The Regents of the University of the State of New York
To all to whom these Presents shall or may come Greeting:
Whereas Jedidiah Chapman, Samuel Colt, Polydore B. Wisner, John Nicholas, Daven.t Phelps, James Rees, H. H. Bogert, Walter Grieve, Robert Scot, F. A. DeZeng, Tho.s Lowthrop, John Woods, Wm Hortsen, David Cook, Jonathan Doane, William Tippitto, Abner Cole, Thomas D. Burrall, R. W. Stoddard, A. Dox, by an instrument in writing under their hands and seals bearing date the Twelfth day of January on thousand eight hundred and Thirteen, after stating that they had contributed more than one half in value of the real and personal property and estate collected or appropriated for the use and benefit of the academy erected at the Village of Geneva in the County of Ontario did make application to us the said Regents that the said Academy might be incorporated and become subject to the visitation of us and our successors and that the Reverend Jedidiah Chapman, Polydore B. Wisner, James Rees, Samuel Colt, John Nicholas, Herman H. Bogert, Robert Scot, David Cook, Thomas Lowthrop, Jonathan Doane, Walter Grieve, William Tippitti and Frederick A. DeZeng might be Trustees of the said Academy by the name of “The Trustees of the Geneva Academy”— Now know ye that we the said Regents having inquired into the allegations contained in the instrument aforesaid and found the same to be true, and that a proper building for said Academy hath been erected and finished and paid for and that funds have been obtained and well secured producing an annual net income of at least one hundred dollars and conceiving the said Academy calculated for the promotion of literature; Do by these presents pursuant to the Statute in such case made and provided signify out approbation of the incorporation of the said, Reverend Jedidiah Chapman, Polydore B. Wisner, James Rees, Samuel Colt, Thomas Lowthrop, John Nicholas, Herman H. Bogert, Robert Scot, David Cook, Jonathan Doane, Walter Grieve, William Tippitti and Frederick A. DeZeng by the name of “The Trustees of the Geneva Academy”—being the name mentioned in and by the said request in writing on condition that the principal or estate producing the said income shall never be diminished or otherwise appropriated and that the said income shall be applied only to the maintenance or salaries of the professors or tutors of the Academy.
In testimony whereof we have caused our Common Seal to be hereunto affixed the Twenty ninth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and Thirteen.
Daniel D. Tompkins
The original Geneva Academy charter, dated 29 March 1813