Yale follows its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School," went by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701, while meeting in New Haven. The Act was a push to make an organization to prepare clergymen and lay initiative for Connecticut. Before long, a gathering of ten Congregationalist pastors: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, Rev. James Noyes II (child of James Noyes), James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbridge, all graduated class of Harvard, met in the investigation of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to frame the school's library. The gathering, drove by James Pierpont, is presently known as "The Founders".Initially known as the "University School," the foundation opened in the home of its first minister, Abraham Pierson, in Killingworth (now Clinton). The school moved to Saybrook, and afterward Wethersfield. In 1716 the school moved to New Haven, Connecticut.