Matthew Leydt (1755-1783) was the first graduate of Queen's College (now Rutgers College of Rutgers University) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University) is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University) is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey New Brunswick, also known as "the Healthcare City" or "Hub City" is a city and the County seat of Middlesex County New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
Matthew was the son of Syntje Slegt (1729-1763) (also spelled Tryntje Slecht or Sleight) and the Rev. Johannes Leydt (1718-1783), minister of the Dutch Reformed congregation at New Brunswick and at Six Mile Run in Franklin Township (both from 1748 until his death), and Trustee of Queen's College[1]Matriculating as a sophomore when instruction began in 1771, he graduated at the age of 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (A. Dutch Reformed Church (in Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk or NHK was one of many branches of churches coming out of the Protestant Reformation in Europe New Brunswick, also known as "the Healthcare City" or "Hub City" is a city and the County seat of Middlesex County Six Mile Run has been used to name several different but related features in Franklin Township Somerset County New Jersey Historic District on the National Register for other New Jersey townships with the same name see Franklin Township, New Jersey Franklin Township is a Township in Year 1771 ( MDCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a B. ) degree in 1774 —constituting the college's entire first graduating class. While at Queen's, Leydt studied under Frederick Frelinghuysen, the college's first tutor. [2]
After graduation, Leydt was licensed to entered the ministry of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1778, first being supplied by the classis to the Southampton Dutch Reformed Church in Neshaminy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he served until his death on November 24, 1783 in North Hampton, Pennsylvania, at the age of twenty-eight. Bucks County is a County located in the US state of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern
References
- ^ Franklin Township Public Schools District History, accessed 18 September 2006; and reprinted from William B. Brahms, Franklin Township, Somerset County, NJ: A History, FTPL; ISBN 0-9668586-0-3
- ^ Rutgers Through the Years Timeline accessed 18 September 2006