Notification to Loammi Baldwin, 1795 June 25

One-page brief handwritten letter requesting Baldwin attend an examination and committee meeting.

Notification of a committee meeting, 1835 October 13

One-page printed notification of a meeting on October 20, 1835 of the Committee appointed by the Board of Overseers for the purpose of visiting the University, signed by President Josiah Quincy.

Notification of an Overseers meeting, 1835 July 6

One-page printed notification of a meeting of the Overseers of Harvard College on July 16, 1835 signed by Secretary John Pierce.

Notification from William Cutler to the selectmen of Cambridge, Massachusetts, that Dr. Philip Brukowitz and wife were inhabiting his father's house in Cambridge, 1758 April 25

Single page notification addressed to the selectmen of Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated 25 April 1758, in which William Cutler writes that he took into his father’s Cambridge house as tenants Dr. George Philip Brukowitz and his wife, from Woburn, Massachusetts. After the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1721, the town of Cambridge enacted a requirement in 1723 that no resident would receive or admit any non-resident family into their homes for the space of a month without informing the town selectmen. The penalty for failing to do so was twenty shillings.

[Forensic dispute on gaming], undated

Folio-sized leaf containing a handwritten essay on gambling beginning with the prompt: "Gaming is an immorality, a sordid vice, the child of avarice, & a direct breach of that commandment, which forbids us to covet what is our neighbours."

Book of records for the trial of actions begun May 3, 1762 [-1774]

Record book of justice of the peace Eldad Taylor, covering cases of debt, libel, rape, profanity, assault, breach of contract and theft. Each entry gives a full statement of the case and its settlement, including decisions of referees, costs, damages, appeals, etc.