Meeting minutes maintained by the Secretary, April 17, 1792 and May 7, 1793

These minutes, recorded on the recto and verso of a single page, are incomplete excerpts.

Annotated almanac, 1755

Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of measurements and small one-word notes. Winthrop often corrected the almanac's printed chart for the rising and setting of the sun. There are a few handwritten entries including a note in Latin about Winthrop's mother. An unattached sheet of paper folded into the almanac has burial and baptism statistics for Boston and Charleston, and entries about General Braddock's defeat by the French (July 9), a battle between General Johnson and the French and Indians under the Baron de Dieskau (September 8), the execution of two slaves for murdering their master (September 18), and a note that President Holyoke preached the Dudleian lecture (November 25).

Fleets’ pocket almanack for the year of our Lord, 1793

Annotated and interleaved almanac in marble-paper covers with minimal annotations to the calendar pages, generally "JB" and "SB." The interleaved pages contain sporadic handwritten entries including notes about Pearson's recovery from a broken leg, farming and a diagram of planted apple trees, Harvard staff hirings, deaths in the community, ministers whose sermons he attended, and Bible citations.

Letter from Mr. Davis to Samuel Shapleigh, 12 July 1793

In this letter, Davis writes Shapleigh that he will not attend commencement.

Letter from Mr. Davis to Samuel Shapleigh, 9 November 1793

Davis requests Shapleigh to send him the remainder of Mr. Adams' bills for settlement.

Bill of sale of sloop Cyrus, 1793 February 2

Bill of sale between Thomas Sawyer, Jacob Adams, and Isaac Sawyer, all of Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Ebenezer Storer and William Winthrop for the sloop Cyrus.

Sloop Cyrus account for Charter to West Indies, 1793 July 27

One folded folio-sized leaf containing handwritten financial entries compiled by William Winthrop from February 1793 to July 1793. The entry notes that the sloop made a "voyage to the West Indies" between February and May 1793.

Sloop Cyrus accounts, 1793

One-folio page containing handwritten financial entries compiled by Treasurer Ebenezer Storer from February 1793 to December 1793.

Certificate of the sale of Cyrus' freight of wood, 1793 September 9

Accounting records related to the wood brought by the sloop between May and September 1793 on three slips of paper bound with thread. The last page contains a certification signed by William Winthrop on September 9, 1793 of the sale of wood in Charlestown.