 David and Jemima (née Leavitt) Ellsworth.He entered Yale in 1762, but transferred to the College of New Jersey (later Princeton) at the end of his second year.Along with William Paterson and Luther Martin (both of whom served with him at the Constitutional Convention in 1787) he founded the "Well Meaning Club," which became the Cliosophic Society—now part of Whig-Clio, the nation's oldest college debating club.