Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
[Letter from John Hancock, Boston, to Sewall], [1768 May 31] Digital
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
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Collection:
John Hancock Collection
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Series:
Personal papers
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2Identifier: UAI 50.27.73
Scope and Contents:
Letter requesting Sewall’s intervention in the disciplinary case of Jonathan Williams Austin (Harvard AB 1769). In response to the disciplinary repercussions of the “Great Rebellion of 1768” in which Harvard students engaged in riotous behavior in April of 1768, Austin and two others renounced their relationship with the college. Their subsequent attempts to gain reentry to Harvard were twice denied by the faculty. In June 1768, the claim was taken to the Corporation who allowed them to...