"The subscribers, pursuant to an act of the Legislature of the State of New York entitled an act to institute a university within this State, and for other purposes, passed April 13, 1787, respectfully make the application to the regents of said University requiring that the said academy may be incorporated agreeably to the said law, and be subject to the visitation of the said regents, and they do hereby nominate Arthur Parks, Matthew Hunter, Benjamin Sears, Henry Van Keuren, Solomon Slight, Joseph Barber, James Clinton, Moses Freleigh, Daniel Bull, James Hunter, Peter Hill, David Galatian, Johannes Miller, Severyn T. Brown, Henry Smith, Ebenezer Clark and William Cross to be the first trustees of the said academy, declaring it to be their desire that the said trustees be called and distinguished by the name of the trustees of the Montgomery Academy in the County of Ulster. "Andrew King. John McKinstry. Nathan W. Howell. James Moore. L. Sleght. William Jackson. Matthew Hunter. Matthew Gillespie. Stephen Goldsmith. David Jagger. John Nicholson. Hugh Milliken. Benjamin Sears. Andrew Graham. James Clinton. Thomas Greggs. Hamilton Morrison. Jacob Meltzberg. Gideon Pelton. Alexander Leeds. Patrick Barber. Robert Kidd. Jacob Newkirk. James Mackay. David Galatian. Thomas Barkley. William Cross. Stephen Ross. Severyn T. Bruyn. Stephen Crist. Johannes Mould. John Wilkin. Christian Rockefeller. A. M. McCord. Jacob Linderman. William Wilkin. Jacob Bookstaver. Robert Sewall. William Booth. David Miller. Alexander P. Anderson. B. Hopkins. John Clark. Samuel Boyd. James W. Wilkin. Adam J. Doll. Johannes Miller. Martimus Crist. William Weller. William Johnston. Jacob F. Bookstaver. Daniel Cahill. Henry J. Smith. John Millspaugh. Neal Diggie. Solomon Sleght. Henry Sinsabaugh. John Robinson. Henry Van Keuren. John C. Millyberg. Peter Crans. Henry Nealy. Henry Smith. Benjamin Cradit. James Jackson, Jr. Frederick Bookstaver. Philip Millspaugh. Moses Latta. John Linderman. Jacob Smedes. William Cross. John A. Newkirk. David Smith. James Hunter. James Hunter. William Crist. Jacob Pitts. Johannes Yerkes. Henry German. Christopher Moule. John Barber. George Monnell. Daniel Bull. Joseph Burrows. James M. Claghen. William Hill. John Puff. Thomas McKissock. John Pool. Alexander Dorcus. John Sears. Charles Young. John Barclay. Andrew Hart. John Scott. James Kidd. Jeremiah Smith. William Erwin. Jane Crage. John Hunter. James T. Graham. John P. Haines. John Haines. Peter Hill.