Papers of Benjamin Peirce, 1786-1833 (inclusive).

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Papers of Benjamin Peirce, 1786-1833 (inclusive).

Includes personal correspondence; manuscripts; and annotated copy of 1790 Laws of Harvard College; also manuscripts, notes and letters relating to Peirce's work History of Harvard University (1833). Correspondents include Paine Wingate.

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Harvard University Archives.

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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...

Wingate, Paine, 1739-1838

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Delegate to the U.S. Continental Congress and U.S. senator and representative from New Hampshire, clergyman, and jurist. From the description of Paine Wingate correspondence, 1794. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981402 Wingate, Congregational minister, legislator, and judge, was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Hampton Falls, N.H. in 1763, was a delegate to the New Hampshire constitutional convention in 1781, served in the state legislature and the U.S. Hous...

Peirce, Benjamin, 1778-1831

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Peirce (Harvard, A.B., 1801) served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Peirce, 1786-1833 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972838 Peirce received his A.B. from Harvard in 1801, and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Lecture notes taken as a student, 1797-1798. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072603 ...