Appendix to report of the committee appointed to inquire into facts relative to the Amherst Collegiate Insitution, 1825 January 8
Description:
Pamphlet of extracts from several documents created as an appendix to a report made by a Massachusetts legislative committee on the Amherst Collegiate Institution. The sections of the pamphlet are labeled A-F and include copies of A Constitution and System of By-Laws of the Charity Fund from May 23, 1818, the Subscription for the Collegiate Charity Institution in Amherst, Massachusetts from June 28, 1822, also called the Thirty Thousand Dollar Subscription, a blank Charity Fund subscription form, the July 6, 1819 Guaranty Bond of David Parsons, Jarib White, Calvin Merrill, Enos Baker, John Leland, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, Elijah Boltwood, Hezekiah Wright Strong, and Joseph Church which notes their obligation of a sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the founding of the Charity Fund, notes from Rufus Graves regarding Charity Fund subscriptions, J.E. Trask, Nathaniel Smith, and John Fisk note regarding subscriptions to the Thirty Thousand Dollar Subscription made by minors and females, and the Zephaniah Swift Moore and Trustees of Williams College request that Williams College be moved to Northampton, Massachusetts and legislative notes on the request. The report that refers to this pamphlet as an accompanying document was written by Joseph E. Sprague and is in Box 3 Folder 17 of this collection.
Amherst College was conceived out of the previously existing Amherst Academy and was founded in 1821 as the Collegiate Institution. From 1821-1825 the College was known primarily as the Collegiate Institution or the Amherst Institution. In 1825 the institution was granted charter by the Massachusetts State Legislature and was thereafter known as Amherst College.
Notes (date):
This item is undated; the date provided is that of the report it accompanied.
