1798. SUBSCRIPTION LIST FOR BUILDING FIRST ACADEMY.[9]

1798. SUBSCRIPTION LIST FOR BUILDING FIRST ACADEMY.^[9]

By 1798 the school had become of enough importance to interest the prominent men of the town who got up the following subscription for the purpose of erecting a suitable building for its use. It was then dignified by the name of the Female Academy.

We the subscribers do agree to pay the Several Sums annexed to our names for the purpose of Building an House for a Female Academy to be placed upon the land of Miss Sally Pierce said Sums to be paid by the first Day August Next to such person as shall be appointed agent for the Purpose by the Majority of the Subscribers March 10th 1798.

Dolls

Tapping Reeve 40—

Elijah Wadsworth 20—

Daniel Sheldon 20—

Uriah Holmes 20—

Frederick Wolcott 20—

John R. Landon 10—

Elijah Adams 15—

Aron Smith 20—

Moses Seymour 15—

Roger Skinner 15—

Solomon Marsh 10—

Asa Morgan 10—

Julius Deming 20—

Sam^l. Seymour 10—

Isaac Baldwin Jr. 15—

Daniel Starr 10—

Moses Seymour Jr. 10—

Timothy Peck 10—

Thomas Colliar 10—

Daniel W. Lewis 15—

Uriah Tracy 20—

Amos Galpin 10—

Reuben Smith 10—

John Allen 20—

James Morris 5—

John Welch 5—

Total 385 Dolls

20