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24 September 1757 A.D. Aaron Burr, 2nd President of Princeton College. While a short life, it was a life that had a long impact

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24 September 1757 A.D.   Aaron Burr, 2 nd President of Princeton College.   While a short life, it was a life that had a long impact. Dr. Rusten tells the story. Rusten, E. Michael and Rusten, Sharon. The One Year Christian History . Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2003.   Available at: http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Christian-History-Books/dp/0842355073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393302630&sr=8-1&keywords=rusten+church+history Aaron Burr was born in Connecticut.   He graduated from Yale in 1735—first in his class. He became the Pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Newark, NJ. David Brainerd caused a stir at Yale College by a judgment aspersion on a Professor. Aaron Burr and John Dickinson, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown, NJ, took an interest in Brainerd’s case.   It was a remark arising in relation to the not-so-Great Awakening. Yale’s action, however, reconfirmed decisions by the NY and NJ synods to es...