Letters : to Samuel Griffin, 1790-1793.

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Letters : to Samuel Griffin, 1790-1793.

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Letters from Abbot (A. B. 1784) while he was working as a tutor at Harvard, written to his classmate Griffin (A. B. 1784), who was at the time living in North Carolina. The letters concern personal matters and activities at Harvard and in and around Cambridge, Mass.

99 leaves ; 21 cm. or smaller.

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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...

Griffin, Samuel, b. 1762?

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Abbot, John, 1751-1840

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John Abbot (1750-1840), naturalist and artist, collected, observed, drew insects, arachnids, and birds; native of England, moved to America in 1773 and Georgia in 1776. From the description of John Abbot notebook, [ca. 1791]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476134 John Abbot (1757-ca. 1840) was born in London in 1751, the son of a lawyer who encouraged his early interest and talent for natural history, and who arranged for him to study drawing, perspective, and engraving un...