Payment order for Daniel Marsh, 1761 February 16

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds to Deacon Daniel Marsh, signed by Thomas Foxcroft and Charles Chauncey

Payment order for Nathan Stone on behalf of his son, 1761 August 26

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds to Nathan Stone on behalf of his son Nathan Stone (Harvard AB 1762), signed by Thomas Foxcroft, Charles Chauncey, Thomas Waite, and Daniel Marsh.

Receipt signed by Nathan Stone, 1761 September 21

Handwritten receipt signed by Nathan Stone (Harvard AB 1762), on behalf of his father, acknowledging payment by John Sale Jr. of scholarship funds.

The Soul never sleeps, 1761

Three-page handwritten composition in English beginning, "One would think that by this Time our opponents should be pretty near silenced..." The document is a draft with edits and struck-through words and the verso includes the handwritten title, "Argument at a forensic Disputation 1761."

Analysis of Luke 14, 1761 October

Two notebook sheets with handwritten summaries in English of Luke 14 beginning, "The contents of this chapter may be reduced to 5 General Division..." The document is a draft with edits and struck-through words, and is dated and signed "Boston, 1[9] October 1761. J. Belknap" with the note, "Read in the Chapel of Harvard College at Even'g Prayers Octob. 1761."

The Death of John the Baptist, [ca. 1761]

Four-page handwritten English composition containing a sketch of the death of John the Baptist beginning "John was imprisoned in the Castle of Machaerus..."

[College Declamation of Andrew Fuller, 1761]

One-page handwritten Latin composition by Andrew Fuller with an epitaph of two lines from Perseus beginning, "Respice quod non es..." The document is a draft with edits and struck-through words.

Recentes approbati, 1761

List of the matriculating members of the Harvard Class of 1765.

Annotated almanac, 1761

Almanac with one laid-in leaf. The calendar pages contain minimal annotations and two entries by John Winthrop: "John Rhodes came to talk about Stoughton land" (May 31) and a note about walnuts. The laid-in leaf contains entries by both Winthrops listing deaths in the community, a bill of mortality by John Winthrop, an entry about an earthquake (November 1), and a few entries by Hannah Winthrop about the weather, a northern light, and a short list of the "wine of Dr. Kneeland" (December 29).