[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of the townspeople of this and adjacent towns, and completed as an academy. In an old day-book, un-der the account of Ebenezer Purdy, who was one of the principal members of the Academy Company, we find, under date of 1787, some items in relation there-to,— " To six days at New York to get the Wright-ings for the house and land completed, £3 12a." "To a Carpenter, four days to get out timber, at six shillings per day, £1 10«." " To seven days' board-ing, provision and rum, 10*. 9</.'' " To carting thirty-one Boards from Peekskill, 16«." "To Frederick Jay, for glass, £9 2s." "Paid for iron to make Hinges, 2-«." " To ten pounds of fat for the roof, 6s." " Paid to the mason for building the chimneys, £5 Is." "To John Lawrence, for one set of globes, £11 4s." In 1792 is the item, M Paid for the philosophi-cal apparatus, £(>0." In the year 1787 also appear the names of contributors to the academy fund, in which are found, — "Cash received of John Jay, £10; Judge Ward, £4; Mr. Hamilton, £6; Mr. Burr, £3; Augustus Van Courtlandt, £3; Anizi Lewis, £32; Hachaliah Brown, £8; Philip Livingston, £10."