. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . able discussion, with one dissentingvote. How far this decision represented the existing student sentimentwe are unable tO say. When the trustees met August 6. 1818, they re-ceived overtures from the Academy at Amherst proposing that the col-les-e should be moved thither and united with that institution. Theproposition was declined, but it seems to have awakened the agitation forremoval which had slumbered for three years. A number of Hamp-shire gentlemen, we are told in the next issue
. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . able discussion, with one dissentingvote. How far this decision represented the existing student sentimentwe are unable tO say. When the trustees met August 6. 1818, they re-ceived overtures from the Academy at Amherst proposing that the col-les-e should be moved thither and united with that institution. Theproposition was declined, but it seems to have awakened the agitation forremoval which had slumbered for three years. A number of Hamp-shire gentlemen, we are told in the next issue of Tlie Hampshire Gazette,met at Northampton, October 22, 1818, to consider the expediency ofestablishing a college in Hampshire county. These gentlemen showedgreat interest in Williams College, and chose a committee which wasauthorized to take such measures as might be expedient to assist thetrustees in relocating the institution, if in their judgment the promo-tion of the cause of literature and religion shall render a removal de-sirable. The committee was also directed to forward a report of its ni-. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 35 vestigations and conclusions to President Moore, to be laid before theboard of trustees at their next meeting. November lo, 1818, the trustees, at a special meeting, reversedall former decisions and \oted, nine to three, that it i<:as expedient to re-move the college from Williamstown. They chose a commitee consist-ing of the Hon. James Kent, chancellor of New York, the Hon. Na-thaniel Smith, judge of the superior court of Connecticut, and the Seth Pavson, of Rindge, New Hampshire—a very respectable com-mittee certainly, and none of its members alumni of the college—whowere commissioned to view the towns of Old Hampshire and toselect among them a new site for the college. The committee did notenter upon their investigations until the following spring. They seemto have made a careful survey of the situation, visiting the various townsinterested
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