Box 2

Notes and votes from Corporation meetings on April 27, 1756, and June 15, 1756.

Notes and votes from Corporation meetings of November 23,1757, and December 14, 1757. One of the votes from November 23 concerns banning students from blanket tossing.

Notes and votes from Corporation meetings on April 7, 1758, and May 1, 1758. The notes for the latter meeting are on the verso of the document and are in shorthand.

Notes and votes from Corporation meeting, signed by Edward Holyoke.

Handwritten notes and vote from Corporation meeting on John Winthrop's voyage to Newfoundland to observe the Transit of Venus.

Notes and votes from Corporation meetings on May 4, 1762, June 21, 1762, and November 16, 1872. The vote of November 16, 1782, prohibited students from attending stage plays.

Title transcribed from document. A caption title from the verso of the document reads, "Who ye overseers be: extracts from the old charter law-book respecting the support of the President H.C., 1659."

Hoar asks that his resignation be expediated.

Photograph taken in 1909 from original document owned by Miss Theodora Willard of Cambridge.

This subseries contains financial accounts and bills, subscription lists, and correspondence. Topics documented include the financial state of the young College, including General Court-ordered contributions from neighboring towns, salaries, and efforts to collect money in England; duties of the Steward; donations, including scientific instruments and books; the resignation of President Leonard Hoar; subscriptions for Old Harvard Hall; and the College Charter of 1697.

Two photostat copies of letter written by President John Rogers and Fellows Samuel Andrew and John Cotton asking the Overseers to reschedule commencement due to an eclipse of the sun predicted to occur on the scheduled day of July 2.

Order authorizing the payment of £100 to Increase Mather for his service as Harvard president. On the back of the document is Mather's receipt of the payment from John Phillips, treasurer of the Province.

Urges the Bishop to monitor the efforts on establish the charter of N. England College.

Regarding the confession of the son of Mr. Shattuck for an unnamed disgression and requesting clemency in the temporal courts.

The letter is unaddressed, but the donation documentation suggests it was written to the president of the Massachusetts colony.

The folder contains seven letters from Leverett to White with orders to pay Oliver Peabody and Calvin Galpine from Robert Boyle's legacy, with receipts signed by Peabody and Galpine on the versos. The letters regarding Calvin Galpine are dated December 21, 1715, and May 26, 1716; the letters regarding Oliver Peabody are dated April 15, 1720, July 22, 1720, April 6, 1721, May 11, 1721, and June 27, 1721.

The folder contains two documents: a letter from William Brattle, Cambridge, to John White, May 30, 1716, regarding the Pennoyer scholarships, and a letter from Henry Flynt to John White, September 12, 1716, regarding his salary; the document includes a receipt dated September 19, 1716, signed by Cornelius Nye.

Salaries of the Fellows, including Thomas Robie and Edward Holyoke.

Contains an order from John Leverett to John White to pay the exhibitions to Steward Bordman, dated November 12, 1718. On the verso of the document is a receipt signed by Andrew Bordman, dated November 25, 1718.

Title transcribed from document.

Order for payment to Samuel Dexter from Sprague legacy. The document also includes Leverett's copy of a vote of the trustees of Sprague's legacy on June 23, 1719 regarding the distribution of the money. On the verso of the document is a receipt from Samuel Dexter to John White, dated June 30, 1719.

The folder contains three orders from Leverett to White to pay exhibitions, dated July 4, 1720, September 29, 1720, and November 28, 1720.

Exhibitions granted.

Payment from Sprague legacy. The order was presumably addressed to John White.

Order for payment to Samuel Dexter from Sprague legacy. On the verso of the document is a receipt from Samuel Dexter to John White, dated July 4, 1720.