Sol Archive Mysteries · Finding #1178
Tonawanda school offer grew from fifty to eighty acres in the agents’ accounts
Agent J. B. Rich (1866) reported a Tonawanda petition offering $3,000 and fifty acres for a boarding/manual-labor school. Agent E. R. Ames (Oct 2, 1869) reported legislation requiring $3,000 and eighty acres plus a $3,000 state match. Cash figure stays $3,000; acreage shifts by thirty; neither report proves disbursement.
The thirty-acre difference is between a 1866 petition as reported by one agent and requirements of later legislation as summarized by another — not a discrepancy inside a single signed instrument. Ames’s “have complied” and future-tense “will be used in erecting” do not establish title transfer, payment, or an operating boarding school. Original statute, chapter number, land conveyance, and school opening remain unverified.
Distinct from #1172 ($2,000 permanent multipurpose fund vs school petition) and all prior Tonawanda school findings. Sources: finding repo · Sol Archive.
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