Moor's Charity School was founded in 1754 in Lebanon, Connecticut (now in the town of Columbia[1]), by the Puritan Calvinist[2] minister Eleazar Wheelock to provide education for Native Americans who desired to be missionaries to the native tribes.

Eleazar Wheelock became involved in education when Samson Occom, a Mohegan Native American, asked Rev.

The fundraising effort was extremely successful, raising 12,000 pounds in donations.

Samson Occom charged, "All the money has done is, it has made Doctor's [Wheelock] family very grand in the World.

"[5] The school survived for only a fairly short time, as Connecticut was located far from Native American territories on the frontier of the British colonies in North America, and because Wheelock desired to expand the institution to include a school for Europeans.