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Bill from Samuel Williams to Harvard Corporation, dated June 1788, for several instruments he bought and delivered to Joseph Willard and Harvard Divinity School Chair Edward Wigglesworth (1732-1794).

Copy of an account of Thomas Gibson of London with Harvard College, and a letter to Ebenezer Storer, dated August 7, 1788.

This document is a duplicate of an item that can be found in Harvard University. Corporation. Records of land and property owned by Harvard University, 1643-1835 (UAI 15.750):

Copy of an account of Samuel Eliot, a manager of the College lottery, related to purchase of an orrery, dated 1788-1789. Title transcribed from document.

Acknowledgment from Joseph Willard that the College had received an orrery made by Joseph Pope, dated March 20, 1789; the instrument was purchased by the managers of the College lottery.

Receipt from Ebenezer Storer to Samuel Eliot, Henry Hill, and Aaron Dexter, managers of the Harvard lottery, for proceeds left over after purchasing an orrery, dated May 31, 1789.

Vote of the Harvard Corporation on March 31, 1789, praising Harvard lottery managers Samuel Eliot, Henry Hill, and Aaron Dexter for the use of proceeds to purchase an orrery.

Account of the managers of the College lottery relating to the execution of the lottery and use of the proceeds to procure an orrery created by Joseph Pope, dated March 31, 1789. Title transcribed from document.

Certification by Massachusetts Treasurer Alexander Hodgdon (1741?-1797) that College lottery managers Samuel Eliot, Henry Hill, and Aaron Dexter fulfilled government requirements in conducting a lottery to purchase an orrery for Harvard, thereby voiding their bond to the treasury office, dated April 14, 1789.

Copy of a document creating the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, signed by Edmund Trowbridge and Richard Cary, executors of John Alford's will.

This document is a duplicate of an item that can be found in Harvard University. Corporation. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, 1636-1825, 1831 (UAI 5.100):

Copy of the account of the managers of the College lottery relating to the execution of the lottery and use of the proceeds to procure an orrery created by Joseph Pope, dated March 31, 1789. Title transcribed from document.

Charges to Harvard College by James Tisdale for repairs to the Gridley Estate, dated May 20, 1789.

Itemized bill to Harvard College by James Tisdale for repairs to the Gridley Estate, dated May 20, 1789.

Contains an account of James Tisdale with Ebenezer Storer for repairs to the Gridley Estate, as well as Tisdale's accounts against multiple people, possibly used as a voucher, dated 1787-1789.

Bill from Thomas and John Fleet to Harvard College for printing school books and catalogs, settled on July 14, 1789.

Account of Reverend Samuel Kirkland with Harvard College from September 1786-April 1788, settled on July 17, 1789. Expenses for his son, John Thornton Kirkland, then a student at Harvard, were offset in part by Kirkland's salary as a missionary.

Deed of land and part of a house in Cambridge from Harvard Corporation to barber William Morse, dated August 24, 1789, and signed by Joseph Willard.

Letter from Dudley Atkins to Joseph Willard, dated August 26, 1789, requesting Harvard Corporation administer a donation by Sarah Winslow to the town of Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, to promote learning and religion.

Plan for carrying out the donation of Sarah Winslow to Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, administered by Harvard Corporation, which would fund the salary of a new minister and school in the town, dated 1789.

Account of books printed and sold to Harvard College by Isaiah Thomas of Boston, settled on May 22, 1790.

Copy of a list of lands from twelve towns granted in 1762 to Harvard College, dated June 23, 1790.

Extracts from the will of William Erving, dated 1791, bequeathing Harvard College £1000 to fund a professorship in chemistry, and his books on astronomy, mathematics, and geometry. Copy by Oliver Wendell, his executor.

Letter from John Gardner (honorary AB 1791) of Cambridge to Harvard College Librarian Isaac Smith (1749-1820; Harvard AB 1767) about donating a large collection of metals, coins, and art to the College, including six paintings of "people of colour" in the West Indies by Agostino Brunias (c. 1730-1796), dated September 18, 1790. The paintings are currently housed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Accounts of tuition and other expenses owed by former Harvard College student David Cowing to the Corporation and the estate of former College Butler Joshua Paine, dated April 8, 1791.

Copy of a bill to former Harvard College student David Cowing from the estate of Martha Prentiss, a sweeper at the College, dated approximately 1791.

Account of the salary Harvard College owed to Reverend Gideon Hawley for missionary work to the Native Americans at Mashpee, Massachusetts, dating from 1775. The account was settled on April 26, 1785.