Chancellor Kent at Yale 1777-1781

Excerpt from Chancellor Kent at Yale 1777-1781: A Paper Written for the Yale Law Journal Chancellor Kent (Yale 1781) was essentially and typically a Yale man. In every step of his industrious and useful life he illustrated the training of Yale, and, on many occasions throughout that life, from the beginning to the end, he took occasion to give testimony of his indebtedness to his Alma Mater. He was a Yale man also by heredity. His father, Moss Kent, was a graduate of Yale of the Class of 1752. His grandfather, the Rev. Elisha Kent, who was born in 1704, was also a graduate of Yale, of the Class of 1729. He himself writes of his grandfather as "a Presbyterian minister who was well educated at Yale College," and there can be no reasonable doubt, I think, but that the Chancellor's great-grandfather, John Kent, of Suffield, and the latter's father, Samuel Kent, the first American ancestor, who settled in Gloucester, Mass., in 1644, would also have been graduates of Yale had there been, in their day, any Yale to be graduated from! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.