Records relating to Harvard College collected by Charles Ewer, 1712-1723.

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. Board of Overseers

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The Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting was established in the spring of 1977 to recognize and encourage book collecting by undergraduates at Harvard. It is sponsored by the Members of the Board of Overseer's Committee to Visit the Harvard University Library. From the description of General information about the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting. 1977- (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511952 The Board of Overseers i...

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...

Leverett, John, 1662-1724

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President of Harvard, 1707-1724. From the description of ALS, 1714 December 18 : Cambridge, to Stephen Sewal, Salem. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 13708312 John Leverett (1662-1724), religious leader, lawyer, judge, president of Harvard College from 1707-1724, and grandson of Governor John Leverett (1616-1679), lived in Boston, Mass. He attended Boston Latin School and received his training from Ezekiel Cheever (1615-1708). After graduation, he atte...

Ewer, Charles, 1790-1853

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Charles Ewer (1790-1853) was a Boston bookseller and a principal founder and first president of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, established in 1845. Between 1716 and 1723, disagreements between Harvard President John Leverett and the College Tutors, led by Nicholas Sever, over the management of the College dissolved into political challenges between the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, and the Massachusetts General Court. The Fellowship Controversy, as...

Davenport, Addington, 1670-1736.

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Harvard College (1636-1780)

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Samuel Mather (1677-1746) was a member of a prominent Connecticut family. He was born in Branford, Connecticut in 1677; his parents were the Reverend Samuel and Hannah (Treat) Mather. When Samuel was four, his family moved to Windsor, Connecticut. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1698 and an A.M. in 1701. He began studying medicine in 1698 and by 1702 he was admitted "to be a Practitioner of Physick and Chyrurgy." He was quickly successful, and in 1710 was appointed a surgeon to...

White, John, 1669-1721,

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Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...

Sever, Nicholas, 1680-1764

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Nicholas Sever was a member of the Harvard class of 1701, and later a fellow and tutor. From the description of Commonplace books, 1705-1744 (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072560 ...

Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730

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Samuel Sewell was born 28 March 1652 Bishop Stoke England. He arrived in Boston 1661. He was Commissioner of the Company for the Progagation of the Gospel in New England and Parts Adjacent (1699-1730), Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co., Overseer of Harvard College, Judge of Probate for Suffolk Co. (1715-1728), and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature (1718-1728). He died 1 January 1729/30 Boston MA. From the description of [Account book of Samuel Sewall,...

Cooke, Elisha, 1678-1737

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