Letter from John Leverett to the Governor of Massachusetts, 27 June 1710

This letter summarizes the activities of the Committee to View Stoughton House including the Committee's recent visit to the dormitory. The letter is signed by "Leverett in the name of the Committee."

Annotated almanac, 1785

Almanac with no annotations accompanied by a gathering of unruled paper containing entries of baptisms and burials, accounting records and notes of household activities, including entries related to boarders.

[Yearly account statement from 1785 to 1799 January]

One folio-sized leaf containing a handwritten unidentified statement with calculations by year between June 1785 through January 1799. The entries include a yearly figure and "deduct" amounts, and amounts include cents suggesting the figures represent income or repair amounts, as opposed to rents.

Bond of Samuel Leighton and Samuel Shapleigh to the Harvard Corporation, Aug. 23, 1785

Shapleigh and Leighton's signatures have been cut out from the bottom of this document. It was "signed, sealed and delivered" in the presence of Benjamin Stevens and Ebenezer Marriner.

Subseries E. Admittatur to Harvard College, 1785

This document, dated Sept. 9, 1785 and signed by Harvard's President, Joseph Willard, and its Steward, Caleb Gannett, granted Shapleigh admission to Harvard College.

II. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 2, 1764-1785, 1793

The second volume of the College Papers contains original documents dating from 1764 to 1785, spanning the tenures of presidents Edward Holyoke, Samuel Locke, Samuel Langdon, acting president Edward Wigglesworth, and Joseph Willard, as well as treasurers Thomas Hubbard, John Hancock, and Ebenezer Storer. It also contains a document from 1793.

III. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 3, 1785-1796

The third volume of the College Papers contains original documents dating from 1785 to 1796, spanning the tenures of president Joseph Willard and treasurer Ebenezer Storer. The series chiefly consists of incoming correspondence for Storer.