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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
Harvard University. Corporation. Records of land and property owned by Harvard University, 1643-1835. Order that John Whitney and Moses Haven pay rents for Framingham property to Harvard, according to Thomas Danforth's will, December 1, 1726. UAI 15.750
Francis Foxcroft was the executor of Thomas Danforth's estate, and this order was to inform two tenants on land in Framingham owned by Danforth that they would, henceforward, pay their rent to the Harvard treasurer (per Danforth's will). Signed by Foxcroft, Thaddeus Mason, and Christopher Bridge.
Harvard University. Harvard Commons Records, 1686-1829 (inclusive). College commons records, 1765-1829 (inclusive). UAI 15.250 Box 1, Harvard University Archives.
This volume, containing chronologically arranged papers mounted and bound around 1840, provides comprehensive documentation of the College commons around the turn of the 19th century. In particular, the volume documents the role the Steward played in overseeing the Commons. The records chiefly...
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![Hasty Pudding Club. Records of the Hasty Pudding Club, 1795-[2013]. Volume 1, 1795-1800. HUD 3447 Box 7, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/450262506/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Hasty Pudding Club. Records of the Hasty Pudding Club, 1795-[2013]. Volume 1, 1795-1800. HUD 3447 Box 7, Harvard University Archives.
Volume containing secretary's minutes of the Hasty Pudding Club from its founding in 1795 to 1801, with some accounts dated 1811. Entries commence with a transcription of the constitution and laws of the club, adopted September 1, 1795, and a list of its members from 1795 to 1799. Inaugural...
Holyoke family. Holyoke family diaries, 1742-1748. Diaries of Edward Augustus Holyoke, 1742-1747. Diary, 1747. HUM 46 Volume 5, Harvard University Archives.
The 1747 diary contains brief records (usually one or two a month) written in a small booklet of blank pages. The scattered entries focus on community news including local deaths and murder. The March 23 entry reads, "Will a Mulatto of Benj & Jno Walkers shot a negro of Jno Denny [Jun] he died...
Holyoke, Edward, 1689-1769. Papers of Edward Holyoke. Letter from Edward Holyoke to Jabez Huntington, 25 April 1760. UAI 15.870 Box 1, Folder 8, Harvard University Archives.
In this letter, Holyoke thanks Huntington for a gift.
Hooper, Joseph. Oratio salutatoria et oratio valedictoria, ca. 1763. HUC 6765.82, Harvard University Archives.
Undated and unattributed handwritten Latin salutatory and valedictory orations composed for the Harvard College Commencement. A modern note with the materials suggests Nathaniel Sparhawk (Harvard AB 1765) as the author, but the author was more likely Joseph Hooper (Harvard AB 1763), who...
Inscription for Mr. Remington’s grave stone, ca. 1800. HUG 1736.5, Harvard University Archives.
This one-page undated and unattributed document contains a handwritten copy of the Latin inscription made for Jonathan Remington's gravestone. Biographical Notes Jonathan Remington (1677-1745), a Harvard tutor and later a judge, was born on July 27, 1677 in Cambridge, Mass. He received an AB...
Kirkland, John Thornton, 1770-1840. Papers of John Thornton Kirkland, 1788-1837 and undated. Indian Missionaries and the Founding of Dartmouth College. UAI 15.880 Box 4, Folder 2, Harvard University Archives.
This folder includes a twentieth century handwritten transcription of Kirkland's work, portions of which do not correspond with Indian Missionaries and the Founding of Dartmouth College.
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Leverett, John, 1662-1724. Papers of John Leverett. Commission for Penn Townsend and John Leverett to negotiate with the Indians at Albany, 1704 September 7. UAI 15.866 Box 7, Folder 4, Harvard University Archives.
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Lincoln, Bela. Grammatica literarum, syllabarum, verborum, & sententiarum, 1754. HUC 6754.112, Harvard University Archives.
One-page handwritten list of 20 numbered theses in Latin presumed to be copied by Bela Lincoln. The document is signed "Lincoln 1754." The document title translates as "Grammar of letters, syllables, words, and sentences" and includes all of the nine theses listed in the "Theses Grammaticae"...