Holyoke, Edward, 1689-1769
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Collection of Edward Holyoke materials
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 312
Overview:
Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was the ninth president of Harvard College, serving for thirty-two years from 1737 to 1769. This artificial collection, dated 1721-circa 1780s, consists of an astronomy notebook and sermons written by Holyoke, a drinking tube fashioned from his watch case, a letter to Holyoke from his friend Benjamin Dearborn, and a letter to a proprietor of the Second Church of Marblehead, Massachusetts, from Overseer William Dudley related to Holyoke’s election as president of...
Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, Volumes 1 and 2
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 5.110
Overview:
At a special meeting of the Harvard Corporation on February 6, 1850, the President and Fellows voted to have all manuscript papers related to the history of the College and College affairs identified, arranged, and bound. The first series of the Harvard College Papers comprises eleven volumes of historical and administrative records dating back as early as the mid-1600s arranged in chronological order. Papers that were accidentally overlooked, or newly discovered or received, were added...
Papers of Edward Holyoke
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.870
Overview:
Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was pastor of the Second Church of Marblehead, Massachusetts, from 1716 to 1737 and the ninth president of Harvard College, serving for thirty-two years from 1737 to 1769. This collection documents Holyoke family affairs, as well as Holyoke’s activities and interests as president of Harvard. It contains family correspondence, genealogies, and descriptions of property; presidential correspondence; Harvard financial accounts; and a few of Holyoke’s sermons.
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- Accounts 1
- Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 1
- Astronomy -- Research. 1
- Bills. 1
- Cambridge (Mass.) 1
- Cambridge (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775 1
- College presidents--Massachusetts--Cambridge 1
- Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Early works to 1800. 1
- Drinking vessels -- 18th Century 1
- Legal instruments. 1
- Letters. 1
- Lunenburg (Mass. : Town) -- History 1
- Notebooks. 1
- Optics -- Early works to 1800 1
- Petitions. 1
- Receipts (financial records). 1
- Sermons 1
- Townsend (Mass.) -- History 1
- Wills 1 ∧ less
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