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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
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1775 January 27]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 33 , Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074396/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1775 January 27]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 33 , Harvard University Archives.
Draft of letter from President Langdon to John Hancock asking for a report of the treasury with note that Hancock "settled with the Steward," and acknowledgment of the meeting of the Provincial Congress in the following week. "No. 2 Jany 27 1775" written on verso.
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1775 January 27]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 34, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074398/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1775 January 27]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 34, Harvard University Archives.
Final copy of letter from President Langdon to John Hancock asking for a report of the treasury.
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1775 January 27]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 35 , Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074400/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1775 January 27]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 35 , Harvard University Archives.
Copy of letter from President Langdon to Hancock asking for a report of the treasury. Copy made by W. Greenough, Jr. at a later date. "No. 1" written in upper right hand corner of recto.
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1775 March 7]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 36, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074402/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1775 March 7]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 36, Harvard University Archives.
Draft of a letter from President Langdon in the name of the Corporation to Hancock requesting a report on the treasury before the demands of the Continental Congress occupied Hancock's attention in the coming summer. "No 3. March 7 1775" written on verso.
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1776 April 18]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 46 , Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074431/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1776 April 18]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 46 , Harvard University Archives.
Copy made at a latter date of letter from President Langdon to Hancock regarding the lack of access to the College treasury. "Copy by W. Greenough, Jr." written in a different hand on recto. Marked "No. 3" on recto.
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 April 18]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 45 , Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074429/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 April 18]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 45 , Harvard University Archives.
Copy of the short follow-up to the March 18, 1776 letter from President Langdon to Hancock regarding the lack of access to the College treasury, with wax seal.
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Concord, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1776 March 18]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 44, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074426/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from Samuel Langdon, Concord, Massachusetts, to John Hancock, 1776 March 18]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 44, Harvard University Archives.
Letter from President Langdon to Hancock regarding the lack of access to the College treasury and the inability to accept payments from debtors. Langdon's plea includes a description of the current state of Harvard due to the war, and mentions the College's retreat to Concord. The letter...
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from the Harvard Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Tutor Stephen Hall, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1777 January 8]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 48, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074435/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Letter from the Harvard Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Tutor Stephen Hall, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1777 January 8]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 48, Harvard University Archives.
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Memorandum to John Hancock signed by Samuel Langdon, 1775 January 21]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 16 , Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074302/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Memorandum to John Hancock signed by Samuel Langdon, 1775 January 21]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 16 , Harvard University Archives.
Directive to pay the librarian John Winthrop to settle the account of James Furnivall for clock repair. Memorandum is signed on verso by Winthrop with the date 1775 January 28
![Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Memorandum to John Hancock signed by Samuel Langdon, 1775 March 7]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 17 , Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/23074304/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hancock, John, 1737-1793. John Hancock Collection, 1754-1792. [Memorandum to John Hancock signed by Samuel Langdon, 1775 March 7]. UAI 50.27.73 Box 1, Folder 17 , Harvard University Archives.
Memorandum to Hancock instructing him to pay Boston bookseller James Foster Condy; an account of the amount owed for magazines from 1772-1775 is on the verso. Memorandum is signed on recto by Condy.