Letters, 1811-1871.

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Letters, 1811-1871.

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Letters written to the Rev. Joseph Allen, minister of the Northborough, Massachusetts, First Parish Church from 1816 to 1873. The early letters in the collection are mostly from Allen's Harvard classmates George Morey, Thomas Prentiss, and Joseph Haven. Many of the later correspondents are fellow clergymen, including Hiram Withington, pastor of the Leominster First Congregational Society (Unitarian), whom Allen helped prepare for the ministry.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Haven, Joseph, d. 1851.

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Prentiss, Thomas, 1747-1814

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Morey, George, 1789-1866

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Withington, Hiram, 1818-1848.

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Allen, Joseph, 1790-1873

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