Papers of Benjamin Wadsworth, 1696-1736.

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Papers of Benjamin Wadsworth, 1696-1736.

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Benjamin Wadsworth (1670-1737) was pastor of the First Church of Boston from 1693 to 1725 and the eighth president of Harvard College, serving from 1725 to 1737. This collection documents Wadsworth’s activities and interests as a pastor and as president of Harvard. It contains his diary, 1725-1736, sermons, 1696-1734, a medical account book listing medical remedies collected by Wadsworth, and a receipt from Wadsworth to Thomas Emory, 1725.

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Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1670-1737

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Wadsworth was president of Harvard College, 1725-1737. From the description of Sermon : manuscript, 1707. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612801745 Congregational clergyman at Boston's First Church and president of Harvard. From the description of Benjamin Wadsworth sermons, 1722-1723. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 174051470 Wadsworth (A.B. 1690, M.A. 1693) was the pastor of the First Church of Boston. He was president...