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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. Document concerning Thomas Danforth's leases in Framingham being given to Harvard College(?), October 21, 1724. UAI 15.750 Box 4, Folder 77, Harvard
This document is almost completely illegible and its contents are thus not clear. Verso reads: "This paper was presented to ye Corporation by ye Hon[orab]le Col. Foxcroft October 21, 1724."
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...
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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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"...
Lowell, John, 1743-1802. Letters to John Lowell relating to Harvard College faculty salaries, 1781-1782. Copy of letters from Edward Wigglesworth and Samuel Williams to John Lowell, 1781-1782. HUM 86 Box 1, Folder 3, Harvard University Archives.
Two leaves containing a two-page handwritten copy of the letter from Professor Edward Wigglesworth to John Lowell dated January 3, 1781 (HUM 86 Box 1, Folder 1), and a one-page handwritten copy of the letter from Professor Samuel William to John Lowell dated October [14], 1782 (HUM 86 Box 1,...
Lowell, John, 1743-1802. A collection of poems by a young gentleman of Harvard Colledge & a young lady of Newbury, 1759-1760. HUD 2759, Harvard University Archives.
This collection of five manuscript poems contains three poems written by an unidentified "young lady of Newbury" and two poems believed to have been written by John Lowell during his junior and senior years at Harvard College, from 1759 to 1760. One of the poems was written following the death...