Epitaph for Henry Flynt : manuscript copy, 1760

Twenty-five line handwritten epitaph in Latin written by Professor Edward Wigglesworth for Henry Flynt. Begins, "Huic Tumulo mandantur Exuvia / Vin admodum venerabilis Henrici Flynt Armigeri."

"Found among the papers of William Ellery signer of the Declaration of Independence by C.W. Dace [Nov.] 1894." -- note at bottom left of page.

"Doctor Wigglesworth Professor of Divinity at Harvard College in Cambridge, New England, Copied by H. Marchant." --note at bottom right of page.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Received in the Harvard College Library on September 2, 1944.

Tutor Henry Flynt (1675-1760) (Harvard AB 1693) was one of the College's longest-serving faculty members, teaching from 1699 to 1754. Known as "Father Flynt" to his students, he died on February 13, 1760, at the age of eighty-five.

Edward Wigglesworth, born c. 1693 in Malden, Massachusetts received his B.A. from Harvard in 1710. He received the first endowed professorship at Harvard in 1722 and was made a Fellow of the Corporation in 1723. He died on January 16, 1765.