1 An Analysis of the Early Records of Harvard College, 1636–1750 (Library of Harvard University, Bibliographical Contributions, No. 50, 1895). In 1888 Mr. Davis compiled A Few Notes on the Records of Harvard College (id., No. 27).

2 An instance, where “synopsis of arts” was deprived of meaning by being printed “synopsis of acts,” is given in our Publications, xviii. 318 note. Cf. pp. lix note 2, lxxi note 3, below.

3 That is, the main material, which ends with 1750: but occasional entries of a later period are found.

4 That these six Books were so numbered by Wadsworth is proved negatively by the fact that until his day they were always cited by title, and positively by the fact that the numbers to the five Books extant (College Book II having been destroyed in 1764: see p. xviii, below) are in Wadsworth’s handwriting.

5 The following pages are blank: 2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 32, 36, 38, 40, 42, 47, 48, 54, 56, 58, 62, 71–74, 86–88, 90, 92, 100, 134–163, 167–181, 207–249, 251–258, 265–267, 269–271, 273–353.

6 Pp. 82–129, below. The names in this list are not included in the index to the present volumes.

7 See Sibley’s note, p. 171 note 2, below.

8 This fact makes cross references difficult to identify.

9 Still another series was begun on page 182 of A, but as it was continued through three pages only, it need not be included in the collation: see p. 134 note 2, below.

10 This page was by mistake numbered “83,” then that figure was crossed out and “79” written above it, the top of the leaf having been trimmed off.

11 At this point President Wadsworth apparently made a mistake, for he numbered this page not “199” but “203,” thus dropping out four figures.

12 At this point President Wadsworth again apparently made an error, as he numbered this page “223” instead of “219,” thus once more dropping out four figures.

13 At this point President Wadsworth stopped his notation, and thereafter no page is numbered, except in Mr. Davis’s notation.

14 For these references, see the index to the present volumes.

15 History of Harvard University, i. 449. In one place an unfortunate misprint occurs in Quincy’s History, where (i. 451) College Book IV is called “College Book No. VI.”

16 Quincy says that Donation Book I was “prepared under the care of the Rev. Andrew Eliot, then a member of the Corporation” (History, i. 494). There were two Andrew Eliots, both at that time members of the Corporation: the Rev. Dr. Andrew Eliot (1737), and his son the Rev. Andrew Eliot (1762). It was the former who prepared Donation Book I. See p. lxix note, below.

17 Written over “and,” crossed out.

18 This is an autograph signature. Among the College archives is a volume (marked UA. 13.10) labelled on the back of the cover: “Benefactors of Harvard College.” Presumably this was the book prepared by Dr. Eliot himself, and later copied into Donation Book I by his son Josiah Eliot: see p. lxix note, below.

19 An account of the fire, taken from the Boston News Letter of February 2, 1764, is reprinted in Quincy’s History, ii. 480–483. Another account, written January 30 by Margaret Mascarene, a daughter of President Holyoke, to her husband John Mascarene in London, is printed in full in the Harvard Register (1881), iii. 294–297, and in part in our Publications, xiv. 3 note 5.

20 See Sibley’s note, p. 171 note 2, below.

21 This Index consists of 28 unnumbered pages, measuring 6⅛ inches in width by 14 in height. On the recto of the first leaf is written “Index” in the hand of President Wadsworth. The name of the compiler is nowhere given, but President Wadsworth’s peculiarly characteristic handwriting is unmistakable. There are, however, a few additions (perhaps thirty) in the hand of President Holyoke.

Owing to interlineations, erasures, the occasional omission of carets, and the underscoring of many words, the Index presents some difficulties. In most cases, only the references to College Book II are extracted here, but in a few instances references to other Books are included.

The two following entries occur in the Index under “E” and “P,” respectively:

• M^r Nath^l Eaton, chosen President or Professor. 1637. Put down by y^e Court for severe usage of y^e scholars. 1639. B.3.p.2.3.
• M^r Nath^l Eaton chosen President or Professor of y^e Coll. An. 1637. B.3.p.2.

22 The words “(see B.1.p.63.)” are interlined.

23 Here “once” is crossed out.

24 The words “sometimes B.2.p.26.29.31.” are interlined.

25 The words “commanded (An. 1674. B.1.p.51)” are interlined.

26 The words “to y^e steward. B.2.p.4.” are interlined.

27 The word “first” is interlined.

28 This entry appears to throw light on the obscure matter of the change in the course of study from three years to four years: see Mr. William C. Lane’s article on “Harvard Broadsides,” in Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, October, 1914, xxiv. 275–279; and cf. our Publications, xviii. 324–325.

29 The words “as Com̄. placing, disputing, declaiming” are interlined.

30 The words “See B.5.4to.p.34.53 &c.” are interlined. See p.xxix note 2, below.

31 The words “B.3.p.27.” are interlined.”

32 The words “See. p. 57. Webb’s case.” are interlined.

33 The words “B.3.p.54.” are interlined.

34 The words “Latin. p. 19.” are interlined.

35 “&.37” is interlined.

36 The “3” in “23” is not certain, as the figure has been trimmed off.

37 The words “B.3.p.19–22–25.36.” are interlined.

38 The words “Book 1. 138.” are interlined in the hand of President Holyoke.

39 The words “House &” are interlined.

40 The words “B.4.p.5.” are interlined.

41 The words “B.2.p.48.” are interlined.

42 The words “house repair’d. 33.” are interlined.

43 The words “may punish” are interlined.

44 The same entry was made lower down on the page and then crossed out.

45 The words “(An. 1654. B.2.p.3)” are interlined.

46 Altered from “house.”

47 The words “B.4.p.85” are interlined. This reference is to the President’s House (p. 485, below).

48 The words “repair’d B.2.p.33.35.48.” are interlined.

49 The words “(An. 1654. wt. B.2.p.19)” are interlined.

50 The words “B.3.p.64.” are interlined.

51 The words “wt there was. 1674. p. 53” are interlined.

52 The words “& House & Land rent-free” are interlined.

53 In the original the entries under Q are placed after Z.

54 Written above “gift,” crossed out.

55 The blank pages are 38, 89, 132–136, 159, 167.

56 Danforth made two errors. After correctly numbering 39 pages, he inadvertently numbered the next page 30 instead of 40; and he numbered two pages 47. Hence his numbers after the first 39 should have been not 30–77, but 40–88.

57 Wadsworth altered Danforth’s 30–77 to 40–87, but failed to note Danforth’s error in assigning the number 47 to two pages. Hence Wadsworth’s numbers after the first 57 should have been not 57–120, but 58–121.

58 Holyoke failed to notice Wadsworth’s error of one page, and so inserted numbers 121–124 instead of 122–125.

59 As the first 57 pages were correctly numbered by Wadsworth, Mr. Davis’s figures in pencil begin at page 58 and are given within square brackets in the text of this volume.

60 To this point, Wadsworth’s notation is given within square brackets in the text of this volume.

61 See the last note but one.

62 Here Danforth’s numbering ends.

63 Here Wadsworth’s numbering ends.

64 Here Holyoke’s numbering ends.

65 The blank pages are 4, 321–326, 331.

66 Cf. p. 335 note 1, below.

67 Not May 20, 1686, as given in the Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 517: see our Publications, vi. 81–82.

68 Council Records, ii. 52–53: cf. 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xiii. 257. One item relating to the College, as it is not entered in College Book IV, may be given from another source: “At a Meeting of the Councill at Cambridge in New England July 23^rd 1686. [Present those mentioned in the text and in addition Bartholomew Gedney.] Ordered. That . . . Major Richards, M^r Simon Lynd and Captⁿ Hammond appointed a Committee to examine the accounts of M^r Danforth as Steward of the Colledge” (Council Records, ii. 58: cf. 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xiii. 260).

69 Pp. 827–828, below. In a letter dated March 29, 1688, Randolph said: “(during my absence to serue a Quo Warr^to ag^t the Colony of Connecticott, M^r Dudley Presid^t M^r Stoughton Dep^ty presid^t with 5 of the Members of the Council take vpon them the Regulation of the Colledge (but no Order or direction from his Ma^tie for so doing) and in stead of a President and ffellowes make a Rector and Tutors: as by the Inclosed pretended order of Presid^t and Councill doth appeare: so that now Increase Mather: to that day President of the Colledge was continued but by the name and office of Rector” (in Toppan’s Edward Randolph, Prince Society, vi. 245). May not the change in title have been made merely to distinguish the head of the College from the head of the civil government, the latter then being “President of the Council for New England”? Dr. William Douglass made a similar suggestion: “When Mr. Dudley was President of New England, for distinction the President of the college was called Rector” (Summary, 1749, i. 546 note).

70 Pp. 828–832, below.

71 P. 828, below.

72 Pp. 828–832, below.

73 Cf. our Publications, vi. 81–82, xvii. 4, 5, 7, 14, 28, 44.

74 The only allusion to Andros in the records here printed, except a casual one, is to the effect that the “substance” of a certain donation account was delivered to him: see p. 256, below. Unfortunately, owing to the fact that the bottom of the page has been trimmed off, it is impossible to decipher the date; but this was doubtless between August 1 and 5, 1687: see our Publications, i. 206, and a letter from Randolph dated August 5, 1687, in which he says: “his Excellence calls to account the Managers of the publick money of the Colledge and finds M^r Stoughton and M^r Dudley haue lately altered the Security of some [of] it and made about 100^lb payable to them and their heires you may see what Justice his Ma^tie may expect from such Judges” (in Toppan’s Edward Randolph, Prince Society, vi. 225). The only allusions to Harvard College in the Dudley Records (2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xiii. 226–286) are those quoted in the text or footnote on p. xxv, above. The Andros Records (Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, 1899, xiii. 239–268) contain no allusions to Harvard College. For Randolph’s activities in regard to the College, see Toppan’s Edward Randolph, i. 71–72, 222–223, 225, 293, 297, 302, 307, iii. 290, iv. 90, 95, 96, vi. 29–30, 225, 244–247.

75 The Corporation meetings after September 5, 1750, are recorded in College Book VII, showing that President Holyoke respected his predecessor’s numberings of College Books I–VI.

76 While Treasurer, Hancock had sent to him in Philadelphia “all his books and papers” (Quincy, History, ii. 182–209). The papers were returned to the College, but at least three of the books remained in Hancock’s possession and were not restored to the College until 1860–1862, when they were found in the stable of the Hancock mansion in Boston. These were Treasurer Richards’s Book (1669–1693), Treasurer Brattle’s Book (1693–1713), and Treasurer Hutchinson’s Book (1721–1752). See Sibley’s account of Treasurer Richards’s Book and Treasurer Brattle’s Book, and description of with extracts from the volumes, in 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society (1862), vi. 337–354. The Brattle Book is fairly well preserved, but not so the Richards Book, which it is to be regretted was not copied in full by Sibley, for some of the entries he did copy cannot now, though the volume has been mercerized, be deciphered in the original.

In 1860 Steward Chesholme’s Account Book (1650–1659), and five similar books (1703–1749) kept by the two Andrew Bordmans who were Stewards in 1703–1747 and 1747–1750 respectively, were returned to the College: see 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 60–63, 154–158.

77 “Notes on the Harvard College Records, 1636–1800,” in our Publications, xiv. 314 note 1.

78 Leverett died May 3, 1724. The fact that Wadsworth called the Diary College Book V in Quarto indicates both that he regarded it as a book of College records, as it was, and that the Diary was in his time in the possession of the College, as it ought to have been. By “the late Doctor Wigglesworth” is doubtless meant the Rev. Dr. Edward Wigglesworth, who graduated in 1749 and died in 1794. He was the son of the Rev. Dr. Edward Wigglesworth (1710), who married Sarah Leverett, a daughter of President Leverett. Presumably at some time, perhaps on the death of Wadsworth or later, the Diary was claimed by Dr. Wigglesworth or his widow or his son, and was allowed by the College to fall into private hands.

79 The discovery that College Book V in Quarto and Leverett’s Diary were identical enables the Editor to correct several errors into which President Wadsworth inadvertently fell. In several cross references in the margins of College Book IV, he wrote “Book V” by mistake for “Book V in 4to.” The same blunder was committed by Wadsworth in his Index, where appear several entries relating to College Book V and to Leverett’s Diary. The text of these volumes was cast before this identification had been made, and hence several footnotes need correction. The references at p. 449 note 3, p. 836 note 1, p. 838 notes 1, 4, 5, and p. 839 notes 2, 5, below, are all to Leverett’s Diary. When Wadsworth wrote “B.5.p.99” (p. 832, below) and “See Coll. B.5.p.15” (p. 838, below), he ought to have written “B.5. 4to. p. 99” and “See Coll. B.5. 4to. p. 15,” as both references are to Leverett’s Diary.

80 Why the words “in Folio” should have been added does not appear, for so far as is known there was no College Book VI in Quarto. It is possible that Wadsworth regarded his own Diary or the Hopkins Book as College Book VI in Quarto, but there is nothing to indicate that he did.

81 See p. 547, below.

82 The statements made in this Introduction differ in a few trifling instances from the descriptions given in our Publications, xiv. 312–318. For other volumes, see the index under the entry “College records.”

83 Thus the 1885 Quinquennial says, under date of 1642: “Inspectores primum creabantur” (p. iv), and “Inspectores Creati aunt 1642” (p. x). This, or a similar statement, was repeated in the Quinquennials down to and including that of 1910 (p. 6). The more correct statement found in the 1915 Quinquennial, where the entry under 1642 reads “An act reorganizing the Overseers of Harvard College” (p. 4), was due to Mr. Gay’s representations: see our Publications, xvii. 125, xviii. 320 note 4; Harvard Alumni Bulletin, May 26, 1915, xvii. 612–613. But there was still no mention in that place of the earlier act. At the suggestion of the present Editor, there was inserted in the 1920 Quinquennial under the year 1637 the entry: “An act creating the Overseers of Harvard College” (p. 4). A section on “The Government of the University” first appeared in the Harvard University Catalogue for 1872–73, where it was stated (p. 9) that the Board of Overseers was “established” by the act of 1642; and the same statement still appears in the same section (now called “History and Government” of the University) in the Harvard University Catalogue for 1924–25 (p. xvii).

Apparently some years went by before the word “Overseers” became established. The word “inspectoribus” is found on the 1642 Theses (New Englands First Fruits, p. 18), and the word “Overseers” occurs in 1642 in the act of that year (Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 30) and in 1643 in New Englands First Fruits (p. 13); but the first recorded meeting of the Board, on December 27, 1643, was called a “meeting of the Governours of Harvard Colledge” (p. 16, below).

84 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 183, 208, 217. Cf. p. lxvii, below.

85 New Englands First Fruits (1643), p. 18.

86 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 30.

87 The word “magistrates” appears to have included the Governors, Deputy-Governors, and Assistants from 1630 to 1686 and from 1689 to 1692; the President, Deputy-President, and Councillors in 1686; and the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, and Councillors from 1686 to 1689 and from 1692 to 1775. The Secretaries and the Treasurers were apparently not regarded as “magistrates.”

88 Id. ii. 30. The order (but not the preamble) was entered in the College records: see pp. 42–43, 173–174, below. The order (together with the preamble) was printed in the Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes, 1660, p. 18, and in the General Laws and Liberties, 1672, pp. 29–30. On at least one occasion the Court appointed as Overseers persons who were not teaching elders of the “sixe next adioyning townes;” for on October 18, 1654,—

89 See p. xxv, above.

90 No meeting of any sort is recorded between April 22, 1687, and June 2, 1690.

91 P. 828, below. The Overseers’ meeting of June 12, 1690, was not entered in the College records,—at least, not in those extant; but under that date Sewall gives a little more information: “After Lecture there is a Meeting of the Overseers of the Colledge: the Fellows are ap̄ointed to hold the Comm̄encement. Mr. Nathaniel Gookin, and Mr. Cotton Mather were chosen Fellows, i.e. the Choice of the Corporation was confirmed” (Diary, i. 322).

92 Quincy, History, i. 602; cf. Massachusetts Province Laws, i. 290.

93 Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 260; cf. Quincy, History, i. 610.

94 P. 563, below. The attempt was renewed by Cutler in 1730, but with equal unsuccess: see Quincy, History, i. 365–376, 560–574.

95 The Charter of 1650 is printed on pp. 40–42, 181–183, below; Massachusetts Colony Records, iii. 195–196, vol. iv. pt. i. pp. 13–14; Peirce, history, Appendix, pp. 11–13; Quincy, History, i. 589–591; Harvard University Catalogue, 1924–25, pp. xix–xxi; our Publications, xxi. 395–400. The Charter of 1650 was not printed in the two volumes of General Laws and Liberties published in 1660 and in 1672.

96 The term “Bursar,” though employed as a synonym for Treasurer in the Charter, was never used until 1874, when it was revived in a different sense.

97 In these lists the names of the Fellows are, for convenience, given in alphabetical order.

98 It is printed in Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 315; Peirce, History, Appendix, p. 14; Quincy, History, i. 591–592; Harvard University Catalogue, 1924–25, pp. xxi–xxii. It is also found in Leverett’s Diary, copied by himself.

99 The Charter of 1672 is printed in Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv. pt. ii. pp. 535–537; Quincy, History, i. 592–594; our Publications, xxi. 395–402.

100 See the Editor’s paper on “The Harvard College Charter of 1672,” in our Publications, xxi. 363–402.

101 Samuel Danforth graduated in 1643; was a Tutor from about 1644 to about 1649; was named a Fellow in the Charter of 1650; was ordained pastor of the church at Roxbury September 24, 1650; ceased to be a Fellow about 1654; and in 1668 his name again appears in the list of Fellows, though there is no record of his election. In the Charter of 1672 he is called “M^r Samuell Danforth fellow of y^e said Colledge,” a term not applied to Oakes, Shepard, Browne, or Richardson. Presumably, therefore, Danforth was a Fellow early in 1672.

102 Pp. 494–495, below. The passage is printed in Quincy’s History, i. 551. Hence when Quincy, referring to the Charter of 1672, stated (i. 32) that “nor is any notice taken of it in those records,” he overlooked a document printed by himself.

103 History of Massachusetts, i. 171. What Hutchinson meant when he said that “some addition was made to the number of the corporation,” was not that the total number of the Corporation was made more than seven by the charter, but merely that the charter filled the vacancies that had occurred and brought the Corporation up to its full complement of seven.

104 See p. xxv, above. Though the Colony Charter was vacated in 1684, yet the Colony was governed under it until the inauguration of Dudley as President on May 25, 1686.

105 P. 828, below. The four members present on June 2, 1690, were Treasurer Richards, Nehemiah Hobart, John Leverett, and William Brattle, all of whom were apparently members of the Corporation previous to July 23, 1686.

106 For a list of those present at these meetings, see p. cxlviii, below.

107 Mather left Boston in April, 1688, and did not get back until May 14, 1692: see Andros Tracts (Prince Society), iii. 130, 182.

108 Robert Thorner: see pp. 832–833, below; 4 Massachusetts Historical Collections, viii. 677–678. In one place Quincy (History, i. 231) inadvertently calls him “Sir” Robert Thorner.

109 Harvard College is not mentioned by name in the Province Charter, but all lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all other estates formerly granted to “any person or persons or Bodyes Politique or Corporate Townes Villages Colledges or Schooles,” were confirmed: see our Publications, ii. 17.

110 A Brief Account concerning Several of the Agents of New-England, their Negotiation at the Court of England, etc., in Andros Tracts, ii. 295–296. Cf. iii. 138–139, 142.

111 The title “Rector” was first used July 23, 1686, and, as already stated (p. xxvi note 1, above), was doubtless chosen to distinguish the head of the College from the head of the civil government. It may be doubted whether the title was in actual use after the overthrow of Andros on April 18, 1689. As stated in the text (p. xxxiv, above), the Corporation and Overseers were revived, and meetings of the former were held from June 2, 1690, to December 24, 1691. As Mather was then in England, of course he was not present at those meetings, nor is he mentioned in any of them; but if he had been, presumably he would have been called “President.” While in England he was called both “Rector” and “President:” see Andros Tracts, ii. 7, 17, iii. 139 note, 146 note.

112 Council Records, ii. 177.

113 It is printed on pp. 335–338, below; Massachusetts Province Laws, i. 38–39; Quincy, History, i. 594–596. The original draught is in Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 140–142. It was not printed in the Acts and Laws of Their Majesties Province of the Massachusets-Bay, published in 1692. The 1920 Quinquennial, following previous editions, states that the Charter “was neither approved by the King nor accepted by the College” (p. 13). The former assertion is correct; the latter, incorrect.

This charter apparently passed with little discussion. Sewall does not mention it in his Diary; it is not alluded to in the Council Records; and the only reference to it in the Court Records (vi. 234) is as follows, under date of June 27, 1692:

114 In a petition undated, but assigned by the Rev. Thomas Prince to June 1, 1688, Increase Mather said:

This statement is correct, with the exception of John Sherman, who had died August 8, 1685. Nathaniel Gookin and Cotton Mather were elected Fellows on June 2, 1690. Hence the persons named in the Charter of 1692 were those who were members of the Corporation in 1691 with the addition of James Allen, Nehemiah Walter, and Samuel Willard. Why the number of Fellows was increased from five to eight does not appear. Two of the eight Fellows—John Leverett and William Brattle—had been Tutors since 1685 and continued to be Tutors until 1697.

115 “Hobart” and “Hubbard” are variants of the same name, and both forms are found in the records here printed and elsewhere. In Mather’s petition, quoted in the previous note, the form is “Hubbard.” A footnote on that name reads: “The person intended was undoubtedly William Hubbard” (Mather Papers, p. 114; repeated in Andros Tracts, iii. 139 note). The person intended was not William Hubbard, who was never a Fellow at any time, but Nehemiah Hobart.

116 “The ancient record says, ‘Mr. Nathanial Gookin, our pastor, departed this life 7 day of August 1692, being the Sabbath day at night” (L. R. Paige, History of Cambridge, pp. 279, 565). But Sewall heard “the amazing News of the Revd. Mr. Nathan^l Gookin’s being dead” on August 15, and attended his funeral on the 16th (Diary, i. 363).

117 Sewall, Diary, i. 429; Council Records, ii. 403. On March 29, 1695, the Lords of Trade and Plantations agreed to recommend that “the Act for incorporating Harvard College be disallowed, and that the Attorney-General prepare a new clause” to it; on June 4, 1695, the Lords agreed to recommend that the Act be repealed, “since it reserves no power to the King to appoint a visitor, which power should be reserved to the King and to the Governor;” and on August 22, 1695, the Act was disallowed by the Privy Council, the reasons being given in a letter dated December 26: see Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1693–1696, pp. 452, 497–498; Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, 1680–1720, p. 841; Province Laws, i. 39 note.

118 P. 355, below. On the same day (October 12) Sewall wrote:

119 Pp. 355–356, below. For a list of those present at the meetings from July 26, 1692, to November 9, 1696, see p. cxlix, below.

120 The Charter of 1696 was read or debated on September 28, October 2, November 27, 30, December 10, 14, 15, 16, and 17, on which day it was voted and approved. (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1696–1697, pp. 158, 223, 231, 242, 254–255; Court Records, vi. 499, 501, 503.) The draught of this Charter which is in Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 157–160, was printed by Quincy (History, i. 597–599), but without indication that changes were made in it. The draught originally stated “That the said Harvard Colledge . . . shall henceforth be a Corporation consisting of Eighteen Persons, That is to say, a President, Sixteen Fellows and a Treasurer, And that shall be the first President, Charles Morton, I shall be the Sixteen Fellows and the Treasurer all of them Inhabitants in said Province, and the first Eighteen persons whereof the said Corporation shall consist.” Later, the word “Eighteen” was altered to “Sixteen,” and the word “Sixteen” was altered to “Fourteen.” The names of the members of the Corporation, except that of Morton, were never inserted in the draught, but pasted to the last (fourth) page of the draught is a slip of paper containing the following:

It will be observed that Morton is called “Vice P.,” yet in the draught itself Morton’s name is inserted as one of the Fellows and there is no provision for a Vice President. Quincy omits the names of Angier and White, who presumably would have been Fellows had the Corporation consisted, as originally intended, of sixteen Fellows. It is impossible to tell precisely what was intended in this draught, so that, though the above names (except those of Angier and White) are inserted in the list on pp lxiv–lxvi, below, caution should be exercised.

121 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 161. Sewall writes: “About Dec^r 18, Mr. Mather, Allen, Willard, C. Mather give in a paper subscribed by them, shewing their dislike of our draught for the Colledge Charter, and desiring that their Names might not be entered therein. One chief reason was their apointing the Gov^r and Council for Visitor” (Diary, i. 441). The paper printed in the text, though without date, is evidently the one mentioned by Sewall. It is wholly in the hand of Cotton Mather, except the signatures, which are autograph.

122 See pp. xliii–xliv, above.

123 See Stoughton’s order of October 12, 1696, p. xlii, above.

124 Altered from “now therefore.”

125 Colman Papers, in Massachusetts Historical Society. This letter, including, the initials at the end, is wholly in the hand of Leverett.

126 The steps leading to the adoption of this Charter were as follows. On December 19, 1696, the General Court was prorogued to March 17, 1697, and on March 19 “The Bill for Incorporating Harvard College in Cambridge left unperfected, At the last Session was now read, and Debated,” and was again read and debated on March 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, on which day the Court was dissolved. The new Court met May 26, the Charter was read May 29, 31, June 1, 2, and was passed into an Act on June 4. (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1696–1697, pp. 402, 406, 494, 495; Court Records, vi. 510, 514, 520, 526, 528.)

The Charter of 1697 is printed in Massachusetts Province Laws, i. 288–290; Quincy, History, i. 599–602. The original draught is in Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 162–167. It was not printed in the Acts and Laws of His Majesties Province of the Massachusets-Bay, 1697.

127 It will be observed that all the Fellows under this Charter were non-resident. Thus Tutors were excluded from the Corporation, though under previous charters at least two and sometimes more Tutors had been members of the Corporation. It will also be observed that among the Fellows were three who were not clergymen—Paul Dudley, John Leverett (who had recently ceased to be a Tutor), and John White. Under the Charter of 1692 all the Fellows had been clergymen except the two Tutors, John Leverett and William Brattle.

128 For a list of those present at the meetings, see p. cl, below. On November 23, 1698, the Corporation presented the following petition (Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 179):

To the Honourable y^e Lieu^t Govern^r, Council, & Representatives, in Gen^ll Court Assembled. . . .

In as much as the Condition of Harvard Colledge, doth render it very necessary, that some further provision be made for y^e wellfare thereof; It is humbly proposed unto this Hon^ble Assembly, that in case y^e Corporation of the said Colledge can prevail with any fit person to accept of the place of a Vice President, & remove unto y^e Colledge, & there perform y^e work usually attended by Presidents resident at y^e Colledge, under y^e continuall assistance & Countenance of the Rev^d President (y^e continuance of whose relation to the Colledge is on all Acco^ts needfull) & in his absence, to have the full power of the President; This Honoured Court would please to order for such a Vice President such encouragement, as may be judged agreeable, while he shall devote himself unto a Service of so much Importance.

James Allen

In the name & with the Consent of the Corporation

Boston 23. Novemb^r 1698.

This was read and debated on November 28 and December 1 (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1697–1698, p. 565; Court Records, vi. 612, 616; Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 608–610), but apparently no further action was taken.

129 Sewall, Diary, i. 495; Council Records, iii. 16. On November 24, 1698, the Council of Trade and Plantations wrote to the Lords Justices of England: “An Act to incorporate Harvard College was formerly repealed because no power was reserved to the King to appoint visitors, and it was intimated that the Act would be passed if a clause were added giving a power of visitation to the King and to the Governor of the Province. Now the present Act to incorporate the College vests the power of visitation in the Governor and Council, and we therefore recommend that it be repealed” (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1697–1698, p. 563). Accordingly, on the same day the Act was disallowed by the Privy Council (Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial, 1680–1720, pp. 743–744).

130 Court Records, vii. 5–6.

131 The Charter of 1699 is printed by Quincy, History, i. 602–607, from the original draught in Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 188–190. The names of Samuel Angier and of Samuel Torrey are in one place wrongly given by Quincy (History, i. 603) as “John Angier” and “Samuel Young.” As originally draughted, the Corporation was to consist of seventeen members—a President, a Vice President, a Treasurer, and fourteen Fellows, the following persons being named for those positions:

• Increase Mather President
• Samuel Willard Vice President
• Thomas Brattle Treasurer

As thus draughted, the bill passed the House on July 8; was read in Council July 11; was read again in Council July 12 and committed to a committee of the whole board; and was amended and passed July 13. By the amendments agreed to on July 13 the Treasurer was left out of the Corporation, which was to consist of a President, a Vice President, and fifteen Fellows. (Court Records, vii. 31–33, 37–39; Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1699, pp. 340, 350; Massachusetts Province Laws, i. 308.) Of the fifteen Fellows, thirteen are named in the Charter, and in addition “the two senior Tutors residing at the College for the time being:” these were Ebenezer Pemberton and Jabez Fitch (whose names are here printed in italics). The persons named are as follows:

• Increase Mather President
• Samuel Willard Vice President

132 Court Records, vii. 37–38.

133 Council Records, iii. 48; Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 228. Cf. Sewall, Diary, i. 500.

134 There is no record of a Corporation meeting between December 5, 1698, and August 7, 1699. For a list of those present at the meetings from July 13, 1697, to May 6, 1700, see p. cl, below.

In a letter to Isaac Addington dated Cambridge, August 10 (Thursday), 1699, John Leverett wrote:

Quincy, remarking that “there is no account” of the temporary settlement, “either in the College records, or in those of the General Court,” quotes the above letter and makes the following comment:

Leverett’s language does not justify the conclusions drawn from it by Quincy. By “the late Corporation,” Leverett clearly meant the Corporation under the Charter of 1697 and not, as Quincy appears to think, the Corporation as constituted under the proposed Charter of 1699. Nor is there a word in Leverett’s letter to indicate either that he himself was not summoned to the meeting of August 7 or that he did not regard himself as then a member of the Corporation. The fact that he was not present on August 7 is adequately accounted for by his absence from Cambridge at that time. By “so short a time as October next,” Leverett referred to the next meeting of the Legislature, which had been prorogued on July 20 to October 11. Leverett wrote in a fit of pique, and admits that he had not “seen the new temporary settlement”—a settlement practically identical with the one made by Stoughton on October 12, 1696 (see p. xlii, above). That the settlement of July 25, 1699, escaped Quincy was due to the fact that copies of the Council Records for that year were not at the State House in his day.

An examination of those present at the meetings from July 13, 1697, to May 6, 1700 (see p. cl, below), shows that Paul Dudley did not attend a single meeting; that the only meeting at which Michael Wigglesworth was present was that of August 7, 1699; that Benjamin Wadsworth and John White, both of whom were present on August 7, 1699, were not Fellows under the proposed Charter of 1699 (as amended); and that Leverett himself, who also was not a Fellow under the proposed Charter of 1699 (as amended), attended the meeting of May 6, 1700.

In the above letter Leverett speaks of the election on August 7, 1699, of a third Tutor (Henry Flynt) as “an unnecessary addition.” Except for brief periods previous to about 1676 there had apparently never been more than two Tutors until 1699. Yet there is a curious entry on November 15, 1697, when it was stated that “M^r Iohn White, m^r Ebenezer Pemberton and m^r Iabez Fitch were chosen to be Tuto^rs,” though at the very next meeting on March 3, 1698, Pemberton and Fitch were called “the present Tutors” (pp. 357, 358, below). Now John White was a Fellow under the Charter of 1697 and was present at the meeting of November 15, 1697, and there is no further allusion to him as a Tutor. It would seem as if the inclusion of his name was a clerical error. At all events, there were only two Tutors between 1685 and 1699.

135 Court Records, vii. 64.

136 Court Records, vii. 73–74.

137 The Charter of 1700 is printed in Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 257–260; Quincy, History, i. 607–610. The original draught is in Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 201–208. For the steps leading to its adoption, see Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1700, pp. 293, 329, 387, 388, 399, 409, 412, 414, 418–419, 420; Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 245, 252–253, 636, 642, 643, 644, 651, 652; Court Records, vii. 127, 129, 130, 133, 134, 135.

It is important to bear in mind that, unlike the Charters of 1692 and 1697 the Charter of 1700 was not a regular Act of incorporation, but merely a draught of a charter that, it was hoped, would be granted by the King. This is clearly indicated by the preamble, which reads: “Draught of a Charter of Incorporation for Harvard Colledge at Cambridge in New-England, agreed by the Council and House of Representatives of his Maj^tie’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay, to be humbly Sollicited for to his Maj’ty” (Province Laws, vii. 257). Hence in the order of the King’s Council of June 12, 1701, confirming the Acts passed at the May session, 1700, there is naturally no mention of this Charter: see Massachusetts Archives, xx. 47–48, lxvii. 226–227, lxx. 535–536.

138 The name is so printed by Quincy, but in all the original documents it appears as “Nehemiah Hubbard.” See p. xli note 2, above.

139 For a list of those present at these meetings, see p. cli, below.

Though the Charter of 1700 certainly never received the royal assent, yet exactly what happened to it in England has never been ascertained. On June 4, 1700, the Council resolved that an address be sent to the King about the French, and this was agreed to by the House. On June 11 “the Houses agreed that application should be made unto His Majesty by way of Address for the settlement of the College, and be inserted in the Address agreed to be made about the encroachments of the French.” On June 13 the address was read, and was adopted on the 14th. On June 15 the Court resolved that an address to Bellomont be prepared; on June 20 the draught of such an address was presented, this was taken up in Council on June 21, was concurred in by the House with differences on June 22, on June 26 a committee about the address was appointed by the Council, the draught of the address was read in Council July 6 and was under debate in the House until July 9, when it was adopted, though the address itself is dated July 12. On July 15 Bellomont wrote to the Council of Trade and Plantations about the Charter, and on the 16th to Secretary Popple, expressing the hope that he “will favour and promote the Charter.” On October 8 Robert Yard wrote to the Lords Commissioners of Trade: “The Lords Justices desire you will lay before them the draft of the Charter you lately received from the Earl of Bellomont for Hervard Colledge in New England, together with such alterations and additions as your Lordships conceive necessary for His Majesty’s service to be made in the same.” “The address reached the Board of Trade,” writes Mr. Davis, “but apparently the draft of a Charter did not accompany it” (our Publications, i. 208). The Charter was sent to Sir Henry Ashurst, for on October 9 Mr. Yard’s letter of the 8th was read, when “Their Lordships not having received any such draught . . . as there referred to, the Secretary ordered to write to Sir Henry Ashurst for it;” and on the same day Popple wrote to Ashurst about the Charter. On October 29 Ashurst replied to Popple; on November 9 Popple wrote Bellomont that the Charter had been received from Ashurst, “who will attend their Lordships about it in a few days.” On November 19 the Council of Trade and Plantations received a letter from Ashurst of the 1st, with draught of a Charter for “Harward College.” On February 11, 1701, the Council of Trade and Plantations wrote to Bellomont: “We intend also shortly to lay before H.M. the New England Address about Harvard College etc. with a Representation upon that subject.” On February 13 the “Address of the Massachusetts Bay relating to Harvard College” was “considered. Draught of the Charter for the College read and copy sent to Mr. Solicitor General for his opinion. Their Lordships also made some observations on the Charter.” On the same day Popple wrote to Sir John Hawles, the Solicitor General: “By order of the Council of Trade and Plantations, I send you the inclosed draught of a Charter desired by the Government of the Massachusets Bay for a Colledg called Harvard College in that Province, upon which their Lordships desire to know your opinion how consistent it is with the Laws of England and with the usual forms in which Charters of this kind are passed here.” On May 30 Popple wrote to Ashurst that the suspense in reporting on the Charter “is for want of Mr. Solicitor General’s report on it.” At this point all further trace of the Charter is apparently lost. (Massachusetts Province Laws, i. 308, vii. 245, 253, 260, 636, 642, 643, 651, 652; Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1700, pp. 329, 412, 415–416, 419, 420, 533, 554, 555, 556, 625, 645, 663; id., 1701, pp. 78, 80, 83, 270, 271; 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, x. 350–351.) Cf. H. Newman’s letter, p. lxiii note, below.

140 On August 10, 1703, Sewall wrote: “This day . . . is a Corporation-Meeting at Cambridge; chuse Mr. Josiah Willard a Tutor: chuse Mr. Tho. and W^m Brattle into the Corporation, in stead of Mr. Allen and Mr. Walter, who have abdicated as they reckon” (Diary, ii. 84: cf. p. 370, below). In writing “Mr. Allen,” Sewall doubtless should have written “Mr. Mather,” as Cotton Mather and Nehemiah Walter were clearly the two intended. “Neither of them,” writes Quincy, “attended any meeting of the Corporation after the exclusion of President Mather. But the name of Allen appears occasionally among those present at the board, quite down to the change introduced by the revival of the first charter of the College, at the time of the accession of Leverett to the presidency” (History, i. 151). An examination of those present at meetings from August 5, 1700, to October 28, 1707 (see p. cli, below), shows that on August 10, 1703, Walter had attended no meeting for three years, and Cotton Mather none for two years; while the attendance of Allen, who was present at twelve out of the nineteen meetings, was much more than “occasional.”

141 The Charter of 1700 required “That the President of the s^d Corporation, as also all the Fellows & Tutors, thereof receiving salary shall reside at y^e Colledge afores^d” (Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 259). On July 9, 1700, it was resolved in the House, and concurred in Council on the 10th, that £220 be paid “to the President of Harvard Colledge, already chosen, or that shall be chosen by this Court. That the Person chosen President of Harvard Colledge Shall reside at Cambridge;” and a committee was appointed “To wait on the Reverend M^r Increase Mather, and acquaint him, that this Court hath chosen him Presid^t of Harvard Colledge, and Desire’s, him to accept of s^d office and so, Expect’s, that he Repair to & reside at Cambridge, as soon as may be.” On the same day Sewall saw Mather and on July 11 reported Mather’s reply, which was that if his Church “Consented to give him up to this Work, he would as to his own person, remove to Cambridge, but could [not] see his way Cleer to remove his Family while [i. e. until] he heard of the passing of the Charter in England.” Thereupon a committee was sent to the Second Church and on the 12th reported its consent. On the next day (July 13) it was “Ordered, That [the fifteen persons named in the Charter of 1700], with the two senior tutors for the time being, nominated to be fellows of the said corporation, be and hereby are empowered to take the oversight, care and government of s^d colledge and students there, . . . until his maj^tie’s pleasure shall be known referring to the settlement of said colledge, or that this court take further order therein” (vii. 255, 265, 644). Mather removed to Cambridge, but left October 17, 1700. On February 26, 1701, Stoughton “read a letter from Mr. Increase Mather, President of the Colledge, Oct. 17, 1700, giving an account of his inspection of the Colledge, whilst he resided there, and containing the reasons of his removal from Cambridge, as his not having his health there, etc., and desiring that another President might be thought of” (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1701, p. 100). This letter was communicated to the House, on March 13, 1701, the Council sent down to the Representatives an order about the College, and on the 14th this was approved, as follows:

Mather again removed to Cambridge, but on June 30 he wrote to Stoughton:

This letter was laid before the Court on August 1, when it was voted: “Whereas—the Rev^nd M^r Increase Mather hath Acquainted this Court, That he can with no Conveniency any longer Reside at Cambridge and Take the Care of the Colledge there. Resolved—That a Messenger be sent to the Rev^nd M^r Samuel Willard to Desire Him to accept the Care and Charge of s^d Colledge, and to Reside at Cambridge in order thereunto agreeable to the Order of this Court in March last” (Province Laws, vii. 698). On August; 2 the committee reported that Willard had replied that “he would consider thereof and advise with his Church.” On August 5 a committee was appointed to go to the South Church “and desire their consent,” but on the 6th reported that the Church “could not consent to part with him.” On the 8th further application was made to the Church, and on the 9th it was—

On September 3 Wait Winthrop—there being neither Governor nor Lieutenant-Governor—“recom̄ended to them to provide for the Rule and Government of the Colledge at Cambridge” (Court Records, vii. 239). On the 5th, “Resolve of the Representatives sent up, desiring Mr. Increase Mather to take the care of and reside at ye College, read. Joint Committee appointed to go unto Mr. Samuel Willard, to whom the Court had made application. He declared his readiness to do the best service he could for the College, and that he would visit it once or twice every week, and continue there a night or two, and perform the service used to be done by former Presidents” (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1701, pp. 505–506). On the 6th the resolve of the House for inviting Mather “was again read, and, upon the question put for a concurrence, it was carried in the negative.” Thereupon it was—

Thus Mather’s presidency came to an end. On April 28, 1702, “A question being moved upon the construction of the Order of Assembly for a temporary establishment of the government of the College, it was decided that Mr. Samuel Willard and the other gentlemen named are thereby sufficiently impowered to carry on the work of the approaching commencement and to confer degrees upon the Commencers” (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1702, p. 279). In his speech on March 11, 1703, Governor Dudley said:

Under date of March 12, 1703, Cotton Mather wrote:

There is no mention of this matter in the Court Records of the 12th, but in Council on the 13th,—

On March 19th—

The Court was dissolved on March 27, and in his speech to the new Court on May 27, 1703, Dudley said: “I shall continue to be very ready to do my Duty for the Advancem^t of good Learning in the Colledge, And am of Opinion the particular Business of the Assembly therein is to provide a good Establishment for the Support of the Government of it, That I may humbly represent it in Order to obtain her Majesty’s Favour to that Foundation” (Court Records, vii. 387). On January 2, 1705, “His Excellency intimated to the Council That by Letters from England There was Encouragement to hope that a Charter of Incorporation might be obtained from her Majesty for Harvard College in Cambridge if proper Application was made; and the Draught proposed in his late Majesties Reign was Ordered to be laid on the Board to be read” (Court Records, viii. 99; cf. Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1702–1703, p. 455). Apparently nothing further was done until the resignation of Willard.

On August 11, 1707, writes Sewall, Willard went to Cambridge “to Expound,” but found few scholars and was himself taken ill, “which oblig’d him to come from thence before Prayer-Time.” On the 12th Sewall visited Willard “to see how his Journey and Labour at the College had agreed with him; and he surpris’d me with the above-account; told me of a great pain in’s head, and sickness at his stomach; and that he believ’d he was near his end. I mention’d the business of the College. He desired me to do his Message by word of Mouth.” Accordingly, at a Council meeting on the 14th, “When the Gov^r enquired after Mr. Willard, I acquainted the Gov^r and council that Mr. Willard was not capable of doing the College work, another year; He Thank’d them for their Acceptance of his service and Reward. Gov^r and Council order’d Mr. Winthrop and Brown to visit the Rev^d Mr. Willard, and Thank him for his good service the six years past. Sent down for concurrence, and Depts to name persons to join in the Thanks and Condolence” (Diary, ii. 193). The Representatives concurred in the vote of thanks, but added this clause: “And That the Reverend M^r Nehemiah Hobart as vice-President, together with the Gentlemen of the Corporation, be Desired, & Impowered to Take the Care & Government, of the s^d Colledge, with the same Powers & Instructions, as were given to, & practisd by the s^d M^r Willard & Corporation, untill further order, from this Court. John Burrill Speak^r” (Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 252. Cf. Court Records, viii. 311; Massachusetts Province Laws, viii. 795). “This,” Sewall adds, “the Gov^r and Council did not accept, and so nothing was done” (Diary, ii. 193). Willard lived only a few days, dying September 12, 1707.

142 See pp. 379–380, below. On the same day Sewall wrote: “The Fellows of Harvard College meet, and chuse Mr. Leverett President: He had eight votes, Dr. Increase Mather three, Mr. Cotton Mather, one, and Mr. [William] Brattle of Cambridge, one. Mr. White did not vote, and Mr. Gibbs came when voting was over” (Diary. ii. 196).

143 Five addresses, alike in language, were circulated, and received respectively 12, 13, 7, 3, and 4 signatures. The originals are in Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 254–260, and are printed in Massachusetts Province Laws, viii. 796, and in Quincy’s History, i. 504–505 (where the names “Robert Buck,” “Joseph Dwight,” and “James Shephard,” should be Robert Breck, Josiah Dwight, and Jeremiah Shepard). The addresses state that Leverett was “the unanimous choice” of the Fellows: but see Sewall’s statement, quoted in the last note. The discrepancy can perhaps be explained by assuming that, after the manner of modern nominating conventions, the choice was made unanimous.

144 Court Records, viii. 325.

145 Massachusetts Province Laws, viii. 796.

146 Court Records, viii. 341.

147 Court Records, viii. 342.

148 Court Records, viii. 343.

149 In his extraordinary letter to Governor Dudley dated January 20, 1708, Increase Mather said: “I am afraid that you cannot clear yourself from the guilt of much hypocrisy and falseness in the affair of the college. In 1686, when you accepted of an illegal arbitrary commission from the late K. James, you said, that the cow was dead, and therefore the calf in her belly; meaning the charter of the college and colony” (1 Massachusetts Historical Collections, iii. 126). Quincy (History, i. 81–82, 159–160, 276) held that all colonial ordinances fell when the Colony Charter of 1629 was vacated in 1684. On this point, see our Publications, i. 203–210, 214–215, xxv. 390–391; Palfrey, History of New England, iii. 412 note, iv. 193, 313; E. B. Russell, Review of the American Colonial Legislation by the King in Council (1915), pp. 177–178 (Columbia University Studies in History, etc., lxiv. 595–596); J. S. Davis, Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations (1917), i. 18–19, 21, 84–85; H. L. Osgood, American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century (1924), i. 320–324. The restoration of the Charter of 1650 appears to have been largely, if not chiefly, the work of Dudley.

150 See pp. 380–381, below; Court Records, viii. 345; Sewall, Diary, ii. 205.

151 Council Records, iv. 519.

152 Council Records, iv. 519. A full account is given by Sewall, Diary, ii. 208. See also Boston News Letter, January 19, 1708, p. 2/2.

153 Diary, ii. 209. Those who thus ceased to be Fellows were: James Allen, Samuel Angier, Thomas Brattle, John Danforth, Henry Gibbs, John Leverett, John Pierpont, Peter Thacher, Benjamin Wadsworth, and John White. Of the five Fellows named by Governor Dudley, two—Henry Flynt and Jonathan Remington—were Tutors.

It will be remembered that under the Charter of 1700, the Treasurer was excluded from the Corporation. But Treasurer Thomas Brattle, though thus not a member of the Corporation from July 12, 1700, to August 10, 1703, was on the latter date (p. lvi, above) elected a Fellow of the Corporation. Though he ceased to be a Fellow of the Corporation on January 14, 1708, Thomas Brattle continued to be a member of the Corporation in his capacity as Treasurer.

154 For five tables, showing the attendance at Corporation meetings in 1674–1684, 1690–1691, 1692–1696, 1697–1700, and 1700–1707, see pp. cxlv–cli, below.

155 Cf. p. cxxxv, below.

156 See the Editor’s paper, “Draught of a Royal Charter for Harvard College, 1723,” in our Publications, xxv. 390–400, where the draught is printed in full. It specified that the Corporation should consist of seventeen members—a President, a Vice President, a Treasurer, and fourteen Fellows, the following persons being named for those positions:

Of these, Flynt was at once the only one not a clergyman and the only Tutor; and Appleton, Colman, Flynt, and Wadsworth were Fellows at the time the Charter was draughted. Thomas Robie (chosen a Tutor in 1714) had been elected a Fellow in 1722, but resigned on February 5, 1723, and the vacancy was not filled by the Corporation until June 4, 1723. The fact that Robie’s name is not in the above list is the reason for concluding that the Charter was drawn up between February 5 and June 4, 1723.

After 1703 the affairs of the College apparently attracted little attention in England, for there is no reference to it from 1703 to June, 1711, beyond which date the Calendars have not yet been printed. It is possible that Leverett’s draught was transmitted to England, for in 1725 inquiry was evidently being made there in regard to the College. On November 25, 1725, Henry Newman, presumably referring to the Charter of 1700, wrote as follows to Secretary Delafaye:

For an explanation of the reference to the Theses for 1723, dedicated to Governor Shute, who was then in England, see our Publications, iii. 400–404; Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, xxiv. 285.

157 By “clergymen” is meant those who had been ordained. Eight of those whose names are italicized—namely, William Brattle, Samuel Danforth, Jabez Fitch, Samuel Mather, Jonathan Mitchell, Ebenezer Pemberton, John Richardson, and Comfort Starr—were not clergymen at the time of their appointment, but were young men who had recently graduated. Down to 1697, every Tutor was a Fellow in its technical meaning of a member of the Corporation; but not all Fellows were Tutors. Hence in time there arose the designations “non-resident Fellows” and “resident Fellows,” the distinction being that resident Fellows were the young appointees actually engaged in teaching—that is, Tutors; while the non-resident Fellows were older men, mostly clergymen, settled over parishes (sometimes in Cambridge, chiefly elsewhere), though a few were not clergymen. Cf. pp. cxxxii–cxxxv, below.

158 The names under this proposed charter are included in this list, but see p. xliii note, above.

159 It is sometimes stated that Josiah Quincy was the first layman—that is, the first person who had not been ordained—to become President of the College. If Henry Dunster was ordained, the fact has not been ascertained; though John Rogers preached and “had the title Reverend,” there “does not appear to be any record of his ordination” (Sibley, Harvard Graduates, i. 167); and it seems to be certain that John Leverett, though he “studied divinity, and preached occasionally for several years” (id. iii. 181), was never ordained.

160 Addington was a temporary student, but his Class is not known with certainty: see our Publications, xvii. 275, 278.

161 Brattle was ordained November 25, 1696.

162 Danforth was ordained September 24, 1650.

163 Fitch was not named in the amended Charter of 1699, but had that Charter been adopted he would have been a Fellow as one of “the two senior Tutors resident at the College from time to time.”

164 Fitch was not named in the Charter of 1700, but became a Fellow as one of “the two senior Tutors resident at the said College for the time being.” He ceased to be both Fellow and Tutor about August, 1703, and was ordained October 24, 1703.

165 Flynt was not named in the Charter of 1700, but became a Fellow as one of “the two senior Tutors resident at the said College for the time being.”

166 Hobart declined his appointment under the Charter of 1692, and in his place the Corporation on July 26, 1692, elected Charles Morton a Fellow.

167 Mather in 1650 went to England, where he was ordained.

168 Mitchell was ordained August 21, 1650.

169 Pemberton was not named in the amended draught of the Charter of 1699, but had that Charter been adopted he would have been a Fellow as one of “the two senior Tutors resident at the College from time to time.”

170 Richardson ceased to be both Fellow and Tutor in 1673, and was ordained October 20, 1675.

171 Starr in 1650 went to England, where he was ordained.

172 Torrey was a temporary student, but his Class is not known with certainty: see our Publications, xvii. 275, 284; Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, xxiv. 279 note.

173 The elder Edward Wigglesworth was a Professor from 1722 to 1765, and a Fellow of the Corporation from 1724 to 1765; John Winthrop was a Professor from 1738 to 1779, and a Fellow of the Corporation from 1765 to 1779; and the younger Edward Wigglesworth was a Professor from 1765 to 1794 (Emeritus after 1791), and a Fellow of the Corporation from 1779 to 1792. It will be observed that these Professors followed one another as Fellows, and that hence only one Professor was a Fellow of the Corporation at any given time.

174 In this charter, thirteen Fellows were named and in addition “the two senior Tutors resident at the said College for the time being.”

175 The number of Tutors from 1650 to 1665 is purely conjectural, and the number from 1666 to 1685 is largely conjectural. From the list given on p. cxlvii, below, it appears that not more than two Tutors were present at any meeting of the Corporation in the years 1674–1684; yet from other sources it is certain that there were three Tutors during at least a portion of that period.

176 A fifth Tutor was chosen by the Corporation on September 18, 1721, but on August 22, 1722, the Overseers refused to confirm the appointment on the ground that four Tutors were sufficient (pp. 461, 474, below).

177 From 1650 to 1692, the resident Fellows and the Tutors were one and the same; and consequently the remark made in the last note but one about the Tutors applies equally to the resident Fellows.

178 The extracts quoted in this section have been selected solely because they throw light on the buildings in use during the period under discussion. Some of the buildings are frequently mentioned in these records, while others are scarcely alluded to and so information in regard to them must be sought elsewhere. The history of the third President’s House is here given for the first time.

Though an Account of the College of New-Jersey (now Princeton University), including “A North-West Prospect of Nassau-Hall,” was printed in 1764 (cf. our Publications, iii. 431–432), and though President Thomas Clap’s Annals or History of Yale-College was published in 1766, yet nearly two centuries elapsed after its founding before Harvard College was similarly honored. There had, of course, been many accounts of or references to the College in books printed in England or in this country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, chief among which were New Englands First Fruits (1643), Cotton Mather’s “Account of the University,” comprising the fourth book of his Magnalia (1702), and Nathan Prince’s Constitution and Government of Harvard-College (1743: cf. our Publications, xxi. 382–387). But what Ephraim Eliot, a graduate of the Class of 1780, wrote in his commonplace-book (cf. our Publications, xviii. 54, 77, xix. 290, xxiv. 40, 47, 57, 141) under the heading “Hints for a good History of Harvard University” was still true at the time of his death in 1827: “There is wanted, a concise history of Harvard University. Little is known of its origin & its progress towards the respectable state in which it now stands.” After referring to the Donation Book (mentioned below) compiled by his father the Rev. Dr. Andrew Eliot, he said: “There are now connected with the university many of the distinguished literary characters in this part of America and it is greatly wished that some of them would lead in a work of this kind.” Some “Historical Sketches of Harvard College” were printed in the Harvard Register (the earliest magazine published by the students except the Harvard Lyceum, 1811–1812) for October, 1827 (pp. 248–251), November, 1827 (pp. 283–286), and January, 1828 (pp. 345–348), the second of which gave an account of some of the buildings, though the account is without value. In 1833 appeared the first History of Harvard University, that by Benjamin Peirce, which was followed in 1840 by President Quincy’s work under the same title; but neither Peirce nor Quincy gave adequate accounts of the early buildings.

The first attempt in print to ascertain the original ownership of the land now in the College Yard, and to locate some of the buildings, was made in 1848 by Mr. Samuel A. Eliot in his Sketch of the History of Harvard College, pp. 188–190, with a “Plan of the College Enclosure.” Of the buildings that were in existence before 1750, the only ones indicated on Mr. Eliot’s plan are the Indian College, the second Harvard College, Stoughton College, Massachusetts Hall, Wadsworth House, and Holden Chapel. The exact location of all these is known with certainty except the Indian College, which Mr. Eliot placed a little north of the present Wadsworth House. Following President Wadsworth (p. lxxvii note, below), Mr. Eliot located in the College Yard the town grant in 1638 of two and two-thirds acres, identifying it with the two and one-quarter acres lying north of the Eaton and Goffe lots and east of the Betts and Spencer lots. This was probably a mistake, as the town grant appears to have been north of the present Kirkland Street.

The two volumes of the Harvard Book, published in 1875, contain much information about the buildings, early and late, but the writers of the various articles had not made careful investigations. In 1881 an account of some of the early buildings was printed in 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xviii. 318–322, but this has little value.

In the years 1888–1893 Mr. Davis wrote four papers, which at once superseded all previous accounts and have been the basis of all subsequent accounts. These were: “The Site of the First College Building at Cambridge,” in Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, October, 1888, v. 469–486; “The Early College Buildings at Cambridge,” in Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, April, 1890, vi. 323–349; “The Indian College at Cambridge,” in Magazine of American History, October, 1890, xxiv. 33–39; “The College in Early Days,” in Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, April, 1893, i. 363–375. Those papers contain many interesting details not touched on in this section.

The one event of importance since Mr. Davis wrote has been the uncovering of the foundation walls of two buildings in 1909–1910 when excavations were being made for the subway. See Mr. Lane’s remarks in Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society (December, 1909), xliii. 201; in our Publications (January, 1910), xiii. 74; in the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine (March, 1910), xviii. 451–452 (and photograph facing p. 460); and in the Harvard Crimson (February 19, 1915), describing a tablet placed by the Harvard Memorial Society in the post in the College Yard fence and adjoining Wadsworth House to indicate “the site of the two earliest College buildings.” These were Goffe’s College and the Peyntree house: see pp. lxxvii, civ, below. Cf. Harvard Alumni Bulletin, March 17, 1915, xvii. 441.

In addition to the above printed sources, there are three manuscript accounts of value, two of which are found in the records here printed. The first was written between 1650 and 1684 (see p. lxxi note 1, below) by Thomas Danforth, who collected and copied into College Book III various items relating to gifts to the College, etc., some of which throw light on the early buildings. The second was written by President Wadsworth between December 10, 1733, and his death on March 16, 1737. On the former date he wrote: “Whereas y^e lands and annuities belonging to Harvard College, are entred in y^e College Books after a broken disjointed manner, I . . . thought it proper to collect said Entries, and what I find further belong to them, & enter them here, in a more uniform compact manner” (p. 264, below). The practice begun by Wadsworth (pp. 264–297, below) was continued by Holyoke (pp. 297–302, below) and by Langdon (pp. 302–305, below). These entries, however, contain little relating to the buildings in the College Yard. The third account was compiled in 1773 by the Rev. Dr. Andrew Eliot (see p. xviii, above), and is found in the first of two volumes labelled on the back of the cover “Donations” but commonly cited as Donation Book. The manuscript title reads: “An Account of Grants Donations and Bequests To Harvard College From the Foundation of that Society to The Year 1773. Collected by order of the Corporation.” The portion compiled by Dr. Eliot fills most of the first volume, but at the end are some additions by President Langdon, James Winthrop (Librarian from 1772 to 1787), and others, On April 9, 1773, the Corporation took the following action:

Dr. Eliot’s compilation contains little about the early buildings, but is of great value as regards gifts, bequests, etc.

For the Plan of the College Yard facing p. lxviii, the Society is indebted to Mr. Warren H. Manning of Cambridge. On this plan, which closely follows Mr. Eliot’s “Plan of the College Enclosure,” but with corrections, are located (exactly or approximately) all the buildings described in this section except the second President’s House (Dunster’s house) and the third President’s House. The second President’s House probably stood near the present Johnston Gate, facing the west; and the third President’s House stood on or near the site of Massachusetts Hall: see pp. cvi, cxiii, below. The dates are those of acquisition by the College.

179 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 183, 208, 217.

180 i. 228; cf. i. 180.

181 i. 253. In all these early cases of the use of the word “college,” it is probable that by it was meant a building: see pp. cxxviii–cxxxi, below.

182 Our Publications, vii. 80. The letter enclosing the report is dated “Boston: Septemb: 7^th,” but no year is given, and “[1639]” was conjecturally added. This, however, was an error. Browne says in the report (vii. 76) that he came in the Thomas and Frances and that Emanuel and Lucy Downing were among his fellow-passengers. A letter by Emanuel Downing dated Salem, October 22, 1638, is printed in the Winthrop Papers (i. 49), and elsewhere it is stated that the Downing; “probably arrived in New England in October, 1638” (Winthrop Papers, iii. 23 note). Browne’s letter proves that they arrived before September 7, 1638. The words “a College erecting” presumably refer to a building.

183 P. 172, below. The Rev. Thomas Shepard of Cambridge, who was one of the elders named as Overseers on November 20, 1637 (see p. xxxiii, above), writing not later than 1649, in which year he died, said that “at the desire of some of our town the Deputies of the Court having got Mr. Eaton to attend the Schoole, the Court for that and sundry other reasons determined to erect the Colledge here” (Autobiography, 1832, p. 64).

184 C. Mather, Magnolia, bk. iv. pt. i. § 2, p. 126.

185 Massachusetts Colony Records, i 275.

186 P. 173, below. See p. lxxii note 1, below.

The entries on pp. 1–85 of College Book III (pp. 171–254, below), including the one quoted in the text, are almost wholly in the hand of Thomas Danforth. Ranging from 1636 to 1684, many are copied from College Book I, others apparently from College Book II, and still others from miscellaneous documents the originals of which are no longer extant. Hence many of the entries are of great value, and several difficult problems could be solved if it were known exactly when the entries were made. But on this point, unfortunately, we are all at sea. Born in England in 1622, Thomas Danforth came to Cambridge with his father Nicholas in 1635, and thus when Eaton was dismissed in 1639 he was a youth of seventeen. He is not known to have had any official connection with the College until 1650, after which he was in its service—as Treasurer from 1650 to 1668 and as Steward from 1668 to 1682, besides having been chosen clerk of the Overseers in 1654. And he continued to make his entries after ceasing to be Steward, the latest being dated January 3, 1684. He died November 5, 1699, having filled many civil as well as collegiate offices. Hence, though none of the entries are likely to have been made before 1650, any one of them may have been made at any time between 1650 and 1684.

187 In his letter of 1653, Dunster said that he was “called” by “about 10 magistrates & 16 Elders.” The original Board of Overseers consisted of six magistrates and six elders (see p. xxxiii, above). If Dunster’s recollection was correct, evidently others had been summoned to the meeting at which he was chosen.

188 P. 173, below. In Quincy’s History (i. 453), in Proceedings American Antiquarian Society (vi. 323), and in G. E. Littlefield’s Early Press of Massachusetts (i. 72), the words “Colledge Stock” are rendered without meaning by being printed “College Book.”

189 Hugh Peters sailed for England August 3, 1641 (our Publications, iii. 420 note 2). Samuel Shepard, a half-brother of the Rev. Thomas Shepard, was a Deputy from Cambridge in 1639, 1640, and 1644 (Paige, History of Cambridge, pp. 460, 653–654), and returned to England about October, 1645 (our Publications, iii. 420 note 2). The entry in these records about Shepard (quoted above in the text) and the statement by Dunster are good examples of the difficulty of reaching definite conclusions on account of conflicting evidence or lack of absolutely contemporaneous documents. The entry is not likely to have been made before 1650 (see p. lxxi note 1, above), and Dunster’s letter was not written until 1653. The entry mentions Shepard only, without allusion to Peters; and Shepard’s account (pp. 17–19, below) from 1639 to 1641, when he turned the management of the College building and the College stock over to Dunster, is written in the first person singular and contains no reference to Peters. It is well known that when Peters went to England in 1641, he, Thomas Weld, and William Hibbens were entrusted with the task of collecting there funds for the College and for other purposes (see our Publications, xiv. 121–126), and it is possible that Dunster, writing a dozen years later, confused that episode with the management of the College building and stock in 1639–1641. Dunster’s accounts, presented January 15, 1655, are mentioned in these records (pp. 173, 180–181, 186–187, below), but are not entered in detail, though the inventory of the College estate taken by him and the Fellows on December 10, 1654, is entered (pp. 208–210, below).

190 Our Publications, iii. 419, 420.

191 See p. cxxi, below.

192 In these records there are many references to “studies” (see the index), and three or four to “cabins” (pp. 9, 12, below). “What were these studies,” asked Mr. Davis, “of which there were three in some chambers and four in others, whose walls were ‘dawbed,’ or ‘plaistered and whitened,’ or ‘sailed with cedar round about’? It is plain that they must have been very small, and it is possible that the partition which separated them from the chambers did not reach the ceiling. . . . In the table of the income of the studies [pp. 14–15, below], two are described as having fires in them. Of course these must have been larger than the studies within the chambers and were, perhaps, full-sized rooms. . . . In the chambers were ‘cabins’ or closets which were specifically assigned. Sometimes the cabin assigned to a student was not situated in the chamber where he lodged” (Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, vi. 337–339). In our Publications, xxiv. 94–95, 100–101, are reproduced two plans of Massachusetts Hall, one by President Leverett, the other by Benjamin Wadsworth, then a Fellow. The studies are plotted on the Wadsworth plan, and on the Leverett plan each is marked “Study.”

193 It will be observed that when Samuel Shepard was entrusted in 1639 with the College building and stock, nothing was said about teaching. The late George E. Littlefield suggested in 1913 that when Eaton left the College in September, 1639, Elijah Corlet “may have been invited to assist in, if not to take full charge of, the education of the students in the College, until the arrival of Mr. Dunster in August, 1640” (our Publications, xvii. 134). There is, however, no evidence in support of this notion; and nothing has ever been adduced to show who did carry on the work of teaching from September 9, 1639, to August 27, 1640. Equally without foundation in fact was Mr. Littlefield’s suggestion that perhaps the presidency of the College had been offered to the Rev. Jose Glover (Early Massachusetts Press, 1907, i. 50–53).

194 New Englands First Fruits (1643), pp. 12–13.

195 Wonder-working Providence (1654), pp. 164–165.

196 P. 208, below.

197 Plymouth Colony Records, ix. 95.

198 Massachusetts Colony Records, iii. 208.

199 Plymouth Colony Records, ix. 216–217.

200 Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv. pt. i. 91.

201 iii. 275, 280.

202 iii. 331.

203 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 32. On April 13, 1663, the town “granted Liberty To y^e Colledge for posts & rayles to fence in the yds. & a clapbord tree;” and on November 14, 1663, it “Granted to y^e Coll: liberty for timb: to shingle the rooffe” (Cambridge Town Records, pp. 144, 148).

204 See p. lxxxvi, below.

205 See p. lxxxviii, below.

206 See p. lxxxviii note 2, below.

207 New Englands First Fruits, p. 14. The passage is printed in full because it is not found in the College Laws of 1642–1646 entered in these records.

208 The first bell in Massachusetts came to Cambridge (then Newton) in 1632 and was hung in the meeting-house of the Thomas Hooker company, but when that company migrated in 1636 to Hartford, Connecticut, the bell was taken with it. The second bell was at Salem in 1638. A bell was owned by the First Church, Boston, in 1641. Whether this last was the third or the fourth bell is uncertain, because it is not known exactly when the College bell was sent over. The fifth bell was at Ipswich in 1647, the sixth at Watertown in 1648, and the seventh at the First Church, Cambridge, in 1648. See the late Dr. Arthur H. Nichols’s paper on “The Bells of Harvard College,” read before this Society in April, 1910 (xiii. 133) and printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1911 (lxv. 275–284). Dr. Nichols remarked that “while the colonists brought from England an attachment for musical bells they were also accurate in the use of technical words relating to them;” and proceeded to explain two such words often found in these records:

209 P. 200, below. Between 1654 and 1663 a bell, presumably the one displaced by the Willet bell, was exchanged (p. 212, below). For other references to bells, see the index to these volumes.

210 P. 193, below. For the clock on Massachusetts Hall, see p. cii, below; and for other references to clocks, see the index to these volumes.

211 See the extract quoted from Mr. Davis on p. lxxxiv, below.

Attention has already been called (p. lxxi note 1, above) to the impossibility of ascertaining exactly when Thomas Danforth made the entries which fill pp. 1–85 of College Book III (pp. 171–254, below). Two striking instances deserve consideration, as they furnish what is perhaps the most difficult crux in the records here printed. In one place, referring apparently to the year 1659, he wrote: “M^r William Paine Merch^t gave to the Colledge Twenty pounds, to be layd out for the purchase of lands: & with s^d mony the lands whereon the Colledge now stands & the Presidents lodgings was bought, conteyning about One acre & a Rood” (p. 198, below). To this entry President Wadsworth has added the words: “See Coll. B. 2. p. 38.” If Danforth’s entry was actually made in 1659, then by “the Colledge” must have been meant the first Harvard College. But in that case, why were the precise words “whereon the Colledge now stands” employed? They suggest that once the college stood elsewhere. But in 1659 there was only one building known as “the College”—namely, the first Harvard College; and had the entry been written in 1659, it is difficult to see why the word “now” should have been used. This difficulty was noted by Thaddeus W. Harris (Librarian from 1791 to 1793), who wrote in pencil in the margin: “The 2^d Harvard, which was burnt.”

In another place, in “An Abbreviate of the Colledge Accounts, conteyning both recits and disbursements from October. 1654 untill December. 1663,” Danforth entered £20.10.0 “To a parcell of land on w^ch the Coll. now stands” (p. 212, below). Again occurs the word “now” and at a date when only the first Harvard College was in existence. Once more Mr. Harris has written in pencil: “‘on which the Coll. now stands’ is an interpolation, not written by Treasurer Danforth, at the above named date, if by him at all, and probably written as late as the year 1683. The College referred to was the 2^d Harvard, which was burnt in 1764, & on the site whereof the 3d Harvard Hall was built.” The present Editor has added the comment: “The words ‘on w^ch the Coll. now stands’ were perhaps written later but are certainly in Danforth’s hand” (p. 212 note 2, below).

The correct interpretation of Danforth’s two entries is of importance, because those entries raise the question of the location of the first Harvard College; and hence the necessity of ascertaining, if possible, whether those entries were written in or before 1663, in which case they indicate the first Harvard College, or not until some twenty years later, in which case they refer to the second Harvard College. Some entries made by President Wadsworth in 1733 throw light on the subject, especially as he three times uses the word “now.” He wrote:

By the “three Colleges & y^e President’s House” Wadsworth meant the second Harvard College, Stoughton College, Massachusetts Hall, and Wadsworth House. The reference is to p. 172, below, where Nathaniel Eaton’s account in 1639 of expenditures on the first Harvard College is entered. Wadsworth was probably mistaken in supposing that the town grant in 1638 of two and two-thirds acres formed “the easterly part” of the oblong parcel of land in the College Yard, for the town grant appears to have been north of the present Kirkland Street (see p. lxviii note, above). Wadsworth then continued:

College Book II is not extant, but the other reference is to p. 208, below, where Goffe’s College is mentioned in the inventory of 1654. By “where y^e President’s House now is,” Wadsworth meant Wadsworth House. Wadsworth again continued:

By the “present old College” is meant the second Harvard College, and the reference to “B. 3. p. 30” is to the entry in Danforth’s hand (quoted above, p. lxxvi note 3) about William Paine on p. 198, below.

One more extract from Wadsworth is pertinent. “On y^e south side of y^e street,” he wrote, referring to what was then Braintree Street but is now Massachusetts Avenue, “Just before y^e President’s House as it now stands,”—that is, Wadsworth House—“is a small piece of Land belonging to y^e College; it was formerly Robert Bradish’s House Lot” (p. 266, below). The seventh item in the inventory of December 10, 1654, is: “A small piece of land lying before the Colledge & formerly the houselott of Rob^t Broadish” (p. 208, below). The word “Colledge,” as here used, must refer not to the land owned by the institution but to the building—that is, the first Harvard College. It is certain then that the first Harvard College faced the Bradish lot, and that lot was at the northwest corner of Braintree Street (now Massachusetts Avenue) and the present Holyoke Street—the lot, namely, on which Holyoke House now stands.

We have, then, these proved facts: that the Bradish lot was “before” the first Harvard College; that the Bradish lot was “just before” Wadsworth House; and that the Betts lot “runs northward from Cambridge Meeting House.” Now between the years 1654 and 1663 William Paine gave £20 and his son John Paine gave £10 (pp. 200, 214, below). Wadsworth said that with this money the Betts lot was bought in 1661. Danforth said that with the money was bought the land “whereon the College now stands & the Presidents lodgings” or the land “on w^ch the Coll. now stands.” But money received between 1654 and 1663 could not have been used for the purchase either of the Eaton lot or of the Goffe lot, for the former came into the possession of the College about 1640 and the latter was bought about 1651. Consequently, as the land “whereon the Colledge now stands” was the Betts lot, and as it was on that lot that the second Harvard College was built, the building referred to by Danforth must have been the second Harvard College.

In his final paper Mr. Davis wrote:

In saying that the Danforth entries “must have been made between 1654 and 1663,” Mr. Davis begged the question. For the point to be determined is not the date of the original documents, but the time when Danforth wrote or copied them into College Book III. The present Editor’s conclusions are as follows. (1) Danforth’s entry about William Paine was not written until or after 1680, by which time the first Harvard College had been demolished. Hence, to make it plain which lot was bought with the Paine money, Danforth described it as “the lands whereon the Colledge now stands & the Presidents lodgings.” Both the second President’s House (1645–1680) and the third President’s House (1680–1719) appear to have been on the Betts lot, and hence near the second Harvard College (see pp. cvi, cxiii, below). (2) The original document containing Danforth’s “Abbreviate of the Colledge Accounts” from 1654 to 1663 must have been written in 1663, and in that original document one item presumably read: “To a parcell of land £20.10.0.” When Danforth copied that document into College Book III, he made the entry as originally written and then, again to make it plain which lot had been bought, interpolated, either when copying the entry or at some time after about 1680, the words “on w^ch the Coll. now stands.”

Another point requires explanation. In his first paper Mr. Davis reproduced a tracing of a map entitled “Plan of Cambridge, adapted to the year 1635. By James Winthrop, January 1801.” At the top of this map are written the words: “College founded 1638, and built near this place a little south of its present site.” By its “present site” was meant the present Harvard Hall, which stands on the site of the second Harvard College. Quoting these words, Mr. Davis remarked: “A reasonable interpretation of this language would throw the site within the limits of the Braintree-street lot”—that is, the Eaton lot. “It is unfortunate,” continued Mr. Davis, “that Mr. Winthrop did not give his authority for the statement.” (Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, v. 484 note. The map faces the same page.) Mr. Winthrop’s authority can be found in several entries in these records. On August 29, 1704, the Corporation voted that Treasurer Brettle “be Jmpoured to Let a piece of Land of y^e College’s, lying neare w^r y^e old College stood to m^r Andrew Bordman or any other person, for Such term of yeares, & upon Such conditions as they shall agree upon” (p. 373, below). In “An Inventory of the Estate belonging to Harvard College” dated July 1, 1712, Treasurer Thomas Brettle entered “A p^s of Land near y^e Coll^g Let to M^r And^w Bordman” (p. 418, below); and in a similar inventory dated August 16, 1715, Treasurer William Brattle (who had succeeded his brother Thomas in 1713) entered “A Small p^e of Land near y^e Old College for w^ch M^r A Bordman pays” (p. 430, below).

On August 29, 1704, the presidency being then vacant, the Corporation consisted of sixteen persons, all of whom were present except Jonathan Pierpont (1685) and Henry Flynt (1693). Four others – Henry Gibbs (1685), John White (1685), Benjamin Wadsworth (1690), and Jonathan Remington (1696) – were probably too young to have seen the first Harvard College. The senior Fellow of the Corporation was James Allen, who, born in England, was ordained minister of the First Church, Boston, on December 9, 1668; attended meetings of the Overseers in 1675, 1678, and 1684 (pp. 76, 232, 236, 237, 255, below), and may have attended earlier meetings; and became a member of the Corporation in 1692. The others were Michael Wigglesworth (1651), Samuel Torrey (a temporary member of about 1656), Vice President Willard (1659), Nehemiah Hobart (1667), Peter Thacher (1671), Samuel Angier (1673), Thomas Brattle (1676), John Danforth (1677), and William Brattle (1680). Hence, though the meeting took place about twenty-five years after the demolition of the first Harvard College, there were present no fewer than ten persons who must often have seen that building, some of whom had doubtless lived in it, and all of whom except Mr. Allen may have lived in it.

President Wadsworth’s statement, made in 1733, that on the south side of Braintree Street (now Massachusetts Avenue), “Just before” the house in which he was himself residing, was a small piece of land belonging to the College, formerly Robert Bradish’s house lot, has already been quoted in this note. He then went on to define the bounds of that land “When it was leas’d to Steward Bordman. 1705,” and added, “I suppose part of Steward Bordman’s Barn now stands on y^e northwest corner of this Land. This Land was call’d y^e House Lot of Robert Bradish” (p. 266, below). Many years later, in 1774 or 1775, President Langdon added this memorandum:

In another place, but at the same time, President Langdon drew a plan showing the “Presidents House Lot” at the top, in front of it “North Side Street” (which was the Braintree Street of the seventeenth century and is now Massachusetts Avenue), south of that the “College Land in the President’s Improvement,” at the west and southwest a gore labelled “College Land in M^r Boardman’s Improv^t” and defined by the letters fhide, and a “Street” (now Holyoke Street) on the east (p. 302, below: see Plan I, facing p. 270, below). On February 22, 1775, Andrew Bordman—who was the grandson of the Andrew Bordman who leased the land in 1704 or 1705—acknowledged that he held of the College “that part of the above described rectangular House Lot which is contained within the Gore on the west side, as defined in the Plan foregoing by the Letters fhide, at the rent of two Shillings lawful money p^r Annumn” (p. 303, below). Four years later “The College came to a new Agreement with M^r Boardman for the above Gore of Land” (p. 303, below); and on March 8, 1779, he acknowledged that “I hold of the President & Fellows of Harvard College the Gore of Land belonging to a House Lot opposite the Presidents House [Wadsworth House], as described in the foregoing Page, for which I promise to pay annually while in my Occupation one Spanish mill’d Dollar” (p. 303, below).

Thus, whether we start with the Bradish lot, which in 1654 was stated to lie “before the Colledge;” or with the land leased to Andrew Bordman in 1704 or 1705 “lying neare w^r y^e old College stood;” or with President Langdon’s map of 1774 or 1775; or with the acknowledgments made by the younger Andrew Bordman in 1775 and 1779—in each case the result arrived at is the same, namely, that the first Harvard College stood on the Eaton lot. And so James Winthrop’s statement of 1801 that the first Harvard College was built “a little south of its present site” is corroborated.

212 P. 208, below.

213 P. lxxiii, above.

214 There is, however, a curious reference to it by Sewall, who on July 31, 1675, wrote:

Goffe’s College was a considerable distance from “the N. Building”—that is, the new building or the second Harvard College. On the other hand the second President’s House, the one built by Dunster, was probably very close to the second Harvard College; and the third President’s House, built in 1680 and taken down in 1719, was on or near the site of Massachusetts Hall, and so was near the second Harvard College. Obviously such a rigmarole cannot be taken seriously, yet it would seem to indicate that Goffe’s College might have been still in existence as late as Sewall’s day. Sewall, who graduated in 1671, had himself been a Fellow in 1673–1674 and Librarian in 1674.

215 Plymouth Colony Records, x. 107.

216 x. 128.

217 P. 208, below. If the “small house unfinished” was not the Indian College, it is impossible to say what it was.

218 Plymouth Colony Records, x. 168.

219 x. 190.

220 Collections New York Historical Society for 1869, p. 87.

221 1 Massachusetts Historical Collections, i. 176.

222 P. 346, below.

223 P. 352, below.

224 P. 358, below.

225 Diary, i. 480. See also p. xciv, below.

226 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxv. 227.

227 Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, i. 367–368, 374.

228 P. 220, below. It was stated in 1881 that the first Harvard College “was built of wood, and in 1669 had shown such signs of decay that subscriptions were opened in many places for funds to build a new one” (1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xviii. 320). This statement was based on Sibley’s remark that “When the general appeal was made for funds to erect a brick building for the College in place of the wooden structure, which was small and decaying, the following response . . . came from Portsmouth,” New Hampshire (Harvard Graduates, i. 367). But in the document itself, dated May 20, 1669, the signers say that “wee haue made a collection in our toune of sixty pounds annū, (& hope to make it more,) which sajd sum̄e is to be pajd annually for these seuen yeares ensuing, to be improoued, at the discretion of the honoured ouerseers of the colledge, for the behoofe of the same, and the advancment of good literature” (i. 368), and there is no allusion to a new building. Indeed, on June 3, 1669, the Overseers disposed of the gift by assigning £34 to the three Fellows and “the Remainder to be for the Encouragem^t of Schollars as the Overseers shall see meet to order” (p. 219, below). What is perhaps the earliest allusion to the proposed new building occurs in a letter dated Boston, August 21, 1671, signed by nine ministers (among them President Chauncy) and seven magistrates, to certain ministers in London: “The ruinous, & allmost irreparable state of the Edifices, in conjunction with our inability to erect some other more capacious, & accomodate; This notwithstanding, upon a serious, & late debate, a new structure, of stone, or brick, is resolved upon, & that speedy preparations shall be made toward the same: The Countrey (we hope) may be enabled to contribute about a thousand pound,” etc. (our Publications, xi. 339). For the amount actually received, see pp. 222–223, below. In his election sermon delivered May 15, 1672, Thomas Shepard said: “Let the Schools flourish . . . Cherish them therefore, and the Colledge in special: and accordingly that there may be a seasonable (while affections are warm) and a faithful improvement of the Contribution for the New Edifice there, and what else is needful for the encouragement and advancement of Learning in that precious Society” (Eye-Salve, 1673, p. 45).

229 Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 516.

230 Pp. 220, 221, below.

231 Plymouth Colony Records, x. 355. “Theire late Presedent” was Charles Chauncy.

232 Diary, i. 5. On October 15, 1679, John Francis, “in consideration of a Wound he had received in building Harvard College,” was granted “one hundred acres of land where it is to be found free from former grants,” but the grant was not laid out until 1716: see Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 255; Massachusetts Archives,. lviii. 101; Massachusetts Province Laws, ix. 473, 508; Massachusetts House Journal, June 8, 15, November 16, December 1, 1716, pp. 10, 16, 41, 52.

233 Treasurer Richards’s Book. On November 1, 1677, Ammi R. Corlet, a Fellow, was paid five shillings “for washing & sweeping the library in new Colledge” (id.). On August 23, 1679, £1.16.0. was paid to John Palfrey “on the president’s note for 1 doz. Stooles for Colledge Library” (id.). On October 14, 1679, Daniel Gookin was paid “3s. money Sweepeing Colledge pr Rob^t browne for 1 year expiring Sept. last” (id.). On April 8, 1695, the Corporation voted that “six leather Chairs be forthwith provided for y^e Use of y^e Library, & six more before y^e Commencement in Case y^e Treasury will allow of it” (p. 350, below). For Treasurer Richards’s Book, see p. xxviii note 1, above.

234 In T. Hutchinson, Collection of Original Papers (1769), p. 501.

235 Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 143–144. The Spencer lot (see the plan facing p. lxviii, above) was bought by the College on June 12, 1697, from Michael Spencer (Middlesex Deeds, xii. 80–82), who had previously bought it from Thomas Sweetman (whose daughter Rebecca was the wife of Spencer) on December 10, 1677 (id. viii. 287). In the latter deed of sale there is mention of the “garden next the new Colledge.” On April 28, 1712, the Corporation voted “That the Orchard purchased of Michael Spencer & lately fenced, be assign’d for a place of recreation & exercise for the Scholars” (p. 401, below). On April 19, 1737, the Corporation voted “That the Northerly part of the Land improved by the Late President [Wadsworth] and that adjoynes to the playing pasture for the Schollars be Layd open to the said playing pasture for the Enlargment of the same” (p. 656, below).

236 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, ix. 100–101.

237 2 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vi. 610. Hubbard, it will be observed, stated that the new building was erected “not far from the place where the former stood.” This passage makes it possible to assign an approximate date to the demolition of the first Harvard College. It was still standing, or at least in part, in May, 1677, and it had disappeared when Hubbard wrote. His Generall History of New England, though not published until 1815, was apparently practically finished in 1680, for on June 11 in that year the General Court appointed a committee “to peruse” the work and “make returne of their opinion thereof to the next session, that the Court may then, as they shall then judge meete, take order for the impression thereof” (Massachusetts Colony Records, v. 279); and on October 11, 1682, the Court granted Hubbard £50, “he transcribing” his History “fairely into a booke, that it may be the more easely pervsed, in order to the satisfaction of this Court” (v. 378, 394). The passage quoted in the text expresses the hope that God would “send or confirm and continue a President, for the carrying on of that hopeful work.” This would seem to be a clear reference to Urian Oakes, who, though he had been Acting President from April 7, 1675, did not actually become President until February 9, 1680. Hence the passage was presumably written between May, 1677, and February 9, 1680, and the demolition of the first Harvard College may be conjecturally assigned to 1679.

238 P. 832, below.

239 P. 367, below.

240 Throughout the period covered in these volumes, the term “the House” was frequently used in a sense that has long been obsolete—namely, meaning the institution. Thus in the College Laws of 1642–1646 penalties were inflicted “If any Scholar shall transgresse any of ye Lawes of God or the House out of perversnesse or apparent negligence” (p. 27, below), where the words “ye Lawes of God or the House” translate the Latin “Dei et hujus Collegij Legem” (p. 31, below). In 1650 it was ordered that the Butler or Cook shall not “suffer any Schollar or Schollars whatever except the ffellows, Masters of Art, ffellow Commoners or Officers of the house to come into the Butteryes or Kitchin save w^th their Parents or Guardians, or w^th some grave & sober strangers” (p. 34, below). In 1712 Addington Davenport, “A Son of the House”—he had graduated in 1689—was admitted Master of Arts (p. 402, below). In 1741 the Corporation told William Shirley “that (as the Governour of this Province) You are the first Overseer of that house” (p. 709). In 1743 Colin Campbell of Jamaica was thanked “for his Generosity to this House, in giving” certain mathematical and astronomical instruments (p. 744, below). For other examples of this use, see the index under “House.”

The term “Scholar of the House” soon arose, and in 1667 the duties of the office, to which a small salary was attached, were thus defined: “The Schollars of the house shall take a strict Account of all the Buildings, Chambers, Studyes &, fences, belonging to the Colledge & shall give an account quarterly to the Treasurer w^t dammage the Colledge hath susteyned in any of the aforementioned p^rticulars & by whom” (p. 204, below). At first resident graduates and undergraduates were appointed to this office, but an entry in the Corporation meeting of September 6, 1742, reads: “Mem^o for Next Year, Not convenient (on acc^o of their absence in the Spring) to have Sen^r Sophisters Scholars of the House” (p. 728, below).

For the occasional application of the word “House” to a building, see p. cxxx note, below).

241 P. 378, below.

242 P. 403, below.

243 P. 404, below. On the same day (July 25, 1712) Sewall “Went to Cambridge in the Castle Barge with the L^t Gov^r . . . to a Corporation Meeting,” and recorded that the committee “view’d the Roof of the Colledge which S. Andrews built, and judg’d it necessary to be taken down, by reason of the Rain and Rottenness the Gable-Ends had convey’d to the Timbers” (Diary, iii. 357).

244 P. 408, below.

245 Leverett’s Diary, p. 73.

246 Pp. 74, 75.

247 P. 75.

248 Aaron Cleveland was one of the three carpenters.

249 Leverett’s Diary, pp. 75–76.

250 P. 452, below.

251 P. 502, below. On April 20, 1724, the Corporation voted “that ’twill very much Conduce to the good order of the College, that a Tut^r inhabit one of the Norwest Rooms of the Old College, and that it be ꝑposed to M^r Prince to View the two Lower Rooms in that Quarter of the s̄^d College, and choose w^ch of ’em wilbe most agreeable to him, and that the Room be prepared for his Reception accordingly” (p. 506, below). On August 11, 1724, the Corporation voted that “the Lower Chamber in the North west Corner of the Old College be assigned to M^r Monis for the managing of his Hebrew Jnstructions” (p. 512, below).

252 P. 513, below.

253 P. 818, below.

254 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vii. 55. It is not quite clear whether Russell’s chamber was in the second Harvard College or in a building close to it. If the latter, perhaps the third President’s House (1680–1719), which apparently was near the second Harvard College, is referred to, for it was by no means uncommon for a student (undergraduate or graduate) to live in the President’s House: see p. cxiii note 6, below.

255 Magnalia (1702), bk. iv. pt. i. § 5, p. 130.

256 On April 11, 1732, owing to the fact that “there has of late been a considerable Quantity of Lead cut off from ye top of y^e old College, to y^e great Detriment of the said House,” the Corporation voted that “y^e Door leading up to y^e top of said College, be locked,” that “if any scholar be found on y^e top of y^e said College without Leave . . . he shall be liable to y^e penalty of five shillings,” and that “if any scholar shall presume to cut off any Lead from y^e said College, he shall suffer a fine of ten shillings, and satisfy for all Damages” (p. 598, below). This vote was embodied in the College Laws of 1734 (p. 144, below).

257 Boston News Letter, November 6, 1704, p. 2/2.

258 Holyoke Diaries (1911), p. 46.

259 “The College Bell also is gone,” wrote Mrs. Mascarene on January 30, 1764 (our Publications, xiv. 4 note). See Mr. F. Apthorp Foster’s paper on “The Burning of Harvard Hall, 1764, and its Consequences,” in our Publications, xiv. 2–43.

260 The following advertisement appeared in the Boston News Letter of July 14, 1726, p. 2/2:

This was repeated, with the change of “This Day is Published” to “Lately Published,” in the same paper of July 21 (p. 2/2) and July 28 (p. 2/2), 1726. It was dedicated “To the Honourable William Dummer Esq^r Lieutenant Governour of y^e Province of the Massachusets Bay,” who, in the absence of Governor Shute in England, was at the time Acting Governor. In 1743 the print was reissued by William Price, dedicated to Lieutenant-Governor Spencer Phips and with a legend (reprinted in 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xviii. 318–319) giving a brief history of the College. “To be sold by William Price, at the Looking-Glass and Picture Shop in Cornhill, near the Town-House, A new Prospect of Boston, . . . and Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge, New-England” (Boston Evening Post, September 12, 1743, p. 2/2, and October 3, p. 2/2).

261 Boston News Letter, February 2, 1764, p. 2/1.

262 Holden Chapel.

263 Columbian Magazine, ii. 673. An interesting description of the building and of college life in 1759–1763 by Timothy Pickering will be found in his Life (1867), i. 9–12 note.

264 For a “Plan of Harvard Hall built in 1764,” the “South Front of Harvard Hall at Cambridge in New England,” and a “View of Harvard College about 1764,” all by Du Simitière, see our Publications, xiv. 16, 42, 66.

265 Pp. 357–358, below.

266 P. 360, below.

267 Treasurer Brattle’s Book, p. 55.

268 Pp. 282, 842, below. Danforth’s will was dated September 1, 1699, he died November 5, and the will was proved November 16 (Middlesex Probate Files, no. 5915); but it was not until October 21, 1724, that the Corporation was informed of the legacy (p. 515, below).

269 Pp. 363–364, below.

270 Treasurer Brattle’s Book, p. 61.

271 P. 378, below.

272 P. 383, below.

273 P. 391, below.

274 Pp. 403, 404, below.

275 Holyoke Diaries, p. 1.

276 P. 408, below.

277 Leverett’s Diary, pp. 73–74.

278 P. 423, below.

279 Leverett’s Diary, pp. 93–94.

280 P. 457, below.

281 Pp. 458–459, below.

282 P. 460, below.

283 Leverett’s Diary, pp. 194–195.

284 Massachusetts House Journal, pp. 42, 43.

285 Harvard Magazine (1864), x. 96.

286 P. 522, below. Presumably this was the famous pump that used often to be blown up by the students and was finally removed some years ago.

287 Massachusetts House Journal, p. 116.

288 P. 818, below.

289 In Peirce, History, p. 71 note 1. On April 2, 1831, Paine Wingate wrote to Mr. Peirce: “I was at College at the time of the earthquake to which you refer, and believe the effects of it were as visible at Cambridge as in any part of the country; but I don’t know that the injury done to Stoughton College at that time was greater than to brick buildings generally. . . . I never supposed that the injury done to it by the earthquake was the cause of its being demolished” (p. 314).

290 Faculty Records, iv. 116.

291 Faculty Records, iv. 272.

292 Overseers’ Records, iii. 226.

293 College Book VIII. 103–104.

294 Faculty Records, iv. 273.

295 College Book VIII. 104.

296 College Book VIII. 104–105.

297 Columbian Magazine, ii. 673.

298 Donation Book, i. 175. Cf. Peirce, History, p. 71

299 See Mr. Lane’s exhaustive paper on “The Building of Massachusetts Hall, 1717–1720,” with plans, in our Publications, xxiv. 81–110.

300 P. 450, below.

301 P. 452, below.

302 Leverett’s Diary, p. 178.

303 Massachusetts House Journal, p. 10.

304 Massachusetts House Journal, p. 6.

305 Diary, iii. 259. The youths were Edmund Quincy of the Class of 1722 and Samuel Hirst (a grandson of Sewall’s) of the Class of 1723.

306 P. 456, below.

307 P. 474, below.

308 P. 522, below.

309 P. 523, below.

310 Itinerarium (1907), pp. 173–174. The clock is also seen in the “View of Harvard College about 1764,” by Du Simitière, facing p. 66 of our Publications, xiv.

311 In a plan made about 1765, President Holyoke gave the width as 42 feet (see Plan H, facing p. 260, below); and in another place he wrote: “The length of Massachusetts Hall 109 feet” (p. 335, below).

312 Columbian Magazine, ii. 673.

313 The College of William and Mary was founded in 1693, and the original building, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was intended to be in the form of a square; but, owing to lack of funds, only two sides of the quadrangle were built, and in 1705 these were destroyed by fire. Rebuilt on a somewhat different plan, the edifice was injured by fire in 1859 and again in the Civil War; but President Lyon G. Tyler informed the present Editor in 1900 that the walls are those of 1705: hence it is the oldest college building now existing in this country.

The first college building to be erected at New Haven was a wooden structure, the frame of which was raised October 8, 1717, and at Commencement (September 12) in 1718 it was “most solemnly named our College by the name of Yale College, to perpetuate the memory of the Hon^ble Gov^r. Elihu Yale, Esq; of London, who had granted so liberal and bountiful a donation for the perfecting and adorning of it” (in F. B. Dexter, Yale Biographies and Annals, i. 177). “It was,” wrote President Clap in 1766, “170 Feet long, 22 Feet wide, and 3 Story high; made a handsome Appearance, and contained near 50 Studies in convenient Chambers, besides the Hall, Library, and Kitchen” (Annals or History of Yale-College, p. 24). On August 17, 1782, President Stiles wrote: “As we are about to build a new dining Hall & Kitchen, this day began to pull down the Remnant of old College. The old Coll. Edifice was built 1717 three stories high & 170 feet long. Two Thirds of it was pulled down 6 or 7 years ago—leaving the Hall, Buttery & Kitchen standing;” and later added: “[Finished its Demolition Oct. 1782.]” (Literary Diary, iii. 35).

314 See pp. cxxix–cxxx, below.

315 P. 172, below.

316 Cambridge Proprietors’ Records (1896), p. 16.

317 P. lxix note, above. Exactly what became of the Peyntree house is not known. Perhaps it was “the old house” which is twice mentioned in an account of the rents drawn up by President Chauncy, undated, but apparently written in or about 1656 or 1658 (p. 19, below).

318 Elizabeth (Harris) Glover was the second wife and the widow of the Rev. Jose Glover, who had died on his passage to New England with a printing press in the summer or autumn of 1638. In calling Mrs. Glover “the second wife of President Henry Dunster” (Harvard Graduates, ii. 247), Sibley fell into one of his few errors.

319 The christian name of Dunster’s second wife was Elizabeth, but her surname is not known.

320 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 84.

321 In Peirce, History, Appendix, p. 152.

322 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 30.

323 P. 207, below.

324 P. 208, below.

325 Where Chauncy lived from November 27, 1654, until the President’s House was vacated by Dunster in the spring of 1655, does not appear. On November 1, 1654, the General Court, “having considered of the moc̄on that hath binn made in behalf of M^r Chancy, for the providing of a howse & other accom̄odac̄ons for his setlement at Cambridge, doe judg meete to referr what yett remaines to be donne to the honored & reuerend ouerseers, to whom it most propperly belongs” (Massachusetts Colony Records, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 216). On January 8, 1666, the town “Granted liberty to fell timber on the com̄on To the Coll. for mending y^r fences ab^t y^e p^rsid^ts garden” (Cambridge Town Records, p. 160). On September 27, 1670, the Treasurer was ordered by the Corporation “to rebuild the Presidents fences against the high way with a stone wall & pay for it out of the Colledge Treāry” (p. 225, below; cf. p. 52, below). This shows that the second President’s House (Dunster’s house) faced what is now Massachusetts Avenue on the west.

326 Early Press of Massachusetts (Club of Odd Volumes, 1907), i. 80, 149. On May 10, 1652, “Liberty is granted by the Townsmen to Mr. Dunster for to fell some timber on the common, about 2 tun, for the repare of his house and fences, but not for the use of the Colledge to take any of the common” (Cambridge Town Records, 1901, p. 95). Quoting this passage, Mr. Littlefield remarked: “Evidently Mr. Dunster was making repairs considerably larger than would be necessary in a house that had been built only a few years.” This is slight evidence on which to base the conclusion of a removal of the house.

327 See p. cxiii, below.

328 Paige, History of Cambridge, pp. 270–271; A. McKenzie, Lectures on the History of the First Church in Cambridge (1873), pp. 120, 263; Harvard Book (1875), ii. 26–28; Historic Guide to Cambridge (1907), pp. 18–20. The parsonage lot, together with the meeting-house lot, came into the possession of the College in 1833, and the house was taken down in 1843.

329 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 103.

330 Altered from “nearer.”

331 The words within square brackets appear to have been inadvertently omitted.

332 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 103a.

333 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 106.

334 These extracts are copied from the original, so far as that is decipherable: see p. xxviii note 1, above. That the three documents from the Massachusetts Archives should have thus far escaped notice is not so strange, but it is singular that the significance of the items in Richards’s Book should have hitherto caught no one’s eye, for those items were printed as long ago as 1862: see p. xxviii note 1, above.

335 P. 340, below.

336 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 209a.

337 Harvard College Papers, i. 65.

338 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 219.

339 Court Records, vii. 175. John Leverett was one of this committee.

340 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 226. Mather is the only President who has not lived in Cambridge. On September 5, 1692, the Corporation voted that “y^e Treasurer of the Colledge take care y^t y^e Presidents Horse be well kept at y^e Charge of the Colledge” (p. 340, below). On June 8, 1696, the Corporation voted that “y^e Colledge Treasurer should pay to y^e Rev^d Presid^t such mony as he should need to purchase a horse with, for y^e better Capacitating him to make his Visits &c at y^e Colledge” (p. 353, below). From July 4, 1693, to July 11, 1696, the sum of £482.2.0 was paid out in “Salaries &c & for keeping y^e Presid^ts Horse” (p. 414, below). The following item, dated April 11, 1701, is found in Treasurer Brettle’s Book: “Cash Sent m^r Presid^t on his note 4^ƚb 13^s to pay Peggy keeping his horse 13^lb at 6/ꝑ week, & for keeping him 3 weeks at Cambridg at 5/ ꝑ week” (p. 66).

341 Leverett’s mansion house stood on the Wigglesworth lot: see the plan facing p. lxviii, above. The lot in 1635 was owned by the Rev. Thomas Hooker, and after his departure in 1636 became the property of the Rev. Thomas Shepard, whose second wife was Mr. Hooker’s daughter Joanna. On August 21, 1650, the Rev. Jonathan Mitchell (1647) succeeded Mr. Shepard (who had died August 25, 1649) as pastor of the First Church; on November 19th following Mr. Mitchell married Mr. Shepard’s third wife and widow Margaret; and on February 28, 1651, Mr. Mitchell bought the Shepard homestead. Mr. Mitchell died July 9, 1668, and on the death of his wife Margaret in 1691 the homestead was inherited by her son Jonathan Mitchell (1687) and her daughter Margaret Mitchell, the latter of whom had married Stephen Sewall of Salem on June 13, 1682. Jonathan Mitchell died March 14, 1695, and devised his share to his sister, Mrs. Sewall. John Leverett bought the estate of Stephen and Margaret (Mitchell) Sewall on February 4, 1696, and on his death in 1724 it went to his daughters Sarah Leverett and Mary (Leverett) Denison. On May 4, 1726, Mrs. Denison conveyed her half to her sister Sarah, who on June 11, 1726, sold the house and part of the estate to Professor Edward Wigglesworth, to whom she was married four days later (June 15). From Professor Edward Wigglesworth the estate went to his son, the second Professor Edward Wigglesworth, who died June 17, 1794, and on October 17th it was bought by the College. The house was removed in 1844. (Middlesex Deeds, x. 488, xxv. 191, 410, 689, cxvi. 295, 296; Middlesex Probate Files, no. 14045; Harvard Book, ii. 22–25.)

342 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 265.

343 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 265.

344 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 270.

345 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 273.

346 Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 274. One charge was as follows: “1703. Payd Nath^l Adams for a New Pump £3.0.0.” To this Leverett has appended the note: “The pump was Sett & made new for M^r Willard; I disburs’d y^e money & was never reimburs’d” (Massachusetts Province Laws, ix. 105).

347 The date usually given is 1720, but Leverett’s letter of December 6, 1720, quoted in the text, states that “the yearly revenue . . . has now ceased for a year and a half,” which would indicate June in 1719 as the approximate date of the demolition of the house.

348 Mather was the only non-resident President, but he was allowed the revenue derived from the President’s House: see p. cx, above. It was not uncommon for a President to eke out his meagre salary by taking boarders or lodgers. Thus, Samuel Haugh was placed by his father “a scholler to be taught by his late master M^r Nathaniell Eaton at Cambridge in New England and to be boarded in house w^th him” and he “abode as a scholler & boarder w^th his said master Nathaniell Eaton about foure weekes” (in T. Lechford, Note-Book, 1885, p. 361). Nathaniel Rowe was sent “vnto M^r Eaton, y^e marchants brother, to be instructed in the rudiments of the Lattine tongue” and “liued w^th him about a moneth” (Winthrop Papers, iii. 320). Richard Lyon, the tutor of William Mildmay, lived with President Dunster (Sibley, Harvard Graduates, i. 165 note). There is mention of “the study which was Sir Pelham’s, in the chamber above the printing room” (Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, vi. 345), the latter being in President Dunster’s house. President Holyoke often mentions boarders and lodgers and while he occupied Wadsworth House one of the rooms was known as the “Boarders Chamber” (Holyoke Diaries, 1911, pp. 11, 13, 17, 20, 25, 28).

349 Massachusetts Hall.

350 Harvard College Papers, i. 128.

351 See p. cxii, above.

352 P. 485, below. For the third President’s House, see also Massachusetts Province Laws, vii. 262, 653, 671–672, ix. 37, 69, 79, 105.

It is presumed that the allusion in the text (under date of April 1, 1723) is to the third President’s House. But it should be pointed out that during the presidency of Leverett, owing to the fact that he lived not in the third President’s House but in his own mansion house, there is ambiguity about the term “President’s House.” Thus, the meetings of the Corporation “at the President’s House” in 1720 and 1721 (pp. 448, 459, 460, 462, below) must have been held in Leverett’s mansion house, since the third President’s House had been demolished in or about June, 1719. Again, meetings of the Corporation “at the President’s House” in 1711 and 1712 (pp. 395, 398, 402, below) were also presumably held in Leverett’s mansion house. Once more, when Sewall “went to the President’s house” on July 2, 1712 (Diary, ii. 355), and when he stated on July 6, 1719, that certain students were “examined by the President, Mr. Flynt and Sever at the President’s house” (iii. 222), he was presumably referring to Leverett’s mansion house. On the other hand, when the Judge on April 8, 1707, carried his son Joseph “a small piece of Plate to present his Tutor [Jonathan Remington] with,” and “View’d his [Joseph’s] Chamber in the President’s House, which I like” (ii 183), presumably Joseph’s chamber was in the third President’s House. In 1892 a writer wrongly stated that “The room which Joseph Sewall was now to occupy was in the house built by President Dunster” (New England Genealogical and Historical Register, xlvi. 7).

353 Pp. 508–509, below.

354 Massachusetts House Journal, p. 39.

355 P. 511, below.

356 P. 517, below.

357 P. 523, below.

358 Wadsworth’s Diary, p. 5. This passage is crossed out in the original.

359 Massachusetts House Journal, pp. 50–51.

360 Pp. 52–53.

361 P. 64.

362 In its memorial of August 21, 1726, the Corporation said that the house “could not be had for more than nine months, begining Jun. 28. 1725. When yt time expired, he [President Wadsworth] could no where hire a convenient House for himself, his Family is divided, some dwelling in one House & some in another, his Household Goods are dispos’d of in several Houses & Barns” (p. 542, below). The nine months expired on March 28, 1726, yet Wadsworth himself stayed in the Leverett house until May 9 and it was not until May 20 that all his family “left m^r Leverett’s House” (p. cxviii, below). On January 5, 1726, the General Court appropriated £30 “for the Children and Heirs of the late President Leverett, and is for Nine Months Rent of the said Mr. President Leveretts Mansion House and homestead, &c. at Cambridge, hired by a Committee of this Court in their last Session” (Massachusetts House Journal, p. 105; cf. Massachusetts Province Laws, x. 736). On November 26, 1726, there was read in the House a petition from Sarah Leverett and Mary Denison showing that “for four years before the Death” of their father “he had no House allowed him as all other Presidents had the President’s House being pulled down to make Room for the New College by which he lost Twenty Pounds a Year, And that there is now due to the Petitioners two Months Rent of their House in which Mr. President Wadsworth dwelt;” and the House voted £30 “in full Satisfaction of and in Answer to the Petition Viz Twenty Pounds in Consideration of the late President Leverett’s Salary from April 14 to May 3 1724, And Ten Pounds in Consideration of the two Months House Rent mentioned in the Petition,” and on December 13th the Council concurred (Massachusetts Province Laws, xi. 86; cf. Massachusetts House Journal, p. 6; Massachusetts Province Laws, x. 619–620, 736).

363 Massachusetts House Journal, p. 2.

364 Pp. 77–78.

365 P. 86.

366 P. 87.

367 P. 94.

368 Massachusetts House Journal, pp. 99–100. Cf. Massachusetts Province Laws, x. 731–732.

369 Massachusetts House Journal, p. 101.

370 P. 111.

371 Pp. 534–535, below.

372 Wadsworth’s Diary, p. 31. Wadsworth married Ruth Bordman, the sister of Andrew Bordman (the College Steward from 1703 to 1747).

373 Wadsworth’s Diary, p. 32.

374 Pp. 541–542, below.

375 The memorial was presented to the House on August 25, when it was “Read. And the House entred into Consideration of the said Memorial, and the Question was put upon a Motion made, Whether a Committee should be sent to view the Building within mentioned? It pass’d in the Negative. Then the Question was put, Whether any further Allowance shall be made the Memorialists out of the Publick Treasury for the Use aforesaid? It pass’d in the Negative” (House Journal, pp. 4–5; cf. p. 545, below). “The General Court,” dryly remarked Quincy, “by paying one thousand out of eighteen hundred pounds of the cost, have enjoyed the credit, ever since, of building a house for the President of the College” (History, i. 382).

376 P. 543, below.

377 P. 544, below.

378 P. 544, below.

379 Wadsworth’s Diary, p. 37.

380 P. 550, below.

381 P. 567, below.

382 P. 604, below.

383 P. 653, below.

384 P. 654, below. It seems probable from this entry that when Edward Holyoke became President later in the year, the “College books and papers” were returned to Wadsworth House. If this was so, then the preservation of most of the College Books when the second Harvard College was burned in 1764 is accounted for. Yet one of the Library Laws adopted May 20, 1736, specified that “y^e College Records (except those of frequent use) shall be kept in a suitable strong Receptacle in y^e Library, and y^e Key thereof kept by y^e President or senior resident Fellow” (p. 133, below).

385 P. 667, below.

386 P. 770, below.

387 P. 778, below.

388 See the Harvard Book, i. 137–142. In a letter dated August 10, 1872, Miss Eliza Susan Quincy wrote: “I am often asked the question, ‘Is it possible, Miss Quincy, that you resided sixteen years in that house? You could not have kept a carriage, for there is no stable.’ ‘Yes, we did,’ I reply: ‘we had not only a stable and coach-house, but also a large garden and an extensive court-yard, filled with trees and flowering shrubs, which are now cut down, or turned into the street” (1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xii. 262). From this it would appear that in President Quincy’s day the “garden” was in front of the house. In 1732 “the purchasing for ye College” certain “Lands adjoining to y^e President’s orchard” was mooted (pp. 599, 600, below); on June 14, 1743, the Corporation voted “That the Fence round the Pres^dts Orchard be renew’d & repair’d as soon as may be” (p. 736, below); and the “Ditch in y^e Presidents Orchard” is shown on a plan drawn by President Holyoke about 1765 (see Plan H, facing p. 260, below). In the inventory of 1654 the President’s “barne” is mentioned” (p. 208, below).

389 P. lxxii, above.

390 See the index to these volumes.

391 P. xcii, above.

392 Magnalia (1702), bk. iv. pt. i. § 4, pp. 127–128.

393 P. 25, above. The word “Church” is interlined.

394 P. 209, below. Another item in the same inventory mentions “Gallery room” (p. 210, below).

395 P. 832, below. In 1686 there are allusions to “gallery money” (pp. 259, 260, below). On August 30, 1708, the Corporation voted that “y^e Gallery mony paid by every Schollar at his admission be six shillings” (p. 383, below). One of the College Laws of 1734 reads: “Every Scholar in the first Quarter Bill made up after his Admission, Shall be charged Six Shillings, to the Use of the College, for Gallery money” (p. 135, below).

396 The College also contributed to the expense of the fourth meeting-house. This stood very near the site of the third; it was raised on November 17, 1756; services were first held in it on July 24, 1757; and it was taken down in 1833, when the meeting-house lot, in the southwest corner of the present College Yard, was bought by the College. When the meeting-house of the First Parish was built in 1833 opposite Massachusetts Hall, the College contributed a portion of the expense. (Paige, History of Cambridge, pp. 293, 304.)

397 P. 371, below.

398 P. 376, below.

399 Diary, ii. 190.

400 P. 437, below. On October 20, 1735, the Corporation took the following action:

This is the old burial place at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street, sometimes called “God’s Acre:” see Kittredge Anniversary Papers (1913), pp. 217–226; our Publications, xxiv. 293–296.

401 P. 757, below.

402 P. 757, below.

403 P. 775, below.

404 For penalties imposed for tardiness or misbehavior at, or absence from, prayers, see the index to these volumes under that word. Cf. Harvard Book, ii. 120–146.

405 Cf. Report on the Connection at various Times existing between the First Parish in Cambridge and Harvard College (1851), and Professor A. B. Hart’s paper on “The Relations between Harvard College and the First Church in Cambridge,” in 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 396–416.

406 In the Corporation records and elsewhere he is referred to as “Governor of the Bank of England;” but in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1740 he is called “Governor of the Russia Company, a Director of the Bank, and M.P. for Eastlow, Cornwall” (x. 317).

407 See letters of Isaac Watts, in 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, ix. 337, 382, 383, 386, 388, 390, 393, 396; Harvard Book, i. 58–60; Samuel F. Batchelder’s paper on “The Singular Story of Holden Chapel,” in his Bits of Harvard History (1924), pp. 1–33.

408 P. 715, below.

409 On February 19, 1760, he noted: “Mr. Flynt buried & funeral Oration in the Chapel p^r M^r Lovell;” and on January 23, 1764: “This Day Hollis Hall was named by Govern^r Fra. Bernard in the Presence of the Gen^l Court both Council & House in the Chapel” (Holyoke Diaries, pp. 22, 27).

410 Holyoke Diaries, pp. 32, 33, 34, 36.

411 P. 748, below.

412 P. 818, below.

413 Summary, i. 543–544. On October 25, 1750, Capt. Francis Goelet visited Cambridge, which he described as “a neat Pleasant Village and Consists of ab^t an Hundred Houses and three Collages, which are a Plain Old Fabrick of no manner of Archetect and the Present much Out of Repair, . . . its Apartments are Pretty Large The Library is very Large and well Stored with Books, but much Abused by Frequent use. . . . Drank a Glass Wine with the Collegians” (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxiv. 60).

414 For buildings other than those described in the text, see the index to these volumes under “College buildings.”

415 The dates of raising and of first occupation are given in those cases where they are known.

416 The building was presumably begun before September 7, 1638 (p. lxx, above); the frame was “already raised” in 1639 (p. 172, below); and the building was first occupied in September, 1642 (p. lxxii, above). Attention may be called to the fact that the time-honored Americanism “College Yard,” once common throughout the country but now displaced practically everywhere except at Harvard by “Campus,” occurs at Cambridge as early as 1639 (p. 172, below; cf. our Publications, iii. 431–437; Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, March, 1903, xi. 375–377).

417 On November 13, 1644, the General Court appropriated money for this house, but presumably it was not ready for occupancy until 1645.

418 This building was perhaps begun in 1653 or 1654, but probably it was not occupied until 1655.

419 The frame was raised on August 7, 1674 (p. lxxxvi, above); books were transferred from the first Harvard College to the library of the second Harvard College in 1676 (p. lxxxvi, above); by 1677 the library was completely finished (p. lxxxviii, above), and the Commencement exercises were held; in the building (p. lxxxviii, above).

420 Begun in or about 1719, but not occupied until 1720 (p. cii, above).

421 The frame was raised May 24, the house was first occupied October 27, and President Wadsworth moved in on November 4, 1726 (pp. cxviii, cxix, above).

422 The foundation was laid in June, 1742, but the building was not finished until 1744 (pp. cxxv–cxxvi, above). It was abandoned as a chapel in 1766 (S. F. Batchelder, Bits of Harvard History, p. 16).

423 This section is based on two papers by the Editor: “On the Use of the Words College and Hall in the United States,” in Dialect Notes, 1900, ii. 91–114; and “Harvard Terms: ‘College’ and ‘Hall,’” in the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, December, 1904, xiii. 244–246. See also the discussion in the Nation for October 24, November 7, 14, 21, 28, 1895, lxi. 293, 327, 346, 362, 387; and Harvard Graduates’ Magazine (1894), iii. 1–8, (1904) xii. 528, (1921) xxix. 365–371.

424 Goffe’s College had a kitchen (p. lxxviii, above), but that was merely because it had previously been a private house. From 1642 to 1814 commons were served only in the three buildings to each of which the name Harvard College (or Hall) was attached, except that between the burning of the second Harvard College in 1764 and the completion of the present Harvard Hall, two rooms in Hollis Hall were assigned as dining rooms (our Publications, x. 35 note 1).

425 It was hazarded in 1699 by Cotton Mather, who in the dedication to his Decennium Luctuosum wrote: “The Nameless Writer of this History may Report, that with a greater Expence than that of the First Founder, this Honourable Person”—William Stoughton—“proves that he Loves our Nation, by Building us another Edifice for the Supply of all our Synagogues, and STOUGHTONHALL outshines HARVARD-COLLEDGE” (Magnalia, 1702, bk. vii. app. p. 58). But that was merely a chance use of the word. While in course of erection, Massachusetts Hall was frequently called “College” or “New College,” and apparently the name Massachusetts Hall first appeared on November 4, 1720 (see p. cii, above).

It has already been pointed out (p. lxxxix note 3, above) that the term “the House” was often employed before 1750 in the sense of the institution. Occasionally the word House is found applied to a building. Thus in 1707 “the 2 Houses” (p. 378, below) meant the second Harvard College and Stoughton College; in 1721 “the House” (p. 456) meant Massachusetts Hall and “the s̄^d House” (pp. 458, 459) meant Stoughton College; in 1732 “the said House” (p. 598, below) meant the second Harvard College; and in 1750 “y^e several Houses” (p. 821) meant the second Harvard College, Stoughton College, and Massachusetts Hall. It is rather surprising that the word House did not come into use as a colloquial or even as an official designation for a specific building, but it does not appear to have done so, except in the case of the building built for or occupied by the President. There is, however, an allusion (in 1721) to “Stoughton House” (p. 460, below). At a much later period the word was in official use for certain dormitories, as in College House and Holyoke House.

426 But though College in this sense was not used as an official designation in Cambridge after 1781, curiously enough it was later employed in Boston. Early in the nineteenth century the Medical School needed a building, money was raised by subscription, a grant was obtained from the State, and “in 1816, the building erected in Mason Street [Boston] was opened for lectures, under the name of the ‘Massachusetts Medical College.’” This building proving insufficient after forty years, Dr. George Parkman offered “a piece of land in North Grove Street as a site for a Medical College, . . . the estate in Mason Street was sold . . . and the new structure, known, as was the former one, under the name of the Massachusetts Medical College, was ready for occupation in the autumn of 1846” (Dr. O. W. Holmes, in Harvard Book, i. 242, 245).

427 “Yesterday,” wrote Charles Sumner on October 24, 1832, “Dane Law College . . . , a beautiful Grecian Temple, . . . was dedicated to the law” (in Memoir and Letters, 1878, i. 116). “The two friends,” remarked William W. Story in 1851, “lived together in the upper story of the south-easterly corner of Massachusetts College” (Life of Joseph Story, i. 47). Perhaps that was the last time the word College was applied to a specific building in Cambridge; but such an expression (written about 1894) as Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “I was born close to the colleges” (in Life and Letters, 1896, i. 39) is still heard.

428 Nation, lxi. 293.

429 Nation, lxi. 364.

430 It should be pointed out that English writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Richard Blome, Daniel Neal, John Ogilby, John Oldmixon, etc., who had never visited this country, did not understand the situation, were clearly puzzled, and mistakenly attributed to Harvard the English system of separate colleges; and that hence what they say, being necessarily taken from other writers, must be received with caution.

431 Harvard historians have not always been careful to distinguish between these three buildings, and hence some writers have been misled into thinking that what Quincy labelled “First Harvard Hall” in the “List of Engravings” in the first volume of his History (p. xxiv), and which is reproduced with the same label in the Harvard Book, i. 72, was the building erected in 1638–1642, whereas it was the second Harvard College (1677–1764).

432 In the index to these volumes, an attempt has been made to indicate in each case the building referred to, but the reader should be warned that mistakes have perhaps been made.

433 Winthrop wrote that Eaton “had entertained one Nathaniel Briscoe, a gentleman born, to be his usher, and to do some other things for him, which might not be unfit for a scholar;” and that “it was testified by another of his ushers and divers of his scholars,” etc. (History of New England, 1853, i. 171, 172).

434 P. 17, below.

435 See p. lxxi note 1, above.

436 P. 175, below.

437 P. 180, below. Cf. p. cxxxiii note 6, below.

438 Pp. 25, 26, 27, 188, 189, below. The Latin version has “Tutores” (pp. 29, 30, 31, below). Whether the College Laws of 1642–1646 were originally written in Latin or in English is not known; but the point is immaterial, since there are other instances of Tutor before May 31, 1650.

439 See p. lxxv, above.

440 P. 35, below.

441 Pp. 27, 190, below.

442 P. 24, below.

443 Plymouth Colony Records, ix. 94, 95. The word “fellowship” also occurs in this document, for other instances of which see the index to these volumes.

444 Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 221.

445 Will of Matthew Day: “I doe giue with all my heart all that part I haue in the Garden unto the fellowes of Harvard Colledge for euer” (Middlesex Deeds, i. 2). Here we have by implication the term “Fellows’ Orchard,” though that term itself is not found until after 1650. Part of the garden had been given to the College by John Bulkley in 1645 (pp. 201, 205–206, below). For the location of the Fellows’ Orchard, which was bounded on the east by the parsonage lot, see the plan facing p. lxviii, above.

446 Pp. 33, 34, below.

447 Pp. 27, 190, below. In an account of “The distribution made of the moneys given from the several colonyes” (p. 180, below), apparently for the years 1643–1650, the word “Fellow” occurs half a dozen times and the word “fellowship” once; but that account is in the hand of Thomas Danforth, the original from which it was copied is not extant, and so it cannot be accepted as proof that the word Fellow was actually in use before 1650: see p. lxxi note 1, above.

448 Something like thirty-five variations will be found in the index to these volumes under Fellow. The terms “Probationer” and “Probationer Fellow” also occur. Under Tutor will be found in the index to these volumes a dozen or more designations.

449 P. 237, below.

450 P. 381, below.

451 P. 382, below.

452 P. 401, below.

453 Pp. 449, 450, below.

454 Pp. 489–500, below.

455 For a detailed discussion and for the evidence on which this section is based, see the Editor’s paper on “A Famous Harvard Controversy, 1720–1723,” in our Publications, xxv. 254.

456 For tables giving the number of Tutors from 1650 to 1750, and the number of resident Fellows from 1650 to 1780, see p. lxvii, above.

457 P. 561, below.

458 There are many instances where graduates, even after taking their A.M., remained in residence. Thus, of those mentioned in the text, Daniel Rogers (1706–1782) was still in residence on September 8, 1729; while Daniel Rogers (1707–1785) remained in residence as late as April 11, 1732—or seven years after graduation, when he became a Tutor. Probably most of those who remained in residence were pursuing theological studies, awaiting a call to some pastorate.

459 The name of each student is entered in full in the Faculty Records for the Classes of 1729, 1731–1804; but for the Class of 1730, only the surname of each student is given. One entry under that Class reads: “Vial; dead. 1729,” the name in the hand of Tutor Flynt, the rest in that of President Wadsworth. This was Benjamin Viall (1710–1729), who died August 11, 1729: see our Publications, xviii. 82, 83.

The christian names are in English for the Classes of 1729, 1731–1764, 1772–1804; but for those of 1765–1771, the christian names have been Latinized. In the Classes of 1729, 1731–1740, 1772, and 1775–1777, the surname is in each case written last; but in the Classes of 1741–1771, 1773, 1774, and 1778–1804, the surname is written first, usually with no comma following it. In the latter case, it is easy to confuse the two names; and it has occasionally happened that a ghost-name has been recorded as a student at Harvard. Thus Felt, in his Annals of Salem (2nd ed., 1845, i. 492; cf. ii. 663–664), was misled by a correspondent into including among those who did not graduate “Ely Justin 1755”—an error for Justin Ely of the Class of 1759.

460 See p. cxli note 1, below.

461 This statement covers two cases: that of a Freshman who entered after his class had been placed; and that of a student who at entrance was admitted to an upper class. In the latter case, however, it was customary, generally after 1760 and sometimes before that date, to enter the fact somewhere in the Faculty Records, though such entries can be found only after diligent search.

462 See the Editor’s “Tentative Lists of Temporary Students at Harvard College, 1639–1800,” in our Publications, xvii. 271–285.

463 Thus, George Cabot entered in 1766 with the Class of 1770; left College March 19, 1768; never returned; but in 1779 received the honorary degree of A.M.

464 Thus, Edward Bates entered in 1732 with the Class of 1736; left College in 1733; returned September 10, 1735, being admitted to the Sophomore Class; and duly graduated in the Class of 1738 as of the Class of 1738. Again, Jonathan Whitaker entered in 1793 with the Class of 1797; left College September 12, 1793; returned the following December; and duly graduated with his Class in 1797. Once more, of seven students who entered in 1766 with the Class of 1770, three were rusticated and four were expelled; but all seven were later readmitted into the Class of 1771 and duly received their degrees in 1771 as of the, Class of 1771.

465 Two remarkable cases are given in the two succeeding footnotes.

A curious fact is that the Quinquennial contains the names of several students who never received the A.B. degree at all. Three instances may be given. Ebenezer Hartshorn (cf. our Publications, xviii. 339 note 1, xix. 290 note 3) entered in the Class of 1732; left College; in 1737 was given an A.M., and his name is printed under his Class of 1732. George Erving entered in the Class of 1757; left College; in 1762 obtained an A.M. from the University of Glasgow; was admitted to the same degree (ad eundem) at Harvard in 1762, and his name is printed under the Class of 1757. Amos Windship (cf. our Publications, xviii. 339 note 1, xxv. 144, 144 note 3, 150 note 1, 162 note 2) entered in 1767 in the Class of 1771; left College July 27, 1768; never returned; yet in 1790 was given the degrees of A.M. and M.B. and his name “inserted in the Class to which he belonged;” and in 1811 he received the degree of M.D. On August 19, 1830, the Corporation voted “That in the present number of Colleges in the United States, & variety of studies required in them, that it is inexpedient to grant generally, degrees ad eundem” (Corporation Records, p. 186).

466 Thomas Lee entered in 1794 with the Class of 1798; left College April 17, 1797; never returned; and in 1866 was given the degree of A.B. as of the Class of 1798.

467 Edmund Trowbridge Dana entered in 1795 with the Class of 1799; left College in April, 1799; never returned; died May 6, 1858; and in 1879 was given the degree of A.B. as of the Class of 1799.

468 The case of George Cabot has already been cited (p. cxxxviii note 1, above). Another is that of Jeremiah Smith, who entered in 1777 in the Class of 1781; left College in 1779; graduated at Queen’s (now Rutgers) College in 1780; and in 1807 received from Harvard the honorary degree of LL.D.

469 P. 26, below.

470 The ninth in the Laws of 1767 is “Of Graduates and Fellow-Commoners” (see Mr. Lane’s list of “Manuscript Laws of Harvard College,” in our Publications, xxv. 244–253). This is an interesting case of the survival of a term long after the disappearance of the thing it denoted. For apparently the last fellow-commoner at Harvard left with the Class of 1733. In the previous ninety years, eight graduates and one temporary student had been fellow-commoners. The graduates were: Samuel Willis of 1653, Nathaniel Saltonstall of 1659, Joseph Browne of 1666, Edward Pelham of 1673, Francis Wainwright of 1686, Samuel Browne of 1727, John Vassall of 1732, and William Vassall of 1733; the temporary student was——Bennet of 1659. In addition to these nine, there is mention as fellow-commoners of Thomas Langham and “Mr. Ven” in 1656, and of Edward Paige in 1683; but who those three were, or what their connection with the College was, has never been ascertained. For an explanation of the term fellow-commoner, see Mr. Lane’s remarks in our Publications, xxiv. 165–166, 174–175; Peirce, History, pp. 313–314.

471 Henry Saltonstall of 1642 was a son, but not the eldest son, of a knight. The only eldest son of a knight known to have been a student at Harvard was William Mildmay (1647), who was not (as sometimes alleged) a son of Sir Henry Mildmay of Graces, Little Baddow, Essex, England, but was the eldest son of Sir Henry Mildmay of Wanstead, Essex. These two Sir Henry Mildmays were second cousins, both great-grandsons of Sir Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford, Essex. The Harvard graduate was a great-grandson of Sir Walter Mildmay, founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

472 The title Dominus was soon abandoned, as it occurs only a few times in 1644 (p. 4, below) and once in 1645 (p. 206, below).

473 Under date of December 2, 1801, is an allusion to “Sir Ballard, a resident Graduate” (College Book, viii. 408). William Ballard graduated in 1799: cf. our Publications, viii. 295 note 1.

474 The time when a class was placed varied considerably. Of the Class of 1729 it is said: “Twenty and seven Scholars were admitted into the College this year. 1725. They were plac’d or dispos’d in y^e Classe by y^e President and Fellows, as follows” (Faculty Records, i. 11), but no date is given. The Class of 1730 was placed between December 31, 1726, and March 25, 1727; that of 1731 between September 11, 1727, and January 16, 1728; that of 1732 between September 30 and November 26, 1728. The dates of placing the Classes of 1733–1754 were as follows:

As these records end on September 5, 1750, no class later than that of 1754 need be specified. It may be added, however, that the Class of 1767 was not placed until July 12, 1764; and that the Class of 1772 was placed between June 7 and 21, 1769. The system of placing was then abolished, and thereafter each Freshman Class was arranged in alphabetical order, the names being entered at entrance, or very soon after. Between entrance and placing, previous to 1773, Freshmen appear to have been arranged in alphabetical order (T. Pickering, in Life and Letters, i. 9). Why so long a time was allowed to elapse between entrance and placing, does not appear.

475 For the evidence on which these conclusions are based, see the Editor’s “Note on ‘Placing’ at Harvard College,” in our Publications, xxv. 420–427. See also Peirce, History, pp. 308–309, 310–311.

476 P. 592, below. It will perhaps be asked: “Why may not ‘Gardner Jun^r’ mean merely ‘Gardner who is a member of the Junior Class’?” Because members of the Senior and Junior Classes were then called, not “Seniors” and “Juniors,” but “Senior Sophisters” and “Junior Sophisters.”

477 Faculty Records, i. 22, 36.

478 Pp. xli note 2, liii note 1, above.

479 Samuel Moseley (1729) is entered in the Faculty Records (i. 11) as “Samuel Maudsley,” and the name occurs in the same form on p. 548, below.

480 Eli Forbes (1751) is entered in the Faculty Records (i. 268) as “Forbush Eli,” and the name occurs in that form on pp. 798, 799, below, and in the 1751, 1754, and 1758 Triennial Catalogues, and was apparently used by Mr. Forbes himself until in or about 1759. In the 1761 Triennial the name is “Eli Forbes.”

481 No copies of the Triennial Catalogues for 1703–1712 are extant, nor is there any allusion to Phips in these records while he was in College. The 1715 Triennial gives his name as “Spencer Phipps.” On June 18, 1716, “A Petition of Spencer Phips, alias Bennet Esq; Praying this Court to Declare and Confirm his Sir-Name to be Phips, having been Adopted by Sir William Phips Knt. Deceased, who desired that he might bear his Name,” was passed in Council, and read in the House on the 19th; and a bill to that effect was passed on June 23: see our Publications, xvii. 93 note 3. It would appear that he had adopted the name Phips before the change was legalized.

482 A word of caution should be uttered in regard to the 1885 Quinquennial, which, as it was the last to italicize the names of clergymen, is on that account often consulted by historical students. But besides containing various typographical errors (cf. our Publications, xvii. 285 note), it fails to record legal changes in names.

483 On January 23, 1734, President Wadsworth, “Having observed, y^t y^e Names of those Graduated in Harvard College, are not recorded in any of y^e College-Books, I thought such an omission ought not to be continued” (p. 82, below), and so he copied the names from the 1733 Triennial. The name of “Edmund Goffe” was written by him under the Class of 1728, but later some one erased “Goffe” and wrote “Trowbridge” over it (p. 96 and note, below).

484 No copies of the 1739 and 1742 Triennials are extant.

485 Two examples will suffice by way of illustration. Joshua Moody (1653) and Samuel Moody (1689) were father and son, while Joseph Boume (1722) and Shearjashub Bourne (1743) were brothers; yet in the 1920 Quinquennial the two former appear as Joshua Moodey and Samuel Moody, and the two latter as Joseph Bourn and Shearjashub Bourne. There are other similar cases in that edition.

486 See Note, pp. clxi–clxiii, below.

Dates in these lists are, unless otherwise specified, New Style. Though the Corporation Records here printed end with the meeting of September 5, 1750, the lists in a few cases have been extended through the year 1800. An asterisk denotes death while in office.

487 Nathaniel Eaton was called “Professor,” “Schoolmaster,” “Master;” President Wadsworth twice applied to him the title “President or Professor” (p. xix note 3, above); and by practically all writers since 1637 he has been regarded as the head of the College.

488 The date in the Quinquennial is February 2, 1680. He was elected February 2 by the Corporation, but was not approved by the Overseers until February 9 (p. 239, below).

489 The date of his death is sometimes given as July 24, 1681: see our Publications, xviii. 369 note 9.

490 The Quinquennial Catalogue has been followed in giving June 27, 1692, as the date when the title “Rector” became extinct. It is certain, however, that that title could not have been used on and after June 2, 1690, and probably it was not employed after the overthrow of Andros on April 18, 1689. See pp. xxvi note 1, xl note 2, above.

491 Appointed during vacancies, or during absence of the President, to perform the duties of the office, excepting such as belong to the President as a member of the Corporation.

President Oakes and President Mather attended meetings of the Corporation while serving as Acting Presidents, being in fact Presidents in all but the form of election, and their full term of service is recorded in the list of Presidents. No action in this respect is recorded during the vacancies occurring between the terms of Presidents Chauncy and Hoar (1672), and Vice President Willard and President Leverett (1707–1708).

The list in the 1920 Quinquennial (p. 8 note 2) of persons “Appointed to preside at Commencement during Vacancies in the President’s Office” is both incomplete and inaccurate, for it gives only four years (1681, 1724, 1737, and 1769), and the statement about 1737 is incorrect, since Nathan Prince did not preside in that year. (See pp. 662–663, below.)

So far as is known, President Dunster presided at Commencement in the years 1642–1654, and President Chauncy in the years 1655–1671. There were vacancies in the presidency in 1672, 1681, 1724, 1769, 1774, and 1781. President Rogers was elected April 10, 1682, but was not inaugurated until August 12 or 14, 1683 (cf. p. 253, below, and our Publications, xviii. 371 note 1), and did not preside in 1682. President Holyoke was elected May 30, 1737, but declined to preside at Commencement, and was not inaugurated until September 28. (See pp. 661, 662, 666, 823, below.) The following list, possibly incomplete, is taken from our Publications, xviii. 368–373:

Persons other than Presidents and Vice Presidents appointed to preside at Commencement, 1642–1800

For an account of the places where the Commencement exercises were held, and where the Commencement dinners were served, see our Publications, xviii. 373–378.

492 The last meeting of the Corporation under the Charter of 1700 was held October 28, 1707; on December 4, 1707, the Council revived the Charter of 1650; and the first meeting of the Corporation under the restored Charter was held January 14, 1708, when Gov. Dudley reduced the Corporation from seventeen members to seven members. For a list of those who thus ceased to be Fellows, of whom Allen was one, see p. lxi note 3, above. Perhaps such persons were still Fellows down to January 14, 1708, but their term of office is usually held to have ended on October 28, 1707.

493 For footnotes, see the alphabetical list.

494 The Quinquennial is followed in including Samuel Angier’s name for the years 1676–1678? He was chosen a Probationer on August 22, 1676 (pp. 65, 235, below), but there is no record of his approbation by the Overseers or of his receiving a salary, and the word “Socius” does not occur after his name in either the 1681 or the 1700 Triennial (1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, viii. 23, 28) or in the 1698 Catalogue as printed in Mather’s Magnalia (1702, bk. iv. p. 138). It seems likely, therefore, that Angier declined the appointment in 1676.

495 His term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1675–1679. He was elected Fellow December 22, 1675, but was not approved by the Overseers until January 1, 1676 (pp. 64, 234, 235, below).

496 H. C. 1643.

497 H. C. 1643.

498 H. C. 1671.

499 Rev. John Sherman (d 1685) of Watertown.

500 His term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1697–1705. The last meeting he attended was that of August 29, 1704 (p. cli, above); but he continued to be a Fellow until his death on April 21, 1707 (Sewall, Diary, ii. 185).

501 His term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1692–1699. He attended as a Fellow the meeting of May 6, 1700 (p. cl, above), and did not become Vice President until July 12, 1700.

502 See the next note.

503 Nowell’s term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1682–1686. On April 10, 1682, Treasurer Richards was desired to leave his account of the College stock in the hands of Thomas Danforth until “his return from England or untill another Treasurer be chosen” (pp. 71, 245, below). Nowell was elected Treasurer on January 10, 1683, “still reserving Liberty for the worshipfull Cap^t Richards to reassume the place at his return” (pp. 72, 248, below). On March 5, 1683, Danforth “delivered into the hands of” Nowell the accounts betrusted to him by Richards (pp. 250–251, below). On March 29, 1683, the Corporation issued instructions to Nowell (4 Massachusetts Historical Collections, viii. 694). On October 22, 1686, Richards wrote: “I took Care again of the Colledge Stocke ꝑ ꝑswation of m^r Dudley m^r Stoughton & m^r Increase Mather & rec^d of m^r Sam^l Nowell the late Treasurer the Severall Papers vnderneath written” (Treasurer Richards’s Book. Cf. 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, vi. 248; Sibley, Harvard Graduates, i. 340; Quincy, History, ii. 231–233). It is to be noted, however, that both Richards and Nowell were present at the meeting of March 17, 1684 (thus making eight present at that meeting), and that at the meeting of July 21, 1684, Richards is called Treasurer (p. cxlvii, above, pp. 254, 256, below).

504 The Quinquennial is followed in giving his term of service as 1715–1721. Treasurer Thomas Brattle died May 18, 1713 (Leverett’s Diary, p. 76). John White was elected Treasurer by the Corporation on October 27, 1713, and was approved by the Overseers on October 7, 1714 (pp. 420, 425, below). As executor of his brother Thomas’s will, William Brattle had “paid out sundry Sum̄s of Money belonging to the College Treasury;” and on October 27, 1713, the Corporation “fully approved and allowed” what Brattle “hath don in these matters,” and further voted that William Brattle “do continue and is hereby impowered to act as Treasurer of the College, and that the Treasurer’s Salary be continued to him untill he shalbe discharged from this Trust and trouble” (pp. 420–421, below). On August 16, 1715, the Corporation voted that “M^r John White having comply’d with the Vote of the Corporation pass’d Octob^r 27^o 1713. is impowered and directed to take the College-Stock, and all things thereunto belonging into his Custody and care, and the Rev̄^d M^r Brattle is desired to deliver the s̄^d Stock and all matters and things belonging to the Treasury of Harvard College to the s̄^d M^r John White the Treasurer of the s̄^d College;” and on October 18, 1715, “M^r Brattle deliver’d to the Corporation an inventory of the College-Stock, with M^r Treasurer White’s rec^t of the s̄^d Stock” (pp. 427, 431, below).

505 His term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1721–1765. He was elected Professor by the Corporation June 28, 1721, but was not approved by the Overseers; he was again elected by the Corporation January 23, 1722; was approved by the Overseers January 24, 1722; and was installed October 23, 1722 (pp. 460–461, 463, 475, below; Leverett’s Diary, pp. 199, 213, 215, 234; Overseers’ Records, i. 23).

506 His term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1727–1737. He was thought of as Professor as early as 1726; was elected by the Corporation May 12, 1727; was confirmed by the Overseers May 25, 1727; and was installed February 13, 1728 (pp. 535, 545, 559, below; Overseers’ Records, i. 93, 105; Wadsworth’s Diary, p. 51; New England Weekly Journal, February 26, 1728, p. 2/2).

507 See p. cliv note 3, above.

508 See p. cliv note 4, above.

509 H. C. 1643.

510 H. C. 1671.

511 There were two of the name in the Class of 1725, the Tutor being the one who died in 1785.

512 His term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1711–1714. He was elected Tutor by the Corporation December 24, 1711; was approved by the Overseers January 17, 1712; and was installed February 14, 1712 (p. 399, below). He had left College before April 7, 1713, on which day the vacancy was filled by the election of Edward Holyoke as Fellow and of Thomas Robie as Tutor (p. 407, below).

513 Not an Instructor regularly appointed, but permitted in 1733 (not by the Corporation, as stated in the Quinquennial, but) by the President and Tutors—that is, the Faculty—to teach such students as so desired. The permission was withdrawn in 1735. See the Editor’s “Teaching of French at Harvard College before 1750,” in our Publications, xvii. 216–232.

514 The name of Samuel Cooke as Librarian is not given in any Triennial or Quinquennial, nor is the fact entered against his name under the Class of 1735.

515 There were two of the name in the Class of 1697, the Librarian being the one who died in 1748. His term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1701–1702. On April 7, 1701, he was “Appointed Library-Keeper until the Comm̄incem^t,” and on August 4, 1701, Josiah Willard was “appointed Library keeper for this year” (p. 366, below).

516 His term of service is given in the Quinquennial as 1702–1703. He was appointed Librarian August 4, 1701 (p. 366, below).

517 Died 1687.

518 Died 1747.

519 H. C. 1719; died 1769.

520 This John Sherman (d 1691), of Watertown, was a first cousin of the Rev. John Sherman (d 1685): see New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxiv. 63–67.

521 This list is given because the officials are often alluded to merely by their titles,—as “the country Treasurer,” “the Secretary,” “His Excellency the Governor,” “His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor,” etc. Though the names have, for convenience, been brought together in a single list, strictly speaking there have been five periods, as follows:

1. I Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1636–1686;
2. II Council for New England, 1686;
3. III Territory and Dominion of New England, 1686–1689;
4. IV Period from April 18, 1689, to May, 1692;
5. V Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 1692–1775.

522 In 1686 Joseph Dudley’s title was President of the Council for New England.

523 Andros’s government was overthrown April 18, 1689.

524 In 1715 Elizeus Burgas was commissioned Governor, but never came over. See our Publications, xiv. 360–372, xvii. 60–61.

525 The title “Deputy-Governor” was employed in 1636–1686 and 1689–1692; the title “Lieutenant-Governor” was employed in 1688–1689 and 1692–1775.

526 In 1686 William Stoughton’s title was Deputy-President.

527 The records from August 23, 1630, to May 25, 1636, both included, are in the hand of Simon Bradstreet; those beginning June 7, 1636, are in the hand of Increase Nowell (Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 73, 176). But though Nowell was apparently Acting Secretary from June 7, 1636, and though his name appears as “Increase Nowell Sec:” as early as December 6, 1636 (i. 184), yet his election is not recorded until June 6, 1639 (i. 263).

528 The records from August 23, 1630, to May 25, 1636, both included, are in the hand of Simon Bradstreet; those beginning June 7, 1636, are in the hand of Increase Nowell (Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 73, 176). But though Nowell was apparently Acting Secretary from June 7, 1636, and though his name appears as “Increase Nowell Sec:” as early as December 6, 1636 (i. 184), yet his election is not recorded until June 6, 1639 (i. 263).

529 See the Editor’s “Harvard Commencement Days, 1642–1916,” in our Publications, xviii. 309–384.

530 Day not known, but before September 26.

531 Day of month unknown.

532 No Commencement.

533 Date unknown.

534 Dates printed in italics are conjectural.

535 Previous to 1692, the meetings, both of the Corporation and of the Overseers, are entered in such a haphazard way that a chronological list is necessary. Yet its compilation presents difficulties. Thus, it is not always stated whether a meeting is one of the Corporation or of the Overseers. When, at such meetings, business was transacted that could be done now only by the Corporation—such, for instance, as the election of a President or a Treasurer or a Fellow—the temptation is strong to assume that they were Corporation meetings. Yet it would be rash to label such meetings C, because for nearly a century there was controversy between the Corporation and the Overseers as to the exact powers of each, and as a matter of fact even Presidents were elected by the Overseers or appointed by the Legislature. (On this point, see our Publications, xxi. 147, 152–154, 367–370, 382–387, 393.) Hence, while the chances are that most, if not all, of such meetings were Corporation meetings, they are left without a label in this list.

Again, dates are sometimes Old Style, sometimes New Style, and sometimes both Old Style and New Style. Where double dates are used, there can of course be no doubt as to the exact year; but in the two former cases, the pitfalls presented by Old Style and New Style are such that it is almost impossible not to fall into one. The Editor has exercised his best judgment in giving in the list such dates according to New Style, but has added in a footnote the year found in the original.

Once more, a month is sometimes indicated not by name, but by number. In such bases it is to be remembered that, previous to 1752, the first month in the year was March. In these cases, the difficulty lies in the uncertain way in which figures were employed. Thus “26.2.75” (pp. 63, 233, below) and “14.3.77” (pp. 65, 235, below) certainly mean April 26, 1675, and May 14, 1677, since “26” and “14” must refer to the day. But “11.2.76” (pp. 64, 235, below) might be either the 11th day of the 2nd month (i. e. April 11, 1676), or the 2nd day of the 11th month (i. e. January 2, 1677). To add to the uncertainty, a mistake has occasionally been made by the scribe. In College Book I is a meeting dated “August, 9, 1681” (p. 68, below). When Thomas Danforth copied into College Book III a portion of this meeting, he dated it “Anno. 1681. 6. 9. mo.” (p. 242, below)—thus making it November 6 instead of August 9, 1681.

Finally, the exact date of a meeting undated or incompletely dated in the original records can occasionally be recovered from other sources. Thus a meeting headed “At a Corporation meeting” (pp. 72, 248, below), but without year, month, or day, occurred August 31, 1682, as appears from Noadiah Russell’s Diary (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vii. 57). See also p. clxxiii note 4 below.

536 1655.

537 1667.

538 1671.

539 This date is uncertain: see p. 219 notes 1–4, below.

540 1672.

541 An italic m indicates that the entry is printed in the margin.

542 1672.

543 1672.

544 1672.

545 1672.

546 1673.

547 1677.

548 These are the same meeting. The original (College Book I. 81; p. 65 below) is plainly dated March 6, 1678. When Danforth copied a portion of the meeting into College Book III. 70 (p. 236, below), he probably misread March 6 for March 1. The names of those present were written in the margin (p. 236, below) by John Leverett, but presumably at a later date, for the name of Thomas Shepard appears, though he had died on December 22, 1677.

549 These are the same meeting. The original (College Book I. 81; p. 65 below) is plainly dated March 6, 1678. When Danforth copied a portion of the meeting into College Book III. 70 (p. 236, below), he probably misread March 6 for March 1. The names of those present were written in the margin (p. 236, below) by John Leverett, but presumably at a later date, for the name of Thomas Shepard appears, though he had died on December 22, 1677.

550 1679.

551 1679.

552 Perhaps July 28, 1681: see p. 241, below.

553 The month is conjectural. The meeting in both instances is headed merely “Anno. 1681.” On August 9, which was Commencement Day, Cotton Mather took his second degree, and wrote: “My Father was Prœsident, so that from his Hand I received my Degree” (Diary, i. 26). In calling his father “President,” Cotton Mather merely meant that he was the presiding officer. But his first election as President must have taken place within a month, since the choice was approved by the Overseers on September 8, 1681 (Massachusetts Archives, lviii. 109, 109a; cf. our Publications, xviii. 370 note 4). The Second Church in Boston refused to release him, and so he declined.

554 1681.

555 See p. clxx note, above.

556 1683.

557 Beginning with July 26, 1692, and ending with September 5, 1750, the Corporation meetings are entered in chronological order, and hence need not be inserted in the above list. But interspersed among these Corporation meetings there are recorded about fifteen Overseers’ meetings (from 1712 to 1735) and three or four other meetings, which are included in the list.

1 For details in regard to pagination, see the Introduction to the present volume.

2 These words are in the hand of President Wadsworth. After this entry have been scribbled, in an unknown hand, the following words:

4570

College Book 1723

most mighty most

S J Q

most

mighty mighty

The reading “S J Q” is doubtful. Also a few words, of which only “God I” are decipherable, have been written at the bottom of the page, the book having been turned upside down.

3 This entry and the next entry are in the hand of A.

4 Substituted for “disputationes,” crossed out.

5 Page [2] is blank.

6 This account is in the hand of B.

7 Under Alcock’s name is written in pencil “A.B. 1646.”

8 Under Allin’s name is written in pencil “A.B. 1643.”

9 Under Saltonstall’s name is written in pencil “A.B. 1642.”

10 Under Stow’s name is written in pencil “A.B. 1645.”

11 Altered from “6^f–0–0–½” to “6^f–0–0–0.”

12 Altered from “006–½” to “006–0.”

13 Apparently altered from “007–0” to “017–0.”

14 Under Bellingham’s name is written in pencil “A.B. 1642.”

15 Under Bulkley’s name is written in pencil “A.B. 1642.”

16 On the extreme right of the page is written in pencil “his son 1659.” Thomas Parish graduated in the class of 1659.

17 Altered from “6^f½” to “6^f0.”

18 Above the name of Starr is written in pencil “1647.”

19 Written over “of.”

20 These figures have been altered. The original figures are undecipherable.

21 Page [4] is blank.

22 The entries on pages [5–6] of the text are in the hand of President Hoar.

23 The word “ab^t” is interlined.

24 Pages [7–8] are blank, about a third being cut off.

25 This account is in the hand of C.

26 Under this entry is written in pencil “A.B. 1645.”

27 This account is in the hand of D.

28 Under this entry is written in pencil “grad. 1647.” John Birden was a graduate of that Class.

29 This account is in the hand of E.

30 A letter or word is here crossed out.

31 To the right of this entry is written in pencil “graduated 1642.”

32 This account is in the hand of F.

33 This account is in the hand of G.

34 A word is here crossed out.

35 This account is in the hand of H.

36 This word is doubtful.

37 Perhaps “French.”

38 This Brewster account, in the hand of I, is crossed out in the original. The remaining entries on page [11] are in the hand of J.

39 Page [12] is blank.

40 This Downing account, in the hand of K, is crossed out in the original.

41 The spaces under shillings and pence are left blank, because the figures, having been crossed out, are undecipherable: but they were doubtless “16–3” and “19–3.” See page [9] of the text, or page 7 of this volume.

42 The spaces under shillings and pence are left blank, because the figures, having been crossed out, are undecipherable: but they were doubtless “16–3” and “19–3.” See page [9] of the text, or page 7 of this volume.

43 This entry is in the hand of L. At the right are some words crossed out.

44 This account is in the hand of M.

45 Under this line is written in pencil “grad. 1646.”

46 This account is in the hand of N.

47 Under this entry is written in pencil “grad. 1647.”

48 This account is in the hand of O.

49 Under this entry is written in pencil “grad. 1646.”

50 This account is in the hand of P.

51 Under this entry is written in pencil “grad. 1646.”

52 To the right of this entry is written in pencil “grad. 1643.”

53 These figures have been altered.

54 This entry is in the hand of President Chauncy.

55 This account is in the hand of Q.

56 The word “inch” is interlined, but in the wrong place, “inch boards” being meant.

57 Apparently altered from “0–2–0.”

58 This account is in the hand of R.

59 To the right is written in pencil “grad. 1646.”

60 The word “roome” is interlined.

61 Two or three figures, here crossed out, are undecipherable.

62 Page [16] is blank

63 This Stow entry, in the hand of S, is crossed out in the original.

64 Under this entry is written in pencil “grad. 1645.”

65 This account is in the hand of T.

66 A word is here crossed out, perhaps, “totalis”.

67 Under this entry is written in pencil “grad. 1642.”

68 Page [18] is blank.

69 This account is in the hand of U.

70 Under this entry is written in pencil “grad. 1646.”

71 This figure has apparently been altered.

72 Page [20] is blank.

73 This account is in the hand of V.

74 Page [22] is blank.

75 Only a portion of the original leaf remains, that containing the account of “Starr his Study.” The leaf is pieced out with two fragments which perhaps do not properly belong to College Book I—one containing two entries for 1673, the other one entry for 1675.

76 This account is in the hand of W.

77 Under this entry is written in pencil “gr. 1647.”

78 This entry and the next entry are in the hand of President Hoar.

79 The words “Mr Oakes” are written over a word or two erased.

80 Under this entry are scribbled in an unknown hand a few words and letters, partly decipherable, partly undecipherable:

• Per Integrum
• Biennium quo apud
• per illus tempus

81 This entry it in the hand of X.

82 The names of those present are written in the margin.

83 The words “See P. 54” are in the hand of President Quincy. The reference is to page [80] of the text, or page 64 of this volume.

84 Page [24] is blank.

85 This account is in the hand of Y.

86 These figures have been altered.

87 This account is in the hand of Z.

88 Altered from “5.”

89 Altered from “5.”

90 Altered from “00–02–06–0.”

91 Apparently altered from “01–00–06–0.”

92 Apparently altered from “01–00–00–0.”

93 Apparently altered from “01–00–07–0.”

94 Apparently altered from “01–00–00–0.”

95 Apparently altered from “01–00–07–0.”

96 These figures have been altered, but the original figures cannot be deciphered with certainty.

97 Apparently altered from “01–06–05–0.”

98 Apparently altered from “03–05–00–0.”

99 Apparently altered from “01–01–06–0.”

100 This figure has apparently been altered.

101 Apparently altered from “02–08–6.”

102 Page [26] is blank.

103 The record of this meeting has hitherto been supposed to be in the hand of President Dunster, but this is a mistake. It is in the hand of AA.

104 Perhaps “Hibbins.”

105 A word is here crossed out.

106 Here follows the design reproduced in facsimile, facing this page.

107 The date 1647 is underscored.

108 In the original, the paragraphs of this record are separated from each other by wide spaces. These two interpolated lines are in the hand of Theophilus Eaton.

109 Pages [28–29] are blank.

110 The entries on page [30] are in the hand of BB.

111 This name is uncertain.

112 This figure has apparently been altered.

113 Apparently altered from “19–8–9.”

114 The first two letters in this name are uncertain.

115 This word is uncertain.

116 The “4” in “14” has been written over another figure. The amount due ought apparently to be “16–11–8.”

117 On this page are some figures written in pencil.

118 This leaf is only about three-quarters the length of the ordinary pages in College Book I and is pasted in a little below the line of the adjacent leaves. The paper of this leaf is the same as the other paper in College Book I, but perhaps the leaf is not in its proper place. It is badly torn at the top. The entries are in the hand of President Chauncy.

119 At the left of the page is written in pencil “gr. 1656.”

120 At the left of the page is written in pencil “gr. 1649;” and at the right of the page is written in pencil “Thos. Oakes gr. 1662.”

121 At the right of the page is written in pencil “Sam. Hooker gr. 1653.”

122 At the right of the page is written in pencil “Thos. Shephard gr. 1653.”

123 Beneath this entry Thaddeus William Harris has written in pencil, “The date of this must have been between 1652 & 1656, probably as early as 1652. T W H.” John Langdon Sibley has written in pencil, “President Chauncys writing J L S.”

124 Page [32] is blank.

125 The entries on pages [33–34] of the text are in the hand of President Hoar.

126 The entries on page [35] of the text are in the hand of CC.

127 The true date was October 28, not September 8, 1636. See Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 183.

128 This reference cannot be identified.

129 Some figures, evidently written later in a different hand, are here erased.

130 Some figures, evidently written later in a different hand, are here erased.

131 Page [36] is blank.

132 These references, in an unknown hand, are to pages [68–70] of the text, or pages 52–55 of this volume.

133 This entry is in the hand of DD.

134 A word or letter is here crossed out.

135 This entry is in the hand of EE.

136 Page [38] is blank.

137 The entries on page [39] of the text are in the hand of FF.

138 Altered from “Novâ-Angliâ.”

139 Page [40] is blank.

140 This entry is in the hand of GG.

141 This name is apparently an autograph signature. Under it is written in pencil “Richard Taylor.”

142 Page [42] is blank.

143 These “Lawes Liberties & orders” are in the hand of HH.

144 Two or three words are here crossed out.

145 A word is here crossed out.

146 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth. The reference is to page [19] of College Book III, on page 187 of this volume.

147 These words are in the hand of President Wadsworth. The reference is to page [19] of College Book III, or page 187 of this volume.

148 The second “e” is interlined.

149 The word “Church” is interlined.

150 The words “contēpt or” are interlined, “or” being in a different hand.

151 A word is here crossed out.

152 The words beginning “& all Sophisters” to the end of the sentence, though in the same hand, were apparently inserted later.

153 A word, perhaps “in,” is here crossed out.

154 The words “bowing before them” are interlined.

155 A letter is here crossed out.

156 A later hand (probably that of President Quincy) has underscored and crossed out “as.”

157 The same hand has crossed out “so,” underneath it has written “or,” and underneath “or” has written “(See in Latin).”

158 The word “or” is interlined.

159 The words “fellow-commoner or” are interlined.

160 The letter “r” in this word is interlined.

161 These “Orders” are in the hand of II.

162 Written over a word crossed out.

163 Apparently altered from “shall.”

164 The words “[t]wo years standing & upward shall” are interlined.

165 Apparently altered from “Synopsis.”

166 Apparently altered from “fall.”

167 This paragraph is in the hand of JJ.

168 These “Statuta, Leges,” etc., are in the hand of KK.

169 Apparently altered from “capito.”

170 A letter is here crossed out.

171 Apparently altered from “potestati.”

172 The words “commensalis, aut” are interlined.

173 A word is here crossed out.

174 A letter was written between “o” and “l” and then blotted out.

175 Pages [47–48] are blank.

176 The entries on pages [49–50] of the text are in the hand of LL.

177 The words “are to look” are interlined. After “look,” a word has been crossed out.

178 Altered from “of.”

179 A letter is here crossed out.

180 This entry and the next entry are in the hand of MM.

181 This entry and the next entry are in the hand of NN.

182 This entry is in the hand of President Chauncy.

183 This entry is in the hand of OO.

184 A word is here crossed out.

185 A word is here crossed out.

186 A letter is here crossed out.

187 The word “pollicemur” has been underscored and above it written, apparently in a different hand, “pollicentur se.”

188 The words “(i. e. pro modulo nostro” are interlined in the same hand in which “pollicentur se” is written.

189 This entry is in the hand of President Chauncy.

190 A letter is here crossed out.

191 The word “fenestris” is interlined.

192 The words “et pietate” are interlined.

193 This entry is in the hand of H.

194 Page [54] is blank.

195 The entries on page [55] of the text are in the hand of Treasurer Richards.

196 With “plurimæ” supply “paginæ” (understood).

197 The letter “u” in this word is interlined.

198 The figure “79” is underscored.

199 Substituted for a word crossed out.

200 The figure “78” is underscored.

201 Page [56] is blank.

202 This entry is in the hand of PP.

203 The words “Chh or” are interlined.

204 Page [58] is blank.

205 This entry is in the hand of QQ.

206 Written over another word.

207 Apparently altered from “Behoofe.”

208 Altered from “Corporations.”

209 This entry is in the hand of President Chauncy.

210 The square brackets are in the original Underneath is written in pencil “Chauncys handwriting.”

211 This entry is in the hand of RR.

212 The date “1659” is underscored. This entry is in the hand of Treasurer Danforth.

213 Above this word is written in pencil “Watch.”

214 Perhaps “yards.”

215 The letters “th” are written over other letters.

216 Page [62] is blank, except that a few letters and words have been scribbled, of which the only decipherable ones are—

• R
• Rules and Orders
• Rules
• R

217 The entries on pages [63–64] of the text, down to and including the words “Thomas Danforth Cƚ:” are in the hand of Treasurer Richards.

218 The top of the page, including the heading, has been cut off. Some of the letters of the heading are visible, but are not decipherable.

219 A letter is apparently here erased.

220 The second “r” in this word is interlined.

221 The word “so” is interlined.

222 Altered from “one.”

223 The word “provisions” is interlined.

224 Substituted for “ye,” crossed out.

225 This entry is in the hand of SS.

226 A letter is here crossed out.

227 All the entries on page [65] of the text, except the last entry (dated October 1, 1672), are in the hand of TT.

228 The words “remainder of their” are interlined.

229 The words “by ye steward” are interlined.

230 Apparently originally written “followed,” then the “d” crossed out.

231 The word “shall” is interlined.

232 The word “or” is interlined.

233 There is here written in pencil “☞ observe p 41.” The reference is to page [67] of the text, or page 51 of this volume.

234 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Hoar.

235 The word “be” is interlined.

236 This entry is in the hand of President Hoar, as is also the marginal entry, and likewise the entry on page [66] of the text.

237 “M^r” is written over another word.

238 The reference is to page [75] of the text, or page 55 of this volume.

239 The entries on page [67] of the text are in the hand of Treasurer Richards.

240 This entire entry is crossed out in the original.

241 This reference, in an unknown hand, is to page [37] of the text, or page 22 of this volume.

242 This entry is in the hand of President Hoar.

243 The entries on pages [69–70] of the text are in the hand of Treasurer Richards.

244 In the original, “ƚƚ,” “sħ,” and “đ” are repeated above nearly every set of figures, but are here omitted for the sake of clearness.

245 Substituted for another word crossed out.

246 The “2” in “62” is blurred, making the figure somewhat uncertain.

247 A word is here crossed out.

248 Under this line are a few words which have been trimmed off, the tops of the letters only being visible.

249 Pages [71–74] are blank

250 The entries on pages [75–78] of the text are, with the exceptions noted in the footnotes, in the hand of President Hoar.

251 The word “since” is interlined.

252 The star under this word was made by John Davis in red ink. See p. 56, note 2.

253 The date “1672” is underscored.

254 It is not known exactly what book is here referred to.

255 “3^d” is interlined.

256 This word is interlined, but as it has been written over another word, the two words are difficult to decipher.

257 “&” is interlined.

258 This entry is in red ink. The date “1672” is underscored. At the right, John Langdon Sibley has written in pencil:

259 The word “been” is interlined.

260 The reference is to page [54] of College Book III, or page 219 of this volume.

261 This entry is in the hand of President Quincy.

262 Here a word is crossed out.

263 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Quincy. The reference is apparently to page [23] of the text, or pages 13–14 of this volume.

264 The word “at” is interlined.

265 The names of those present are written in the margin.

266 The word “unanimously” is interlined.

267 The reference is to College Book II.

268 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

269 The word “now” is interlined.

270 A word or letter is here crossed out.

271 The word crossed out is somewhat obscure: perhaps “lans.”

272 “And” is written over another word.

273 The word “he” is interlined.

274 The hand of President Hoar ends here.

275 This inventory is in the hand of UU.

276 Altered from “3.”

277 Apparently altered from “7.”

278 The figure “74” is uncertain.

279 Beginning with this entry, all entries to the end of page [84] of the text are, unless otherwise specified in the footnotes, in the hand of VV.

280 The names of those present are written in the margin. The braces frequently found in the original are sometimes omitted in the printed volume.

281 The names of those present are written in the margin.

282 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Quincy. The reference is to page [23] of the text, or page 14 of this volume.

283 Perhaps “Allin.”

284 The fourth letter in this name has apparently been altered.

285 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

286 Apparently altered from “is.”

287 The word “Percivall” is interlined.

288 The reference is to page [79] of the text, or page 61 of this volume.

289 This word is written over a word erased.

290 The names of those present are written in the margin.

291 The words “and to receive the same for the best advantage to the Colledge” are interlined.

292 The names of those present are written in the margin.

293 The names of those present are written in the margin.

294 The third letter in this name has been altered.

295 The names of those present are written in the margin.

296 Above Hubbard is written in pencil “Hobart.”

297 The names of those present are written in the margin.

298 The names of those present are written in the margin.

299 The names of those present are written in the margin.

300 The words “so much” are interlined.

301 The names of those present are written in the margin.

302 The names of those present are written in the margin.

303 The hand of VV ends here.

304 This entry is in the hand of WW.

305 The names of those present are written in the margin.

306 Apparently altered from “168⅔.”

307 This inventory is in the hand of Treasurer Richards.

308 Pages [86–88] are blank.

309 The entries on pages [89, 91, 93] of the text are in the hand of XX.

310 The names of those present are written in the margin.

311 The names of those present are written in the margin.

312 Page [90] is blank.

313 The reference is to page [98] of the text, or page 81 of this volume.

314 Page [92] is blank.

315 The names of those present are written in the margin.

316 Apparently altered from “persons.”

317 The letter “e” in this name is interlined.

318 Down to this point, the entries on page [94] of the text are in the hand of XX.

319 This entry is in the hand of President Mather.

320 The words “or shall be” are interlined.

321 This entry is in the hand of XX.

322 The word “y^t” is interlined.

323 This entry is in the hand of President Mather.

324 This word has apparently been altered.

325 A word is here crossed out.

326 Perhaps “express.”

327 The word “General” is interlined.

328 This entry and the next entry are in the hand of XX.

329 Substituted for “Corpo,” crossed out.

330 The heading and the first paragraph of this meeting are in the hand of President Mather.

331 The words “Sir Rolfe was chosen a scholar of y^e house” in this paragraph are in the hand of President Mather; the remainder of the paragraph is in the hand of XX.

332 This paragraph is in the hand of XX.

333 The word “three” is interlined.

334 This paragraph is in the hand of President Mather.

335 This entry is in the hand of XX.

336 The words “w^t is spent in” are interlined.

337 The entries on pages [96–97] of the text are in the hand of President Mather.

338 Written over “ordered.”

339 The letter “M” in this word is written over “L.”

340 The “5” in “25” and the “6” in “1686” have both been altered from the figures originally written.

341 Apparently altered from “be.”

342 Under this entry two or three words have been crossed out.

343 The entries on pages [98–99] are in the hand of President Leverett.

344 This line and the next line are written across pages [98] and [99] of the text, which face one another, and connect with the last two lines on page [99] of the text, or page 81 of this volume.

345 Page [100] is blank.

346 As this list of graduates extends from 1642 to 1795, inclusive, the names are of course in various hands. These hands are identified in footnotes, so far as possible. Thus, the names from 1642 to 1736, inclusive, are in the hand of President Wadsworth. But in many cases words or letters were added to the names at a later period; and these additions are generally in a hand different from that in which the names themselves were written. These additions are printed in italics. Hence in this list of graduates, italics are used with a different signification from elsewhere in the volume.

Honorary degrees were first conferred in 1692. In the Triennial Catalogues prior to 1830 the names of those who were not alumni of Harvard College, but had been admitted ad eundem, or had there received a medical, law, or honorary degree, were placed at the end of the classes of contemporary graduates, and thus scattered through the volume. In the Triennial Catalogue for 1830 Mr. Sibley put those names by themselves in appropriate divisions and arranged chronologically according to the years of their degrees. (See 1 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for October, 1864, viii. 39.) In this respect, the list in College Book I follows the Triennial Catalogues before 1830.

Down to 1769 the members of each class, at some time during their Freshman year, were “placed” in an order of precedence corresponding to the social position of their fathers, and a common form of punishment was to degrade a student a certain number of places in his class. This principle was applied for the last time in June, 1769, in the case of the Class which had entered in 1768 and was to graduate in 1772. In the list of graduates in College Book I, and also in the Quinquennial Catalogues, the names of the members of all classes down through 1772 preserve the order of their original “placing.” The alphabetical arrangement begins with the class of 1773. (See Publications of this Society, x. 41 note.)

347 Originally written “Noyse,” then the letters “se” crossed out and above them written “es.”

348 A letter is here crossed out.

349 Apparently altered from “Alleng.”

350 The first “r” in this name is interlined.

351 The fifth letter in this name has been altered.

352 This name has been trimmed off, though the tops of some of the letters are visible.

353 The fourth letter in this name has been altered.

354 The fifth letter in this name has been altered.

355 The letter “c” in this name is interlined.

356 “Josephus Avery. m^r” and “Johannes Avery. m^r” are on one line.

357 This name has been trimmed off, though the tops of a few letters are visible.

358 The word “Benjamin,” written by President Wadsworth, has been crossed out and “Benning” substituted for it in a different hand.

359 Though written at the bottom of page [106], this name should have been written at the bottom of the first column of page [107], under the year 1720.

360 A letter before “Timotheus” has been crossed out.

361 This name has been altered.

362 Written over another letter.

363 This name has been trimmed off, though some of the letters are visible.

364 While still legible, the tops of some of the letters are trimmed off.

365 The names of Park and Franklin are on the same line.

366 The names of Daniel Rogers and Samuel Rogers are on the same line.

367 The letter “a” in this name is interlined.

368 President Wadsworth wrote “Goffe.” This name, though still legible, has been erased and “Trowbridge” written over it in a different hand.

369 This name was originally “Cr well,” the third and fourth letters being illegible. It was then crossed out and above it written “Croswell.”

370 This entry is interlined.

371 Altered from “Spauldeng.”

372 President Wadsworth’s list, as copied from the Catalogue printed in 1733, must have stopped at this point; but the remainder of page [111] of the text is in the hand of Wadsworth, with the exceptions noted.

373 President Wadsworth’s list ends with this name.

374 The list of names from 1737 to 1768, inclusive, is in the hand of President Holyoke.

375 This name is written over one erased.

376 The final letter of this word has been altered: it may be “Enoch” or “Enock.”

377 Altered from “Henry.”

378 This name is written over another name, the “n” being interlined.

379 Apparently altered from “Laurence.”

380 Altered from “Burbeen.”

381 “Augustus” is interlined.

382 Over the name of Aaron Hutchinson is attached to the page by sealing wax a slip containing the seven names printed in italics immediately below the name of Benjamin West.

383 Several names have been crossed out and over them is attached to the page by sealing wax a slip containing the six names printed in italics immediately below.

384 This name is written over “Nathaniel Potter 1758.”

385 Written over “Clarke,” partly erased.

386 Altered from “Peter.”

387 “Guilielmus” is written over a word erased.

388 Altered from “Goreham.”

389 Five or six names have here been crossed out and over them has been attached to the page by sealing wax a slip containing the nine names printed in italics beginning with that of “Carolus Gordon.”

390 Written over a word erased.

391 Three names have here been crossed out and over them has been attached to the page by sealing wax a slip containing the five names printed in italics.

392 A letter or two is here crossed out.

393 Altered from “cæter.”

394 The letter “r” in this name is interlined.

395 Some words are here undecipherable.

396 Written over “Johannes,” erased.

397 Written over “Ebenezer,” erased.

398 The names of Apollos Leonard and Ebenezer Pemberton are written on a slip attached by sealing wax to the page.

399 The names of Apollos Leonard and Ebenezer Pemberton are written on a slip attached by sealing wax to the page.

400 Altered from “Rufis.”

401 Apparently altered from “Sewell.”

402 This is the last entry in the hand of President Holyoke.

403 The names of those who graduated in 1769 are in an unknown hand.

404 The word “Marchio” is underscored.

405 The names from 1770 to 1773, inclusive, are perhaps in the hand of President Locke.

406 Altered from “Aaaron.”

407 Altered from “Newall.”

408 Altered from “Jahakcobus.”

409 Altered from “Vassal.”

410 Altered from “Roggers.”

411 Apparently altered from “Ebenezar.”

412 The letter “h” in this name is interlined.

413 Altered from “Ebenezar.”

414 Altered apparently from “Halsey.”

415 The letter “e” in this name is interlined.

416 Altered from “Nathanael.”

417 The letters “ton” in this name are interlined.

418 Altered apparently from “Josha.”

419 The letters “ias” in this name are interlined.

420 Altered from “Julij.”

421 The names from 1774 to 1780, inclusive, are in the hand of President Langdon.

422 The seven names from Benjamin Waterhouse to Johannes Smith are written on a slip of paper attached by sealing wax to the page. The name of Alexander Hamilton is underscored twice.

423 This entry is written over an entry erased.

424 This entry is written over an entry erased.

425 This entry is written over an entry erased.

426 The names of Huntington, Judson, and Adams printed in italics are written on a slip of paper attached by sealing wax to the page.

427 “Allen” is interlined.

428 The six names printed in italics are written on a slip of paper attached by sealing wax to the page.

429 The names of Lewis, Chester, Robinson, and Woodbridge are written on a slip of paper attached by sealing wax to the page, over several names crossed out.

430 “18” is altered, the original date being undecipherable.

431 “1781” is altered from “1782.” The names from 1781 to 1795, inclusive, are in the hand of President Willard.

432 Altered from “1786.”

433 Written over a word erased.

434 A name has been erased between the names of Sethus Pratt and Allen Pratt.

435 A name has been erased between the names of Sethus Pratt and Allen Pratt.

436 Pages [134–163] are blank.

437 These Laws relating to the Library—pages [164–166] of the text, or pages 129–134 of this volume—are, with the exceptions noted in the footnotes, in the hand of President Wadsworth.

438 Substituted for “belonging,” crossed out.

439 Substituted for “&,” crossed out.

440 The word “as” is interlined.

441 The words “out of y^e Library” are interlined.

442 Altered from “admit.”

443 The word “wch” is interlined.

444 The words “shall make” are interlined.

445 The word “out” is interlined.

446 The words “all borrowers” are substituted for “every Batchelour, & Master,” crossed out.

447 Down to this point, paragraph 12 is printed as originally written; but later the entire paragraph was crossed out and the words “this law should run as follows, viz.” were added by President Wadsworth.

448 The word “viz.” is interlined.

449 This line is in the hand of President Holyoke. The reference is to page [225] of College Book IV.

450 This marginal note is in the hand of President Holyoke.

451 The bottom line has been trimmed off.

452 The word “any” is interlined.

453 The word “Records” is interlined.

454 The word “resident” is interlined.

455 Pages [167–181] are blank.

456 The upper left-hand corner of page [182] has been numbered “(1),” the upper left-hand corner of page [183] has been numbered “(2),” and the upper left-hand corner of page [184] has been numbered “(3).” This separate pagination of the Laws was not continued after page [184].

457 These College Laws—pages [182–206] of the text, or pages 134–155 of this volume—are in the hand of Ebenezer Bridge, of the Class of 1736.

458 Substituted for “the,” crossed out.

459 Altered from “he.”

460 The letter “d” in this word is interlined.

461 Altered from “does.”

462 The letters “ey.” are interlined.

463 The word “Hall” is interlined.

464 Substituted for “at,” crossed out.

465 Substituted for “of,” crossed out.

466 Written over “day,” erased.

467 The words “y^e President or” are interlined.

468 The word “y^e” is interlined.

469 Apparently altered from “irreverant.”

470 The word “respective” is in the margin, apparently added later.

471 The second and third letters in this word have apparently been altered.

472 The letter “t” in this word is interlined.

473 The word “with” ends the last line on page [186], leaving no space for “out,” which is added at the bottom of the page as a catchword.

474 The first “e” in this word is interlined.

475 Apparently “week” was originally written, then erased, and “Forghtnightly” written over it.

476 Altered from “direct,” the “s” being interlined.

477 The second “a” in this word is interlined.

478 The word “shall” is interlined, obviously in the wrong place.

479 “Absence” is written over a word erased.

480 The word “but,” in the hand of President Wadsworth, is interlined.

481 Apparently “houses” was originally written, and the final letter then crossed out.

482 Substituted for “and.”

483 The word “or” is interlined.

484 The word “shall” is interlined.

485 The words “and degree” are interlined.

486 The word “publick” is interlined.

487 Written over “Admonition,” erased.

488 The word “there” is interlined.

489 The letter “t” in this word is interlined.

490 The word “y^e” is interlined.

491 The letter “r” in this word is interlined.

492 The word “be” is interlined.

493 Altered from “Loquors.”

494 The letter “N” in this letter is written over “w.”

495 Apparently altered from “Liquous.”

496 The word “from” is interlined.

497 Substituted for “and,” crossed out.

498 Altered from “of.”

499 The word “time” is interlined.

500 The word “the plates” are interlined.

501 Substituted for “by,” crossed out.

502 Substituted for “by,” crossed out.

503 The words “charge of the” are interlined.

504 Altered from “&.”

505 The letter “v” in this word has been altered.

506 The word “to” is interlined.

507 A word is here crossed out.

508 The word “Act” is interlined.

509 Perhaps the letter “s” in this word has been crossed out.

510 Substituted for “think,” crosssd out.

511 Apparently written over “or”

512 The inside edge of this page has been repaired by pasting a piece of paper along it, thereby obliterating the number.

513 The letters “ll” in this word are interlined.

514 The words “of y^e dinner” are interlined.

515 The letter “i” in this word is interlined.

516 The word “thereof” is interlined.

517 Substituted for “his,” crossed out.

518 Substituted for “week,” crossed out.

519 Altered from “or.”

520 The first “r” in this word is interlined.

521 The first “h” in this word is interlined.

522 The word “at” is interlined.

523 The words “in y^e College” are interlined.

524 “&” is interlined.

525 Though the last line of page [201], containing the words “by the President & Tutors,” has been trimmed off, it is decipherable.

526 The first “h” in this word is written over “e.”

527 Altered from “extravigance.”

528 Apparently altered from “others.”

529 Substituted for “and,” crossed out.

530 The letter “n” in this word is interlined.

531 The word “all” is interlined.

532 Substituted for a word crossed out.

533 Altered from “on.”

534 The letter “y” in this word is interlined.

535 The word “in” is interlined.

536 Apparently altered from some undecipherable word.

537 The word “Refuse” is written over “or Graduate,” the word “Graduate” being erased.

538 The words “or neglect” are interlined.

539 Substituted for “that,” crossed out.

540 This word has apparently been altered.

541 The letters “th” in this word are written over “w.”

542 The hand of Bridge ends here.

543 The words “& corporation” are interlined.

544 All the paragraphs, from the conclusion of the Laws to this point, are in the hand of President Wadsworth.

545 Pages [207–249] are blank except that at the top of page [233] are written the words “In nomine.”

546 After page [249] the only entry made in the proper way is on page [354], hence this entry is printed here. All entries between page [249] and page [354] have been made by inverting the book. Hence the pages between page [249] and page [354] are printed in inverse order.

547 Between “1643” and “M^r” a date—apparently “1643,” then altered to “1743”—has been crossed out.

548 Pages [353–273] are blank.

549 In the lists of books on pages [272, 268, 264–260, 259, 250], the names and titles are printed exactly as written, so far as they can be deciphered, the usual practice in regard to words in Latin being departed from in these instances.

550 The word “Armiger” is interlined.

551 This list is in the hand of YY.

552 All the letters in this word, except the first letter, have been written over other letters, crossed out.

553 The eighth and ninth letters in this word are interlined.

554 One or two words are here crossed out.

555 The second “a” in this word has been altered.

556 The letter “u” in this word has been altered.

557 Pages [271–269] are blank.

558 Apparently a letter in this word between “c” and “o” has been crossed out.

559 The tops of some of the letters have been trimmed off, but all words are legible. This list is in the hand of YY.

560 Altered from “Sylvæ.”

561 Pages [267–265] are blank.

562 “Harvardus” has been written over “Hervertus.”

563 Underneath the heading is written in pencil: “Is not this Dunster’s handwriting?” The words are now so faint as scarcely to be seen. The hand, however, is that of YY and not that of Dunster. The number preceding each title is written in pencil, and is here retained for convenience.

564 Between 15 and 16 a word has been crossed out.

565 A word has here been crossed out.

566 Altered from “Boltons.”

567 Apparently altered from “of.”

568 This word has apparently been altered.

569 A letter or two is here crossed out.

570 A letter or two is here crossed out.

571 This title, apparently consisting of two words, is trimmed off. The first word is doubtful.

572 Altered from “Christopolitanej.”

573 After this item is written in pencil “Escaped when the Library was burnt.”

574 A letter is here crossed out.

575 Altered from “Consiones.”

576 Between 95 and 96 a title has been crossed out.

577 Altered from “Huttons.”

578 Altered from “Lycosthenes.”

579 Written “138” by mistake.

580 Altered from “Parsij.”

581 Altered from “Clouds.”

582 Perhaps “Scheublerj.”

583 A word is here crossed out.

584 This entry, including the signature “Henrie Dunster,” is in the hand of President Chauny.

585 The figure “1649” is underscored.

586 This receipt is in the hand of Joshua Scottow.

587 In the margin is written in pencil “Prest. Chauncys handwriting.”

588 Two words are here crossed out.

589 The last letter in this word has been altered.

590 The last letter in this word has been altered.

591 Pages [258–251] are blank.

592 There is here a caret, but the word substituted for “Nov: Angliæ” has been trimmed off.

593 This list is in the hand of ZZ.

594 The last letter in this word has been altered.

595 Apparently written over another word or letter.

1 The letter “d” in this word is interlined.

2 The words “The Colledge Booke,” in an unknown hand, are written in large letters at the top of the first leaf of the original, which is unnumbered. The verso of that leaf is blank. On a fly leaf, opposite the first leaf of the original, is written in pencil: “These books bound in Pres^t Quincy’s day J L S”

3 The words “N^o 3,” probably in the hand of President Wadsworth, are written in the upper right-hand corner.

4 The entries on pages [1–85] of the text are, with the exceptions noted in the footnotes, in the hand of Treasurer Danforth.

5 The name “Charlstown,” apparently in the hand of Henry Flynt, is written in a space left blank by Danforth.

6 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

7 This marginal entry, in a different hand, is written in pencil. “8^th” has been altered from “7^th.”

8 This marginal entry, in a different hand, is written in pencil.

9 Apparently altered from “this.”

10 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett. The references are to pages [62, 49, 50, 76, 82] of the text, or pages 225, 215, 216, 246, 252, of this volume.

11 Written over “eight,” erased.

12 The first letter in this word has apparently been altered.

13 The figure “003” has been altered.

14 The figure “010” has been altered.

15 The words between “members thereof,” (page 173) and “all Gifts,” (page 174) are interlined in a later hand, probably that of Henry Flynt.

16 The first letter is written over “Ed” or “El.” The name as printed in the text is doubtful, but “Wory” is the form in the Donation Book compiled for the use of the Corporation in 1773 and also in Quincy’s History of Harvard University (i. 458).

17 The first three letters in this word have been altered.

18 The reference is to page [10] of the text, or pages 179–180 of this volume.

19 The scribe began to write “Colledge,” got as far as “Colledg,” then erased the upper curl of “d,” turning the lower part into “g,” and erased “g,” writing “e” over it. These three words, not in the hand of Treasurer Danforth, are in the same hand that wrote the words “The Colledge Booke” on the recto of the first leaf of College Book III: see page 171 of this volume.

20 Here is attached to the page an impression of the Seal reproduced in facsimile facing this page. It is a different Seal from that on page [27] of College Book I. See page 16, above.

21 The letter “g” in this word has been altered from “d.”

22 Altered from “22^th.”

23 The second letter in this word has been altered.

24 The second letter in this word has perhaps been altered.

25 The letter “a” in this word has perhaps been altered.

26 Written for “authoritate.” The word is broken at “authori” by the end of a line, and the scribe went on to write “te,” forgetting “ta.”

27 The second letter in this word has been altered.

28 A word or letter is here crossed out.

29 This word has been altered.

30 The reference is to page [6] of the text, or page 175 of this volume.

31 The figures have been altered.

32 The figure “039” has been altered.

33 The figures have been altered.

34 The figures for pounds and shillings have been altered.

35 Altered from “m^r.”

36 The words “m^r Dunster” are substituted for “he,” crossed out.

37 The reference is to page [18] of the text, or page 186 of this volume.

38 The word “that” is interlined.

39 The last letter in this word has been altered.

40 Substituted for “and,” crossed out.

41 The word “shal,” perhaps in a different hand, is interlined.

42 Written over “or.”

43 The word “all” is interlined.

44 The word “said” is interlined.

45 Substituted for “Ten,” crossed out.

46 This entry by Flynt is in his own hand.

47 Altered from “Deputities.”

48 The word “well” is interlined.

49 Written over “in.”

50 Altered from “Rumbley.”

51 Two or three letters are here crossed out.

52 The word “John” is here interlined in pencil.

53 Apparently altered from “Allen.”

54 In the original the account has not been added up; but underneath this entry are written in pencil the figures “79 16 6.”

55 These figures, presumably in the hand of President Quincy, are written in pencil, and then again (immediately below) in ink.

56 There are several holes in the leaf containing pages [17–18]. In this entry, the 0 in 104 is cut out.

57 In the vacant space is written in pencil in a later hand, perhaps that of J. L. Sibley, “William.”

58 In this entry, the 1 in 10 is cut out; hence 10 is conjectural. But if £170 9s given below, is correct—and presumably it is—for the total of the sums entered on page [17], then 10 is the correct figure in this entry.

59 The words “potius 47” are in a different hand. The reference is to page [47] of the text, or pages 213–214 of this volume.

60 This entry is in the hand of President Quincy.

61 In the original the account has not been added up. These figures are presumably in the hand of President Quincy.

62 Written over “Colledge.”

63 Substituted for “them,” crossed out.

64 Apparently altered from “the” or “ther.”

65 Written over “&.”

66 This word is underscored.

67 This entry, which is in the hand of President Quincy, was originally made in pencil and then traced over in ink. Underneath the figure “46” is written in pencil “J Q.” The reference is to page [46] of the text, or page 212 of this volume.

68 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth. The reference is to pages [43–44] of College Book I, or pages 24–29 of this volume.

69 The third letter in this word has been altered.

70 Written in the upper left margin of page [20].

71 Apparently altered from “12.”

72 Perhaps “License.”

73 Written in the upper right margin of page [21].

74 The reference is to page [8] of the text, or page 177 of this volume.

75 The reference is to page [8] of the text, or page 177 of this volume.

76 Before “1,” apparently “20” has been crossed out.

77 The word “fore” is interlined.

78 Written in the upper left margin of page [22].

79 Written over “&.”

80 Written in the upper right margin of page [23].

81 The third and fourth letters in this word have been altered.

82 Written in the upper left margin of page [24].

83 The third letter in this word has been altered.

84 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

85 The last letter in this word has been altered.

86 Written in the upper right margin of page [25].

87 Written in the upper left margin of page [26].

88 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth. The reference is to page [27] of College Book IV.

89 Altered from “12.”

90 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

91 Written over a word undecipherable.

92 Written in the upper right margin of page [27].

93 The first letter in this word has been altered.

94 This figure has been altered.

95 Written in the upper left margin of page [28].

96 Written over “&.”

97 Written in the upper right margin of page [29].

98 A word is here crossed out.

99 In the margin is written in pencil, perhaps by Thaddeus William Harris, “The 2^d Harvard, which was burnt.”

100 In the margin is written in pencil, perhaps by T. W. Harris, “The ‘Lodgings’ or house finished by Dunster & which stood near Massachusetts.”

101 The words “See Coll. B. 2. p. 38” are in the hand of President Wadsworth. The reference is to College Book II.

102 The first letter in this word has been altered.

103 Apparently altered from “fifty.”

104 Written over “Two.”

105 Originally there was a blank space before “Perry,” “Seth” having been written in by President Leverett.

106 The square brackets are in the original.

107 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

108 The words after the word “pounds” to the end of the sentence are in the hand of President Leverett.

109 The square brackets are in the original.

110 Altered from “Ewes.”

111 “John” is underscored, but not crossed out, and above it is written, in the hand of President Leverett, “Edward.”

112 Altered from “M^r.”

113 Over this name is written in pencil “Ting.”

114 Over this name is written in pencil “Graves.”

115 In the blank space is written in pencil “[Segotea, J L S.].”

116 “&” is interlined.

117 The square brackets are in the original. The reference is to page [37] of the text, or pages 205–206 of this volume.

118 Written in the upper right margin of page [33].

119 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth. The reference is to page [63] of the text of College Book I, or page 45 of this volume.

120 The third letter in this word has been altered.

121 A word or letter is here crossed out.

122 Written in the upper left margin of page [34].

123 Altered from “responsable.”

124 The last two letters in this word have been altered.

125 Written in the upper right margin of page [35].

126 Altered from “ally.”

127 Written in the upper left margin of page [36].

128 The letter “u” in this word is interlined.

129 The letter “u” in this word is interlined.

130 Written in the upper right margin of page [37].

131 The first two letters in this word have been altered.

132 The letter “W” in this word is written over another letter or letters.

133 The scribe intended to write “Johann,” but made only one downward stroke in the first “n.”

134 The bracketed entry is in the hand of President Holyoke. The brackets are in the original.

135 Page [38] is blank.

136 Altered from “Emersion.”

137 This word is blotted.

138 This word is blotted.

139 This marginal entry is apparently in a different hand.

140 Altered from “Studies.”

141 “Maj^r” has been written over a word undecipherable, perhaps “m^r.”

142 Apparently altered from “Sewell.”

143 Altered from “Minito^r.”

144 At the bottom of the page is written in pencil:

After the above entry, also in pencil, is written:

The words “on w^ch the Coll. now stands” were perhaps written later but are certainly in Danforth’s hand.

145 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil in a different hand.

146 This figure has apparently been altered.

147 This figure has apparently been altered.

148 Here is written in pencil “£104.”

149 This name has been altered.

150 Apparently altered from “y^t.”

151 Apparently altered from “094.”

152 Altered from “in.”

153 Written over “with.”

154 Near the bottom of page [48] are scribbled in pencil the following figures:

155 These figures have been altered.

156 Originally there was a blank space here, later filled in by President Leverett with “Edward.”

157 The “g” is apparently written over “R.”

158 At the bottom of page [49] are scribbled in pencil the date “1668” and the following figures:

159 This figure has been altered.

160 Apparently written over “at;” or perhaps “at” written over “of.”

161 The “6” in this figure has been altered.

162 “Boston,” underscored, is written above “Dorchester,” underscored but not crossed out.

163 This “N. B” is in a different hand.

164 The names of those present are written in the margin.

165 This marginal entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is underscored.

166 The words “Affairs of the Colledge” are underscored.

167 The reference is to pages [50–51] of the text, or pages 216–217 of this volume.

168 Written over “Corporation.”

169 Written over another word, perhaps “June.”

170 Written over another figure, perhaps “27.”

171 Apparently altered from “1673.”

172 A word or two before “Docto^r” is crossed out.

173 Cf. page [75] of College Book I, or pages 55–56 of this volume.

174 The final letter in this word has been altered.

175 Altered from “umto.”

176 These words have been erased, and in addition two lines have been drawn through them.

177 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil.

178 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil.

179 This entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

180 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil.

181 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil.

182 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil. Also, at the bottom of page [59] various figures are scribbled in pencil.

183 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil. Also, at the bottom of page [59] various figures are scribbled in pencil.

184 These figures have been altered.

185 Altered from “1679.”

186 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil.

187 The figures printed in italics are written in pencil.

188 By “the old Colledge-Book” is meant College Book I.

189 This date was originally written apparently “October 4th 1669,” though as the original words have been written over they are difficult to decipher.

190 The first letter in this word has been altered.

191 Substituted for “an Accot of,” crossed out.

192 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett. The reference is to page [1] of the text, or page 172 of this volume.

193 This name, in the hand of President Leverett, is written in a blank space.

194 The words “nominat^d, Chosen &” are interlined in the hand of President Leverett.

195 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

196 The “N B.” is in the hand of President Leverett.

197 This entry, written partly in the margin, is in the hand of President Leverett.

198 The letter “S” in this word is written over “M.”

199 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

200 So written by Danforth, but doubtless an error for “serv^t.” See page [77] of College Book I, or page 59 of this volume.

201 This paragraph is in the hand of President Leverett.

202 Altered from “1673” or “1675.”

203 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written at the top of the page. By “the Old Overseers Book” is meant College Book II.

204 The names of those present, in the hand of President Leverett, are written in the margin.

205 The words “i.e the Corporation” are interlined in the hand of President Leverett.

206 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett. By “Long College Book” is meant College Book I. The reference is to page [77] of College Book I, or page 59 of this volume.

207 Altered from “Oakes.”

208 This word has been altered.

209 The last letter in this word has been altered.

210 Written over another word.

211 The sixth letter in this word has been altered

212 A letter before this word is crossed out.

213 Written over “k.”

214 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written partly in the margin.

215 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written in the margin. It is uncertain to what it refers.

216 This list of names, in the hand of President Leverett, is written in the margin.

217 A word or letter after Danforth’s name is crossed out. The names of those present are written in the margin.

218 The words “The Same Apr̄ 7. 1675.” are in the hand of President Leverett.

219 The fifth letter in this word has been altered.

220 This paragraph is in the hand of President Leverett.

221 The names of those present and the words “At this Corporation meeting w^r Present,” in the hand of President Leverett, are written in the margin.

222 The names of those present are written in the margin.

223 Written over a word crossed out.

224 The names of those present are written in the margin.

225 “Aaron,” perhaps in a different hand, is written above “Will:” each name being underscored, but not crossed out.

226 The words “Overseers Meeting” are in the hand of President Leverett.

227 The date was originally written “27. 8. 75.”

228 This paragraph is in the hand of President Leverett.

229 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written partly in the margin.

230 The words “and to be presented to the Overseers for y^r accept^c” are in the hand of President Leverett.

231 The words “At a Meeting of the Corporation,” are in the hand of President Leverett.

232 The names of those present and the words “All the Member thereof being Present i.e” in the hand of President Leverett, are written in the margin.

233 The names of those present are written in the margin.

234 The first letter in this word has been altered.

235 This meeting is in the hand of President Leverett.

236 The names of those present, in the hand of President Leverett, are written in the margin. After the initials “T. D.,” a letter is blurred or crossed out.

237 This paragraph, in the hand of President Leverett, is written in the lower right corner of page [69].

238 The words “At a Meeting of the Corporation at Cambridge” are in the hand of President Leverett.

239 The words “All being Present” are in the hand of President Leverett.

240 The names of those present, in the hand of President Leverett, are written in the margin.

241 The words beginning with “All” and ending with “Approbation” are in the hand of President Leverett.

242 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett. The last six words are underscored.

243 The words “of the College” are interlined.

244 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

245 The reference is to page [66] of the text, or pages 230–231 of this volume.

246 The names of those present are written in the margin.

247 The last letter in this word has been altered.

248 The words beginning with “M^r Sherman” and ending with “1685” are in the hand of President Leverett.

249 A word before “m^r” is crossed out.

250 Originally written “Gibson,” then altered to “Green.”

251 The word “Mr” is interlined.

252 The word “Will” is interlined.

253 Some words are here crossed out.

254 The word “now” is interlined.

255 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Holyoke. The last eight words are underscored.

256 The words “colonie of nox” are underscored.

257 The names of those present are written in the margin.

258 The first two letters in this word have been altered.

259 Before “2” a figure is crossed out.

260 The first letter in this word has been altered.

261 The words “Presid^t of Harvard College” are interlined.

262 This paragraph is in the hand of President Leverett.

263 This entire entry is in the original crossed out, some words not being legible.

264 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written chiefly in the margin, and is intended to displace the preceding entry, crossed out.

265 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written partly in the margin, and is intended to displace the heading and first paragraph of the following entry, crossed out.

266 Above this word is written in pencil “respect.”

267 Above the first letter in this word is written in pencil “pro.”

268 This heading, and the first paragraph of the entry, are crossed out in the original.

269 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

270 The letter “o” in this word has been altered.

271 The names of those present are written in the margin.

272 A word, apparently “Anno,” is here crossed out.

273 Above “6. 9.” is written in pencil “Aug. 9.”

274 The last letter in this word has been altered.

275 The names of those present are written in the margin.

276 The names of those present, in the hand of President Leverett, are written in the margin.

277 Apparently altered from “chosen.”

278 The names of those present, in the hand of President Leverett, are written in the margin.

279 This figure has been altered.

280 The names of those present, in the hand of President Leverett, are written in the margin.

281 Substituted for “for,” crossed out.

282 The last letter in this word has been altered.

283 The names of those present are written in the margin.

284 This figure has perhaps been altered.

285 Altered from “rent.”

286 Altered from “1662.”

287 This date has apparently been altered.

288 Written over another word.

289 Apparently altered from “16.”

290 Under this figure is written in pencil “98.”

291 The names of those present are written in the margin.

292 The name “Web” is interlined.

293 Altered from “publiquely.”

294 The names of those present are written in the margin.

295 Written over “&.”

296 The names of those present are written in the margin.

297 Perhaps “places.”

298 The third letter in this name has been altered.

299 “Sam^l Nowell” is written over “Thomas Danforth.”

300 The letter “n” in “Atkins” is written over a letter undecipherable.

301 Apparently altered from “8.”

302 The letter “L” in this word is written over “C.”

303 These figures have been altered.

304 Perhaps “Hordy.”

305 Apparently altered from “8.”

306 The names of those present are written in the margin.

307 Treasurer Danforth’s hand ends here.

308 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written chiefly in the margin.

309 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written partly in the margin.

310 This entry, in the hand of President Leverett, is written in the margin.

311 This account is in the hand of President Leverett.

312 It is not known to what book these folios refer.

313 This figure has perhaps been altered.

314 Two or three words (clearly the date) before “The” cannot be deciphered, the bottom of the page being trimmed off.

315 All the entries on page [86] of the text are, with the possible exception of the first two lines, in the hand of President Leverett.

316 A word or part of a word, apparently “Gun,” is here crossed out. This line and the preceding line were perhaps written at a later date, and are perhaps in a different hand.

317 The first letter in this word has been altered.

318 The fourth and fifth letters in this word are interlined.

319 The word “Harvard” is interlined, being written above a word (perhaps “said”) crossed out.

320 Written over “College.”

321 These “Rules & Orders,” pages [87–88] of the text, are in the hand of A.

322 The second “r” in this word is interlined.

323 A letter is here crossed out.

324 The letter “g” in this word is interlined.

325 The words “shal require” are interlined.

326 The letter “i” in this word is interlined.

327 The word “either” has been here interlined and then crossed out.

328 This word is altered.

329 Altered from “for.”

330 The word “not” is interlined.

331 This word is altered.

332 Substituted for “of,” crossed out.

333 This word is altered.

334 The word “Charge” is interlined.

335 The letter “n” in this word is interlined.

336 Written over “a.”

337 Altered from “as.”

338 Substituted for “necessary,” crossed out.

339 The fourth letter in this word has been altered.

340 The word “pence” is interlined.

341 The words “of the clock” are interlined.

342 Some words are here crossed out.

343 The remaining entries on page [88] of the test are in the hand of President Leverett.

344 Page [89] is blank.

345 The figures within square brackets are not in the original, but have been added for the sake of convenience as indicating the pagination followed in the text.

346 The word “Dorchester” is interlined.

347 The word “of” is interlined.

348 To this point, the entries on page [90] of the text are in the hand of President Wadsworth. The remaining entries on page [90] of the text are in the hand of President Holyoke.

349 The reference is to page [341] of College Book IV.

350 The reference is to page [102] of the text, or page 279 of this volume.

351 The references are to pages [96, 115, 124, 125] of the text, or pages 271, 292, 300, 301 of this volume.

352 The entries on pages [91–114] of the text are, with the exceptions mentioned in the footnotes, in the hand of President Wadsworth.

353 The syllable “ments” is interlined.

354 The word “sold” is interlined.

355 The reference is to page 43 of College Book V.

356 The reference is to page [70] of College Book IV.

357 The reference are to pages [45, 53] of College Book IV.

358 The word “were” is interlined.

359 After “Acres” there is a caret, indicating that a passage in the right margin should be inserted here.

360 The reference is to page [2] of the text, or page 172 of this volume.

361 This sentence is written in the margin.

362 College Book II is not extant.

363 The words “n^o 3. p: 41.” are interlined in the hand of President Langdon. The reference is to page [41] of the text, or page 208 of this volume.

364 The reference is to page [30] of the text, or page 198 of this volume.

365 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Langdon. The reference is to page [41] of the text, or page 208 of this volume.

366 The words “Part of” are interlined.

367 The word “with” is interlined.

368 The “N B” is in the hand of President Langdon. The square brackets are in the original.

369 The references are to pages [143, 149] of College Book IV.

370 The references are to pages [143, 149] of College Book IV.

371 The words “B. Wadsworth” are interlined. A word underneath this is crossed out.

372 The words “B. Wadsworth” are interlined.

373 The word “they” is interlined.

374 Here a letter or mark is crossed out.

375 The reference is to page 84 of College Book V.

376 The words “Dec. 4.” are interlined.

377 A word or figure is here crossed out.

378 The reference is to page 85 of College Book V.

379 The words “sides of i[t]” are interlined.

380 The word “northward” is interlined.

381 This word is underscored.

382 The word “m^r” is interlined.

383 The reference is to page [16] of the text, or page 184 of this volume.

384 The word “this” is underscored and above it is written “College” in the hand of President Langdon.

385 The words “N^o 3” are interlined in the hand of President Langdon.

386 The reference is to page [123] of the text, or page 299 of this volume. The words beginning with “Mem^o” and ending with “122” are in the hand of President Holyoke.

387 The words “a deed” are underscored, and above them is written in a different hand “Will,” also underscored.

388 The reference is to page [16] of the text, or page 184 of this volume.

389 The word “of” is interlined.

390 Substituted for “from,” crossed out.

391 The words “Stoughton’s College” are underscored.

392 The word “John” is interlined.

393 There is here a caret.

394 The words from “bounded 1735.” to “Samuel Jones” are in the margin, a caret after “Trescot)” indicating where they should be inserted in the text.

395 The reference is to page [341] of College Book IV.

396 Substituted for “y^e,” crossed out.

397 The word “from” is interlined.

398 The reference is to page 72 of College Book V.

399 The reference is to page [343] of College Book IV.

400 The figure “114” is underscored. The reference is to page [115] of the text, or page 292 of this volume.

401 The words “where a” are interlined.

402 A figure, apparently “165,” is here crossed out or blotted.

403 The words “N^o 4. p. 165” are in the hand of President Langdon. The reference is to page [165] of College Book IV.

404 The words “gave to the college” are interlined.

405 The word “three” is underscored.

406 The word “five” is underscored.

407 “&” is interlined.

408 The word “four” is underscored.

409 A letter or two is here crossed out.

410 There is here a cross in pencil, and in the right margin is a corresponding cross in pencil and the following entry written in pencil: “N. B. This land accruing by this bequest was sold in 1808 to Cap^t Jo^s Haley 3^d Will^m Vaughan & Col^o Tho^s Cutts.” The word “Capt” is interlined.

411 A letter is here crossed out.

412 “John Wakefield & Mary Wakefield” are substituted for “Francis Hook Nicholas Lash,” crossed out.

413 Altered from “westerward.”

414 This marginal entry is in a different hand.

415 The square bracket is in the original.

416 A letter or two is here crossed out.

417 A word or letter is here crossed out.

418 Substituted for “to,” crossed out.

419 Substituted for “by,” crossed out.

420 The references are to pages [67, 78] of College Book I, or pages 51, 60, of this volume.

421 The word “the” is interlined.

422 The reference is to page [60] of College Book IV.

423 The word “a” is interlined.

424 The word “confirm’d” is underscored.

425 The words “any free place” are underscored.

426 The words “free place” are underscored.

427 Here is a caret.

428 The words “yt occasion’d this” are written in the left margin, preceded by a caret.

429 The figure “4” in “24” has perhaps been altered.

430 This description of the plan, and also the plan itself, are in the hand of President Holyoke. The following names appear on Plan A: Isaac How, George Minot, Nehemiah Stiles, Daniel Tolman, Jonas Tolman.

431 The reference is to page [341] of College Book IV.

432 The reference is to page [154] of College Book IV.

433 The final letter in “Waldo” has been crossed out and “o” substituted for it.

434 The square bracket is in the original.

435 This entry is in the hand of President Holyoke. The reference is to pages [120–121] of the text, or Plan D, between pages 220–221 of this volume.

436 This entry is in the hand of President Holyoke. The reference is to page [122] of the text, or Plan E, between pages 230–231 of this volume.

437 The word “Lunenburgh” is underscored.

438 The word “Townsend” is underscored.

439 Altered from “Nathaneal.”

440 The reference is to page [112] of the text, or Plan B, between pages 200–201 of this volume.

441 The square bracket is in the original.

442 The word “Townsend” is underscored.

443 The square brackets are in the original. The reference is to pages [113–114] of the text, or page 291 of this volume.

444 The last letter in this word has been altered.

445 The references are to pages [99, 345] of College Book IV.

446 The words “Esq^r, late” are interlined.

447 “8^th” is interlined.

448 Apparently altered from “Hewett.”

449 The word “in” is interlined.

450 The square brackets are in the original. The reference is to page [37] of College Book I, or page 22 of this volume.

451 There is here a cross, referring to the marginal entry beginning “This conveyanc[e].”

452 The square brackets are in the original.

453 “B. 3. p. 42” is interlined. The reference is to page [42] of the text, or page 209 of this volume.

454 The reference is to page [7] of the text, or page 176 of this volume.

455 The word “purchased” is underscored.

456 There is here a dagger, referring to the marginal entry beginning “May. 18. 1664.” The reference is to page [51] of the text, or page 217 of this volume.

457 The square brackets are in the original.

458 The square brackets are in the original.

459 The reference is to page [41] of the text, or page 208 of this volume. Here the words “in this article,” in a different hand, have been interlined and then crossed out.

460 The word “hint” is interlined.

461 The square brackets are in the original. Underneath this entry is written in pencil “(Pres^t Wadsworth.).”

462 The reference is to [349] of College Book IV.

463 A letter, probably “L,” is here crossed out.

464 The reference is to page [75] of College Book I, or page 56 of this volume.

465 The reference is to page [52] of the text, or page 217 of this volume.

466 The words “two small shops” are underscored.

467 The words “great ordinary” are underscored.

468 The words “Ship Tavern” are underscored.

469 The reference is to page [41] of College Book I, or page 24 of this volume.

470 A letter or word is here crossed out.

471 The references are to pages [7, 42, 51] of the text, or pages 176, 209, 217, of this volume.

472 The reference is to page [47] of the text, or page 214 of this volume.

473 The reference is to page [50] of the text, or page 216 of this volume.

474 “Jan. 1. 1676” is interlined.

475 The references are to pages [76, 83] of the text, or pages 246, 252, of this volume.

476 The reference is to page [48] of College Book IV.

477 The reference is to page [83] of College Book I, or page 69 of this volume.

478 The reference is to page [74] of the text, or page 243 of this volume.

479 Massachusetts Colony Records, i. 304.

480 Apparently altered from “Peen.”

481 The word “Nox” is underscored.

482 The reference is to page [55] of College Book I, or pages 38–39 of this volume.

483 The reference is to page 21 of College Book V.

484 This marginal entry, in the hand of President Langdon, is underscored, and refers to the word “Nox” in the text.

485 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Langdon.

486 The square brackets are in the original.

487 The word “by” is interlined.

488 A letter is here crossed out.

489 The reference is to page [51] of College Book IV.

490 The reference is apparently to College Book V. That Book contains only 134 numbered pages; but as there is an allusion to the Dodderidge bequest on page 24, it is possible that President Wadsworth inadvertently wrote “p. 204” instead of “p. 24.”

491 The words “give in” are interlined.

492 Apparently altered from “Colledge.”

493 The references are to pages [33, 34, 38, 39, 42] of College Book IV.

494 The words “in Boston” are interlined.

495 The word “it” is interlined.

496 The name “Robert Thorner” is underscored.

497 The name “Daniel Williams” is underscored.

498 The word “Thorner’s” is underscored.

499 The reference is to page [350] of College Book IV.

500 The word “Williams’s” is underscored.

501 The reference is to page [346] of College Book IV.

502 The reference is to page [103] of the text, or pages 280–281 of this volume. There are no names on Plan B.

503 The references are to pages [103–104] of the text, or pages 280–281 of this volume. The name “m^r Jones” appears on Plan C.

504 President Wadsworth’s hand ends here.

505 This agreement is written in an unknown hand.

506 The words “to make” are interlined.

507 The letter “w” in this word has been altered.

508 The letters “oe” in this word have been altered.

509 The letters “oe” in this word have been altered.

510 Written over “that,” erased.

511 Altered from “will.”

512 The letter “w” in this word has been altered.

513 The word “College” is interlined.

514 Substituted for “the,” crossed out.

515 Written over a word erased.

516 This word has been altered.

517 The word “called” is interlined.

518 The letter “w” in this word has been altered.

519 Apparently altered from “Baynton.”

520 The word “about” is here interlined.

521 The word “about” was here interlined and then erased.

522 Altered from “Houselot.”

523 “yt” is interlined.

524 Here “yt” was interlined and then crossed out.

525 The word “said” is interlined.

526 The letters “tt” in this word have been altered.

527 This word has been altered.

528 Altered from “relate.”

529 Altered from “whose.”

530 Substituted for “parcels,” crossed out.

531 Altered from “related.”

532 The first letter in this word has been altered.

533 The words “that have or may arise by vertue” are written over some words erased.

534 The words “of Rowley for the use of said church and town of Rowley” are interlined.

535 The letter “H” in this word is written over “Th.”

536 These two lines are in the hand of President Wadsworth.

537 The reference is to pages [124, 125] of the text, or pages 300, 301, of this volume.

538 This entry is in the hand of President Holyoke.

539 As stated in the editorial note, Plan D fills pages [120–121] of the text. On page [120] appear the names of Brookfield, Leicester, and Sumpoag Pond. There are forty-nine lots, of which thirty-three are numbered from 1 to 33; ten are lettered O–U, W, X, Y; three are neither numbered nor lettered, but are marked “Meadow;” two are neither numbered nor lettered nor marked; and one (in the lower right-hand corner) is lettered N and marked “College.” The ownership of the thirty-three numbered lots is given as follows, Holyoke’s spelling being preserved: 1, Forster now J. Waldo; 2, Wright Wilder & Stevens; 3, A Davenport now Charnock & Franklyn; 4, Jon^a Willards Heirs; 5, Col^o Browne & Dyer; 6, Jn^o Smith & Jeffries; 7, Moses Parker now Oulton & Waldo; 8, Josiah Willard’s Heirs; 9, Col^o Chandler; 10, Tho^s Hutchinson; 11, Col^o Fitch; 12, Salter & Bill; 13, Col^o How & M^r Waldo; 14, Col^o Townsend now Col^o Minot; 15, Henry Willard’s Heirs; 16, Rev^d M^r Parsons; 17, Col^o How; 18, Col^o Tayler; 19, Sam^l Wright; 20, Edmonds’s Heirs now Cap^t Smith; 21, Dan^l Willard’s Heirs; 22, Rob^t Blood’s Heirs; 23, Forster now Oulton & Waldo; 24, Paul Dudley Esqȝ; 25, Hayward & Benj^a Parker; 26, Rev^d M^r Sam^l Willards; 27, Cap^t Jacob Stevens; 28, Jos. Willards; 29, Coll^o Winthrop; 30, Col^o Winslow (written over a number and a name erased); 31, John Willards Heirs; 32, Cap^t Brintnall; 33, Coll^o Bulkley’s Heirs.

On page [121] appear the following: Leicester, Meeting-house, ministers Lot, Province Farm, Saw Mill Farm, Judge Sewal’s Farm, Worcester. There are also the following words: “Mem^o The original Plan upon the same Scale, is upon File;” “Setled Part of Township of Rutland Six Miles Contents;” “Enter’d here Jan. 12. 1754. by E. Holyoke.”

540 The entries on page [122] of the text are in the hand of President Holyoke.

541 The reference is to page [120] of the text. See Plan D, between pages 220–221 of this volume.

542 “&” is interlined.

543 Written over “infra,” erased.

544 The reference is to page [103] of the text, or pages 280–281 of this volume.

545 The word “are” is interlined.

546 The word “Line” is interlined.

547 After the figure “1,” the words “Where it first began” were originally written, then erased and over them written the words in the text.

548 Plan E mentions “James Brownings Land,” “W^m Browning’s Land,” “Jn^o Moor’s Land,” “Swamp,” “a Ridge of Upland,” and “a little Brook;” and contains the following entries: “These Lots in the Old Town are prick’d on to this E. Side of the College Farm;” “This Line divides the Coll. Land from Lot. 6 pa. 119 [page 120 of the text] inscrib’d Jn^o Smith & Jeffries now claim’d by W^m & George Harper;” “Part of Lot. N^o 1: pa. 119 [page 120 of the text]. Claim’d by Col^o S. Waldo;” “Butter-nut Brook so called from Butter nut Trees that grow by it. neither are any known besides these, within Three Miles of this Place;” “Sumpoag Pond w^ch covers 93 Acres & 61 Rods of Ground.”

549 The entries on page [123] of the text are in the hand of President Holyoke.

550 The reference is to page [94] of the text, or page 269 of this volume.

551 Plan F mentions “Farm-house,” “Shawshin River,” Jacob Walker’s house, Jacob Walker’s inclosure; and contains the entry that “This End of the Farm to the Road is 109¾ Acres.”

552 The entries on page [124] of the text are in the hand of President Holyoke.

553 By “the other Side” is meant page [125] of the text, or Plan G, between pages 250–251 of this volume.

554 The references are to pages [96, 119] of the text, or pages 271, 297, of this volume.

555 The word “a” is interlined.

556 The word “Johnson” is interlined.

557 The words “several improvements &” are interlined.

558 Written over a word erased.

559 The word “Fence” is interlined.

560 The word “y^e” is interlined.

561 Written over “The College,” erased.

562 The entries on page [125] of the text are in the hand of President Holyoke.

563 Plan G shows a Pond and nineteen lots; and contains the following entry: “These Asterisms beginning in N^o. 6. shew the high way of 2 Rods Wide which the College gave leave to be laid out thro’ the Farm for the use of the Town of Waltham Anno 1761. vid. Coll. Book N^o 7. pag. 92. 95.”

564 The entries on page [126] of the text are in the hand of President Holyoke. This page is not numbered in the original.

565 Altered from “Asterism.”

566 The words “an opening at present stop’d with” are interlined.

567 Plan H mentions the “New Building on the foundation of that which was burnd,” Massachusetts, Stoughton, “Fence behind Stoughton,” “Ditch in y^e Presidents Orchard,” “Privy.”

568 The entries on page [127] of the text are in several unknown hands.

569 Plan I mentions “Presidents House Lot,” “Mr Wiggleswo[rth],” “College Land in the President’s Improvement,” “College Land in M^r Boardman’s Improv^t,” “M^r Boardmans Land improv’d by, the President,” “M^r Boardman’s Barn.”

570 Written over “the.”

571 The word “sq^e” is interlined.

572 The word “to” is interlined.

573 The word “it” is interlined.

574 Perhaps “Parsoun.”

575 The reference is to page [128] of the text or page 303 of this volume.

576 This entry is written in the left margin, the book having been turned sideways.

577 The entries on pages [128, 129, 131] of the text are in the hand of President Langdon.

578 Plan J mentions Common, Fresh Pond, Menotomy; and shows nine lots, of which eight are numbered 1–8 and the ninth is not numbered. The ownerships of these lots is given as follows: 1, Jona. Belcher Esq^r; 2, Capt: Moses Boardman; 3, M^r Nich: Fessenden’s Heirs; 4, Solomon Prentiss; 5, Ephr: Frost’s Heirs; 6, Harv^d College; 7, Henry Prentiss; 8, Jona. Wyeth; [9], M^r Andrew Boardman. In No. 4 is written in pencil “Dr Follen;” in No. 5 is written in pencil “Watshone;” and across Nos. 6–7 is written in pencil “Hodges.” These entries in pencil are too indistinct to show in the facsimile of Plan J.

579 Plan K mentions Bridgetown, Brownfield (first, second, and third grants), College (two lots), Common Lands, Fryburg, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pleasant M^t, Pleasant Pond, Saco River.

580 “N 60°” is written over a word or figure erased.

581 Page [130] is blank.

582 Plan L mentions Brownfield, College (30), College Lot (61, 62, 63), College Upland (23–29), Lovel’s Pond, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Place of Lovels Battle with the Indians, Pond & Bogg (two).

583 Pages [132–136] are blank. At this point the book has been turned upside down. The first leaf is not written on, nor is it numbered. The second leaf is not numbered. Pages are now given in their inverse order.

584 At the left of these letters, the word “Præstantissimus” has been written and then erased. This entry is in an unknown hand.

585 Altered from “Juvinis.”

586 Altered from “felicita.”

587 Altered from “innocuit.”

588 The scribe’s error for “impendit.”

589 This list is in the hand of President Holyoke. The figures within square brackets are not in the original, but are inserted for convenience. They indicate the pages of the text.

590 The name “Mather. Byles” is written over a name erased.

591 This entry is in the same hand that wrote the entry on page [170] of the text: see pages 305–306 of this volume.

592 Altered from “nostram.”

593 Page [167] is blank.

594 This entry is in an unknown hand.

595 The words “et orbi” are interlined.

596 A letter is here crossed out.

597 This entry is in an unknown hand.

598 Here is a caret.

599 These two lines are written in the margin.

600 Written over a word erased.

601 The letters “re” in this word are interlined.

602 The word “generous” is interlined.

603 Altered from “pubkick.”

604 A word is here crossed out.

605 Written over “&.”

606 The third letter in this word has been altered.

607 The letter “d” in this word is interlined.

608 The letters “tions” in this word are interlined.

609 Substituted for “of,” crossed out.

610 The word “y^e” is interlined.

611 The letter “r” in this word is interlined.

612 This entry is in an unknown hand.

613 Some letters are here erased.

614 Altered from “meer.”

615 Between “hundred” and “mentioned,” some words have been erased and “Foot as Above” written over them.

616 The entries on pages [160, 158–156] of the text are in the same, but an nuknown, hand.

617 Written over a word.

618 The word “visum” is interlined.

619 Altered from “Cantibrigiensis.”

620 The first letter in this word has been altered.

621 Altered from “Archipisc.”

622 Page [159] is blank.

623 Altered from “Bostoniensis.”

624 Altered from “propteria.”

625 Written over “J.”

626 The initial letters “TB” are run together, as the copyist could not read the writing and tried to imitate it.

627 Altered from “Josepho.”

628 Altered from “Bostoniensis.”

629 Altered from “propteria.”

630 Altered from “Cic.”

631 Plainly so in the original.

632 Altered from “Liggg.”

633 Apparently altered from “Duntop.”

634 This word has been altered.

635 This word has been altered.

636 Altered from “Aritum.”

637 The first letter was originally written “R” or “P.”

638 The entries on pages [155–149] of the text are in the hand of President Holyoke.

639 Altered From “autem.”

640 Scribe’s Error for “affecisse.”

641 Altered from “milesemo.”

642 “et” is written above “in” in a different hand, but the corrector has neglected to cancel “in.”

643 The third letter in this word has been altered.

644 Altered from “Franllin.”

645 Error of scribe for “inaugurali.”

646 The letter “l” in this word was originally written “d.”

647 Error of scribe for “Doctoratus.”

648 Altered from “Nosse.”

649 Error of scribe for “I.”

650 Altered from “Verbo.”

651 Apparently originally written “Academia.”

652 The letter “n” in this word is interlined.

653 Apparently altered from “onnari.”

654 The letter “c” in this word is interlined.

655 The letters “gra” in this word are interlined.

656 Here follows a drawing of the seal reproduced in facsimile, facing this page.

657 The letters “no” in this word are interlined.

658 The word “jun^r” is interlined.

659 President Holyoke’s hand ends here.

660 This entry is in an unknown hand.

661 The letter “i” in this word is interlined.

662 Altered from “insignerentur.”

663 Here a word or letter (apparently “&”) has been erased.

664 This entry is in an unknown hand.

665 Written over “apud,” erased.

666 The entries on pages [145–140] of the text are in an unknown hand.

667 The word “nostræ” is interlined.

668 Altered from “Literis.”

669 The word “Domini” is interlined.

670 This word has been altered.

671 Apparently altered from “set.”

672 Altered from “Iura.”

673 Following this “Prac” was first written, then it was altered to some undecipherable word and cancelled; then “Prac” was written again (above); then this too was cancelled.

674 Substituted for “Socii,” crossed out.

675 The word “cohonestandum” is interlined.

676 The entries on pages [139–137] of the text are in the hand of President Langdon.

677 The letters “L. L. D” are interlined.

678 Written over a word erased.

679 Written over a figure erased.

680 The word “undequaque” is interlined.

681 Altered from “insignis.”

682 The first letter of this word has been altered.

683 Altered from “Jn.”

1 The first five leaves of the original volume are unnumbered. This entry is written on the recto of the first leaf, the verso of that leaf being blank. Besides this entry, on the recto of that leaf are scribbled various figures and at the top of the page is written in one place “William” and in another place “N^o. 4.” The words “N°. 4.” are in both places in the hand of President Wadsworth. The words “The Colledg Book” are in the hand of A.

2 This entry, in the hand of President Holyoke, is written on the recto of the first leaf.

The recto of the second leaf has traced on it in pencil the watermark. The verso of the second leaf is blank. The third, fourth, and fifth leaves are also blank. The records begin on the recto of the sixth leaf, page [1] of the text.

3 This Charter is in the hand of B.

4 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth. The reference is to page 43 of College Book V.

5 The letter “c” in this word is interlined.

6 The sixth letter in this word has apparently been altered.

7 A word is here erased.

8 Page [2] is blank.

9 Altered from “Heriditaments.’

10 The words “or be sued & Impleaded” are written over some words erased.

11 A word or two is here erased.

12 The first letter in this word has been altered.

13 The word “President” is interlined.

14 Written over “which,” erased.

15 Written over “time,” erased.

16 Altered from “fifeteen.”

17 Written over a word erased.

18 Substituted for “admitted,” crossed out

19 Page [4] is blank.

20 This meeting and all meetings down to that of September 3, 1694—pages [5–9] of the text, or pages 338–348 of this volume—are, with the exceptions stated in footnotes, in the hand of President Leverett.

21 The names of those present are written in the margin.

22 The first letter in this word has been altered.

23 Altered from “Schollares.”

24 The names of those present are written in the margin.

25 The fourth letter in this word has been altered.

26 The names of those present are written in the margin.

27 The names of those present are written in the margin.

28 The word “Dudley” is interlined.

29 The names of those present are written in the margin.

30 The names of those present are written in the margin.

31 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

32 Altered from “pleased.”

33 The names of those present are written in the margin.

34 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

35 The names of those present are written in the margin.

36 The names of those present are written in the margin.

37 The names of those present are written in the margin.

38 This word has perhaps been altered.

39 The names of those present are written in the margin.

40 The word “of” is interlined.

41 Altered from “as.”

42 Altered from “were.”

43 This word has been altered.

44 The first letter in this word is written over another letter.

45 The word “dues” is interlined.

46 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

47 Altered from “undo.”

48 The names of those present are written in the margin.

49 Apparently altered from “Danfoth.”

50 Altered from “Kitchen.”

51 Apparently altered from “Six-pen.”

52 A letter or two is here crossed out.

53 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

54 The names of those present are written in the margin.

55 The first letter in this word has been altered.

56 Altered from “Bilbow.”

57 This meeting is in the hand of C.

58 The names of those present are written in the margin.

59 The square brackets are in the original.

60 This meeting is in the hand of C.

61 The names of those present are written in the margin.

62 Written over another letter.

63 This entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

64 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

65 The bottom of the page is worn away.

66 The meetings of March 4, 1694–95, and of April 8, 1695, are in the hand of C.

67 The names of those present are written in the margin.

68 The names of those present are written in the margin.

69 The names of those present are written in the margin.

70 Here is written in pencil “(He had been the Librarian.).” Down to this point, the meeting of July 8, 1695, is in the hand of President Leverett.

71 This paragraph is in the hand of Tutor Flynt.

72 This meeting is in the hand of C.

73 The names of those present are written in the margin.

74 This entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

75 This entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

76 This entry and the remaining entries on page [11] of the text are in the hand of C.

77 The names of those present are written in the margin.

78 The names of those present are written in the margin.

79 The names of those present are written in the margin.

80 The figures “7. 2. 4” are interlined.

81 The words “if it may be” are interlined.

82 The names of those present are written in the margin.

83 This entry is in the hand of D.

84 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

85 This meeting, except the marginal entries, is in the hand of C.

86 The names of those present are written in the margin.

87 The words “and allowed as last year;” are interlined.

88 Written over another name, probably “Penoy.”

89 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

90 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

91 This entry is in the hand of E.

92 This meeting is perhaps in the hand of President Leverett.

93 The names of those present are written in the margin.

94 Altered from “Encorporating.”

95 This meeting is in the hand of C.

96 Altered from “Allin.”

97 The names of those present are written in the margin.

98 A letter looking like “s” has been carelessly written before “untill.”

99 This meeting is in the hand of D.

100 The names of those present are written in the margin.

101 The meetings of March 3, 1697–98, April 7, 1698, and May 5, 1698, are in the hand of F.

102 The names of those present are written in the margin.

103 The names of those present are written in the margin.

104 The names of those present are written in the margin.

105 A word or figure, perhaps “8,” is here crossed out.

106 This entry is in the hand of President Mather.

107 This meeting is in the hand of F.

108 The names of those present are written in the margin.

109 The meetings of June 9 and 13, 1698, are in the hand of G.

110 The names of those present are written in the margin.

111 Altered from “Allin.”

112 The names of those present are written in the margin.

113 The word “last” is interlined.

114 The words “in money” are interlined.

115 This meeting is, with the exception of the last four lines and the marginal entry on page [16] of the text, in the hand of F.

116 The names of those present are written in the margin.

117 The words “& Bulkley,” in the hand of C, were added later and then crossed out.

118 These last four lines are in the hand of C.

119 This figure is underscored.

120 This entry dated “Dec: 5: 98:” is in the hand of C. The entry is incomplete.

121 This figure is underscored.

122 This meeting is in the hand of F.

123 The names of those present are written in the margin.

124 The words “or vice-Presid^nt” are interlined.

125 Here the words “or vice-President” have been interlined and then crossed

out.

126 The fifth letter in this word has been altered.

127 A few words in the left margin are here crossed out.

128 From this point to the bottom of page [19] of the text, the meetings are in the hand of Tutor Flynt.

129 The names of those present are written in the margin.

130 The words “in money allowed” are interlined.

131 The names of those present are written in the margin.

132 The names of those present are written in the margin.

133 The word “divided” is interlined.

134 A letter is here crossed out.

135 The names of those present are written in the margin.

136 The names of those present are written in the margin.

137 This figure has been altered.

138 This figure has been altered.

139 Altered from “Fetch.”

140 The names of those present are written in the margin.

141 Altered from “Lagacy.”

142 The names of those present are written in the margin.

143 This word has been altered.

144 Originally written “aight,” this word was altered to “Eight” and then crossed out.

145 This word has been altered.

146 This paragraph is in the hand of President Mather.

147 The meetings on pages [20–25] of the text are in the hand of Tutor Flynt.

148 The names of those present are written in the margin.

149 Substituted for “so,” crossed out.

150 The second letter in “Colledg” has been altered.

151 The names of those present are written in the margin.

152 Altered from “Angeer.”

153 Altered from “Fetch.”

154 Some words, apparently “money expended,” are here crossed out.

155 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

156 The names of those present are written in the margin.

157 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

158 The names of those present are written in the margin.

159 This word has been altered.

160 The names of those present are written in the margin.

161 The names of those present are written in the margin.

162 Written over “the.”

163 The word “the” is interlined.

164 The word “S^r” is interlined.

165 The names of those present are written in the margin.

166 Altered from “Peerpont.”

167 The names of those present are written in the margin.

168 Substituted for “by,” crossed out.

169 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

170 The words “from Mr Danforth” are interlined.

171 The sixth letter in this word has been altered.

172 The names of those present are written in the margin.

173 The names of those present are written in the margin.

174 The names of those present are written in the margin.

175 The word “out” is interlined.

176 Apparently altered from “Bernard.”

177 See page 377, note 2, below.

178 The meetings on pages [26–27] of the text are in the hand of H.

179 The names of those present are written in the margin.

180 Altered from “their.”

181 This word has apparently been altered.

182 This word has been altered.

183 This word has been altered.

184 The names of those present are written in the margin.

185 The letters “ce” in this word are interlined.

186 The leaf containing pages [25–26] of the text has been mutilated, a rectangular piece having been deliberately cut from the bottom. Apparently this piece contained no writing on page [25], but on page [26] it contained an entry, the tops of several letters being visible.

187 The letter “d” in this word is interlined.

188 The names of those present are written in the margin.

189 Written over a word erased.

190 The word “keeper” is interlined.

191 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

192 The heading of this meeting, the names of those present, and the first two paragraphs, are in the hand of Tutor Flynt.

193 The Address is in the hand of I.

194 Altered from “Subsestance.”

195 This paragraph is in the hand of I.

196 The entries on page [29] of the text are in the hand of J.

197 The year is underscored. This meeting is in the hand of I.

198 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

199 The meetings of January 26, 1707–08, May 27, 1708, and August 30, 1708, are in the hand of H.

200 The names of those present are written in the margin.

201 Apparently altered from “Uasage.”

202 Apparently altered from “or.”

203 The names of those present are written in the margin.

204 The word “Legacy” is interlined.

205 This entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

206 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

207 Altered from “Attrocious.”

208 Apparently altered from “24°.”

209 This entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

210 The names of those present are written in the margin.

211 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

212 This entry is in the hand of President Leverett.

213 President Leverett wrote “five,” over which, in President Wadsworth’s hand, is written “two.”

214 The entries from here down to the meeting of July 1, 1709, are, unless otherwise stated in the footnotes, in the hand of J.

215 Altered from “uppn.”

216 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

217 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

218 The word “be” is interlined.

219 This marginal entry, in the hand of President Wadsworth, refers to pages [38–39] of the text, or page 394–395 of this volume.

220 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

221 The names of those present are written in the margin.

222 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

223 The word “now” is interlined.

224 Apparently altered from “foorth” or “fourth.”

225 A word or two is here crossed out.

226 The word “be” is interlined.

227 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

228 The word “by” is interlined.

229 The meetings of July 1 and September 5 are in the hand of Tutor Flynt.

230 The names of those present are written in the margin.

231 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

232 The names of those present are written in the margin.

233 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Holyoke.

234 Apparently altered from “bi.”

235 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Holyoke.

236 Written over another word.

237 The third and fourth letters in this word have apparently been altered.

238 This meeting is in the hand of President Leverett.

239 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

240 Apparently altered from “Shathuck.”

241 This meeting is in the hand of Tutor Flynt.

242 The names of those present are written in the margin.

243 This entry and all subsequent entries down to that of April 20, 1724, inclusive (pages [37–95] of the text), are in the hand of President Leverett, except where otherwise specified in footnotes.

244 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth.

245 Written over “of.”

246 The second letter in this word has been altered.

247 The names of those present are written in the margin.

248 Substituted for “four,” crossed out.

249 The names of those present are written in the margin.

250 A word is here crossed out.

251 Altered from “Intentions.”

252 This marginal entry is in the hand of President Wadsworth. The reference is to pages [33, 34] of the text, or page 386 of this volume.

253 The names of those present are written in the margin.

254 Altered from “november.”

255 Written over “of.”

256 Substituted for “They,” crossed out.

257 The word “out” is interlined.

258 This marginal entry, in the hand of President Wadsworth, refers to page [42] of the text, or pages 400–401 of this volume.

259 Altered from “were.”

260 Substituted for “for,” crossed out.