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COLLECTION Identifier: UAI 5.30

Harvard University Corporation records: minutes

Corporation records volume 1, December 27, 1643-September 5, 1750 Digital

Scope and Contents Spine title: "College Records 1." This volume contains handwritten copies of the proceedings of the meetings of the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers from December 27, 1643 through September 5, 1750 extracted from the early College Books. The volume was compiled by James W. Harris in 1855 by order of a Corporation vote passed December 24, 1852, and includes an alphabetical index. The first 45 pages of the volume (numbered A-Z, Aa-Ss) are transcriptions of...

Corporation records volume 2, September 17, 1750-April 23, 1778 Digital

Scope and Contents

Spine title: "College Records 2."

This volume is a copy of College Book No. 7 certified as true transcript by the copyist James Harris save for "an occasional and accidental variation in the orthography." The volume includes an alphabetical index.

Corporation records volume 3, May 5, 1778-August 31, 1795 Digital

Scope and Contents

Spine title: "College Records 3."

This volume is a copy of the first 390 pages of College Book No. 8 certified as true transcript by the copyist James Harris save for "an occasional and accidental variation in the orthography." The volume includes an alphabetical index.

Corporation records volume 4, September 23, 1795-October 1, 1810 Digital

Scope and Contents

Spine title: "College Records 4."

This volume is a copy of College Book No. 8 from page 390 through its end, and the whole of College Book No. 9. The copy is certified as true transcript by the copyist James Harris save for "an occasional and accidental variation in the orthography." The volume includes an alphabetical index.

Corporation records volume 5, November 14, 1810-August 10, 1819 Digital

Scope and Contents Spine title: "College Records 5." This volume is a copy of the first part of College Book 10, beginning with the first entry for November 14, 1810 and continuing through the August 10, 1819 entry. The entries have been arranged in chronological order, though in College Book Volume 10 the proceedings for July 2, 1819 to October 20, 1819 were bound after the 1823 records in a section marked "D2." College Book Volume 10 includes tipped in documents and, beginning with the minutes of...

Corporation records volume 6, August 25, 1819-March 31, 1827 Digital

Scope and Contents

Spine title: "College Records 6."

This volume is a copy of second part of College Book 10 beginning with the August 25, 1819 entry. The entries have been arranged in simple chronological order, though the original College Book Volume 10 was bound in sections A-F with the proceedings for July 2, 1819 to October 20, 1819 bound between the 1823 records in a section marked "D2." The volume includes an alphabetical index at the beginning of the volume.