Notebooks, 1796-1805.

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Notebooks, 1796-1805.

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Notebooks of Andrew Croswell, a 1798 graduate of Harvard College. The first is a "mathematical manuscript" containing problems in geometry, trigonometry, and surveying; and principles of navigation and related mathematical fields. Some of the problems have ink and watercolor illustrations. The second is a physician's notebook, containing notes on the treatment of certain diseases and injuries, and the use of certain medicines. Also contains ink and watercolor sketches of Fayette (1798), Farmington (1800), and Mercer (1805), villages in Maine. Croswell studied medicine in Plymouth, Mass., practicing there and in Fayette and Mercer, Maine.

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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...

Croswell, Andrew, 1778-1858.

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Andrew Croswell was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts on April 9, 1778 to Andrew and Sarah (Palmer) Croswell. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1798 and then studied medicine under Dr. Zaccheus Bartlett. He later moved to Maine, where he was a practicing physician in the towns of Fayette and Mercer for over fifty years. He married Susan Church of Farmington, Maine, and they had six children together. Andrew Croswell died in Mercer, Maine on June 4, 1858, at the age of eighty. ...