Papers, 1627-1846.

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Papers, 1627-1846.

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Papers collected by John Davis, Judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts and President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Included are papers, sermons, and letters to or from governors and religious leaders of the American colonies, including John Winthrop Sr., Gov. Thomas Prence, Jonathan Belcher, Benjamin Fletcher, Josiah Cotton, Rev. Thomas Prince, and Benjamin Colman. Some of the letters contain accounts of King Philip's War or other discussions of Indian relations. Also included are letters of John and Thomas Davis; a journal of a 1780 expedition to study a solar eclipse, led by Prof. Samuel Williams; Joshua Gee's memo book containing notes and accounts he kept as a Harvard student, 1714-15; notes of John Adams on the trial of British soldiers for the Boston Massacre; and lists of men who attended special dinners in 1797 and 1798 in Boston to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrims.

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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...

Adams, John, 1735-1826

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Prence, Thomas, approximately 1600-1673

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Governor of New Plymouth Colony. From the description of Document, 1671 Sept. 4, Plymouth. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 173959103 ...

Fletcher, Benjamin, 1640-1703

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Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757

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Jonathan Belcher was born on January 8, in 1681 or 1682, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Andrew and Sarah Belcher. In 1746, upon hearing about Governor of New Jersey Lewis Morris's poor health, Belcher actively pursued the opportunity for another royal appointment. Although the Morris Family nominated the former governor's son, Robert Hunter Morris, the alliance of Quakers in New Jersey and London cultivated by Belcher and his brother-in-law, Richard Partridge, managed to obtain the appo...

Williams, Samuel, 1743-1817

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Samuel Williams (1743-1817) was the son of Rev. Warham Williams (1699-1751) of Waltham, Mass. In 1761 he graduated from Harvard College and became minister of Bradford, Mass., until 1779 when he was chosen professor of philosophy at Harvard. Williams was a member of the American Philosophical Society, helped organize the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served on various state commissions. Forced to resign his post at Harvard due to a scandal involving forgery, Williams moved to Rutlan...

Davis, Thomas, 1756-1805.

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Winthrop, John, 1588-1649

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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Description of John Winthrop, 1631 March 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067142 John Winthrop (1588-1649), a Puritan lawyer, one of the founders and the governor of the colony of Massachusetts. In March 1630, Winthrop began his journal that he kept until January 1649. By the early 1640s, the entries became more irregular and retrospective, and the narrative was more of a history than a personal journal. There were three ...

Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747

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Colman received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1692. From the description of Sermons : manuscript, 1709. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612882178 Benjamin Colman (1673-1747) was born in Boston on October 19, 1673. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1692 and an A.M. in 1695. Soon after graduation he departed on a ship for London. The ship was taken over by a French privateer, who held the passengers captive before exchanging them once on land...

Davis, John, 1761-1847

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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Benjamin Bourne, 1798 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270515963 John Davis (1761-1847), a United States Court judge for the district of Massachusetts, was born on January 25, 1761 in Plymouth, Mass. He received an AB from Harvard in 1781 and an AM in 1784. Davis practiced law and served in state government before being appointed comptroller of the United States Treasury in 1796. In 1801, he ...

Cotton, Josiah, 1680-1756

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Cotton was a Boston minister. From the description of History of the Cotton family : manuscript, [ca. 1728]-1755. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612844239 ...

Gee, Joshua, 1698-1748

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Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags, -1676

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American Indian leader, also known as King Philip. Led King Philip's War against English colonists, 1675-1676. From the description of Deed, 1672 Sept. 28, to William Brenton and others. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122690019 ...

Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758

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Thomas Prince (1687-1758) was a graduate of Harvard College, a clergyman, scholar, historian, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, Mass. from 1718 to 1758, and author of A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals (1736). From the description of Thomas Prince letters, 1721-1738. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 660848206 From the guide to the Thomas Prince letters, 1721-1738, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke U...