Papers of Benjamin Wadsworth, 1696-1736.

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Papers of Benjamin Wadsworth, 1696-1736.

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The Papers of Benjamin Wadsworth document his activities as President of Harvard College and as the Pastor of the First Church of Boston. These papers contain several of his public orations that illustrate his intellectual and religious beliefs. His diary provides a glimpse of college life at Harvard College at the end of the seventeenth century and early beginnings of the eighteenth century. Wadsworth's medical account book illustrates the various illinesses existing in early colonial New England and their medical treatments.

.35 cubic foot (5 volumes, 1 enlarged photostat copy, 1 negative microfilm roll, 1 document binder)

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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