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COLLECTION Identifier: HUG 1447

The John Harvard family collection, 1577, 1622, and 1828-2007.

Overview

John Harvard (1607-1638) was an English clergyman who settled in the American colonies, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1637. Upon his death in 1638, Harvard left half of his estate and personal library to the newly founded college at Newtown which later became Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts General Court named the college in his honor in 1639. The College became Harvard University in 1780. This collection consists of letters, photographs, legal documents (facsimiles and originals), news clippings, poetry, pamphlets, and postcards presenting what little information is available about John Harvard's life and family as well as the many honors and memorials bestowed upon Harvard after his death by generations of Harvard alumni.

Dates

  • Creation: 1577, 1622, and 1828-2007.

Creator

Conditions on Use and Access

The John Harvard family collection is open for research. Availability of materials that are fragile or otherwise require special handling may limited. Consult reference staff for details.

Extent

3 cubic feet (6 document boxes, 6 portfolio boxes)

Scope and Contents

The John Harvard family collection was assembled and arranged from a variety of sources. This collection presents what little information is available about John Harvard's life, family, and the world of the seventeenth century in which he lived. Letters, photographs, legal documents (facsimiles and originals), reprints, articles, news clippings, poetry, pamphlets, postcards, flyers, blueprints, circulars, lists, agreements, sketches, labels, a notebook, a video recording and a digital recording recall John Harvard's brief life, the importance of his bequest to Harvard University, and the many honors and memorials bestowed upon Harvard after his death by generations of Harvard alumni. The collection also contains sixteenth and seventeen century deeds for property that the Harvard family owned in England and genealogical information about the Harvard family.

Additional Description

Chronology

John Harvard and Harvard College
  • 1607 November John Harvard is born near the Surrey end of London Bridge, and baptized, November 29, 1607, at St. Saviour's Church (now Southwark Cathedral)
  • 1627 December 19 John Harvard enters Emmanuel College
  • 1631-1632 Receives Bachelor of Arts degree
  • 1635 July Receives Master of Arts
  • 1636 April 19 Marries Ann Sadler (b. 1614) at South Malling
  • 1636 October 28 The General Court of Massachusetts Bay allocates £400 toward a school or college
  • 1637 Some time after May 26, Harvard and his wife sail to New England
  • 1637 August 1 Harvard is admitted an inhabitant at Charlestown, Massachusetts
  • 1637 November 2 Harvard is made a freeman of the Colony
  • 1637 November 6 Harvard and his wife are admitted to the First Church of Charlestown
  • 1637 November 20 The Massachusetts General Court appoints a committee to establish a college in Newtown
  • 1637 Harvard becomes a teaching elder of the Charlestown church
  • 1638 April 26 Harvard is appointed to a town committee to consider the governing laws of Massachusetts Bay
  • 1638 May 2 Newtown is renamed Cambridge
  • 1638 September 14 John Harvard dies of consumption at Charlestown, leaving no children, but leaving a bequest of £779 17s. 2d. and a library of 400 volumes to the college in Cambridge
  • 1639 March 13 The Massachusetts General Court orders that the college shall be called Harvard College

John Harvard and Harvard College
1607 November
John Harvard is born near the Surrey end of London Bridge, and baptized, November 29, 1607, at St. Saviour's Church (now Southwark Cathedral)
1627 December 19
John Harvard enters Emmanuel College
1631-1632
Receives Bachelor of Arts degree
1635 July
Receives Master of Arts
1636 April 19
Marries Ann Sadler (b. 1614) at South Malling
1636 October 28
The General Court of Massachusetts Bay allocates £400 toward a school or college
1637
Some time after May 26, Harvard and his wife sail to New England
1637 August 1
Harvard is admitted an inhabitant at Charlestown, Massachusetts
1637 November 2
Harvard is made a freeman of the Colony
1637 November 6
Harvard and his wife are admitted to the First Church of Charlestown
1637 November 20
The Massachusetts General Court appoints a committee to establish a college in Newtown
1637
Harvard becomes a teaching elder of the Charlestown church
1638 April 26
Harvard is appointed to a town committee to consider the governing laws of Massachusetts Bay
1638 May 2
Newtown is renamed Cambridge
1638 September 14
John Harvard dies of consumption at Charlestown, leaving no children, but leaving a bequest of £779 17s. 2d. and a library of 400 volumes to the college in Cambridge
1639 March 13
The Massachusetts General Court orders that the college shall be called Harvard College

Biographical Essay

Introduction

John Harvard (1607-1638) was a colonial clergyman who settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1637. Upon his death in 1638, Harvard left half his estate and personal library to the newly founded college at Newtown (later Cambridge, Massachusetts). The Massachusetts General Court named the college (now Harvard University) in his honor in 1639. Few details about John Harvard's life seem to have survived. Much of what is known about John Harvard originates from the studies of genealogist Henry F. Waters (A.B. 1855) who unearthed Harvard's birth and parentage from the study of British legal documents in 1885.

Early life and career

John Harvard was born into a Puritan English family in 1607 (baptized November 29, 1607) in Southwark, England. His father, Robert Harvard (d. 1625), was a butcher whoowned his own shop and several pieces of property, including the Queen's Head Tavern. Active in church affairs, Robert Harvard held many posts at the Saint Saviour's Church including Vestryman, Warden, Overseer of the Poor, and Governor of the Saint Saviour's Grammar School. Robert Harvard married Barbara Destyn onJune 26, 1600, but the marriage was short-lived; Barbara Harvard died of the plague in September 1603. On April 8, 1605, Robert Harvard was remarried to Katherine Rogers (1584-1635) of Stratford-on-Avon, the thirteenth child of Thomas Rogers, a cattle dealer and alderman. As a child, John Harvard lived in the Surrey End of London Bridge, and, attended Saint Saviour's Grammar School. At the age of twenty, and with the help of Nicholas Morton, the Rector of Saint Saviour's Church, John Harvard entered Emmanuel College (B.A. 1632 and M.A. 1634) on December 19, 1627. Although Harvard received religious training, there is no known record of him becoming an ordained minister. Except for two Harvard signatures on a subscription book related to Harvard's taking his degree, it is believed that Emmanuel College has no other record of Harvard at the school.

New England

On April 19, 1636, John Harvard married Ann Sadler (b. 1614). The couple had no children. She was the sister of Harvard's Emmanuel College classmate, John Sadler, who later served as a member of Parliament and private secretary to Oliver Cromwell, and the daughter of the Reverend John Sadler, Vicar of Ringmer. By this time, most of Harvard's family had died of the plague, his father and most of his brothers and sisters in 1625 and Katherine Harvard in 1635. When Harvard's remaining brother, Thomas, died in 1637, John Harvard inherited the entire Harvard family estate. John and Ann Harvard joined the many thousands of Puritans migrating to the New World.Harvard was admitted as an inhabitant of Charlestown, Massachusetts on August 1, 1637. Harvard established himself quickly in the New World. He built a new home, was appointed to one of several town committees, and became a teaching elder of the First Church of Charlestown.

Harvard College

Despite the popular belief that John Harvard founded Harvard College, the school was established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1636 before Harvard's arrival to New England. The school was already in operation with a new building planned some weeks or months before Harvard's death of consumption, probably tuberculosis, at Charlestown on September 14, 1638. It is thought that on his death bed, Harvard being too sick to write a will, he bequeathed half his estate (£779 17s. 2d.) and his entire library of classical and theological books to the school. These books became the College's first library collection. On March 13, 1639, in recognition of Harvard's bequest and to honor his memory, the Massachusetts General Court agreed that the school being built in Cambridge would be known as Harvard College. Harvard's bequest, which up to that point exceeded all other gifts to the College, was used to build the first college building on campus (known later as Harvard Hall). After his death, some of his contemporaries described him as a pious and godly man - a lover of learning and favorably disposed to helping his fellows in the New World.
Parents and Siblings
  1. Father Robert Harvard (d. 1625)
  2. Father's first wife Barbara (Destyn) Harvard (d. 1603)
  3. Mother Katherine (Rogers) Harvard (1584-1625)
  4. Sister Marye (1601-1625)
  5. Sister Anne (1613-1625)
  6. Sister Katherine (1612-1625)
  7. Brother Robert (1602, d. infant)
  8. Brother Robert (1606-1625)
  9. Brother Thomas (1609-1637)
  10. Brother William (1610-1625)
  11. Brother Peter (1615-1625)
Spouses
  1. Ann (Sadler) Harvard, John Harvard's wife, re-married in 1639[?]. Her second husband was Reverend Thomas Allen of Charlestown.
  2. Katherine (Rogers) Harvard married John Elletson, cooper on January 19, 1626. He died in June 1626. She married again to Richard Yearwood, grocer, May, 1627. He died ca. October 1, 1632.
  3. Thomas Harvard, a clothmaker of St. Olave's Parish, Southwark, England, married Elizabeth King.
Deaths
  1. Robert Harvard, Barbara, Marye, Robert, Katherine, and Peter all died of plague.
  2. It may be that William and Anne also died of the plague.
References:
  1. Morison, Samuel Eliot. Jottings on John Harvard, Harvard Alumni Bulletin 32, (1929-1930) : 574-579.
  2. Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Founding of Harvard College. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935.

Arrangement

The John Harvard family collection is arranged in four series:
  1. Biographical materials, 1845-2001 and undated
  2. Harvard family deeds and legal documents, 1577, 1622, ca. 1930
  3. Writings about John Harvard and his family, 1828-1991 and undated
  4. Memorials and commemorations, 1828-1952, 2007 and undated

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Items in The John Harvard family collection were acquired through donation or purchase. Whenever possible the archivist noted the terms of acquisition in the descriptions and item list. A comprehensive list is also located at the end of the finding aid.

Acquisition Information

Items in The John Harvard family collection were acquired through donation or purchase. Whenever possible the archivist noted the terms of acquisition in the descriptions and item list.

The acquisitions are as follows:
  1. 1885, John T. Hassam
  2. 1885, The President's Office
  3. 1886, Albert Bushnell Hart
  4. 1886, Clothworkers' Company
  5. 1888, W. Creighton
  6. 1888, William Rendle
  7. 1893, A.P. Peabody
  8. 1894, A.B.Weymouth
  9. 1894, John G. Palfrey
  10. 1897, Philip Norman
  11. 1897, James Atkins Noyes
  12. 1901, E.S. Shuckburgh
  13. 1901, Louisa H. Cress
  14. 1907, Bright Fund
  15. 1907, W.H. Tillinghast
  16. 1908, Andrew McFarland Davis
  17. 1909, James Atkins Noyes
  18. 1912, Hayes Fund
  19. 1913, William R. Thayer
  20. 1917, G.F. Parkman Fund
  21. 1918, Edgar Huidekoper Wells
  22. 1918, V. Sydney Rothschild
  23. 1919, Edgar Huidekoper Wells
  24. 1919, William R. Thayer
  25. 1919, Alfred Claghorn Potter
  26. 1921, Bright Fund
  27. 1921, Walter Faxon
  28. 1922, President's Office
  29. 1923, James Atkins Noyes
  30. 1925, James Atkins Noyes
  31. 1925, Stedman B. Hoar
  32. 1928, Edgar Huidekoper Wells
  33. 1929, Edwin H. Abbot
  34. 1930, K.J. Conant
  35. 1931, President's Office
  36. 1932, Henry Wilder Foote
  37. 1934, Louis A. Holman
  38. 1934, E.J. van Lennep
  39. 1936, N.B. Day
  40. 1937, A.F. Dankin
  41. 1937, Lynn Historical Society
  42. 1937, Samuel Eliot Morison
  43. 1938, Walter B. Briggs
  44. 1940, Allan Forbes
  45. 1942, William A. Clark
  46. 1943, Henry J. Cadbury
  47. 1944, Gardner W. Allen
  48. 1946, Publication Office
  49. 1947, Mrs. Roland Norman
  50. 1947, T.W. Lamont
  51. 1952, H.D. Cope
  52. 1952, Jonathan B. Hayward
  53. 1955, David M. Little
  54. 1958, Henry Wilder Foote
  55. 1958, Association of Harvard College Class Secretaries
  56. 1959, Kenneth D. Lougsdorf
  57. 1966, The National Secular Society
  58. 1969, Roger C. Dalling
  59. 1971, Estate of Mrs. Lewis K. Conant
  60. 1991, Abram T. Collier
  61. Accession number: 09694; 1983 April 4
  62. Accession number: 11442; 1988 June 29
  63. Accession number: 11915; 1990 February 15
  64. Accession number: 12952; 1994 September 12
  65. Accession number: 14364; 2001 July 23

Related Material in the Harvard University Archives

  1. Images of the John Harvard statue and some Harvard family members are listed the inventory of the Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. Images of the John Harvard memorials are listed in the inventory of the Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Subjects. Some images have been digitized and are visible through these inventories and through VIA, Harvard's online image catalog.
  2. Records of the Harvard Memorial Society (HUD 3567)
  3. Biographical files (HUG 300) for Lionel de Jersey Harvard and Peter John de Jersey Harvard
  4. One folder in the Records of the Harvard University Library contains genealogical information about the Harvard family from 1828 to the beginning of the twentieth century. (Call number: UAIII.50.8.10.2; series: W. C. Lane General Correspondence, 1897-1928; folder: The Harvard Family.)
  5. Search HOLLIS (Harvard's online library system) for works by and about John Harvard and the Harvard family.

Inventory update

This document last updated 2022 March 11.

Processing Information

The John Harvard family collection was first classified and described in the Harvard University Archives shelflist prior to 1980. In April 2007, Dominic P. Grandinetti re-processed the material. Re-processing included integrating several small collections, re-housing materials in the appropriate containers, establishment of a series hierarchy, and the creation of this inventory. The archivist placed the documents into acid-free folders, re-housed the materials into archival document boxes, and examined the folder contents to establish the date of the material.

Original newsclippings were weeded and discarded. Duplicate materials were removed from the collection. Hollis catalog records were consolidated and/or eliminated.

Duplicate materials were returned to this collection November/December 2012.

A detailed list of integrated and repatriated items resulting from the processing of this collection is available in the Processing Information and Obsolete Call Numbers sections of this finding aid.

Additional preservation and description of the John Harvard family collection was supported, in part, by the Arcadia-funded project Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Processing Information

The following material was integrated into this collection:
  1. John Harvard biographical file (HUG 300)
  2. General Information by and about Harvard Memorial Chapel (HUB 1447.274)
  3. General Information about the John Harvard Mall (HUB 3550.xxx)
The following folders were placed in the HUG 300 Lionel de Jersey Harvard biographical file:
  1. HUG 1447.300 Lionel de Jersey Harvard general folder
  2. HUG 1447.335 Letters to M. A. Dew Howe, 1915
  3. HUG 1447.339 L. A. Holman, correspondence relating to L.de J. Harvard
  4. HUG 1447.348 Letters to H. A. Larrabee, 1916
  5. HUG 1447.350 Correspondence between Cecil H. Smith and Lionel de Jersey Harvard, 1916-1918
The following folders were placed with the HUP Lionel de Jersey Harvard photograph files:
  1. HUG 1447.370 Photographs
  2. HUG 1447.2P Clippings, pamphlets, etc. (Lionel de Jersey Harvard photograph)
The following folder was placed with the HUG 300 Peter John de Jersey Harvard biographical file
  1. HUG 1447.585 Correspondence relating to the visit of Peter John de Jersey Harvard to Harvard University during the Tercentenary celebration
The following folder was placed in the HUP Peter John de Jersey Harvard photograph file:
  1. HUG 1447.570 Photographs
The following published works retain their existing catalog records:
  1. HUG 1447.81 John Harvard and His Times
  2. HUG 1447.83.10 Forty-Nine Lives: an anthology of portraits of Emmanuel Men
The following folder was missing at the time of the 2007 re-processing:
  1. HUG 1447.5PF Richard Harvard, Rubbing of Monument John Harvard, Chart of events in his life

Processing Information

Obsolete Call Numbers

The following list provides a map to old call numbers that were eradicated by the archivist during the 2007 re-processing. All the papers for The John Harvard Family Collection are gathered under a single call number.
  1. HUB 1447.274 Harvard Memorial Chapel (Southwark, England, clippings, etc.): moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  2. HUB 3550PF Broadsides: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  3. HUB 3550.2 John Harvard Mall. Clippings, etc.: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  4. HUB 3550.5F The John Harvard Mall: A Record of Its Buildings, Completion, Dedication and Use: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  5. HUG 300 John Harvard Quinquennial File: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  6. HUG 300 John Harvard Quinquennial File: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  7. HUG 1447.2 Clippings, pamphlets, etc.: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  8. HUG 1447.2 Clippings, pamphlets, etc.: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  9. HUG 1447.3PF Deed 1577, possibly having to do with John Harvard: moved to Harvard Family Legal Documents.
  10. HUG 1447.3PF Deed 1622, mentioning John Sadler: moved to Harvard Family Legal Documents.
  11. HUG 1447.3PF Facsimile of Admission Book: moved to Harvard Family Legal Documents.
  12. HUG 1447.3PF Pictures of Harvard House and monument: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  13. HUG 1447.4F John Harvard Facsimiles: moved to Harvard Family Legal Documents.
  14. HUG 1447.6 Abbot, E.H. and Thayer, W.R., Discoverer of John Harvard, H.F. Waters, HC 1855: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  15. HUG 1447.7 Benson, S. Guide to Saviour's Church: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  16. HUG 1447.11 Cadbury, H.J. John, Harvard's Library: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  17. HUG 1447.12 John Harvard Chapel in Southwark Cathedral: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  18. HUG 1447.14 Corelli, M., P.S. Brentall, and B. Vyver, Harvard House guide book: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  19. HUG 1447.15 John Harvard Videorecording: moved to Biographical Materials.
  20. HUG 1447.16A Davis, A. McF., John Harvard's Life in America: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  21. HUG 1447.16B Davis, A. McF., John Harvard's Life in America: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  22. HUG 1447.21 Edwards, G.W., The Harvard Family and St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Schools. Detached from R.C. Carrington's Two Schools: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  23. HUG 1447.23 John Harvard's window at Emmanuel College: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  24. HUG 1447.24.83 Ellis, G.E., Speech on proposed statue of J. Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  25. HUG 1447.24.84A Ellis, G.E., Memorial of J. Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  26. HUG 1447.24.84B Ellis, G.E., Memorial of J. Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  27. HUG 1447.25 Emmanuel College Chapel Masters Hymn: withdrawn from The John Harvard Family Collection.
  28. HUG 1447.26PF Facsimiles of records relating to J. Harvard Family: moved to Harvard Family Legal Documents.
  29. HUG 1447.27 Everett, E.E., Address at erection of Harvard monument, September 26, 1828: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  30. HUG 1447.29A Foote, H.W., Church in which J. Harvard was married: moved to Harvard Family Legal Documents.
  31. HUG 1447.29A Foote, H.W., Church in which J. Harvard was married: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  32. HUG 1447.29B Foote, H.W., Church in which J. Harvard was married: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  33. HUG 1447.29.5 Photographs of, and papers concerning, the church at South Malling, Sussex, in which John Harvard was married: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  34. HUG 1447.36A Hart, A.B., What do we know about J. Harvard?: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  35. HUG 1447.36B Hart, A., What do we know about J. Harvard? (contains address byEdward Everett): moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  36. HUG 1447.37 Holman, L.A., Harvard family and correspondence about Lionel's entrance into Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  37. HUG 1447.38 Hiers, M.M., Upon Looking at French's John Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  38. HUG 1447.39 Harvard House Gazette: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  39. HUG 1447.40 Harvard House Memorial Trust: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  40. HUG 1447.42 John Harvard's Memorials, Charlestown, Massachusetts: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  41. HUG 1447.49 Lewes Church (where John Harvard was married miscellany): moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  42. HUG 1447.56 Monument to John Harvard: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  43. HUG 1447.61 Norman, Peggie Harvard, Letter to T.W. Lamont, papers relating to Harvard family: moved to Biographical Materials.
  44. HUG 1447.70.500 Portrait of John Harvard, b. ca. 1770 and portrait of John Harvard, b. ca. 1820: moved to Biographical Materials.
  45. HUG 1447.71P/PF Harvard, John: moved to Biographical Materials.
  46. HUG 1447.71 Potter, A.C., Catalogue of J. Harvard's Library: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  47. HUG 1447.72P/PF Queen's Head Inn, Yard, Southwark, England: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  48. HUG 1447.73 Rand, E.K., J. Wilson's Latin Verses on John Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  49. HUG 1447.75.85 Rendle, W., John Harvard and Associations at Southwark: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  50. HUG 1447.75.86A Rendle, W., John Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  51. HUG 1447.75.86B Rendle, W., John Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  52. HUG 1447.75.87 Rendle, W., Notes on Southwark relating to J. Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  53. HUG 1447.76 Ringmer Church, J. Harvard and Wm. Penn: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  54. HUG 1447.76.5 Ringmer Church, correspondence, pamphlets: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  55. HUG 1447.77 Rodway, A. Sword of Harvard: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  56. HUG 1447.78 Harvard House correspondence: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  57. HUG 1447.81.3 John Harvard and His Times: withdrawn from The John Harvard Family Collection.
  58. HUG 1447.81.5 John Harvard and His Times: withdrawn from The John Harvard Family Collection.
  59. HUG 1447.82 John Harvard's signature, photographs of a title page: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  60. HUG 1447.82.8 Southwark Cathedral, A.D. 597-1637, An Appeal: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  61. HUG 1447.83 Stevens, T.P., John Harvard and Southwark: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  62. HUG 1447.84 Taylor, W., Annals of St. Mary Overy: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  63. HUG 1447.85 John Harvard Tercentenary, 1907: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  64. HUG 1447.85 John Harvard Tercentenary, 1907: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  65. HUG 1447.86 John Harvard Exhibition: moved to Memorials and Commemorations.
  66. HUG 1447.88 Thompson, C. St. Saviour: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  67. HUG 1447.92 Waters, H.F., John Harvard and his ancestry, also Genealogical Gleanings in England: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  68. HUG 1447.92.32 Waters, H.F., Genealogical Gleanings in England, reprinted from New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October, 1865: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  69. HUG 1447.92.42 Waters, H.F., John Harvard and his ancestry, Part I. reprint from New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1885. Part II, reprint from New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October 1886: moved to Writings about John Harvard and his family.
  70. HUG 1447.93 Sim, Muriel (Peggy) Harvard, Misc. correspondence and papers regarding Harvard family: moved to Biographical Materials.
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Title
Harvard (Family : Harvard, John, 1607-1638). The John Harvard family collection, 1577, 1622, and 1828-2007 : an inventory
Author
Harvard University Archives
Language of description
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EAD ID
hua05007

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