Conceived in Liberty Volume 2 - Ludwig von Mises Institute

While the great bulk of Pennsylvania Germans were Lutherans or
Reformed, a small but influential group of Moravians, or United Brethren, a
pacifist pietist sect, came to Pennsylvania in the 1740s. Founding such towns
as Bethlehem and Nazareth, the Moravians furnished many missionaries to
the Indians, as well as virtually introducing choral music and establishing
numerous schools and ladies' seminaries in Pennsylvania.
The mid-eighteenth century, indeed, saw a considerable expansion of
higher education in America. The Southern gentlemen had William and Mary
College, the liberal Puritans had Harvard, and the rigidly orthodox, Yale.
Now several influential new colleges were founded in the colonies. The Presbyterians
founded the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) in 1746.
Although Princeton was founded by English and mainland Scots rather than
by Ulstermen, the college provided the indispensable source for training new
ministers for the Scotch-Irish and for educating their leading citizens. In Philadelphia,
the Reverend William Smith and Benjamin Franklin organized
in 1755 a new liberal nonse