Salutatory address of Abiel Abbot, 1792

Six-unlined pages containing a handwritten copy of the salutatory address composed by Abiel Abbot in Latin for the 1792 Harvard College Commencement. The text includes edits and struck-through words. The first page includes the title "Autore Abiele Abbot" and has a penciled note: "This must be gr. grandfather's Latin oration when he graduated from Harvard, with honors, in 1792."

Title supplied by cataloger. Received in the Harvard College Library on August 20, 1957, the gift of "the Misses Marion and Elinor Abbot, Washington DC."

Abiel Abbot (1770-1828), a Massachusetts minister, was born in Andover, Mass. on August 17, 1770. He received an AB From Harvard in 1792, an AM in 1795, and a doctorate of divinity in 1821. He was ordained as the minister of Haverhill, Mass. on June 3, 1795, and served until 1803 when he became minister of Beverly, Mass. He died in 1828.