Colonial North America: Harvard University Archives

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Colonial North America: Harvard University Archives

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.

Bentley, William, 1759-1819. Papers of William Bentley, 1783-1815: an inventory. Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1788 July 19. HUG 1203.5 Box 1, Harvard University Archives.

Bentley, William, 1759-1819. Papers of William Bentley, 1783-1815: an inventory. Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1788 July 19. HUG 1203.5 Box 1, Harvard University Archives.

Two folio-sized leaves containing a two-and-a-half-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley containing a "memorandum of the principles on which the pentagraph is constructed." The text includes two geometric diagrams.

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Bentley, William, 1759-1819. Papers of William Bentley, 1783-1815: an inventory. Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1812 May 4. HUG 1203.5 Box 1, Harvard University Archives.

Bentley, William, 1759-1819. Papers of William Bentley, 1783-1815: an inventory. Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1812 May 4. HUG 1203.5 Box 1, Harvard University Archives.

Two folio-sized leaves containing a three-and-a-half page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley providing detailed descriptions and rationale for his conception of the geography of the Dead Sea prior to the Biblical destruction of Sodom. The letter is accompanied by two hand-drawn maps of...

3 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Bordman family. Papers of the Bordman family, 1686-1837. Will, 1783 April 15. HUG 1228 Box 2, Folder 46, Harvard University Archives.

Bordman family. Papers of the Bordman family, 1686-1837. Will, 1783 April 15. HUG 1228 Box 2, Folder 46, Harvard University Archives.

Handwritten copy of Last Will and Testament of Sarah Phips Bordman.

2 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Coffin, Charles, 1765-1820. Journal of Charles Coffin and David Gurney, 1781-1785. HUD 785.14, Harvard University Archives.

Coffin, Charles, 1765-1820. Journal of Charles Coffin and David Gurney, 1781-1785. HUD 785.14, Harvard University Archives.

This diary appears to have been kept by two different students, both members of the Harvard College class of 1785. The first two pages contain entries made by a student named David, believed to be David Gurney because the entries relate to the freshman curriculum and Gurney was the only student...

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32 pages: 3% complete (6% translated, 6% needs review)
Collection of Edward Holyoke materials, 1721-circa 1780s. Letter from William Dudley to John Palmer, 1737 July 6. HUM 312 Box 3, Object 2, Harvard University Archives.

Collection of Edward Holyoke materials, 1721-circa 1780s. Letter from William Dudley to John Palmer, 1737 July 6. HUM 312 Box 3, Object 2, Harvard University Archives.

Framed letter dated July 6, 1737, from William Dudley to John Palmer, a member of the Society of the Second Precinct in Marblehead, Massachusetts, requesting the proprietors of the Second Church reconsider releasing Holyoke as pastor, following a vote of the Harvard College Board of Overseers...

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Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747. Letter from Benjamin Colman to Edward Wigglesworth about John Leverett, 1728 March 4. HUG 1519.14, Harvard University Archives.

Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747. Letter from Benjamin Colman to Edward Wigglesworth about John Leverett, 1728 March 4. HUG 1519.14, Harvard University Archives.

Benjamin Colman wrote this letter to Edward Wigglesworth on March 4, 1728; it was sent from Colman, in Boston, to Wigglesworth, in Cambridge. The letter concerns their mutual friend, John Leverett, who had died several years before. It appears that Wigglesworth was charged with writing an...

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Croswell, William, 1760-1834. Papers of William Croswell, 1776-1834. Letter from William Croswell to Dr. Dingley, 1795 July 9. HUG 1306.5 Box 1, Folder 25, Harvard University Archives.

Croswell, William, 1760-1834. Papers of William Croswell, 1776-1834. Letter from William Croswell to Dr. Dingley, 1795 July 9. HUG 1306.5 Box 1, Folder 25, Harvard University Archives.

One-page letter from Croswell to Dr. Dingley in New York City, requesting information on teaching opportunities in the area.

2 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Croswell, William, 1760-1834. Papers of William Croswell, 1776-1834. Letter from William Croswell to R. Nicholson, 1820 January 13. HUG 1306.5 Box 1, Folder 63, Harvard University Archives.

Croswell, William, 1760-1834. Papers of William Croswell, 1776-1834. Letter from William Croswell to R. Nicholson, 1820 January 13. HUG 1306.5 Box 1, Folder 63, Harvard University Archives.

Draft of a one-page letter to Nicholson, a Liverpool mathematics teacher, which accompanied copies of Croswell's Mercator map.

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Croswell, William, 1760-1834. Papers of William Croswell, 1776-1834. Publishing agreement for the celestial planisphere, 1808 June 18. HUG 1306.5 Box 3, Folder 24, Harvard University Archives.

Croswell, William, 1760-1834. Papers of William Croswell, 1776-1834. Publishing agreement for the celestial planisphere, 1808 June 18. HUG 1306.5 Box 3, Folder 24, Harvard University Archives.

Handwritten agreement between Croswell and geographer William Faden of Westminster, Massachusetts, for the engraving and printing of three maps.

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