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Payment order for Josiah Cotton, 1722 September 10

Handwritten order to Penn Townsend to pay scholarship funds to student Josiah Cotton (Harvard AB 1722), signed by Benjamin Wadsworth, Thomas Foxcroft, Samuel Marshall, and Jonathan Williams.

Payment order for Rowland Cotton, 1726 October 17

Handwritten order to Penn Townsend to pay scholarship funds to Rowland Cotton on behalf of his son Ward Cotton (Harvard AB 1729), signed by Thomas Foxcroft, John Marion, Samuel Marshall, and Jonathan Williams.

Payment order for Joseph Belknap on behalf of Samuel Sewall, 1773 July 1

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds Joseph Belknap for use by student Samuel Sewall (Harvard AB 1776), signed by Charles Chauncey, Thomas Waite, Jonathan Williams, and Daniel Marsh.

Quarter bill book for the Classes of 1757-1773, 1757-1769

Parchment hardcover bound volume containing quarter bill tallies for the Classes of 1757-1773 arranged first by seniority, and later alphabetically, and covering the bill period ending on March 11, 1759 through the period ending December 8, 1769. Billing categories are occasionally added or removed in the volume, including a Hebrew Grammar category in 1764, and one for the Hancock Professor in 1765. After each quarter's tallies, an additional section provides the totals for all students in each of the categories, and deductions for building repairs.

Tutors grants for £77.8.4, 1773

Handwritten receipt signed by Joseph Willard, John Marsh, John Marsh, Andrew Eliot Jr., John Wadsworth, and S. Hall acknowledging money received between August 20th and 23rd, 1773. A handwritten transcription of the Corporation vote on September 7, 1772 that, "the Tutors be allowed in addition to their salary twenty pounds," is signed as a true copy by President Samuel Locke at the beginning of the document.

[Admittatur of Cotton Tufts (Harvard AB 1749)], 1745

Notebook with a handwritten copy of the 1734 College laws in English prepared by Harvard undergraduate Cotton Tufts and signed by President Edward Holyoke, Tutor Belcher Hancock, Fellow Joseph Mayhew, and Tutor Thomas Marsh on November 8, 1745.