Dwight Weld, who had studied at Oneida from 1827 to 1830, was dissatisfied with Gale's leadership. He led a 1833 exodus of "Oneida boys...disenchanted with Gale's leadership and the lack of regular theological courses"; they rafted down the French and Allegheny rivers to Cincinnati, and constituted 24 of the 40 members of the Lane Seminary's first theological class. Whitestown Seminary & afterwards To satisfy debts its facilities were sold to the Free Will Baptists, who created the Whitestown Seminary in 1844. A condition of the sale was that the new seminary admit students of "all colors". Several Oneida Institute students enrolled. Whitestown Seminary merged with the Cobb Divinity School to form the Free Will Baptist Bible School, which moved to the New Hampton Institute in 1854 before moving to Bates College in 1870 and eventually merging the school's religion department. A predecessor of the Whitestown Seminary was the school of H. H. Kellog, in Clinton. Elizabeth, "lady principal", daughter of Robert Everett, two of whose brothers attended the Oneida Institute, married John Jay Butler. According to Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, in 1845 Green founded a Manual Labor School in Whitesboro. The school buildings are no longer standing: the land is now occupied by a factory, a funeral home, and some residences. Students Green's policy was to accept any qualified student that applied. As a result, student Grinnell described the student body as "a motley company", consisting of: Alumni of the Oneida Institute African-American students Listed in bold are students who were at the Noyes Institute before it was destroyed, in August 1835. No Black students from Oneida enrolled at Lane. William G. Allen (1820–1888), lecturer and professor at New-York Central College, the first college to employ African-American professors Amos Beman (1812–1872), abolitionist and Congregationalist pastor in New Haven, Connecticut. Garrett A. Cantine Alexander Crummell (1819–1898), abolitionist; first an African Methodist Episcopalian minister in Providence, Rhode Island, then a missionary. Formerly a Noyes Institute student. John V. DeGrasse, physician William D. Forten Amos Noë Freeman (1809–1893), teacher, minister, and abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882), escaped slave, abolitionist, minister, educator, and orator. Became a Congregationalist minister in Troy, New York. Formerly a Noyes Institute student. Samuel A. Jackson Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813–1872), escaped slave, abolitionist, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Jacob A. Prime. Remained at the Whitestown Seminary after the institute closed. Elymus P. Rogers. Had been a