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Colonial North America: Houghton Library
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.
Church, Samuel, 1755-1826. A poetical jumble, vivified from the rubbish of chaos : humbly dedicated to the goddess of silence / S. Melancholicus : manuscript, 1786. MS Am 1894, volume 2. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Church, Samuel, 1755-1826. A poetical jumble, vivified from the rubbish of chaos : humbly dedicated to the goddess of silence / S. Melancholicus : manuscript, 1786. MS Am 1894, volume 2. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Transcriptions of poems and essays. Table of contents is at front of each volume. Samuel Church received his A.B. from Harvard in 1778.

150 pages: 2% complete (100% transcribed, 97% needs review)
Coulon de Villiers, Louis, 1710-1757. Journal de la campagne de M[onsieu]r de Villiers depuis son arrivée au fort du Quesne jusqu’à son retour audit fort : manuscript, 1754. MS Can 9. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Coulon de Villiers, Louis, 1710-1757. Journal de la campagne de M[onsieu]r de Villiers depuis son arrivée au fort du Quesne jusqu’à son retour audit fort : manuscript, 1754. MS Can 9. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

History note: Coulon de Villiers was an officer in command of colonial regular troops at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh, Pa.) Summary: Diary describes ambush of his brother's Canadian troop by the Virginia militia under George Washington, subsequent battle to avenge his death, and articles of...

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De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-approximately 1799. History of the three provinces South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida : manuscript, [after 1771]. MS Am 824. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-approximately 1799. History of the three provinces South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida : manuscript, [after 1771]. MS Am 824. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

History note: De Brahm was appointed Surveyor General for the Southern District of North America by George III in 1761. Summary: Report, commissioned by George III, concerning physical and historical surveys of South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida, with information on religion, the...

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428 pages: 5% complete (39% transcribed, 33% needs review)
Flynt, Josiah, -1680. Sermons : manuscript, [16--]. MS Am 802. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Flynt, Josiah, -1680. Sermons : manuscript, [16--]. MS Am 802. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

History note: Flynt (A. B. 1664) was a minister in Dorchester, Mass. Summary: Sermons concerning passages from Luke, Matthew, Ephesians, Isaiah, and other books.

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382 pages: 3% complete (23% transcribed, 20% needs review)
France. Ministère de la marine. Documents concerning New France : manuscript, [16--]. MS Can 37. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

France. Ministère de la marine. Documents concerning New France : manuscript, [16--]. MS Can 37. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Contents: 1. Extrait du regré des depesches et avis expedions concernans les Indes orientales, occidentalles et la Nouvelle france de l'année 1674 (3 p.) -- 2. Memoire des marchandises qu'on peut envoyer de Marseille en Canada (4 p.) -- 3. Memoire pour Quebecq [a list of Indian artifacts...

15 pages: 33% complete (33% translated)
Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787. Thomas Gage letters, 1759-1773. MS Eng 106. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787. Thomas Gage letters, 1759-1773. MS Eng 106. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

187 retained copies of autograph manuscript (signed) and manuscript letters (signed), some appear to be in copyists hands. Letters sent to Lieutenant Coventry [in Albany, New York], Colonel John Bradstreet [in Albany, New York], and Sir William Johnson [location not named] concerning military...

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Gerrish, Benjamin, 1717-1772. Benjamin Gerrish letter to an unidentified correspondent : manuscript, 1759. Can 350.1*. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Gerrish, Benjamin, 1717-1772. Benjamin Gerrish letter to an unidentified correspondent : manuscript, 1759. Can 350.1*. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Concerns the preparations for the reduction of Quebec. Gerrish was a Boston merchant who moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1751 and established himself profitably in the Indian trade.

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