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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...
Caleb Gannett collection
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 314
Overview:
Caleb Gannett (1745-1818), Harvard College Steward from 1779 to 1818, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He received an AB from Harvard in 1763 and an AM in 1766. Gannett was a member of the Pembroke Church and studied theology with Ebenezer Gay (1696-1787; Harvard AB 1714). The collection consists of seven manuscript notebooks, dated circa 1758 to 1785. There are two letter books; three mathematical and astronomical notebooks, mostly compiled while Gannett was a student at Harvard...
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- Creator
- Gannett, Caleb, 1745-1818. 1
- Subject
- Astronomy -- Research. 1
- Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773 1
- Clergy -- New England -- 18th century 1
- College presidents--Massachusetts--Cambridge 1
- Commonplace books 1
- Congregationalists -- Nova Scotia -- Clergy 1
- Drinking vessels -- 18th Century 1
- Earthquakes -- New England -- Early works to 1800 1
- Geometry -- Early works to 1800 1
- Harvard students' notes. 1
- Harvard textbooks 1
- Land grants -- Nova Scotia -- History 1
- Letter books. 1
- Letters. 1
- Notebooks. 1
- Nova Scotia -- Politics and government -- 1763-1867 1
- Optics -- Early works to 1800 1
- Sermons 1
- Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Abbot, Mary Holyoke, 1782-1829 1
- Allan, William 1
- Dearborn, Benjamin, 1725-1755 1
- Dudley, William, 1686-1743 1
- Eagleson, John 1
- Gannett, Joseph, 1725-1789 1
- Gay, Jotham, 1733-1802 1
- Harvard College (1636-1780) -- Presidents 1
- Harvard College (1636-1780). Administration 1
- Hitchcock, Gad, 1719-1803 1
- Hitchcock, Gad, 1749-1836 1
- Holyoke, Edward, 1689-1769 1
- Huston, John 1
- Osgood, Edward Holyoke 1
- Vassall, Lewis, 1741-1777 1 ∧ less
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