======================================================================== Date of | | | Donation| |Character of | Conditions Under or | |Donations or | Which they Grant. |Donors. |Grants. | were Given. --------+------------------+----------------------+--------------------- | | | 1780 |State of Virginia |8,000 acres escheated |For the purposes | | lands in Kentucky, | of a "Public | | value unknown | School" or seminary | | | of learning in | | | Kentucky. | | | 1783 |State of Virginia |12,000 acres escheated|For the purposes | | lands in Kentucky, | of a "Public | | value unknown | School" or seminary | | | of learning in | | | Kentucky. | | | 1783 |Individuals |Books, etc., value not|For the purposes | | known | of a "Public | | | School" or seminary | | | of learning in | | | Kentucky. | | | 1784 |Reverend John Todd|Small library and |"As an encouragement | | apparatus | to science." | | | 1787 |State of Virginia |One sixth surveyors' |For the public | | fees in Kentucky | school, etc. | | | 1791 |State of Virginia |A lottery grant to |To establish | | raise money | the school. | | | 1792-3 |Transylvania Land |Lot in Lexington |For the permanent | Co. | (5 acres) | site of the | | | Seminary. | | | 1795-8 |State of Kentucky |12,000 acres of land, | | | 6,000 acres to | | | Kentucky Academy and| | | 6,000 acres to the | | | Seminary | | | | 1794-5 |Individuals in |$14,000 in money and |Promotion of science, | various parts | books and apparatus | learning, and