Payment order for Robert Williams, 1758 September 25

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds Robert Williams, signed by Thomas Foxcroft, Charles Chauncey, Thomas Waite, Jonathan Williams, and Daniel Marsh.

List of freshmen approved, 1758

Alphabetical list containing only the surnames of the matriculating members of the Harvard Class of 1762.

Annotated almanac, 1758

Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of measurements, a small number of notes including one about the prevalence of whooping cough (August), and a laid-in leaf. The laid-in leaf includes entries about the weather, deaths in the community, and a note of the number of deaths in the first Parish in Cambridge organized by age group.

Annotated almanac, 1758

Almanac containing sporadic annotations and entries in the hands of John and Hannah Winthrop on both the calendar pages and three additional leaves. Hannah Winthrop's entries include notes on the weather, deaths in the community, and amounts of "Island butter." An entry with burial statistics for the first parish in Cambridge appears to be the only entry in John Winthrop's hand.

John Winthrop's proposal respecting electrical globes and jars, ca. 1758

In this proposal, John Winthrop explains the need to replace damaged "electric globes" used in the College's collection of scientific apparatus. He states that Benjamin Franklin, at the time residing in London, was willing to seek replacement globes for the College's collection. Winthrop then proceeds to assert that the College should acquire "square bottles, of a moderate size, fitted in a wooden box, like what they call case bottles for spirits" instead of the large jars included in the scientific apparatus, because those jars cracked frequently.