Harvard was framed in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was at first called "New College" or "the school at New Towne". In 1638, the school got to be home for North America's first known printing press, conveyed by the boat John of London.[27][28] In 1639, the school was renamed Harvard College after perished priest John Harvard, who was a former student of the University of Cambridge. He had left the school £779 and his library of exactly 400 books.[29] The sanction making the Harvard Corporation was conceded in 1650. In the early years the College prepared numerous Puritan ministers.[30] (A 1643 production said the school's motivation was "to propel learning and sustain it to family, fearing to leave an ignorant service to the houses of worship when our present priests should lie in the dust".)[31] It offered an exemplary educational modules on the English college model—many pioneers in the state had gone to the University of Cambridge—but acclimated Puritanism. It was never subsidiary with a specific category, yet a considerable lot of its soonest graduates went ahead to end up priests in Congregational and Unitarian churches.[32]