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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.
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Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, circa 1650-1828. Letters from John Coakley Lettsom, London, to Joseph Willard, 1791-1797. UAI 5.120 Box 3, Folder 20, Harvard University Archives.
The five letters are dated February 23, 1791; March 12, 1792; March 26, 1795; February 20, 1796; and September 27, 1797. The letter of February 23, 1791, includes a long discussion of the French Revolution. The letter of March 12, 1792, includes a discussion of the Priestley Riots and the...
Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, circa 1650-1828. Subscription lists and letters from towns, 1653. UAI 5.120 Box 1, Folder 3, Harvard University Archives.
The folder contains subscription lists and letters (addressed to Increase Newell, a member of the Courts of Assistants) regarding voluntary contributions to the College from inhabitants of the towns of Andover, Cambridge, Concord, Dorchester, Haverhill, Hingham, Medfield, Reading, Salem,...
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Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, Volumes 1 and 2, 1636-1846. Extract from Madam Saltonstall's will, 1729/30 March 11. UAI 5.110, Volume 1, Item 48; Box 1, Folder 41, Harvard
Clause from Mary Saltonstall's will, dated March 11, 1729/30. Her gift supported two indigent students at Harvard.
Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, Volumes 1 and 2, 1636-1846. Grant and laying out of 500 acres of land to Mr. Josh. Scottow at Merriconeag neck (eighteenth-century manuscript
Grant of 500 acres of land to Captain Joshua Scottow in Merriconeag Neck, Maine, dated May 27, 1685, and signed by Edward Tyng and Silvanus Davis; on the verso are notes from the Massachusetts General Court meeting in 1685 in which Scottow was granted the land in exchange for his service in the...
Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, Volumes 3-7, 1785-1826. Copy of the legal instrument establishing the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity,
Copy of the document signed by Edmund Trowbridge and Richard Cary, executors of John Alford's will, in 1789, outlining terms of a professorship in Alford's name at Harvard College. The copy was created by minister and historian Jeremy Belknap and included in an October 5, 1796, letter to Samuel...
Harvard University. Corporation. Records of gifts and donations, 1643-1955. Hollis family donations, 1718-1910. Thomas Hollis, Pall Mall London to Edmund Quincy, Jr. Esq., 1766 October 1. UAI 15.400 Box 2, Folder 29, Harvard University Archives.
even-page letter from Thomas Hollis of Lincoln Inn to Edmund Quincy with condolences on the death of Jonathan Mayhew, a list of books for the College, and comments on the Stamp Act and William Pitt and English politics.
Harvard University. Corporation. Records of gifts and donations, 1643-1955. Hopkins Donation, ca. 1714-1854. For the Improvint. of the Lands purchased of the Indians with part of Mr. Hopkins Legacy, 1716 April 16. UAI 15.400 Box 2, Folder 22, Harvard
Handwritten two-page proposition regarding the method of charging rents to tenants on land purchased with the Hopkins legacy. The handwriting appears to be that of Harvard President John Leverett.
Harvard University. Corporation. Records of gifts and donations, 1643-1955. Indian Articles, 1796 July 20. UAI 15.400 Box 1, Folder 2, Harvard University Archives.
Handwritten one-page inventory of artifacts presented by W. Silas Dinsmoor, agent from the United States among the Cherokee Indians. The artifacts consisted of turtle shells, crystals, a pipe, and moccasins.
