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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.
Discover 400 years of intellectual pursuits, discoveries, culture, social life, and work of the Harvard community, on campus and beyond. A national treasure, the Harvard University Archives welcomes students, faculty, and staff and researchers from across the globe.
Works
![Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, 1700-1983. [Order of Court of Chancery regarding the recovery of the legacy of Edward Hopkins], 1709 July 9. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 1, Harvard University](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/53076778/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, 1700-1983. [Order of Court of Chancery regarding the recovery of the legacy of Edward Hopkins], 1709 July 9. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 1, Harvard University
Seven-page handwritten copy of the order of the Lord Chancellor referring the case to Thomas Gery, a Master of the Court, to collect further information on the assets held by Exton and whether there existed New England schools like those described in Hopkins' will.
![Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, 1700-1983. [Report of the Master General, 1710/11 February 10 ]. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 3, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/53076749/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, 1700-1983. [Report of the Master General, 1710/11 February 10 ]. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 3, Harvard University Archives.
Four-page handwritten copy of the report of the Master General Thomas Gery outlining the status of the assets remaining from the Hopkins' bequest and describing Harvard College in fulfillment of the July 9, 1709 order of the Court of Chancery.
Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Hezekiah Squamauge & Amos Ahatton's petition to ye General Court, 1723 December 25. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 19, Harvard University Archives.
![Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. [Copy of Edward Hopkins' will], [ca. 1713]. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 5, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/42994646/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. [Copy of Edward Hopkins' will], [ca. 1713]. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 5, Harvard University Archives.
Handwritten copy of Edward Hopkins' 1657 will. Labeled on the verso as document "B."
![Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. [Letter from William Ashurst to Harvard President John Leverett], 1710 July 13. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 2, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/42994640/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. [Letter from William Ashurst to Harvard President John Leverett], 1710 July 13. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 2, Harvard University Archives.
One-page handwritten letter from William Ashurt to President Leverett discussing the annual payment on an unspecified donation, and the progress of the Hopkins' bequest recovery. The folder also contains a handwritten 19th century copy of the letter.
Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1750-1826. Greek translations by Benjamin Wadsworth, 1766. HUC 8766.335, Harvard University Archives.
Two-page handwritten Greek translations created by Harvard sophomore Benjamin Wadsworth on folio-sized paper. The document contains Greek translations of two letters from J. Garretson's "English exercises for school-boys to translate into Latin," copied by Wadsworth in 1766. The first page...
![Winslow, Edward, 1714-1784. Oratio valedictoria. [Delivered at Harvard Commencement, 1736, before Ew. Belcher &c. With copy on blue paper.] HUC 6736.94, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/49149705/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Winslow, Edward, 1714-1784. Oratio valedictoria. [Delivered at Harvard Commencement, 1736, before Ew. Belcher &c. With copy on blue paper.] HUC 6736.94, Harvard University Archives.
The notebook contains the original six-page manuscript of the valedictory address composed in Latin by graduate Edward Winslow at the 1736 Harvard Commencement enclosed within 19th century blue notebook paper on which a second handwritten copy of the address is written. The original text...
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Winthrop, James, 1752-1821. Papers of James Winthrop, 1765-1826. Notes about cases heard as Justice of the Peace, 1784-1795. HUM 69 Box 1, Folder 2, Harvard University Archives.
This small paper-bound notebook contains notes Winthrop made concerning the cases he heard between 1784 and 1795 as a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County. These notes provide insight into the nature of crimes being committed in Cambridge in the post-Revolutionary period, as well as the...
Winthrop, John, 1714-1779. Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop, 1728-1789. Abstracts of sermons preached at Harvard College, 1728-1729. HUM 9 Box 1, Harvard University Archives.
Small notebook containing notes kept by John Winthrop on sermons he attended between September 1, 1728 and October 19, 1729, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The volume contains one-to-two page entries on specific sermons and provides the biblical text and related doctrines,...
Winthrop, John, 1714-1779. Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop, 1728-1789. Annotated almanac, 1741. HUM 9 Box 4, Volume 2, Harvard University Archives.
Almanac containing sporadic annotations of unidentified measurements to some calendar dates and interleaved pages with short handwritten entries about Winthrop's daily activities, and astronomical and meteorological observations. The entries include personal notes about travel, the weather, and...
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