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Ewer, Charles, 1790-1853,. Records relating to Harvard College collected by Charles Ewer, 1712-1723.

Title: Records relating to Harvard College collected by Charles Ewer, 1712-1723.

This collection contains ten 18th century documents relating to Harvard College and President John Leverett collected by Charles Ewer. The documents primarily pertain to the Harvard Fellowship controversy between 1716 and 1723 that expanded from internal disagreements about the role of Tutors in College governance into a political battle between the Corporation, Board of Overseers, and the Massachusetts General Court. The collection also includes a 1712 letter from John Leverett to Addington Davenport regarding a College petition before a Massachusetts General Court Committee, and 1716 and 1722 bonds between John Leverett, Elisha Cooke, and the Harvard College Treasurer. The Fellowship controversy material relates to the role of Harvard Corporation Fellows and provides evidence of the intensive review and interpretation of the College's founding documents by both Tutor Nicholas Sever and President Leverett, and reflect a period when the composition of the Harvard Corporation, the role of the Harvard faculty in College governance, and the influence on the Board of Overseers and the Massachusetts General Court in College governance was scrutinized and politicized.

ArchivalResource: .26 cubic feet (1 half-legal document box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/740238182 View

Cooke, Elisha,. Attachment, 1717 April 16.

Title: Attachment, 1717 April 16.

Order to attach goods and estate of Eliphalet Coffin of Exeter, N.H., and others against a claim by Deborah Webber of York, Me.

ArchivalResource: 1 DS ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53479205 View

Lear, Mary. Lincoln County, Me., land claims, 1625-1812.

Title: Lincoln County, Me., land claims, 1625-1812.

Volume containing depositions and deeds used before commissioners of Massachusetts at New Castle, N.H., in 1812, in order to support claims to lands of the Eastern Indian tribes in Lincoln County, Me., made by heirs of John Brown, James Stilson, William Hilton, and John Hathorne.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154690295 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Boston (Mass.). Selectmen. Appointment of Samuel Danforth of Billerica, Mass., as surveyor, 1719 February 16.

Title: Appointment of Samuel Danforth of Billerica, Mass., as surveyor, 1719 February 16.

Handwritten document signed by Boston selectmen Thomas Cushing, Isaiah Tay, Elisha Cooke, and Oliver Noyes. Danforth is to run the lines and renew the boundary marks of a tract of land lying north of the Merrimack River.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53479175 View

Hobby, Charles, Sir, d. 1715. Papers, 1702-1716.

Title: Papers, 1702-1716.

Copied documents from the estate of Sir Charles Hobby of Boston, Mass., who died insolvent and intestate in 1715. Among the documents are inventories of Hobby's estate; the petition and grant of executorship to Elisha Cooke and Oliver Noyes; accounts of Hobby's debts; and a petition from Hobby's widow Eliza for government support.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18266381 View

Rasles, Sébastien, 1657-1724. Dictionary of the Abenaki Indian language : manuscript, 1691-1724.

Title: Dictionary of the Abenaki Indian language : manuscript, 1691-1724.

ArchivalResource: 501, 50 p., bound ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612789180 View