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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.
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Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, circa 1650-1828. Draft petition from the President and Fellows of Harvard College to the General Court, January 1799. UAI 5.120 Box 4, Folder 11,
Incomplete draft of petition for changes to the act establishing two permanent tutors.
Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, circa 1650-1828. Letter from Edward Wigglesworth to Loammi Baldwin, July 26, 1781. UAI 5.120 Box 2, Folder 82, Harvard University Archives.
The letter consists only of the text from a vote at the Corporation meeting of July 26, 1781, thanking Baldwin among others for their attendance at the College for Commencement. The letter is accompanied by a copy of a vote from the Corporation meeting of July 4, 1781, signed by Wigglesworth,...
Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, circa 1650-1828. Letter from Richard Bellingham, Boston, April 22, 1672. UAI 5.120 Box 1, Folder 7, Harvard University Archives.
Written "with the advice of the rest of the overseers of Harvard Colledge in New England" to Richard Saltonstall, Nicholas Gregson, Rev. John Knowles, Robert Newman, and Anthony Wilson. Bellingham appointed the five men trustrees of the Overseers, giving them the authority to collect donations...
![Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, circa 1650-1828. Letter from William Brett to Governor Thomas Prence, [circa 1660s?]. UAI 5.120 Box 1, Folder 5, Harvard University Archives.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/459463281/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
Harvard University. Corporation. Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, circa 1650-1828. Letter from William Brett to Governor Thomas Prence, [circa 1660s?]. UAI 5.120 Box 1, Folder 5, Harvard University Archives.
William Brett worked with Mr. [James?] Keith to promote the design of the College; twelve pounds of Indian corn are to be delivered to an unspecified town. The undated letter also discusses attempts to purchase lands by the Titicut River.
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. 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 Grants for Work among the Indians, 1720-1812. Vote of the Harvard Corporation, April 5, 1773. UAI 20.720 Box 1, Folder 21, Harvard University Archives.