Petition by Subscribers of Danville Academy (December 5, 1818)

To the Honorable the General Assembly of Kentucky

We the subscribers, citizens of the town of Danville & its vicinity, feeling a deep & immediate interest in the appropriation of the funds of our Academy, do most heartily concur in opinion with the Trustees of the Danville Academy as to the propriety of uniting said funds with such as are proposed to be raised by the Synod of Kentucky, and join with them in petitioning the Legislature to merge said Trustees in a larger incorporation, and vest said funds in said incorporation

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for the benefit of a Literary Institution to be designated "The College of Kentucky" upon the principles contained in the petition of the Trustees [that?] Academy & in their written proposition to the Synod of Kentucky. And your petitioners as in duly bound will ever pray.

Danville December 5, 1818

[illegible word] Caldwell
J. Barbour
W. H. Rochester
Jno. [John] Calhoun
Geo. [George] D. Rooney
John Wilson
John Cochran
Charles Henderson
P. [Philip] Yeiser
John Tadlock
John Whelan
W. [William] Akin
W. [illegible name]
Willis Curd
B. [Benjamin] H. Perkins
Paul Doneghy
Jer. [Jeremiah] Clemens
James [unclear name: Padget?]
Thos. [Thomas] Gray

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William Stewart
Ezra Williams
Abrm. Vanasdall[?]
John Henderson
E. Moore
B. F. Crutchfield
John Erwin[?]
Ab. J. Caldwell
Geo. [George] Caldwell