Triennial catalogs annotated by William Winthrop, 1794-1812.

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Triennial catalogs annotated by William Winthrop, 1794-1812.

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William Winthrop's biographical notes on Harvard graduates held in a substantially annotated copy of Harvard's 1794 Triennial Catalog with pages from later catalogs. The volume consists of pages from the published catalogs pasted into a blank volume. The bulk of the book is comprised of the printed list of graduate names found in the Triennial Catalog accompanied by handwritten biographical information, usually a sentence in length. It begins with a handwritten section titled "Settled Ministers (in the first Parish in Cambridge)." The entries generally contain a residence, date of death (abbreviated ob), age of death (abbreviated ae), and professional information. While the 1794 Catalog appears to comprise the greater part of the book, graduate lists were added from Triennial Catalogs through the 1812 edition. An example of an entry, for John Hancock (Harvard AB 1754), reads "Rep. for Boston, Maj. Gen. Militia. Ob. Octo. 8. 1793 AE 57 Son of Rev. John of Brantree [sic]." The inspiration for Winthrop's work is suggested by a March 27, 1798 letter from Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798) pasted into the back of the volume. Written only two months before his death, Belknap describes his plan to "go thro' the whole Catalogue of the graduates of Harvard College, & relate all that's proper to be related."

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Winthrop, William, 1753-1825

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Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798

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Jeremy Belknap was born in Boston on June 4, 1744. He received an AB from Harvard in 1762 and an AM in 1765. He became the minister of the First Congregational Church of Dover, New Hampshire in 1767, and later served as the minister of the Church in Long Lane, Boston. As a historian, Belknap published the History of New Hampshire and American Biography. His work on American Biography encouraged an interest in Harvard's history, and he explained in a letter two months before his de...