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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. * * * * * "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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