Initially, non-Quaker children paid higher tuition and had to agree to conform to specific standards before they could be admitted to the school. From 1819 to 1902 the school was known as the Friends’ Meeting School, before being renamed the Moses Brown School, in honor of its most important benefactor, in the 1920s.ĭesigned by renowned Providence architect John Holden Greene, the new school opened its doors on January 1, 1819. Still believing in the importance of an education built upon the ethical values of the Friends Society, in 1814 Brown donated forty-three acres of land in Providence for the reestablishment of the school. More than thirty years would pass before the school’s reemergence. In 1784, the Friends’ Yearly Meeting School opened in Portsmouth, only to close after another four years due to low enrollment and budget concerns. He had a keen interest in the school from the start. Six years later, in 1780, Moses donated $575 to the Friends of New England for the establishment of a school (for both Quaker and non-Quaker children) in Rhode Island. He joined the Society of Friends, or Quakers, in 1774 after the death of his first wife, Anna. Moses was also a reformer, serving as a deputy in the Rhode Island General Assembly from 1764 to 1771, and actively opposing the Stamp Act in 1765. and run by Moses and his brothers Nicholas, John, and Joseph. He was also a merchant, working for his uncle Obadiah at Obadiah Brown & Co., later Nicholas Brown & Co.
He became an abolitionist, and manumitted his slaves in 1773 he did this although other members of the Brown family were slave traders. Born in 1738, Moses Brown was the youngest of the five brothers born into the prominent Brown family.
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