Papers of Andrew Eliot, 1734-1777

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Papers of Andrew Eliot, 1734-1777

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Andrew Eliot (1718-1778) was a respected minister of Boston's New North Church, and member of the Harvard Corporation. He graduated from Harvard with an AB in 1737 and received an AM in 1740. This collection of Eliot's papers consists of two interleaved almanacs from 1734 and 1739, correspondence, an annotated Harvard Triennial Catalogue, and an essay that highlights aspects of Eliot's life from his days as a Harvard undergraduate through his final years as a Boston minister during the Revolutionary War. The papers offer information about the daily life of a Harvard student, and the evolution of Eliot's religious beliefs from an early undated personal essay to his later viewpoints on the role of Providence in the Revolutionary War. In his correspondence, Eliot conveyed information about Harvard, as well as news about the Revolutionary War.

.06 cubic feet; (3 volumes and 4 folders)

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Eliot, Andrew, 1718-1778

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Andrew Eliot was born in Boston on December 21, 1718. He received from Harvard an AB in 1737 and an AM in 1740. He was ordained the pastor of the New North Church of Boston on April 14, 1742, and began a lifelong career as a respected and well-known minister. In 1758 he was appointed the clerk of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, and was elected to the Corporation in 1765. Eliot weathered the Revolutionary War in Boston, and at the request of General Washington made the official thanksgiving sermon ...