Notebook, 1686-1741

The hardcover-bound notebook includes entries created by Aaron Bordman and his nephew Andrew Bordman II. Both men used the notebook for personal and business entries, including accounting records kept in their capacities as Harvard Steward. There is no clear distinction of authorship beyond the knowledge of Aaron's death on January 15, 1702/3. The second half of the volume is written tête-bêche (from the back cover forward), and includes entries by both Bordmans.

Orderly book : manuscript, 1775-1776

Orderly book kept by Fogg, the Adjutant for Colonel Enoch Poor's 2d New Hampshire Regiment on Winter Hill, during the siege of Boston, Aug. 23, 1775-Jan. 6, 1776.

Plays and poetry : manuscript, [17--]

Plays and poems, chiefly satires, in support of American independence and patriotic causes.

Rule of three : manuscript, 1774

An arithmetic copybook, with accounting problems concerning commercial transactions. There is a reference to the Boston Tea Party in problem no. 68.

Arithmetic copybook : manuscript, [17--]

Arithmetic copybook containing mathematical rules, problems, proofs, and charts of weights and measures.

History of the Cotton family : manuscript, [ca. 1728]-1755

History of the Cotton family with biographical information on Cotton, his mother, father, siblings, and some distant relations, including information on the Rosseter family, his mother's family line; often with transcripts of family letters. Also contains further genealogical information added by a later hand.

Hādhā kitāb Kurūm ʻarāyis al-tahānī sharḥ Ṣalawāt Ibn Mashīsh al-Dānī / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Fāḍil al-Ṣūfī al-Humām al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Khalwatī : manuscript, 1840

Author's own abridgement of his longer commentary on Moroccan sufi Ibn Mashīsh's prayer book known as Ṣalawāt. Longer version is titled: Rawḍāt al-ʻarshīyah fī al-kalām ʻala al-Ṣalawāt al-Mashīshīyah.

Hādhā kitāb al-Iʻlām tārīkh Bayt Allāh al-Ḥarām wa-al-niṣf al-thānī Tawārīkh Āl ʻUthmān / taʼlīf Shaykh al-Islām al-Shaykh Quṭb al-Dīn al-Makkī : manuscript, undated

Bound in half leather and boards.