Letter from William Croswell to Sarah Bumstead, 1809 April 15

Two-page letter with information about Croswell's activities in England.

Financial bills and receipts, 1809-1810

This folder contains five bills and receipts.

Accounts related to maps and pamphlets, 1809-1823

This folder contains eight handwritten account statements and notes primarily related to the collection of subscriptions for Croswell's maps and pamphlets, as well as the disbursement and storage of his printed maps and pamphlets.

A Theme, being the Employment of some Leisure time Nov'r 14 1759 pr Jeremiah Belknap, 1759 November 14

Handwritten composition on two attached notebook pages titled "The Generous man is a blessing to all mankind" composed by Jeremy Belknap and organized as paragraphs labeled: "Proposition," "Reason," Similitude," "Example," "Testimony," and "Conclusion."

[Admittatur of William Clark (Harvard AB 1759)], 1756

Notebook with a handwritten copy of the 1734 College laws in English prepared by Harvard undergraduate William Clark and signed by President Edward Holyoke, Tutors Belcher Hancock and Thomas Marsh, and William Symmes and William Kneeland on January 3, 1756.

Estimate to make medical rooms, 26 June 1809

Includes estimates to alter Holden Chapel to accommodate medical classes. Alterations in the $131.50 estimate include building circular seats and installing additional shelves.

Annotated almanac, 1759

Almanac containing a laid-in leaf and calendar pages with sporadic annotations of measurements, a note of the printer's markings on Winthrop and his wife's watches (January). The laid-in leaf includes personal entries about a measles outbreak (January), the death of his "negro man George" (May 13), the presence of bears in the area (September), the surrender of Quebec (October 16), the heights of Winthrop's son Jemmy and a "new negro boy" named Scipio, and deaths in the community including the burial and baptism statistics for Boston.

Annotated almanac, 1759

Almanac with three notations scattered among the calendar pages and one laid-in leaf containing entries about the weather, a list of deaths in the community arranged by date and containing names, age, and cause, a measles outbreak (January 5), an earthquake (February 2), and a bill of mortality for the first parish of Cambridge. Most entries appear to be in the hand of Hannah Winthrop; part of the list of deaths in the community and the bill of mortality appear to be in John Winthrop's hand.