
desire to learn and read widely in his spare time to supplement his minimal
education at a common school. But he spent most of his waking hours helping his
father with farming chores and learning the cobbler's trade from him. In 1743, 2
years after his father's death, Sherman joined an elder brother who had settled
in New Milford, CT.