Johnson "new-model" college reforms also spread quickly. Rhode Island College (now Brown University) opened in 1764 as a non-denominational college in the "new-model" style not far from where Johnson took philosophical walks with Berkeley. In 1774, members of the board of trustees of the College of William and Mary, including Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, Peyton Randolph, George Wythe, and Thomas Nelson, Jr., men who would soon pass "Lee's Resolution" and the "Declaration of Independence", proposed to reform the college on the "new-model" plan of Johnson, Franklin and Smith, which they finally accomplished in 1777. During the Revolutionary war, Johnson's protegee Provost Dr. William Smith would found two more colleges in Maryland, Washington College on the east shore, and St. James College on its west shore.