Samuel Johnson papers, 1710-1971, bulk 1710-1772.

Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819

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William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727 – November 14, 1819) was an American Founding Father and statesman. During the Revolutionary War, he served as a militia lieutenant before being relieved following his rejection of his election to the First Continental Congress. He was notable for signing the United States Constitution, for representing Connecticut in the United States Senate, and for serving as the third president of King's College, now known as Columbia University. Born in Stratford, ...

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Bostwick, David, 1721-1763

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David Bostwick (1721-1763); Presbyterian pastor at Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., and First Presbyterian Church, New York City. From the description of Papers, 1761. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 48269233 ...

Chandler, Thomas Bradbury, 1726-1790

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The author, rector of St. John's Church, Elizabethtown, N.J., was a loyalist and supporter of an American episcopate. From the description of Memorandums / by T.B. Chandler. 1775-1786. (General Theological Seminary, Christoph Keller, Jr. Library). WorldCat record id: 18728916 From the description of Memorandums / by T.B. Chandler. 1775-1786. (General Theological Seminary, Christoph Keller, Jr. Library). WorldCat record id: 21462177 From the description of Memorandum...

Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769

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Epithet: of Cristall British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000215.0x000031 Thomas Foxcroft received his A. B. from Harvard in 1714, and was a minister at the First Church in Boston, Mass. From the description of Manuscript exercises, ca. 1714. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072566 Thomas Foxcroft (1696/7-1769), minister of the First Church of Boston, was born on February 26, 1696/7. ...

King's College (New York, N.Y.)

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

Parkhurst, John, 1728-1797

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Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776

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Scientist, New York colonial official. From the description of Cadwallader Colden Papers, 1677-1832 (bulk 1711-1775). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476912237 Governor of New York (Colony) and scientist. From the description of Cadwallader Colden family papers, 1686-1830. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453882 Colonial New York philosopher and scientist, and political official. From the description of Letter : New York, [N.Y.], t...

Watts, John, 1715-1779.

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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...

Barclay, Henry, 1715-1764

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Berkeley, George, 1685-1753

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Title: Baron and (1679) 1st Earl of Berkeley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x00039a Bishop and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gravesend, probably to the Bishop of London [Edmund Gibson] just before sailing for Rhode Island, 1728 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133394 ...

Monis, Judah, 1683-1764

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Monis taught Hebrew at Harvard College. From the description of A grammar of the Hebrew tongue : manuscript, [not before 1735] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612819312 Judah Monis (1683-1764), a Jewish scholar and educator, was an instructor of Hebrew at Harvard College between 1722 and 1760. Monis was born on February 4, 1683, likely in Italy or the Barbary States. He immigrated to New York City in the early 1700s, and later moved to Massachusetts. Monis converte...

Bearcroft, Philip, 1697-1761

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Horsmanden, Daniel, 1694-1778

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Daniel Horsmanden was chief justice of New York; he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1744. From the guide to the Daniel Horsmanden selected papers, 1714-1747, relating to the Six Nations, 1714-1747, (American Philosophical Society) Daniel Horsmanden was chief justice of New York, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1744. From the description of Selected papers, 1714-1747, relating to the Six Nations. (American Philosophica...

Antill, Edward, 1742-1789

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Johnson, Samuel, 1696-1772

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First President of King's College (1754-1763), Anglican minister, & philosopher. From the description of Samuel Johnson papers, 1710-1971, bulk 1710-1772. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 506128785 Samuel Johnson was an Anglican minister and the first presdent of King's College (Columbia University). From the description of [Letter] 1769 Oct. 25, Stratford, [Ct. to] My dear son / S. Johnson. (Smith College). WorldCat record i...

Auchmuty, Samuel, 1722-1777

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Auchmuty, a Harvard graduate (1742) and Anglican clergyman, was a son of Robert Auchmuty judge of the Vice Admiralty Court of Boston (1733-1741). In 1763 Samuel Auchmuty was assistant minister of Trinity Church in New York. From the description of Letter, 9 January 1763. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338425 ...

Cooper, Myles, 1737-1785

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Peters, Richard, 1704-1776

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Rev. Richard Peters was a clergyman. He was the uncle of Judge Richard Peters of Philadelphia. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1765, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190878612 Philadelphia clergyman, provincial secretary and councillor. From the description of ALS : Philadelphia, to [John Penn?], 1772 Mar. 2. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86165787 From the description of ALS : Phila...

Sewall, Stephen, 1734-1804

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Stephen Sewall (1734-1804) earned his Harvard AB in 1761 and taught oriental languages and Hebrew at Harvard from 1761 to 1785. He held the following positions: Instructor in Hebrew (1761-1764), Librarian (1762-1763), and Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages (1764-1785). From the description of Papers of Stephen Sewall, 1765-1785. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972880 Stephen Sewall (1733/4-1804), the first Hancock Professor of H...

Wheelock, Eleazar, 1711-1779

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Eleazar Wheelock was born in Windham, Conn. in 1711. A Congregational minster, he was the founder and first president of Dartmouth College. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1779. From the description of Records, 1882-1965. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237296583 American congregational divine. First president of Dartmouth College. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dartmouth College, 1773 Nov. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2705874...

Stuyvesant, Nicholas William, d. 1780.

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