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Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. Each item is connected to countless stories—of lives lived quietly and extravagantly, of encounters peaceful and volatile, and of places near and far – providing an opportunity to travel back in time, to rethink familiar stories, and to discover new ones.
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Henry Phillips Papers, 1728-1738. Folders 1-14. Harvard Law School Library.
The 17 documents that make up the Phillips Papers span the years 1728-1738 and were likely assembled by Gillam Phillips himself for his extended lawsuit in which he tried to become sole inheritor of his brother, Henry's, estate. The papers fall into three groups: legal papers that relate to...
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Isaacs, Ralph, 1741-1799. Letters to family members, 1799. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
Four letters dated March 11, 1799, written from debtors' prison ("Debtors' Apartment") in Philadelphia. Includes descriptions of his life in the prison and fellow prisoners. Isaacs wrote the letters in sequence, on a single sheet a paper, addressed to his brother George Isaacs, and sisters...
Law miscellany. 1782-1788. HLS MS 4218, Harvard Law School Library.
A lawyer's commonplace book of New Hampshire cases. Contains summaries of cases covering such topics as trespass, witnesses, injuries, bailbonds, and counterfeit money. Possibly kept by Jonathan Sewell.
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. "Denunció" of a black slave named Ana or Mariana of the city of Guastepeque, 20 December 1658. 1-8, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. "Documentation of the Royal Grant and title by which the Marquis of Altamir enjoys the office of tallador in the Casa de Moneda, 1716-1717. 1-4, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. Additional information on the genealogy and trial of Francisca Velez de Temiño, 4 April 1623. 1-6, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. Decrees against Don Francisco de Uzcatequi y Toro, alias Antonio Inciante y Uranga, for having married Doña Rosa Enriques of Tescoco, 1771-1772. 2-2, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. Document concerned with the dispute over secular offenders seeking asylum in the church, Anteguera, Oaxaca, 23 September 1774. 1-5, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. Inquest into the filiation and "limpieza de sangre" of Doctor Don Antonio de Cervantes, 1619. 1-2, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. Inquest of the genealogy and "limpieza de sangre" of Doña Francisca Veles de Temiño, wife of Geronimo Lopez Paramo, 15 February 1624. 1-3, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
Collaboration is restricted.