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Testimonies of William Moore Towne and Abner Johnson Leavenworth, 1822

Collegiate Institution (Amherst, Mass.)

An unattributed document with the testimonies of freshmen students Towne and Leavenworth regarding an incident in which, after going to an ordination for which they received permission, they went to a tavern with Starkweather, Hay, and Wendall and drank. The testimonies differ slightly from one another. It has been determined that the students in question were William Moore Towne, Abner Jonson Leavenworth, and David Austin Starkweather. Hay is likely Amherst Academy student Henry Hay, and the identity of Wendall could not be determined.

Testimonies of William Moore Towne and Abner Johnson Leavenworth, 1822
Zephaniah Swift Moore letter to the Preceptors and Prudential Commitee of Amherst Academy, 1821 November 10

Moore, Zephaniah Swift, 1770-1823

Zephaniah Swift Moore letter to the preceptors and Prudential Committee of Amherst Academy in which Moore writes on behalf of the faculty of the Collegiate Institution of Amherst regarding incidents of inappropriate behavior by Amherst Academy students on the grounds of the Collegiate Institution. Moore provides details regarding the inappropriate behavior which included drinking alcohol to excess, indecent and riotous behavior in and about the Collegiate Institution, and playing cards. He states that the faculty of the institution wanted to inform the preceptors and Prudential Committee of this behavior. He also states that the faculty of the Institution are united in their opinion that members of the Academy should not be in any room of the Institution after nine o'clock in the evening. The Amherst Academy students Moore discusses are Henry Hay, Edward Southworth, Charles W. Jenks, William H. Heath, Artemas Thompson, Charles H. Stedman, Joel Hamilton, and William G. Webster. Collegiate Institution students Dickinson (presumably Edward Dickinson or Appleton Dickinson) and Gray (presumably Philander Gray) are also described as being involved in the incidents.

Zephaniah Swift Moore letter to the Preceptors and Prudential Commitee of Amherst Academy, 1821 November 10
Freshmen class oath to abstain from wine, ardent spirit, tobacco, and opium, 1830-1831

Amherst College

A document in which some members of the freshmen class of Amherst College promise that they will abstain from wine, ardent spirit, tobacco, and opium while members of the College, except in the case of medicine. They state that this promise is made in consideration of a proposition made by an unnamed gentlemen that he will donate five hundred dollars for a philosophical apparatus. Twenty-five students signed their names: Orrin Gilbert, Walter F. Hill, Albert Clark, Plin B. Day, Nathaniel M. Dexter, William Thurston, Alonzo Sanderson, Henry W. Billings, Montgomery S. Goodale, Lemuel Leonard, John P. Foster, Benjamin F. Brown, Edmund A. Beaman, William Williams, John Haven, Henry Houseworth, Rufus P. Stebbins, Timothy Jackson, David L. Badger, Chauncey Howard, Thomas Taylor, Henry Ward Beecher, Rodney Smith, Ebenezer W. Bullard, and W.L. Williams.

Freshmen class oath to abstain from wine, ardent spirit, tobacco, and opium, 1830-1831