Letter from William Croswell to Andrew Croswell, 1828 June 20

Draft of a letter to Croswell's nephew regarding the family's history.

Letter from William Croswell to Edward Everett, 1828 July 14

Draft of a letter regarding Croswell's claims for compensation from Harvard.

Letter from William Croswell to Edward Everett, 1828 July 29

Draft of a letter concerning a bill.

Letters to Mrs. Bowker, 1828 August 9

Copy of a letter related to the settlement of debt with Bowker's father.

Letter from William Croswell to Joseph May, 1828 August 20

Draft of a letter regarding Croswell's Mercator map.

Letter from William Croswell to Samuel Payson, 1828 October 3

Draft of a note regarding the proposal for a measuring book.

Memorial to the City Council of Boston, 1828 February 4

One draft of a letter.

To the Justices of the Police Court of Boston, 1828 April

Draft of a complaint against the boys in Croswell's neighborhood.

Memorial to the Harvard Corporation, 1828 June 7

Two drafts of a letter.

Complaint against the keeper of the bath, 1828 July 28

One draft of a letter.

Memorial to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1828 April

Five drafts of a letters requesting support to reprint Croswell's 1791 Tables for Computing the Longitude by the Lunar Observations.

Printed proposal for a treatise on mensuration, 1828

Three copies of a printed proposal for a "Treatise of Mensuration," dated September 1828.

Logarithmetical Arithmetick, ca. 1765

This small paper-bound notebook contains James Winthrop's notes from his study of logarithms. It was presumably created between 1765 and 1769, while he was a Harvard undergraduate. The notebook contains prose explanations of logarithms, as well as problem sets, case studies, and examples.

Notes about cases heard as Justice of the Peace, 1784-1795

This small paper-bound notebook contains notes Winthrop made concerning the cases he heard between 1784 and 1795 as a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County. These notes provide insight into the nature of crimes being committed in Cambridge in the post-Revolutionary period, as well as the names and occupations of those accused and their victims. The cases involved the following individuals, among others: Samuel Bridge, Benjamin Estabrook, Joseph Jeffords, Cato Bordman, John Kidder, Spenser Goddin, Jacob Cromwell, Benjamin Stratton, Mary Flood, Bender Temple, John Willett, Joseph Hartwell, Nathaniel Stratton, Amos Washburn, Francis Moore, Thomas Malone, Thomas Cook, and Amboy Brown. The cases involved a range of offenses, and occasionally Winthrop decided that a case exceeded his jurisdiction and forwarded it to the General Court or the Supreme Judicial Court.

Payment order for Benjamin Webb on behalf of his son, 1725 December 27

Handwritten order to Penn Townsend to pay scholarship funds to Benjamin Webb on behalf of his son Nathan Webb (Harvard AB 1725), signed by Thomas Foxcroft, John Marion, Samuel Marshall, and Jonathan Williams.