Monis (Judah) is appointed to the faculty at Harvard College.

The first Jewish faculty member at Harvard, Judah Monis had been a dry goods merchant and teacher of Hebrew at the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue in New York. At Harvard, he is assigned to teach Hebrew and the Old Testament – but only after he agrees to convert to Christianity and be baptized in the school’s Common Hall. Monis subsequently becomes the first Jewish graduate of Harvard or any college in the Colonies when he receives a master’s degree from the school and goes on to serve as a Hebrew language instructor for 40 years. In 1735, he persuades the college to publish a Grammar of the Hebrew Language, which 200 hundred years later is found to be full of grammatical errors.