The first graduate of Yale College. (Browning Charles, Americans of royal descent, 7th ed., Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., pg. 70).

Nathaniel Chauncey. grandson of President Chauncey, of Harvard College, was born at Hatfield, Mass., 1681, was graduated at Yale in 1702 - belonging to the first class that graduated in that college, all of whom became ministers. He was ordained at Durham in 1711, and died there in 1756 ("Recollections of a lifetime." NY : Miller & Orton & Co., 1856, v.1, p. 16)