Harvard University. Harvard Commons Records, 1686-1829 (inclusive). College commons records, 1765-1829 (inclusive). UAI 15.250 Box 1, Harvard University Archives.

[Dec. 9 1776] 17

The Commitee appointed by the Corporation to inquire into the Steward's accounts beg leave to report,

That on a careful examination of his accounts, they find, that he had remaining on hand, at the commencement of the present Quarter,

Wood & Cyder to the value of _ _ _ _ £17.19.0 That the provisions purchased for the Kitchen from Aug{ust} 20 to Dec{ember} 6 1776 inclusively amount to 552.3.8 3/4 That from this sum there should be 570.2.8 3/4 deducted as followeth, viz. For provisions charged as sizing £28.4.0 1/4 For stock remaining on hand viz 1 [e?] flour ___________ 1.14.0 2 1/2 cords wood_____3.6.8 2 [e?] sugar ___________5.10.0 170 lb butter @ 9/O.T.__10.4.0 2 barrels vinegar _____2.13.4 6 Do. pickles_________10.0.0 48 lb chocolat________4.16.0 12 lb coffee__________0.13.0 1 lb alspice __________0.1.4 1 peck salt ___________0.4.6 9 bushels apples ______1.11.6 59 Do. Charcoal ______2.15.0 3/4 43.9.4 3/4

That the near expence for provisions 71.13.5 for the College from Aug{ust} 20 to Dec{ember} 6 1776 amounts to _______________________ 498.9.3 3/4

That in sd. term 109 persons were in commons, including officers & graduates; & that the aggregate of the time, in which their commons were sent into the Hall is 1099 weeks & 2 Days; that the near expence of the provisions divided by 1099 Weeks & 2 Dys makes the expences of Week's Diet.

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Sept. 1, 1777

To the Honourable U Reverend the Corporation of Harvard College Gentlemen.

The Necessity of my circumstances constrains me to trouble you with the presentation I now make, in the time you were at Concord you were pleased to grant me thirty pounds untill [sic] you returned to Cambridge you cut off two hundred u ten pounds which I think was not equivalent to what I ought to have had. I was at a considerable expence [sic] in sending a Man u [?] Sundry times to concord u obliged to get a gentleman to do my bussiness [sic] there I do not desire any thing for the persons I {hired?} in the College Service for that time, as for last year Mr Hunnewell u [?] nearly had double to what [?] to give them the expence [sic] of servants I employ though they are of my own family cost me the same proportion, the necessary support of my family, is more than three times as expensive, as it used to be ----------So that my salary at present is but a small proportion Your petitioner therefore prays for such consideration as may kindly be granted to him. I am gentlemen Your Humble Servant -------------------[?] Hastings, {College?} {Steward?} Cambridge Sept 1; 1777