Box 1
Contains 72 Results:
[Receipt signed by Samuel Langdon], [1774 November 23] Digital
Receipt signed by President Langdon listing the charges owed him by the Harvard Corporation for moving his family to Cambridge.
[Memorandum to John Hancock signed by Samuel Langdon], [1775 January 21] Digital
Directive to pay the librarian John Winthrop to settle the account of James Furnivall for clock repair. Memorandum is signed on verso by Winthrop with the date 1775 January 28
[Memorandum to John Hancock signed by Samuel Langdon], 1775 March 7] Digital
Memorandum to Hancock instructing him to pay Boston bookseller James Foster Condy; an account of the amount owed for magazines from 1772-1775 is on the verso. Memorandum is signed on recto by Condy.
[Memorandum to John Hancock signed by Samuel Langdon], [1775 October 2] Digital
Memorandum directing Hancock to pay Samuel Kirkland, with copy of the vote of the President and Fellows to continue funding Kirkland's missionary work among the Oneida Indians. Payment acknowledged on verso by Kirkland in Philadelphia, November 2, 1775.
List of bonds belonging to Harvard College, [1777 February 16] Digital
A list of bonds etc. belonging to the estate of Harvard College, received by the Corporation of the Hon. John Hancock Esq’r, Treasurer of said College, 1777 March 12 Digital
Cover title: “Acct. of bonds, 1777.” Marked “No. 50.” Contains corrections in the hand of Ebenezer Storer. The multi-page accounting is arranged alphabetically by "Men's names" and includes columns for "Date of the Bonds," "Int[erest] Time paid to," "Int[erest] Recd. by Mr. Hancock," and "Value of Bonds."
Treasurer Hancock's Acct. with Harvard College with memorandum & vote relative to them, [1778] Digital
[Letter from Samuel Moody, Newburyport, to Ebenezer Storer, Boston, 1778 December 19], with attached receipts from 1770 July 17, 1774 October 15, and 1774 February 22 Digital
Copy of Messr. Jona. John & Samuel Hasting's note with the endorsements, acct. of Interest & mistake in settlements with Treasurer Hancock, [1779 March 9] Digital
Copy of a memorandum given to Mr. S. Howard, 1785 January 24 Digital
Storer’s memorandum of the balance due on the Hancock account to the College including funds for the Dummer School and interest, given to Simeon Howard, secretary to the Board of Overseers.
Copy of the late treasurer Hancock’s accounts with the College, adjusted 1785 February 10 Digital
12-page accounting of John Hancock’s accounts with Harvard College, 1773 September 6 through 1785 February 7. Examined by Ebenezer Storer and adjusted 1785 February 10. Includes entries for salaries, bonds and mortgages, rent, payment for services,
The late treasurer His Excellency John Hancock to Harvard College for Dummer School, [1785 February 10] Digital
Hancock’s account for the Dummer Fund, adjusted 1785 February 10 and including five entries from July 23, 1766 through February 1785. The "Ballance as settled in acct. signed by Wm. Hoskins attorney to his Excellency."
[Memoranda of Ebenezer Storer regarding two pieces of Hancock’s property], [1785 December 28] Digital
Description of the bounds of two pieces of property mortgaged to the College by John Hancock; one being land "near the entrance of the town dock," the other "a brick tenement near Mill Creek."
[John Hancock’s accounts with Harvard College], [1786 February 6] Digital
Accounting of credits and debits, calculated for February and December 1785, of John Hancock to the College for the Dummer Academy, and to Harvard itself.
[Letter from John Hancock to Samuel Locke], [circa 1773] Digital
Letter addressed to the “Rev. Mr. President Locke and the Gen. of the Corporation” accepting the office of the treasurer.
[Copy from the records of Harvard College of Hancock’s election as Treasurer], [1773 July 30] Digital
Includes copies of Corporation meetings minutes from July 18 and 19, 1774, and October 4, 1774 regarding Samuel Langdon's appointment as president; from July 30, 1773 regarding Hancock's election as treasurer; and from January 18, 1775, votes relating to the legacies of Thomas Hollis and Robert Thorton.
[Bond signed by John Hancock and Lydia Hancock], [1773 August 30] Digital
Bond for twenty thousand pounds, equal to the amount of the College securities, signed by Hancock and his aunt, Lydia Hancock, and witnessed by Hannah Winthrop and Katherine Brackett.
Copy of a paragraph of my letter to John Hancock, [circa November 1774?] Digital
Copy of a paragraph of President Langdon’s first letter to Hancock asking for a report of the treasury, with a note that "the Stewards Accounts are in great arrears." In Langdon’s hand with "No 1 written on verso."
[Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock], [1775 January 27] Digital
Draft of letter from President Langdon to John Hancock asking for a report of the treasury with note that Hancock "settled with the Steward," and acknowledgment of the meeting of the Provincial Congress in the following week. "No. 2 Jany 27 1775" written on verso.
[Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock], [1775 January 27] Digital
Final copy of letter from President Langdon to John Hancock asking for a report of the treasury.
[Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock], [1775 January 27] Digital
Copy of letter from President Langdon to Hancock asking for a report of the treasury. Copy made by W. Greenough, Jr. at a later date. "No. 1" written in upper right hand corner of recto.
[Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock], [1775 March 7] Digital
Draft of a letter from President Langdon in the name of the Corporation to Hancock requesting a report on the treasury before the demands of the Continental Congress occupied Hancock's attention in the coming summer. "No 3. March 7 1775" written on verso.
[Letter from John Hancock to Samuel Langdon], [1775 March 7] Digital
Reply from Hancock to Langdon’s letter of the same date excusing his unavailability and promising to meet soon; the letter is dated “Tuesday pm” and marked “Mr. Hancock’s No. 1” on verso.
[Letter from John Hancock, Boston, to Samuel Langdon], [1775 March 21] Digital
Letter from Hancock to President Langdon explaining his absence from the meeting of the Corporation on that date. The letter is marked “Mr. Hancock’s No. 3” on verso.
[Letter from Samuel Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John Hancock], [1775 April 3] Digital
Draft of letter from President Langdon on behalf of the Corporation asking Hancock to settle the treasury accounts, and requesting that the College's financial records be returned to Harvard while Hancock attends the Continental Congress. Includes a postscript dated 1775 April 6 noting that "The News we have just received gives me great concern to have our College Papers &c removed from Boston immediately." Marked “No. 4” on verso.