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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.
Villanueva y Chavarri, Francisco Xavier. Breve resumen y noticia del descubrimiento de la Nueva-España : demarcarion y descripcion de aquellas provincias divididas en las cinco Audiencias que la governan, estado de sus iglesias, sus ereciones, noti[ci]a

Villanueva y Chavarri, Francisco Xavier. Breve resumen y noticia del descubrimiento de la Nueva-España : demarcarion y descripcion de aquellas provincias divididas en las cinco Audiencias que la governan, estado de sus iglesias, sus ereciones, noti[ci]a

Summary: v. 2: Concerns the discovery of New Spain, including descriptions of Mexico, Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Santo Domingo; with particular attention given to church construction in those places and the role of the Catholic Church in New Spain.

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Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1670-1737. Sermon : manuscript, 1707. MS Am 803. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1670-1737. Sermon : manuscript, 1707. MS Am 803. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Sermon concerning I Peter 5:7, delivered 23 June 1707. Wadsworth was president of Harvard College, 1725-1737.

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37 pages: 27% complete (32% transcribed, 5% needs review)
Williamson, George, approximately 1704-1781. Diary of Lt. General George Williamson in the Canada campaign of 1760 : manuscript, 1760. MS Can 40. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Williamson, George, approximately 1704-1781. Diary of Lt. General George Williamson in the Canada campaign of 1760 : manuscript, 1760. MS Can 40. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

An account of naval warfare on the St. Lawrence in the summer 1760, during which he captured the French vessel Outaouaise, which Williamson in his diary calls the "Prize Williamson". Diary includes artillery instructions arranged by degree of elevation, weight and powder to calculate distance...

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