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Receipts and receipted bills, 1796 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 50Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents: The subseries contains extensive records of Shapleigh's personal expenses over the course of almost fifteen years. These receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes, which range in date from 1785 through 1799, document Shapleigh's purchase of goods and services from almost one hundred individuals and businesses. Included are receipts and receipted bills for room and/or board with Sally Chadbourn, Sarah Chadbourn, Nathaniel Jarvis, Joseph Moody, Phebe Paine, Stephen Sewall, and Mary...

Receipts and receipted bills, 1797 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 51Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents: The subseries contains extensive records of Shapleigh's personal expenses over the course of almost fifteen years. These receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes, which range in date from 1785 through 1799, document Shapleigh's purchase of goods and services from almost one hundred individuals and businesses. Included are receipts and receipted bills for room and/or board with Sally Chadbourn, Sarah Chadbourn, Nathaniel Jarvis, Joseph Moody, Phebe Paine, Stephen Sewall, and Mary...

Receipts and receipted bills, 1797 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 52Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents: The subseries contains extensive records of Shapleigh's personal expenses over the course of almost fifteen years. These receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes, which range in date from 1785 through 1799, document Shapleigh's purchase of goods and services from almost one hundred individuals and businesses. Included are receipts and receipted bills for room and/or board with Sally Chadbourn, Sarah Chadbourn, Nathaniel Jarvis, Joseph Moody, Phebe Paine, Stephen Sewall, and Mary...

Receipts and receipted bills,, 1798 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 53Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents: The subseries contains extensive records of Shapleigh's personal expenses over the course of almost fifteen years. These receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes, which range in date from 1785 through 1799, document Shapleigh's purchase of goods and services from almost one hundred individuals and businesses. Included are receipts and receipted bills for room and/or board with Sally Chadbourn, Sarah Chadbourn, Nathaniel Jarvis, Joseph Moody, Phebe Paine, Stephen Sewall, and Mary...

Receipts and receipted bills, 1799 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 54Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents: The subseries contains extensive records of Shapleigh's personal expenses over the course of almost fifteen years. These receipts, receipted bills, and promissory notes, which range in date from 1785 through 1799, document Shapleigh's purchase of goods and services from almost one hundred individuals and businesses. Included are receipts and receipted bills for room and/or board with Sally Chadbourn, Sarah Chadbourn, Nathaniel Jarvis, Joseph Moody, Phebe Paine, Stephen Sewall, and Mary...

Memorandum listing goods and money Samuel Shapleigh received from his guardian, 1780-1784, and note written Oct. 8, 1785, 1780-1784,, Oct. 8, 1785 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Records of settling account with legal guardian
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 55Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

This subseries contains records related to the financial relationship between Shapleigh and his guardian, Samuel Leighton, including a memorandum, calculations, and a third party certification that accounts between the two were settled by August 1787.

Calculations made in settlement of account between Samuel Leighton and Samuel Shapleigh, ca. 1786 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Records of settling account with legal guardian
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 56Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

This subseries contains records related to the financial relationship between Shapleigh and his guardian, Samuel Leighton, including a memorandum, calculations, and a third party certification that accounts between the two were settled by August 1787.

David Sewall's certification that Samuel Shapleigh and Samuel Leighton had settled their financial affairs with each other, Aug. 1787 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Records of settling account with legal guardian
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 57Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

This subseries contains records related to the financial relationship between Shapleigh and his guardian, Samuel Leighton, including a memorandum, calculations, and a third party certification that accounts between the two were settled by August 1787.

Diary and account book, 1780-1786 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Account books and diaries
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 58Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents: Shapleigh explains on the first page that this account book contains "an accurate account of the several articles I've received from my Guardian since the first day of May Anno 1780, continuing from year to year." The book lists material goods and money given to Shapleigh by Samuel Leighton, as well as many goods and services which Shapleigh appears to have purchased independently. Among the items he received were "a pair [of] Silver Knee Buckles," "an outside coat, alias, a Rapper," "two...

Account book, 1786-1790 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Account books and diaries
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 59Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

Entries in this volume record the costs of Shapleigh's purchases from the Harvard Buttery, expenses incurred while traveling, sundry goods and services (including dozens of visits to a barber, John Goodwin), payment for room and board in Cambridge, funds received from Samuel Leighton, and many other receipts and expenditures made over the course of several years.

Page of diary, Jan. 1-4, 1800 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Account books and diaries
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 60Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

Contains very brief entries from the first four days of January. Verso contains numerical calculations labeled as "Recital del case from Oct. 1, [17]99."

Memorandum listing salaries of Harvard Professors, Tutors, Presidents, and Librarians, 1782-1797 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Memoranda and other records
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 61Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

This subseries contains memoranda on various subjects and a list of Phi Beta Kappa members at Harvard in 1790, 1793, and 1797.

Lists of Phi Beta Kappa's new members, 1790, 1793, and 1797 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Memoranda and other records
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 62Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

Shapleigh served as Secretary of Harvard's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1797.

Scrap of paper with memorandum about chapel duty and miscellaneous calculations, ca. 1799 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Memoranda and other records
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 63Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

This subseries contains memoranda on various subjects and a list of Phi Beta Kappa members at Harvard in 1790, 1793, and 1797.

Memorandum about quality of linen needed for shirts, and cost of linen in Cambridge, undated Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Memoranda and other records
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 64Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

This subseries contains memoranda on various subjects and a list of Phi Beta Kappa members at Harvard in 1790, 1793, and 1797.

Bond of Samuel Leighton and Samuel Shapleigh to the Harvard Corporation, Aug. 23, 1785 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Bonds
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 66Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

Shapleigh and Leighton's signatures have been cut out from the bottom of this document. It was "signed, sealed and delivered" in the presence of Benjamin Stevens and Ebenezer Marriner.

Bond of Samuel Shapleigh and Thomas Adams to the Harvard Corporation, Aug. 15, 1789 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Bonds
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 67Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

Shapleigh and Adams' signatures have been cut out from the bottom of this document. It was "signed, sealed and delivered" in the presence of Thomas Gray and Darius Shaw.

Bond of Samuel Shapleigh and unknown co-signatory to the Harvard Corporation, Aug. 15, 1789 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Bonds
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 68Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

Shapleigh and the unknown co-signatory's signatures have been cut out from the bottom of this document. It was "signed, sealed and delivered" in the presence of Owen Warland and William Wahan.

Bond of Samuel Shapleigh to Ebenezer Bradish, July 1, 1793 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Bonds
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 69Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

Although it is known that Bradish was a tavern keeper in Cambridge, the circumstances precipitating this bond are unclear. Shapleigh's name has been cut out from the bottom of the document. It was "signed, sealed and delivered" in the presence of John Warland and Raham Richardson. Annotations on the verso indicate payments made in 1795 and 1796.

Receipted quarter bills, Aug. 28, 1788-May 28, 1789 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: Papers of Samuel Shapleigh / Series: Financial and student records / Sub-Series: Harvard College quarter bills
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4Identifier: HUM 57
Scope and Contents:

Most of these Harvard College quarter bills were signed by College Steward Caleb Gannett upon receipt of payment.

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