Letter from Jacob Welsh to the Harvard Corporation, December 1806.

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Letter from Jacob Welsh to the Harvard Corporation, December 1806.

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One-and-a-half page handwritten letter on two leaves sent by Jacob Welsh from Boston to the Harvard Corporation regarding a mathematical question in December 1806. In the letter, Welsh asks for clarification on the differences between the words "demonstration, postulate, and axiom, as used and understood by Mathematicians." On the verso of the last leaf an added inscription identifies the document as "Dr. Jacob Welch's Postulate."

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Harvard University. Corporation.

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Harvard College's primary governing board, the Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (known as the Harvard Corporation), was established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1650. The charter conferred on the Corporation the duties of managing the College, including appointing and removing administrators, faculty, and staff, creating orders and by-laws for the College, and managing finances, properties, and donations. The first recorded meeting of the Corporation was held on December 10, 16...

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...

Welsh, Jacob, 1755-1822.

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The identity of the author of this document is unclear, but it may be Jacob Welsh, a 1774 graduate of Harvard College. Jacob Welsh (1755-1822) received an AB from Harvard in 1774 and served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Following the war he unsuccessfully tried to patent carding and spinning equipment, and tried to find employment in the construction and development of Washington D.C. Welsh lived in Lunenburg, Mass. and represented the town in the Massachusetts General Co...