ott 25
Solomon Huntington 4
Solomon Tarbox 15
Elisha Mack 10
David Carver 10
Adam Waters 10
Samuel Bicler, Jr. 14
Ichabod Phelps 20
Ichabod Phelps, Jr. 10
Eliphalet Young 10
Samuel Gilbert 65
Benjamin Buell 20
Thomas Tarbox 10
Mr. Wheelock's correspondence indicates that the School was kept one
year at Hebron, by Mr. Alexander Phelps.
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"At a meeting of the First Company of the Delaware Purchasers (so
called), held by adjournment at the Town-house in Norwich, on the 3d
day of January, A. D. 1769,
"Voted that this Company do now grant to the Indian Charity School
under the care of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D., of Lebanon, six miles
square of land, to be laid out on the westermost part of this
Company's purchase upon Delaware River, upon condition said School
shall be erected on the Susquehannah Purchase (so called).
"The above is a true copy of the vote of the First Company of the
Delaware Purchasers.
"Test Elisha Tracy, Clerk for said Company."
"At a meeting of the Second Company of the Delaware Purchasers (so
called), held by adjournment at the Town-house in Norwich, on the 3d
day of January, A. D. 1769,
"Voted that this Company do now grant to the Indian Charity School
under the care of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D., of Lebanon, six
miles square of land, to be laid out for the use of said School on the
westermost part of this Company's purchase of land upon Lacawack
River, upon condition said School shall be erected upon the
Susquehannah Purchase, so called.
"The above is a true copy of the vote of the Second Delaware Company.
"Test Elisha Tracy, Clerk for said Company."
In September, 1768, Messrs. Williams, Woodbridge, Sergeant, Willard,
Brown, Goodrich, Gray, Pixley, Jones, Curtis, Bement, Wilson,
Stoddard, Bouton, Dean, Fuller, and others, proposed to give various
sums, ranging from $5 to L150, provided the College, should be
located, agreeably to their wishes, at Stockbridge, Mass. During the
same year, Zephaniah Batcheller writes from Albany, stating that
Captain Abraham J. Lansing will give, in all, more than two hundred
acres of land, suitably located for buildings and other uses, and
worth L2,500, provided the College is located at Lansingburg, N. Y.
"Province of New Hampshire, Ju
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