* 1703 – Thomas Clap, American minister and academic ( d. 1767 )

Yale was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period — the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment — thanks to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles.

* June 26 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University ( d. 1767 )

* January 7 – Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University ( b. 1703 )

As head of Yale College, Thomas Clap was both the last to be called " rector " ( 1740 – 1745 ) and the first to be referred to as president ( 1745 – 1766 ).

Book frontispiece | Frontispiece, The Annals or History of Yale College in New Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut, by Yale President Thomas Clap, 1766.

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Thomas Clap, also spelled Thomas Clapp ( June 26, 1703 – January 7, 1767 ), was an American academic and educator, a Congregational Minister, and college administrator.

Book frontispiece | Frontispiece, The Annals or History of Yale College in New Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut, by Yale President Thomas Clap, 1766.

Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clap of Yale College.

* Thomas Clap ( 1703 – 1767 )— Rector & President of Yale College

Thomas Clap, Jonathan Edwards, Burr, and Jonathan Dickinson founded the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746.

" The donation was used in 1756 by President Thomas Clap to establish the Livingstonian Professorship of Divinity.

His paternal grandfather, Nathan Perkins Seymour, was the great-great grandson of Thomas Clap, who was President of Yale in the 1740s.

In 1753, President Thomas Clap began holding separate Sunday worship services for students in the college instead of at First Church, because he felt that the minister, Joseph Noyes, was theologically suspect.

Timothy Pitkin ( Yale 1747 ), great-granddaughter Governor William Pitkin and the Reverend Thomas Clap, who was the fifth President of Yale College ; and a descendant of Governors George Wyllys and John Haynes of Connecticut and Governor Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony.

In 1755, the Yale Corporation persuaded him to return to New Haven to assist President Thomas Clapp in the pulpit, and to be considered for appointment as a college professor.

There have been twelve more presidents in its history: Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer, Helen Almira Shafer, Julia Josephine Thomas Irvine, Caroline Hazard, Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Mildred H. McAfee ( later Mildred McAfee Horton ), Margaret Clapp, Ruth M. Adams, Barbara Wayne Newell, Nannerl Overholser Keohane ( later the president of Duke University from 1993 – 2004 ), Diana Chapman Walsh and H. Kim Bottomly.

Clapp, along with Hiram F. Stevens, Ambrose Tighe, Thomas D. O ' Brien, and Clarence Halbert, was also a co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law.

On March 6, 1745, Wooster married Marie Clapp, the daughter of Yale's president, Thomas Clapp.

Painters represented in the art collection include Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, William Keith, Jules Tavernier, Amédée Joullin, George Henry Burgess, Granville Redmond, Maynard Dixon, Childe Hassam, the " Society of Six " ( William H. Clapp, Selden Connor Gile, August Gay, Bernard Von Eichman, Maurice Logan, and Louis Siegriest ), Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Wayne Thiebaud, and Mel Ramos.

The other two founders, Thomas O ' Brien and Moses Clapp, came from Minnesota and Indiana.

In 1820 Enoch's son Thomas Clapp Perkins joined his father's law practice.

In 1855 Thomas Clapp Perkins's son Charles expanded the firm's litigation practice and became widely recognized as one of the State Capital's finest trial lawyers.

* Thomas Clapp Perkins-Connecticut State Library

A youthful exercise in Augustan heroic couplets by Thomas Cooke ( 1703 – 1756 ), employing the Roman names for all the gods.

* December 15 – Thomas Kingo, Danish poet ( d. 1703 )

Sir Thomas Webster, MP and baronet ( 1677 – 1751, created a baronet 1703, baronetcy extinct 1923 ), married the heiress Jane Cheek ( granddaughter of a wealthy merchant, Henry Whistler, to whose vast inheritance she succeeded in 1719 ).

The greatest such impact was in English-speaking countries ; the English scholar Thomas Hyde ( 1636 – 1703 ) was the first non-Persian to study him.

The area was settled around 1669 but received its patent ( to Henry Beekman, Thomas Garton, and Charles Brodhead ) only in 1703.

Samuel was the only child of the Reverend Thomas Chase ( c. 1703 – 1779 ) and his wife, Matilda Walker (?- by 1744 ), born near Princess Anne, Maryland.

Bodley wrote his autobiography up to the year 1609, which, with the first draft of the statutes drawn up for the library, and his letters to the librarian, Thomas James, was published by Thomas Hearne, under the title of Reliquiae Bodleianae, or Authentic Remains of Sir Thomas Bodley, ( London, 1703, 8vo ).

* 1703 Thomas Tompion

* Thomas Tryon ( 1634 – 1703 ), British vegetarian

* Thomas Cartwright ( architect ) ( c. 1635 – 1703 ), English architect

The present church was built by the Hospital Governors to designs by Thomas Cartwright in 1703.

* Thomas Needham, 9th Viscount Kilmorey ( 1703 – 1768 )

* Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley ( 1703 – 1766 )

Barbara Lowther ( d. 1716 ), married c. 1703 Thomas Howard of Corby ( d. 1740 )

* Thomas Lee ( 25 August 1703 – died young ).

* Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn ( died 1703 ), English Member of Parliament, nephew of Henry Jermyn

* Thomas Ayloffe ( 1703 )