Questiones propositae pro modulo discutiendae Comitiis publicis Harvardini Collegii quod est divin. provid. Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum a Laureae Magistralis candidatis, 1660-1753

The bound volume holds handwritten transcriptions of selected Harvard Commencement Quaestiones copied by Isaac Mansfield (Harvard AB 1742). The manuscript volume includes from the 1708 Quaestiones onward, the notation "N.B." next to questions performed by the candidate during the Commencement exercises; the original printed Quaestiones sheets do not note this information. The volume includes Quaestiones transcriptions for which no original broadsides are known to still exists.

Accounts with Harvard College, 1745-1753, 1764

The folio-sized paper covered notebook contains Steward Andrew Bordman III's accounts with Harvard College from 1745-1753. The final page of text, signed on September 19, 1764 by Bordman's son, Andrew Bordman IV, settles the accounts.

Draft of the bond for Steward Jonathan Hastings. 1753 January 15

Mutilated draft of a bond of Steward Jonathan Hastings and Robert Sharp of Brooklyn, Mass. to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for 1,000 pounds.

Catalogue of freshmen, 1753

List of the matriculating members of the Harvard Class of 1757.

Benjamin Franklin, AM, 1753

This folder contains an unfinished diploma that lacks the signatures of College officers and the Harvard seal.

Annotated almanac, 1753

Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of measurements and small one-word notes. The only handwritten entries are on the December page: "Buried in Boston 418 W 63 B in all 481 / Baptized 396," and a note on the April page of the birth of Winthrop's fifth son Adam on April 19th.