Commonplace books, ca. 1783-ca. 1825.

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Commonplace books, ca. 1783-ca. 1825.

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A collection of personal and financial records, genealogical notices, newspaper extracts, and material relating to Boston history and government. Contents - VOL. 1 (309 p.): Silhouette of Ephraim Eliot , tipped-in; as overseer of the poor, cash disbursements, etc. 1811 March-1815 May; notices of Harvard classmates; persons who died of yellow fever in Boston in 1798; number of whites and blacks buried in Boston, 1759-1774; suicides in Boston (name and method), 1812-1820; notes on the peal of bells of Christ Church, Boston; memoranda on the Eliot family; account of property in Middle Street, Boston, 1807-1825; notices of the Langdon family; inventory and valuation of plate, house furniture, etc., ca. 1818; sale of Sunday pews, New North Church; apothecaries in Boston before the Revolution and in 1783, 1818, & 1821; taxes paid 1784-1817; copy of a letter to Edward Tuckerman regarding a disputed bill, 1824; death of Andrew Eliot of Beverly; account of plate belonging to New North Church; regarding Samuel Eliot of Boston; oration in celebration of commencement, 1783 July; account of Jesse Thomas, classmate and murder victim; copies of letters from Rev. Dr. Andrew Eliot to his son, Samuel Eliot, at Waltham during the Siege of Boston, 1775-1776. VOL. 2 (137 p.), largely extracts from Boston newspapers: Joseph Green's account of the masonic celebration of the festival of St. John the Baptist, 1739 June 20; Green's account of "a very strange and wonderful sight seen in Boston" on Dec. 27, 1749; poetry and epitaphs; an account of the Boston Stone, 1822; military companies in Boston; descriptions of the North and South Batteries; "Biography of a rascal;" anecdote of Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris; "Effects of camphor applied to the surface of the human body;" "Singular case of epilepsy;" listing of "signs and emblems common in Boston." VOL. 3 (approx. 50 p.), notes as alderman, from 1822 May 1: argument over need for a new school house; Mill Pond lands; liquor licenses; David Sears and the City Market; the Boston town clock; the North End gun house; newspaper clippings.

3 v. in slipcase ; 22 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Eliot (Family : Boston, Mass.)

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The Eliot family is the American branch of one of several British families to hold this surname. This branch is based in Boston but originated in East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset. It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system. All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670. The elder Andrew (1627-March 1, 1703...

Eliot, John, 1754-1813

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Langdon family.

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Sears, David, 1787-1871

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Green, Joseph, 1706-1780

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Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

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The early 19th century was a time of student unrest at Harvard. Perhaps in reaction to the disturbances and protest of previous classes, Faculty Records vol. IX tell that President Kirkland announced early on in the Class of 1822's college years that no students were to have any meeting for the purpose of eating or drinking in college. Although the Class of 1822 is a serene one as compared with its generation, many of the students of the Class of 1822 received public admonishments as a result of...

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Eliot, Andrew, 1718-1778

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Andrew Eliot was born in Boston on December 21, 1718. He received from Harvard an AB in 1737 and an AM in 1740. He was ordained the pastor of the New North Church of Boston on April 14, 1742, and began a lifelong career as a respected and well-known minister. In 1758 he was appointed the clerk of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, and was elected to the Corporation in 1765. Eliot weathered the Revolutionary War in Boston, and at the request of General Washington made the official thanksgiving sermon ...

Eliot, Ephraim, 1761-1827.

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Harvard graduate, class of 1780. Studied medicine and became an apothecary. Treasurer of New North Church. In Boston city government as overseer of the poor and alderman. From the description of Commonplace books, ca. 1783-ca. 1825. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 71201685 ...

Harris, Thaddeus Mason, 1768-1842

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Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768-1842) was a Unitarian clergyman in Dorchester, Mass., author, and antiquarian. He was also librarian of Harvard College, 1791-1793, and librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1837-1842. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207142240 Unitarian minister, naturalist and antiquarian. From the description of Letter, 1797, Jan. 27 : Dorchester, Mass., to Rev. W. Bentley. (Duke University). WorldCat recor...

New North Church (Boston, Mass.)

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Organized in 1714 as the Fifth Church, the original meeting house on Hanover Street; mother church was the Old North Church (also known as Christ Church); society organized in 1803; listed as Unitarian from 1845-1851; New North Church joined Bullfinch Street Church ca. 1867; became extinct between 1884-1886. From the description of Records, 1722 Aug.-Nov. (American Congregational Association). WorldCat record id: 70951013 Org. 1714 as the Fifth Church, the original meeting h...